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  • | title2=United States Secretary of State | term_start2=March 6, 1857 ... | title=United States Secretary of State | before=William L. Marcy ...
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  • The Kellogg-Briand Pact, also known as the Pact of Paris after the ... In its original form, the Pact of Paris was a renunciation of war ...
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  • (April 10 1882 – May 14 1965) was Secretary of Labor for the twelve ... moved to Worcester when she was two years of age. Perkins' father opened ...
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  • | title2=United States Secretary of State | term_start2=September 30, 1898 ... title= United States Secretary of State | years= 1898–1905 | ...
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  • an Egyptian diplomat who was the sixth secretary-general of the United Nations ... not responding quickly enough in the face of tragedies like the genocide ...
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  • The Radical Republicans were members of the Republican Party who were ... easy" terms for reuniting the United States following the end ...
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  • | order = 52nd United States Secretary of State[[Image:Flag ... title=United States Secretary of State| before=Dean Acheson| after ...
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  • | title2=United States Secretary of State | term_start=May 22, 1911 ... title= United States Secretary of State | years= 1929–1933 | ...
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  • old, became the chief artillery officer of the Continental Army and later ... died in 1759. Henry left school at the age of 12, and became a clerk in a ...
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  • politician. He was the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations ... Prior to serving as UN secretary general, Waldheim was a member of ...
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  • | title=United States Secretary of State | president=Franklin D. Roosevelt ... | title= United States Secretary of State | years= March 4, 1933–November ...
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  • The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government ... Arguably the single most important piece of legislation passed by ...
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  • Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the ...
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  • William Henry Seward, Sr. (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was a Governor of New York and United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln ...
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  • James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was a member of the ... | title=United States Secretary of State | before=Robert Smith ...
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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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  • educator, philanthropist, and promoter of religious, educational, and ... in Lancaster, Pensylvannia, the seventh of 12 children of Miriam Simon ...
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  • February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ... Austria. His family emigrated to the United States when he was twelve ...
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  • leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United States (1841). He ... When Harrison took office in 1841 at the age of 68, he was the oldest ...
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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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  • 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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  • March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth president of the United States, serving ... |align="left"|United States Secretary of State||align="left ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • | order2=16th United States Secretary of State | term_start2=April 1, 1844 ... 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was a leading United States senator, vice president ...
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  • June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth president of the United States (1857–1861 ... title=United States Secretary of State| before=John C. Calhoun| after ...
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  • , is a landmark case in United States law and the basis for the exercise ... Marbury, who had been appointed as Justice of the Peace in the District of ...
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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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  • general of the army, secretary of state, and the third secretary of ... | title=United States Secretary of State | term_start=January 21, 1947 ...
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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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  • 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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  • 1829 – November 18, 1886) was a politician of the United States who served ... Before entering national politics, Arthur had been Collector of Customs ...
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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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  • January 5, 1933) was the thirtieth President of the United States. Famed for ... in the White House after the scandals of his predecessor's administration ...
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  • July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth President of the United States (1865–1869 ... Johnson was a United States Senator from Tennessee at the time of ...
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  • Old Kinderhook, was the eighth president of the United States. He was a ... title=United States Secretary of State | before=Henry Clay | ...
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  • | title2=United States Secretary of State | term_start2=June 13, 1800 ... title=United States Secretary of State| before=Timothy Pickering| ...
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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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  • 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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  • American politician who served as Governor of Kansas from 1933-1937. He was ... in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, at the time of Landon's birth. Later ...
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  • scandal that began during the administration of President Harding. Elk Hills ... The Teapot Dome oil field received its name because of a rock resembling ...
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  • 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the twelfth United States Attorney General. ... role for the federal government in the area of economic regulation, Taney ...
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  • in Palestine. He was the first person of color to be so honored in the ... UN had the courage to do what the old League of Nations had failed to do, to ...
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  • James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was one of the principal ... but instead narrowly defined the powers of the government. Opponents of ...
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  • best known as the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Considered one of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States ...
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  • for his intellectual demeanor and advocacy of liberal causes in the Democratic ... At the close of his life, Stevenson was respected by people of all ...
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  • ; ca 1897 – October 23, 2003) was the youngest of the three Soong ... Her experiences in the United States made her an able spokeswoman ...
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  • 2, 1923) was the twenty-ninth President of the United States, serving ... presidential campaign, held in the aftermath of World War I, he promised a ...
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