Lorenzo de Zavala | ... the northeastern curve of the Houston Ship Channel. Channelview was home to | , one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Texas. During World War I ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... , and it set term limits to the presidency of two terms. It stipulated that | , the incumbent at the time, would not be affected by the amendment. In 19 ... |
Dan Duffy | In the Illinois Senate, McHenry County is served by Pamela Althoff (R) and | (R) and in the Illinois House of Representatives by Mike Tryon (R), Jack F ... |
George McGovern | ... fianakis avoided mention of his party's presidential candidate, the liberal | , Helms employed the slogans "McGovernGalifianakis – one and the same", "V ... |
Richard Nixon | ... bert Bork was instrumental in the "Saturday Night Massacre", U.S. President | 's firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, following Cox's r ... |
Tim Johnson | ... n County and across the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation helped narrowly elect | to office. The county has the distinction of having the highest percentage ... |
Adam W. Snyder | ... g to the west. In the First Battle of Kellogg's Grove, militia commanded by | pursued a British Band raiding party of about thirty warriors. Three Illin ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | The department was established on September 9, 1965, when | signed the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act into law. It st ... |
Joseph L. Bristow | ... roduced to the American lexicon. During a Senate debate in 1917, as Senator | cataloged a long list of what he felt the country needed, Marshall leaned ... |
Alejo Bay | ... scent are: Romulo O'Farril, Juan O'Gorman, Edmundo O'Gorman, Anthony Quinn, | (Governor of the state of Sonora), Famed Conductor Felix Carrasco, Guiller ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... hind Herbert Hoover in the 1928 presidential election. Hearst's support for | at the 1932 Democratic National Convention, via his allies William Gibbs M ... |
John Kerry | In the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, | carried the county by a 6.6% margin over George W. Bush, with Kerry carryi ... |
John III Sobieski | ... of Bavaria, and Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska, and the grandson of Polish King | |
William Mahone | ... onflict through an elaborate ruse orchestrated by civilian railroad builder | (soon to become a famous Confederate officer). The Union forces withdrew t ... |
Dixie B. Graves | ... s voted against Black. Alabama Governor Bibb Graves appointed his own wife, | , to fill Black's vacated seat |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... in the U.S. since Medicaid began in the 1960s. Senator Hatch and First Lady | also played major roles in SCHIP passing |
Eugenio Montale | ... exams in his first year while reading anti-Fascist works by Elio Vittorini, | , Cesare Pavese, Johan Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by Max Planck, We ... |
Johnson administration | ... egan to be released from this and other North Vietnamese prisons during the | , their testimonies revealed widespread and systematic abuse of prisoners ... |
James W. Stephenson | ... ve warriors died in the fighting. Two days later, on June 18, militia under | encountered what was probably the same war party near Yellow Creek. The Ba ... |
Jay Hammond | ... n, established by Alaska in 1976, primarily by the efforts of then Governor | . Shortly after the oil from Alaska’s North Slope began flowing to market ... |
Frank L. Greene | ... 1915 an inquiry was initiated by U.S. congressmen William Henry Coleman and | . This resulted in the U.S. Army's admitting its denial of the matter. The ... |
Jesse Helms | ... ows. In a letter dated April 8, 1997, then Halliburton-CEO Cheney told Sen. | , the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, that it would be ... |
William Gibbs McAdoo | ... lin D. Roosevelt at the 1932 Democratic National Convention, via his allies | and John Nance Garner, can also be seen as part of his vendetta against Sm ... |
Jimmy Carter | Following Ford's defeat by President | , Scalia worked for several months at the American Enterprise Institute. H ... |
Dianne Feinstein | ... litical organization, the Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club, which influenced | to sponsor a citywide bill to outlaw employment discrimination for gays an ... |
Hugo Black | ... an era lasting for a dozen years, during which Roosevelt appointees (led by | , William O. Douglas, and Frank Murphy) established a body of civil libert ... |
Raul Roco | ... hairman CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and U.S. Ambassador to Sweden), | (former presidential candidate and Secretary of Education in the Philippin ... |
Trent Lott | ... for 2001–2002, 50% more than the previous year. Shortly afterwards, Senator | made comments at a Strom Thurmond birthday celebration in which he said th ... |
