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… Senate in 1958. He was the Democratic candidate for vice president in 1968. Following the resignation of Cyrus Vance, …
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… of Representatives in 1844, serving until 1849. In 1852, President Millard Fillmore tapped Hubbard to serve as …
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… Senate committee investigating alien property transfers. President Coolidge demanded his resignation in 1924. Tried …
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… Education and Welfare and served in that capacity under President Eisenhower from April 11, 1953, until August 1, … assistant editor (1936-1938), and executive vice president (after 1938). She was made head of the women's …
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… some relief in the late 1840s. Franklin Pierce refused President James K. Polk's offer to become attorney general, … told his wife that he was pulling out of politics. The new President's wife declined to attend her husband's inaugural, …
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… Historians have difficulty assessing John Adams's presidency. On the one hand, his aloofness and refusal to …
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… nevertheless, and won reelection five more times. In 1962, President Kennedy wanted an Italian-American to serve in his … Celebrezze continued to serve as head of HEW under President Lyndon B. Johnson until August 1965 when Johnson …
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… Senate (1818-1819) before serving the administration of President James Monroe as minister plenipotentiary to Spain …
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… and served from 1841 until 1844, at which time he became President John Tyler's fourth secretary of the Navy. Gilmer …
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… role in revising and reforming the U.S. budget process. President Herbert Hoover appointed Good secretary of war, and …
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… and was appointed postmaster general when Truman became President in 1945. While in office, Hannegan streamlined and …
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… tuberculosis, however, and by the time Grant was elected President in 1868, Rawlins was dying from the disease. …
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… William Henry Harrison. Following Harrison's election as President in 1940, Granger entered the cabinet as postmaster …
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… governor of Michigan before resigning his post to become President Franklin Pierce's secretary of the interior. …
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… a seat, as a Republican, in the U.S. Senate (1815-1825). President John Quincy Adams brought Barbour into the cabinet …
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… was named first assistant postmaster general in 1902. President Theodore Roosevelt tapped Wynne to succeed …
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… of the National Governors' Conference (1929-1930).When President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him secretary of …
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… however, when he ran for reelection. In 1949, Tobin became President Harry S. Truman's secretary of labor, a position he …
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… of the New York City Housing and Redevelopment Board. President-elect Kennedy asked Weaver to serve as the … his post on January 1, 1969. Later that year, he became president of Bernard Baruch College, but he left that post in …
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… In 1841, he served as secretary of war in the cabinets of Presidents William Henry Harrison and John Tyler, resigning …