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… Sometimes these choices are not easy. But today as President, I ask for your support in a decision I've made to … third, my administration, as has been the case with every President from President Roosevelt to President Reagan, is committed to the …
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… ultimately resigned his Senate seat in 1877 to serve as President Rutherford B. Hayes’s secretary of the treasury, a … to the Senate, where he served from 1881 to 1897. He was president pro tempore during the Forty-Ninth Congress and, …
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… Country Club, yachting, and fishing. He was the first President to have a radio in the White House, and the first … wrote a best-selling book (ninety thousand copies), The President's Daughter, dedicated "to all unwed mothers, and to …
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… lost his bid for reelection in 2000 but was chosen by President George W. Bush to serve as attorney general. John …
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… political, career. While Woodrow Wilson was serving as president of Princeton University, Ellen Wilson gained … his political goals. So when Woodrow Wilson became President in 1913 and Ellen Wilson moved into the White …
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… By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation … be accomplished the war ought to cease; and Whereas the President of the United States, on the 8th day of December, … proclamations was specified and reserved; and Whereas the President of the United States did on the 29th day of May, A. …
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… Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, and distinguished Members of the House and Senate: … work together this year, I believe we can give a future President and a future Congress the chance to make that … though I will not get to use it, is one I know future Presidents of either party must have. Give the President the …
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… of a commission of five members "to be appointed by the President of the United States to consider the expediency of … Highness Prince Higashi Fushimi, and Prince Tokugawa, President of the House of Peers of Japan. The Secretary of … report of the bounteous hospitality and warm reception of President Diaz and the Mexican people, which left no doubt of …
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… and gained national prominence when he was appointed by President William Howard Taft to replace Jacob Dickinson as … governor general of the Philippines between 1927 and 1929. President Herbert Hoover made him secretary of state, and …
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… a family-owned company in Louisville in 1939. He served as president of the company from 1947 until 1951. When the … with Pillsbury Company, Morton held the position of vice president until 1953 and then served as director until 1971. …
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… a family-owned company in Louisville in 1939. He served as president of the company from 1947 until 1951. When the … with Pillsbury Company, Morton held the position of vice president until 1953 and then served as director until 1971. …
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… and was promoted to general upon Grant's recommendation. President Grant named him a district judge for Indiana in … unions in the great railroad strike of 1877, urging President Rutherford Hayes to use federal troops to break the …
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… University of Cincinnati. Though he refused an offer from President Andrew Johnson to serve as the commissioner of internal revenue, Cox did accept President Ulysses S. Grant’s offer to become secretary of the …
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… of Iowa, where he served from 1847 to 1852. In 1853, President Franklin Pierce tapped Williams to become chief … thereafter. Williams served on a special commission for President Ulysses S. Grant in 1871 before becoming Grant’s …
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… and was promoted to general upon Grant's recommendation. President Grant named him a district judge for Indiana in … unions in the great railroad strike of 1877, urging President Rutherford Hayes to use federal troops to break the …
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… senate seat of James Harlan. who had resigned to become President Andrew Johnson's secretary of the interior. … States Senator. He did not fulfill his full term, as President Garfield tapped him in 1881 to become secretary of …
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… and was promoted to general upon Grant's recommendation. President Grant named him a district judge for Indiana in … unions in the great railroad strike of 1877, urging President Rutherford Hayes to use federal troops to break the …
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… leadership of the Whig Party in Missouri. Bates declined President Millard Fillmore’s offer to become secretary of war … of the Land Court in St. Louis from 1850 to 1853. He also presided over the 1856 Whig National Convention; since he …
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… in that position for five years before being tapped by President James K. Polk to head the Navy’s Bureau of … of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and was soon tapped by the new President to become secretary of the Navy. During the Civil …
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… in that position for five years before being tapped by President James K. Polk to head the Navy’s Bureau of … of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and was soon tapped by the new President to become secretary of the Navy. During the Civil …