Mahlon Dickerson | ... nd the township had some of the richest sources of iron ore in the country. | , who was New Jersey's 12th Governor, and his family owned the Dickerson M ... |
Barack Obama | ... won pluralities in the county in 1992 and 1996. However, in 2008, Democrat | won 54% of the county's vote |
Alan García | ... 1990, he reached the position of Secretary General after the resignation of | . He was also Prime Minister from 1985 until 1987, when serious disputes w ... |
Richard J. Daley | ... the chaotic 1968 Democratic National Convention in August, Mayor of Chicago | and some other party factions feared that Hubert Humphrey could not unite ... |
Alan García | ... resident of Peruvian Chamber of Deputies during the government of President | |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... was George Washington Baines, maternal great-grandfather of U.S. President | . Within Saline is the Magnolia Baptist Church. Several miles east of Sali ... |
Juan Ponce Enrile | On 1986, a faction of AFP headed by then Defense Minister | and AFP vice-chief of staff Lt. General Fidel V. Ramos took a stand agains ... |
William Henry Harrison | ... cess of presidential succession had been known since the death of President | in 1841, but little progress had been made passing a constitutional amendm ... |
Al Gore | ... n effect on the content of the media. For example, according to Fair, ‘When | proposed launching a progressive TV network, a Fox News executive told Adv ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... oss characterised restrictions placed upon Concorde operations by President | 's administration as having been an act of protectionism of American aircr ... |
Thomas Taggart | ... support, at the state convention he was a dark horse candidate. Party boss | did not support him because of Marshall's support of prohibition. Taggart ... |
Colorado Senate | ... n Voting Index of R+5 and is represented by Republican Scott Tipton. In the | it is in District 5 and is represented by Gail Schwartz. In the Colorado H ... |
Indiana Senate | ... presentatives by a small margin, though Republicans retained control of the | |
Guglielmo Marconi | Radio Central was one of the many original operating and touring sites of | 's radio shack, which now is displayed at Rocky Point's Frank J. Carasiti ... |
Jim Sasser | ... o serve for more than two terms. He accused his opponent, incumbent Senator | , of "sending Tennessee money to Washington, DC", and said, "While I've be ... |
Elizabeth Dole | ... disease, Helms did not seek re-election in 2002. His Senate seat was won by | , a former Johnson, Nixon, and Ford presidential advisor that served as Re ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... because of weaker security and security lapses, such as with U.S. President | and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, or as part of coups d' ... |
William Henry Harrison | ... oint du Sable near the mouth of the Chicago River. That same year, Governor | of the Indiana Territory appointed Kinzie as a justice of the peace |
John F. Kennedy | ... tioned by Curtis was that it was Baldrick who had accidentally assassinated | . However, aside from a brief mention in June 2005 |
Jimmy Carter | ... nsfer of sovereignty to assuage conservative opposition. In 1977, President | reopened negotiations, appointing Sol Linowitz as co-negotiator without Se ... |
Nixon Administration | ... ther investigations in the 1970s found that they were not at fault, and the | reversed all dishonorable discharges |
Kathleen Vinehout | ... or the 31st district Wisconsin State Senate seat in 2010, against incumbent | . The 31st District includes all of Trempealeau, Buffalo, Jackson and Pepi ... |
John Kerry | ... eceived 49.9% of the vote in South Hackensack (499 cast), ahead of Democrat | , who received around 48.5% (485 votes), with 999 ballots cast among the t ... |
Henry Wilson | ... eps whereby the National Academy of Sciences was to be established. Senator | of Massachusetts was to name Agassiz to the Board of Regents of the Smiths ... |
Raymond Poincaré | ... he distributed as gifts to President Alexandre Millerand and Prime Minister | of France, to King George V of the United Kingdom, and to the Zoological G ... |
Richard J. Daley | ... ic control tower, the 1961 opening of a new terminal building (dedicated by | ), runway lengthening, and the late 1990s charting of two FAA instrument a ... |
Al Gore | ... rt of the working group of the IPCC which shared the Nobel Peace Prize with | for their dissemination of the effects of climate change |
Gail Schwartz | ... tt Tipton. In the Colorado Senate it is in District 5 and is represented by | . In the Colorado House of Representatives it is in District 62 and is rep ... |
Charles Curtis | ... rity coalesced to give him the nomination on the first ballot, with Senator | named as his running mate |
Mark Pryor | Following the storm, U.S. Senator | had criticized the 's response to the recovery and cleanup efforts |
