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  • The State of Georgia is a state in the United States and was one of ... Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi River by land ...
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  • an educated lawyer and eventually Georgia state Supreme Court justice. While ... in Canton. Brown was elected to the Georgia state senate in 1849 and soon became ...
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  • In state after state in the south, the Redeemers movement seized control from the Radical Republicans, until only three were left in 1876: South ...
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  • was named after the American secretary of state Frank B. Kellogg and French ... Frank B. Kellogg, then U.S. Secretary of State, wanted to avoid any involvement ...
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  • the Republican Party and served in the state legislature (1856-57) and ... first ever female member of the Illinois State Board of Charities. She served ...
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  • ===Abolition of state claims=== The passage of the ordinance forced ... in the Enabling Act of 1802. The first state created from the territory ...
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  • to serve as director of the Illinois State Immigrants Commission, only ... including the two-volume The Child and the State (1938). She was also responsible ...
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  • necessary to correctly determine the state of the law. The processes ... California, all counties are required by state law to maintain a public ...
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  • He heavily influenced United States Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes ... While now called South Marietta Parkway (State Route 120 Loop), it still ...
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  • Affairs of the United States Department of State, governments in other countries ... grants are paid by the U.S. Department of State, Commissions pay some or ...
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  • and federal troops were withdrawn, southern state governments began passing ... In 1890, the State of Louisiana passed Act 111 that required separate ...
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  • From 1857 to 1860, Cass served as Secretary of State under President ... Cass resigned from Secretary of State in 1860 and retired to Detroit ...
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  • and the western frontier towns of the U.S. state of Missouri between roughly ... would occupy Kansas and make it a slave state, while free state advocates ...
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  • several planning meetings to assess the current state of digital archiving and preservation. NDIIPP defines its mission as: Develop a national ...
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  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the State of the Union Address he delivered ... "Four Freedoms" speech in his State of the Union Address of January ...
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  • 1773, Mason outraged wrote his first major state paper; Extracts from the ... however, and returned to his native state as an outspoken opponent ...
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  • Extradition is the official process by which one nation or state requests ... a fugitive is lawfully sent to a requesting state where he has committed a ...
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  • speaker was William H. Felton, a state legislator, physician, Methodist ... Democrats who had wrested control of the state in the early 1870s. In 1874 ...
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  • awarded stories included ones on aging and the state of African Americans.[http://www.newsweekmediakit.com/newsite/us/about/awards.shtml Newsweek Media ...
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  • accept a position as an instructor at Michigan State College. He was awarded his bachelor of science degree by Northwestern University in 1902. He taught ...
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  • was an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best ... but resigned upon being named Secretary of State in 1933. ...
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