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… Rutherford B. Hayes, America's 19th President, served as chief executive at the end of … of an economic depression, the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant was tarnished by scandals, and Democratic opponent …
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… 1853, he made a failed bid as a Whig for a seat in the U.S. Congress. Three years later, he had left the Whig Party to … became U.S. minister to Turkey at the request of President Ulysses S. Grant. In 1880, President Rutherford B. Hayes tapped Maynard …
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… E. Lee, his army reduced to 35,000 weary men, confronted Grant's 120,000 bluecoats. Faced with the inevitable, Lee, making … H. Seward, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and General Ulysses S. Grant. Four of his coconspirators were convicted …
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… Republican leadership, he spearheaded the nomination of Ulysses S. Grant for President in that year's presidential election and …
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… present when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in 1865. After the war, he returned to Columbian …
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… he joined the Republican Party. He moved to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1861 and served just one term … with clean reputations because the scandals of the Ulysses S. Grant administration had disenchanted the public. The party …
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… of confronting the strong personality of Williams's president, Mark Hopkins. He fancied himself a reformer, … of President Johnson. In 1868 and 1872, he backed Ulysses S. Grant for President, though he possessed grave reservations …
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… candidate in 1860, Schurz was appointed, in 1861, as U.S. Minister to Spain, where he served for one year before … with the Republican Party over their support of President Ulysses S. Grant, and he helped form the short-lived Liberal Republican …
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… into a forum for Republican politics. In 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant named Foster the U.S. minister to Mexico, a post Foster …
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… Army. Though he was captured by William Quantrill’s raiders, one of Quantrill’s party, a former classmate, … in that position during the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant. From 1872 to 1877, Elkins served as New Mexico’s …
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… he passed his bar exam in 1854 and then, using his father's influence, gained a clerkship in a New York legal firm … Collector of the Port of New York In 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Arthur to the position of Collector of the …
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… without ever having campaigned. During Garfield's congressional terms, debates raged between legislators who … it would boil down to a fight between former President Ulysses S. Grant and the more moderate James G. Blaine. Garfield …
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… States, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Had the assassin's plot gone as planned, Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Secretary of State William Seward would have also …
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… Roscoe Conkling, a New York Republican Party boss and U.S. senator who used patronage and party discipline to advance … of the Port of New York under Republican President Ulysses S. Grant. While there is no evidence of blatant corruption on …
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… experience, three had been Army generals (Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, and Dwight Eisenhower) and one, Herbert Hoover, had …
Upon his inauguration in 2017, Donald Trump became the first person elected president...
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… and grandfather. His American roots traced back to 1680’s New England. Five years before Rud's birth, his parents … the meantime, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865; five days later, President Lincoln …
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… long in power on the verge of defeat." Apart from Lincoln's administration, Hayes boasted, "it would be difficult to … embraced a policy of peace, which had its beginnings under Ulysses S. Grant, and not one of annihilation. The treaty with China …
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… hard to retain his place on the ticket. At his party’s national convention in Baltimore in June 1864, President … nation in their convention in Chicago, nominating General Ulysses S. Grant and House Speaker Schuyler Colfax of Indiana as …
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… out of 100. At Yale University, Taft followed his father's advice to refrain from athletics lest his participation … as secretary of war and then attorney general in President Ulysses S. Grant's cabinet. President Chester A. Arthur appointed Taft's …
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… Michael Burlingame … Abraham Lincoln's presidential campaign victory lit the fuse that would … another day. Lincoln finally found his ideal general in Ulysses S. Grant, the western commander who captured Vicksburg in July …