Richard M. Daley | ... commuter airline service to the public, peaking in the late 1980s as Mayor | took office. During the 1960s to 1980s, typical destinations were Springfi ... |
Joseph L. Bristow | ... ted consideration for either Annapolis or West Point with his U.S. Senator, | . Though Eisenhower was among the winners of the entrance exam competition ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... Mayor of Chicago Richard J. Daley and some other party factions feared that | could not unite the party, and so encouraged Ted Kennedy to make himself a ... |
Andrew Johnson | ... tension of the Civil War. It lasted through the administrations of Lincoln, | and Grant, and saw the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment to free slaves ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... since he was one of the key figures who acceded to the wishes of President | in changing the focus of the march. Kennedy initially opposed the march ou ... |
Pietro Badoglio | ... ts colonial empire. Hesitance remained from the King and military commander | who warned Mussolini that Italy had too few tanks, armoured vehicles, and ... |
Lois Wolk | ... n Joaquin is part of the 5th and 14th districts, which are held by Democrat | and Republican Tom Berryhill respectively. County government was recently ... |
Sam Houston | Torrey Trading Houses opened as a part of the | peace policy to develop friendly relationships with native tribes. They bo ... |
Al Gore | ... ential election battle in Florida in 2000, Kennedy supported Vice President | 's legal actions. After the bitter contest was over, many Democrats in Con ... |
Truman | ... tten investigations and demand actions that were already being taken by the | Administration, although it can be said that the committee's investigation ... |
Richard Nixon | ... years in Charlottesville, in 1971, Scalia entered public service. President | appointed him as the general counsel for the Office of Telecommunications ... |
James Monroe | ... the party were Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809), James Madison (1809–1817), and | (1817–1825). After 1800, the party dominated Congress and most state gover ... |
Barack Obama | ... nty vote, respectively. However in the 2008 Presidential Election, Democrat | captured McHenry County with 52% of the vote |
Coolidge | ... hite House at the time leading up to the Great Depression — first President | in 1928, and then later followed by President Hoover later in 1931 — choos ... |
Secretary of War William L. Marcy | ... in July 1849 his report recommended sink wells along the route. July 1848, | wanted a military post established on the north side of the Rio Grande. Ma ... |
John Kerry | ... tial primaries, Kennedy campaigned heavily for fellow Massachusetts Senator | . and lent his chief of staff, Mary Beth Cahill, to the Kerry campaign. Ke ... |
Józef Wybicki | ... onal anthem - Dąbrowski's Mazurka - was written in praise of his actions by | in 1797. The Duchy of Warsaw, a small, semi-independent Polish state, was ... |
James Monroe | | constructed and resided at Oak Hill near Aldie after his presidency. Ameri ... |
Scott McCallum | ... at Jim Doyle, the state Attorney General, and incumbent Republican Governor | , former Lieutenant Governor who had assumed the office in 2001 after Gove ... |
Alexandre Millerand | ... even included a pride of lions, which he distributed as gifts to President | and Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré of France, to King George V of the Uni ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... ly nine days before the U.S. presidential elections, causing U.S. President | great embarrassment. Truman reacted by making a strongly pro-Zionist decla ... |
Richard M. Nixon | ... ld between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Vice President | |
Richard Russell | ... or his highly successful "courtships" of older senators, especially Senator | , Democrat from Georgia, and the leader of the Conservative coalition and ... |
John Salmon 'Rip' Ford | ... h of explosives. In 1864, the town was reoccupied by the Confederates under | . On May 15, 1865, a month after the surrender had been signed at Appomatt ... |
Robert M. Marionneaux | Louisiana State Senator | resides on a cattle farm in Grosse Tete but practices law in Baton Rouge |
Pamela Althoff | In the Illinois Senate, McHenry County is served by | (R) and Dan Duffy (R) and in the Illinois House of Representatives by Mike ... |
Jon Corzine | ... eceived 43.6% of the vote in South Hackensack (333 cast), ahead of Democrat | , who received around 43.1% (329 votes), with 763 ballots cast among the t ... |
Ferdinand Marcos | ... ion of Martial Law on 1972 - Martial Law in the Philippines, then President | used the AFP to arrest, torture or kill his political opponents and theref ... |
William H. Seward | ... izenship. Lincoln accepted the offer, writing (with his Secretary of State, | ) in reply that San Marino proved that "government founded on republican p ... |
