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  • an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known ... Hull was born in a log cabin in Olympus, which is now part of Pickett ...
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  • :This article is about the publisher and soldier. For the United States ... mogul, the owner and editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. Harrison ...
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  • James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was a member of the ... | title=United States Secretary of War | before=John Armstrong, Jr. ...
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  • as a representative in the Louisiana House of Representatives, U.S. Senator ... South Carolina. In 1824, his father was one of the founders of the first Reform ...
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  • 1801 – October 10, 1872) was a Governor of New York and United States ... which meant he opposed the expansion of slavery and was pro-free soil ...
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  • | order3=10th United States Secretary of War | term_start3=October 8, 1817 ... 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was a leading United States senator, vice president ...
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  • was a Swedish diplomat and the second secretary-seneral of the United Nations ... As secretary-general, Hammarskjöld took the stance that he was not ...
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  • League contributed significantly to the work of the League of Nations. During ... Balch was born in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston into an ...
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  • 13, 1901) was the twenty-third president of the United States. Serving ... for the dramatic geographical expansion of the United States. The large ...
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  • | order=19th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1877 ... | date of birth=October 4, 1822 | place of birth=Delaware, Ohio ...
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  • general of the army, secretary of state, and the third secretary of ... Marshall accepted appointment as U.S. secretary of state in 1947 because ...
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  • March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth president of the United States, serving ... While Fillmore is considered by many as one of the lesser United States ...
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  • the Oregon question) arose as a result of competing British and American ... Both the United Kingdom and the United States had territorial and ...
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  • the Fulbright-Hays Program is a program of grants for international educational ... Fulbright alumni around the world recognize the importance of continued ...
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  • Gus Hall (October 8, 1910 – October 13, 2000) was a leader of the ... organizer in his 20s, helping to found the United Steelworkers of America. ...
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  • military leader and the twelfth president of the United States. Taylor had ... on November 24, 1784. He was the third of nine children of Richard and ...
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  • activist and reformer, the chairman of the committee on labor laws ... in Brooklyn, New York City, the youngest of ten children to Joseph Goldmark ...
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  • January 18, 1862) was the tenth President of the United States. As the first ... his party's platform and vetoed several of their proposals. As a result ...
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  • and politician who served as Foreign Secretary and, briefly, Prime Minister ... As a result of his charisma and promise, Canning early on drew to ...
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  • diplomat, congressman, and sixth president of the United States. The son ... As secretary of state in the administration of James Monroe, Adams ...
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