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… professor in the agriculture department from 1893 to 1894. President Warren G. Harding appointed Wallace secretary of … of the Interior Albert Fall. Wallace was reappointed by President Calvin Coolidge and died in office on October 24, …
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… as a laborer at General Motors but by 1931 had become vice president in charge of industrial and public relations. He … U.S. representative to the United Nations (1945-1946) by President Truman. After resigning from government, Stettinius …
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… working mostly in the Antitrust Division. In 1945, President Harry S. Truman appointed Clark attorney general, a … supporter of Truman's anticommunist loyalty programs. The President nominated Clark as a Supreme Court justice in 1949, …
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… and welfare from 1977 to 1979, in the administration of President Jimmy Carter. Califano was the founding chairman of the board and president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance …
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… little political experience, Crowninshield ascended to President James Madison's cabinet in 1815, becoming Madison's … at that post when James Monroe succeeded Madison as President in 1817, but he resigned the following year, …
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… 1913 to 1919, having been defeated for reelection in 1918. President Warren G. Harding appointed Weeks secretary of war in 1921, and President Calvin Coolidge reappointed him to that post …
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… a former professor of his and the executive director of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's cabinet committee on … of Michigan. Cohen remained in Ann Arbor until 1961, when President John Kennedy appointed him assistant secretary in …
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… Schofield assumed control of the War Department for President Andrew Johnson in June 1868, following the President’s controversial dismissal of former war secretary …
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… the U.S. (1787) and state (1790) constitutions. In 1790, President George Washington named him U.S. commissioner to … and five more as secretary of state under both Presidents Washington and John Adams (1796-1800). He would …
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… the U.S. (1787) and state (1790) constitutions. In 1790, President George Washington named him U.S. commissioner to … and five more as secretary of state under both Presidents Washington and John Adams (1796-1800). He would …
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… the U.S. (1787) and state (1790) constitutions. In 1790, President George Washington named him U.S. commissioner to … and five more as secretary of state under both Presidents Washington and John Adams (1796-1800). He would …
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… right in 1871; he was reelected again in 1877. In 1881, President James Garfield appointed Windom secretary of the … his role as secretary of the treasury, this time in President Benjamin Harrison's administration. Again, he did …
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… right in 1871; he was reelected again in 1877. In 1881, President James Garfield appointed Windom secretary of the … his role as secretary of the treasury, this time in President Benjamin Harrison's administration. Again, he did …
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… until 1833, when he resigned once more. A year later, President Jackson tapped Dickerson to become his minister to … agreed to the change and served as secretary for both Presidents Jackson and Van Buren before he resigned in 1838. …
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… House of Delegates (1821-1823) until being named by President James Monroe as secretary to the official legation … and befriending a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe. President Millard Fillmore tapped Kennedy to become his …
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… the nation's finances and pay down its debt. In 1813, President Madison sent Gallatin to Britain on a diplomatic … returning to the United States in 1827, Gallatin served as president of the National Bank of New York, later the …
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… In 2004, Kerry was the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States and lost to Republican … nominee, George W. Bush, in the general election. President Obama nominated Kerry to succeed Hillary Clinton as …
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… Douglas James McKay was secretary of the interior under President Eisenhower from January 21, 1953, until his … After his defeat, Eisenhower named McKay chairman of the President's Commission on Water Resources to help resolve …
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… failed to secure a Republican renomination for governor, President Abraham Lincoln tapped him in 1864 to serve as … and into the first year of the administration of President Andrew Johnson. After resigning his office in 1866, …
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… from 1941 to 1945, handing in his resignation when Vice President Harry S. Truman assumed the presidency. He then became a member of the Nuremberg war …