George McGovern | ... nomination. He also declined consideration for the vice-presidential spot. | remained the symbolic standard-bearer for Robert's delegates instead |
Royal S. Copeland | ... , thus becoming the first physician in the Senate since June 17, 1938, when | died |
Jefferson Davis | ... apital of the Confederate States of America within the space of a few days. | and the temporary Capital moved to the palatial home of William T. Sutherl ... |
Johan Vilhelm Snellman | ... tragic tale from Kalevala. He also met the famous journalist and statesman | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | Hardy holds the distinction of playing both Winston Churchill and | , and having played both roles on more than one occasion. He played Church ... |
Andrew Jackson | On June 15, 1832, President | , displeased with Atkinson's handling of the war, appointed General Winfie ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... e only major city in which rioting did not occur. Many credit the speech by | , who was in town campaigning for President that night, for helping to cal ... |
Alexander W. Terrell | ... population was 984. Its county seat is Sanderson. The county was named for | , a Texas state senator. It is the setting for Cormac McCarthy's novel No ... |
Terry Sanford | ... ch-counter demonstrations in Greensboro, compelled him to run. Lake lost to | , who ran as a racial moderate willing to implement the federal policy of ... |
Kay Hagan | ... eld the seat for a single term, losing her 2008 re-election bid to Democrat | |
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo | ... ich the AFP played a key role. The revolution installed then Vice-President | into the presidency |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... he hometown of former First Lady & current United States Secretary of State | . When she visited Park Ridge on the occasion of her 50th birthday in 1997 ... |
Eugenio Montale | ... re, as were many other leading Italian writers and intellectuals, including | , Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli. ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... oying a stronger and more effective legislative staff. He took on President | and almost succeeded in amending the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to explicit ... |
Richard Burr | In 2004, he spoke out for the election of Republican U.S. Representative | , who, like Elizabeth Dole two years earlier, defeated Democrat Erskine Bo ... |
Francis Marion | ... unty seat of Marion County, Kansas, United States. It was named in honor of | , a Brigadier General of the American Revolutionary War, known as the "Swa ... |
Byron Dorgan | ... ly 1 meter in length was displayed on the floor of the US Senate by Senator | as a demonstration of extreme methods used by credit companies to attract ... |
Chris Dodd | ... Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator Barack Obama intensified, as his friend | was also running. After the initial caucuses and primaries had been split ... |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... n remained neutral as the 2008 Democratic nomination battle between Senator | and Senator Barack Obama intensified, as his friend Chris Dodd was also ru ... |
Gabrielle Giffords | The attempted assassination of Representative | , and the murders of chief judge for the U.S. District Court for Arizona, ... |
John Cornyn | ... entative Rick Noriega of Houston, who failed to unseat Republican incumbent | |
Barack Obama | ... cratic nomination battle between Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator | intensified, as his friend Chris Dodd was also running. After the initial ... |
Jon Corzine | ... ion, Republican Chris Christie received 70% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 21% |
Richard Nixon | NOAA was formed on October 3, 1970, after | proposed creating a new department to serve a national need "… for better ... |
John C. Calhoun | ... y movement gaining momentum, defenders of slavery such as John Randolph and | found it necessary to argue that the Declaration's assertion that "all men ... |
Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 62% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
Patrick J. Ballantine | ... to 45% to re-elect Democratic Governor Mike Easley against local Republican | |
Oliver Ellsworth | ... met in Philadelphia was dominated by strong-government advocates. Delegate | of Connecticut argued that because the people could not be trusted (as exe ... |
Alan Cranston | ... aign to win the United States Senate seat held by Democratic incumbent Sen. | , as he received less than two percent of the vote in the Republican Party ... |
John McCain | ... Security, and Refugees, and in 2005, Kennedy teamed with Republican Senator | on the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act. The "McCain-Kennedy bil ... |
