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… of Military Justice that the atrocious murder of the late President, Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted assassination … to the end that justice may be done, I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, do offer and promise for the … States of America the eighty-ninth. ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President: W. HUNTER, Acting Secretary of State. Ordered, …
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… Mr. President, Mr. General Secretary, distinguished delegates: … At one of the first international assemblies of my Presidency, in Cancun, Mexico, I said history demonstrates …
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… district attorney for Georgia in 1869. One year later, President Ulysses S. Grant tapped Akerman to become his … active opposition to the KKK that led advisors to pressure President Grant into asking for Akerman’s resignation. …
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… a share of the Hartford Evening Post, and served as president of the Jewell Pin Company and the Southern New … in 1870 and again in both 1871 and 1872. Jewell accepted President Ulysses S. Grant’s offer to become U.S. minister to …
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… Senate in 1823, where he remained for one term. In 1829, President Andrew Jackson tapped him as his secretary of the … an unsuccessful bid to become governor in 1838. In 1844, President John Tyler appointed Branch governor of Florida, a …
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… but came back to Washington, D.C., in 1846 to serve as President James K. Polk’s attorney general. Clifford held … until the end of the Polk administration in 1849. In 1857, President James Buchanan nominated Clifford to fill a vacancy …
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… his appointment to postmaster general by his close friend President McKinley. Of his time as postmaster general, postal … Emory Smith would serve until the end of McKinley's presidency, dying in January of 1908. …
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… of Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith in 1895, President Grover Cleveland nominated Francis for the post. … contest in a Senate primary against James Reed. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson selected Francis to be the American …
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… the company in 1872 with a remarkable fortune. Becoming a president of several railway, mining, and manufacturing … Hitchcock was then appointed secretary of the interior by President McKinley on December 21, 1898, though he would not …
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… his appointment to postmaster general by his close friend President McKinley. Of his time as postmaster general, postal … Emory Smith would serve until the end of McKinley's presidency, dying in January of 1908. …
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… and recorder of Madison County, Indiana (1903-1907).President Warren G. Harding appointed Davis secretary of labor, and, following Harding's death, President Calvin Coolidge reappointed him to that post. Davis …
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… a year later (1925-1933).Farley served in the cabinet of President Franklin D. Roosevelt as postmaster general from … from the cabinet in August 1940, due to a row with the President over Roosevelt's decision to seek a third term in …
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… Mr. President, thank you very much. Mr. Secretary-General, … to the Honorable Guido De Marco on your election, sir, as President of the General Assembly. And on a personal note, I … of the Saudi Government, and the American people and this President want every single American soldier brought home as …
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… States and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, the President directed Secretary Kellogg to propose to the … gratitude. We are honored here by the presence of President Coolidge under whose administration this great step … in language as follows: "Whereas a Treaty between the President of the United States of America, the President of …
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… general because of Mr. Hoover's obvious resentment of me." President Johnson then appointed him undersecretary of state … use of funds. Following the commission's report, President Johnson prohibited the use of covert government aid …
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… by orderly constitutional processes. Lebanon elected a new President 2 short weeks ago, only to see him murdered even … week a distressed Lebanon will again be electing a new President. May God grant him safety as well as the wisdom and … join him, will represent me at the inauguration of the new President of Lebanon, and will consult with the leaders in …
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… Section 1753 of the Revised Statutes authorizes the President to prescribe the regulations for admission to the … meet the expenses of a commission, to be appointed by the President in accordance with the terms of this section, whose … against the other. Under this convention a commission, presided over by a distinguished publicist, appointed in …
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… Mr. President and fellow citizens of New York: The facts with … George Washington, another of the "thirty-nine," was then President of the United States, and, as such approved and …
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… for a second time in 2024, becoming only the second US president to serve two non-consecutive terms (the first was Grover Cleveland), he came into office with a new vice president, former Senator JD Vance from Ohio. Trump’s …
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… of Labor from 1929 to 1933. When Roosevelt became President, he tapped Perkins to become secretary of labor, … a member of the Federal Civil Service Commission under President Harry S. Truman (1946-1952).After leaving …