Sirimavo Bandaranaike | ... 980–84). Gandhi was the second female head of government in the world after | of Sri Lanka, and she remains as the world's second longest serving female ... |
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor | ... ote an opinion concurring in the judgment, which Justice Harry Blackmun and | joined in full, and Justice John Paul Stevens joined in part. Justice Blac ... |
Giuseppe Verdi | ... y served as the basis for the libretto written by Francesco Maria Piave for | 's opera I due Foscari, which premiered on 3 November 1844 in Rome. Mary M ... |
Salvador Allende | ... overwhelmed or completely removed, such as with Patrice Lumumba and likely | |
Calvin Coolidge | ... date in Presidential elections. The last Republican to carry the county was | in 1924. In the last five Presidential elections the Democratic candidate ... |
President Jimmy Carter | ... process. There was a hopeful precedent in the 1978 Camp David Accords where | was able to broker a peace agreement between Egypt, represented by Preside ... |
Salvador Allende | ... ent which led to a revolution in the popular music of his country under the | government. Shortly after the Chilean coup of 11 September 1973, he was ar ... |
Governor Temple | ... me Templeville derives from the Temple family, whose most famous member was | of Delaware |
John McCain | ... the 226 counties in Texas to cast the majority of its votes for Republican | . McCain won 69% of the vote and 55,187 votes. Democrat Barack Obama won 3 ... |
John McCain | ... t known resident is U.S. Senator and 2008 Republican Presidential candidate | . McCain's home in the community, referred to in the media as his "Sedona ... |
Howard Baker | In 1990, Frist met with former Senate Majority Leader | about the possibilities of public office. Baker advised him to pursue the ... |
John Quincy Adams | ... ke down. The party split between Andrew Jackson and the incumbent President | . What began as Jackson's ideas of democracy ("Jacksonian democracy") lead ... |
Warren G. Harding | ... gnised the Court's jurisdiction in, following a long and drawn out process. | had first suggested US involvement in 1923, and in 9 December 1929, three ... |
Barack Obama | ... publican John McCain. McCain won 69% of the vote and 55,187 votes. Democrat | won 30% of the vote and 23,726 votes. Other candidates won 648 votes and 1 ... |
Ted Kennedy | ... ot to do so would amount to a tax increase. Working with Democratic Senator | , McCain was a strong proponent of comprehensive immigration reform, which ... |
George McGovern | ... globe. In addition to numerous domestic programs, along with former Senator | (D-South Dakota), Dole created an international school lunch program throu ... |
John Pettit | ... uring the debate over the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1853, for example, Senator | of Indiana argued that "all men are created equal", rather than a "self-ev ... |
Jon Corzine | ... ion, Republican Chris Christie received 68% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 21% |
Salmon P. Chase | ... , was a "self-evident lie". Opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, including | and Benjamin Wade, defended the Declaration and what they saw as its antis ... |
Luigi Albertini | ... by Eugenio Torelli Viollier. In the 1910s and 1920s, under the direction of | , it became the most widely read newspaper in Italy, maintaining its impor ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... es in the 1954 election. He had to work with the Democratic Majority Leader | in the Senate and Speaker Sam Rayburn in the House, both of Texas. Joe Mar ... |
Mike Thompson | ... part of California's 1st congressional district, which is held by Democrat | . In the state legislature, Humboldt is part of the 1st Assembly district, ... |
William Goebel | On February 3, 1900 Governor-elect | was assassinated in Frankfort while walking to the capitol to be inaugurat ... |
John Sununu | ... Leader Mitch McConnell, as well as fellow Republican Senators Norm Coleman, | and Gordon Smith also called for Stevens to resign. McConnell said there w ... |
Bob Dole | ... who also happened to be the wife of long-time colleague and former Senator | of Kansas. Dole held the seat for a single term, losing her 2008 re-electi ... |
Gilberto Concepción de Gracia | ... sland of Vieques, Puerto Rico (see Navy-Vieques protests). He stayed in the | encampment — baptized in honor of the PIP founder — for 362 consecutive da ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... ess, but in the late 1820s, that system broke down. The party split between | and the incumbent President John Quincy Adams. What began as Jackson's ide ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... to avoid inconveniencing the Chicago traveling public, including President | . In a common pattern, Air Force One would land at a larger area airport, ... |
Benjamin Wade | ... t lie". Opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, including Salmon P. Chase and | , defended the Declaration and what they saw as its antislavery principles |
Félix-Antoine-Philibert Dupanloup | ... for women’s education and its separation from the church. He opposed famous | (1802–1878), Roman Catholic bishop of Orléans, who wanted to keep control ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... uch remained a prominent government adviser during this time, and supported | 's domestic and foreign policy initiatives after his election |
Pompey | ... instability in Syria under the Seleucids. Once Mithridates was defeated by | in 63 BC, Pompey set about the task of remaking the Hellenistic East, by c ... |
Robert Byrd | ... eagan] and I have been to the Kennedy family. ... I will miss him." Senator | of West Virginia, the President pro tempore of the Senate, issued a statem ... |
James A. Bradley | ... t. Developed in 1871 as a residential resort by New York brush manufacturer | , the city was named for Francis Asbury, the first American bishop of the ... |
John McCain | ... he national and state levels. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican | received 61% of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received ar ... |
Ted Kennedy | ... ts candidate in the race for U.S. Senate in 2000, which was won by Democrat | . Howell received 11.9% of the vote (a total of 308,860 votes). Howell had ... |
William B. Saxbe | ... and fired Cox. He remained acting attorney general until the appointment of | on December 17, 1973 |
Lucullus | Seleucid rule was not entirely over, however. Following the Roman general | ' defeat of both Mithridates and Tigranes in 69 BC, a rump Seleucid kingdo ... |
John McCain | ... nal level, Fairfield leans toward the Republican Party. In 2008, Republican | received 2797 votes here (about 70%), while Democrat Barack Obama received ... |
Chris Dodd | ... ttee's expansive plan resulted in a poor public reception. Kennedy's friend | had taken over his role on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Commi ... |
Eugene McCarthy | ... hnson for the Democratic nomination in the 1968 presidential election. Once | 's strong showing in the New Hampshire primary led to Robert's presidentia ... |
John Quincy Adams | ... y") lead to the founding of the Democratic Party. The other faction, led by | and Henry Clay, formed a new party known as the National Republicans; it e ... |
Barack Obama | ... Republican John McCain received 2797 votes here (about 70%), while Democrat | received 1137 (about 28%) |
Seabury Ford | ... p from Cuyahoga County were presented to the Ohio House of Representatives. | presented petitions against its creation. Lake County was established in M ... |
Truman | ... ionist Senator Robert Taft. Eisenhower's campaign was a crusade against the | administration's policies regarding "Korea, Communism and Corruption. |
Barack Obama | Although | got only 38.45% of Hamilton County's vote during the 2008 election, it is ... |
B. Everett Jordan | ... in a three-candidate field. Meanwhile, Democrats retired the ailing Senator | , who lost his primary to Congressman Nick Galifianakis, who represented t ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ited States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under U.S. President | from 1979–1981 |
Pompey | ... historian Appian. The 4th century commentary on Vergil by Servius says that | settled some of these pirates in in southern Italy |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... Democrat presidential candidate has been able to get for this county since | in 1936 (who himself had also lost the county) |
John Kerry | ... dential slot, only this time as part of the Democratic ticket under nominee | . McCain said that Kerry had never formally offered him the position and t ... |
John G. Schmitz | ... born Mary Katherine Schmitz in Tustin, California, to university professor | and chemist Mary Schmitz. She was known as Mary Kay to her family and call ... |
Princess Leia Organa | ... ous themes associated with characters like Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, and | (see for more details) |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... full term of his presidency. The late President's brother, Attorney General | , with whom Johnson had a notoriously difficult relationship, remained in ... |
William McHenry | ... ed in 1836 out of Cook and LaSalle Counties. The county was named for Major | , an Indian fighter who died in Vandalia in 1835 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | The | administration proposed the New Deal to combat the depression. ACLU leader ... |
Levi Ankeny | ... that although the origin of this name is disputed, he puts great weight in | who supplied this information as he was "thoroughly familiar with the earl ... |
Evan Bayh | ... ican candidate some the state's highest percentage results. Even US senator | , in spite of his landslide victories in 1998 and 2004, had failed to carr ... |
John McCain | ... toward the Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican | received 62% of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received ar ... |
Richard M. Daley | In 1994, Mayor | announced plans to close the airport and build a park in its place on Nort ... |
Alessandro Manzoni | ... rds nationalism; and perhaps the most famous of proto-nationalist works was | 's I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed). Some read this novel as a thinly veil ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... anddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adviser to President | , and Levi Woodbury, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. However, t ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... . Present at the funeral service were President Obama and former Presidents | , Bill Clinton and George W. Bush (also representing his father, former Pr ... |
Nixon Administration | ... 1), he voted to allow newspapers to publish the Pentagon Papers despite the | 's contention that publication would have security implications. In his co ... |
Daniel Webster | Like | , James Wilson, and Joseph Story before him, Lincoln argued that the Decla ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... wed the explosion of a nuclear bomb. The message conveyed was that electing | president held the danger of nuclear war. Although it only aired one time, ... |
Richard Nixon | ... Susan Elaine and Mary Jean. David, after whom Camp David is named, married | 's daughter Julie in 1968 |
Henry Clay | ... ng of the Democratic Party. The other faction, led by John Quincy Adams and | , formed a new party known as the National Republicans; it evolved into th ... |
John Kerry | ... n the 2004 presidential elections, the county supported George W. Bush over | by 56% to 44%. On that same day, it voted by 53% to 45% to re-elect Democr ... |
Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 61% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
Harry S. Truman | In 1946 President | appointed Baruch as the United States representative to the United Nations ... |
Arturo Toscanini | ... n it was founded in 1919, and had turned to conducting at the suggestion of | . He had conducted the LA Phil at the Hollywood Bowl on a number of occasi ... |
Michał Kleofas Ogiński | ... h art music. Polonaises for piano were and remain popular, such as those by | , Karol Kurpiński, Juliusz Zarębski, Henryk Wieniawski, Mieczysław Karłowi ... |
Oskari Tokoi | ... of its prominent leaders. He became an Agrarian minister in the Senates of | , Pehr Evind Svinhufvud and Juho Kusti Paasikivi |
James Eastland | ... vote of 11 to 6. The six members who opposed the plan, Democratic Senators | of Mississippi, John Little McClellan of Arkansas and Sam Ervin of North C ... |
Levi Woodbury | ... is Preston Blair, a journalist and adviser to President Andrew Jackson, and | , an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. However, the relationship bet ... |
Stanisław Leszczyński | ... f the Poland between Augustus of Saxony, the previous King's elder son, and | . Austria supported the former, France the latter; thus, a war broke out. ... |
Richard Nixon | Tanaka's foreign policy mirrored that of | , and his most notable achievement was the normalization of Japan's relati ... |
John Kerry | ... Gore an 11-percent victory in the county in 2000. 2004 Democratic candidate | won by a much smaller margin of one percent, in 2008 Democratic candidate ... |
Warren G. Harding | ... e. Although he had personal misgivings about the capability of the nominee, | , Hoover publicly endorsed him and made two speeches for Harding |
Carl Schurz | Together with | , the American Turners were supportive of the election of Abraham Lincoln ... |
Lewis Cass | ... lman's defeat, American leaders like President Jackson and Secretary of War | would not consider a diplomatic solution; they wanted a resounding victory ... |
Mac Mahon | ... iment of Zouaves, were part of the Second Brigade of the Second Division of | 's Corps. The Foreign Legion acquitted itself particularly well against th ... |
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud | ... ent leaders. He became an Agrarian minister in the Senates of Oskari Tokoi, | and Juho Kusti Paasikivi |
John Kerry | ... stitutionally guaranteed rights. In the 2004 presidential election, Senator | won a substantial majority of the votes in Travis County. Of Austin's six ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ore Shoals to the Kings Mountain National Military Park. In 1980, President | — recognizing the historical significance of the frontier patriots marchin ... |
Lloyd Bentsen | ... do under federal law, as soon as it convened on January 3, 1961." (In 1988, | , the Vice Presidential running mate of Democratic presidential candidate ... |
Richard J. Daley | ... was the longest serving Chicago mayor, surpassing the tenure of his father, | . Prior to serving as mayor, Daley served in the Illinois Senate and then ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... rrender of Japan in World War II. On July 26, 1945, United States President | , United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chairman of the Nat ... |
Birch Bayh | ... e proposal which had been sponsored as Senate Joint Resolution 1 by Senator | |
Mark Foley | ... opriate IM use became front page news in October 2006 when U.S. Congressman | resigned his seat after admitting sending offensive instant messages of a ... |
Barack Obama | ... y won by a much smaller margin of one percent, in 2008 Democratic candidate | won by a slightly larger 4.4 percent margin, 52%-47% |
President Truman | In July 1946, as Chairman of the Council on African Affairs, he telegraphed | on the lynching of four African Americans in Georgia, demanding that the f ... |
John McCain | ... party's electors since 1912. Although Texas as a whole voted for Republican | in the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama won 33,435 votes ... |
Jim Webb | ... ent U.S. Senators from the Commonwealth of Virginia are Mark Warner (D) and | (D) |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... egislation which was finally enacted during the administration of President | that created the Tennessee Valley Authority. Norris was later an important ... |
John C. Frémont | ... en and not a separate river as others believed under the Buenaventura myth. | 's 1843 Great Basin expedition proved that no river traversed the Great Ba ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... crofilm with a half century of state secrets, including who actually killed | |
Samuel Dexter | ... r, which incorporated the same year, was named after the opposing candidate | . It was during Gov. Brooks' administration that Maine ceased to be a terr ... |
Joseph V. Doria, Jr. | # | 1998–200 |
James Buchanan | ... idge. The county was originally named Buchanan County, after U.S. President | , but was renamed in 1861 for Alexander H. Stephens, the vice president of ... |
Mark Warner | ... sentatives. The current U.S. Senators from the Commonwealth of Virginia are | (D) and Jim Webb (D) |
Lloyd Doggett | ... in southwest Texas. This later affected Austin's districting, as U.S. Rep. | 's district (U.S. Congressional District 25) was found to be insufficientl ... |
Erastus Otis Haven | ... n had inferior minds and could not master mathematics and the classics. Dr. | , Syracuse University chancellor and former president of the University of ... |
Phil Gramm | ... espective versions of the legislation were introduced in the U.S. Senate by | (Republican of Texas) and in the U.S. House of Representatives by Jim Leac ... |
Barack Obama | ... oted for Republican John McCain in the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | won 33,435 votes (71 percent) of the ballots in Webb County. McCain was a ... |
Joe Biden | ... Donna Shalala, former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | ;, Vice President of the United States; 7-time NBA All Star, pro basketbal ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... ing commander-in-chief, and suggested two days later, on the anniversary of | 's assassination, that Clinton "better not show up around here [Fort Bragg ... |
Adam Czartoryski | ... f Napoleon, a new European order was established at the Congress of Vienna. | became the leading advocate for the Polish national cause. The Congress im ... |
Samuel McRoberts | ... and here he raised his family. McRoberts fathered ten children, the eldest, | , was the first native-born Illinoisan to serve in the United States Senat ... |
John Little McClellan | ... rs who opposed the plan, Democratic Senators James Eastland of Mississippi, | of Arkansas and Sam Ervin of North Carolina along with Republican Senators ... |
John Kerry | ... te and carried all precincts - all southern and central precincts voted for | . This is probably accounted for by the presence of Naval Air Station Whid ... |
Alexander H. Stephens | ... an County, after U.S. President James Buchanan, but was renamed in 1861 for | , the vice president of the Confederate States of America |
John C. Calhoun | ... vided Republican Party and became the first vice president re-elected since | in 1828, and Wilson and Marshall became the first president and vice presi ... |
Arturo Toscanini | ... scherzo) of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, from the 1952 studio recording with | conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra |
Franklin D. Roosevelt's | ... consciousness fostered at Grinnell during these years became evident during | presidency, when Grinnell graduates Harry Hopkins '12, Chester Davis '11, ... |
Roman Hruska | ... of Arkansas and Sam Ervin of North Carolina along with Republican Senators | of Nebraska, Hiram Fong of Hawaii and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, al ... |
John Kerry | ... cured a combined 1 percent of the ballots. Obama fared better than Democrat | had done in 2004. Latinos in Texas gave Obama 63 percent of their ballots, ... |
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. | ... y campaign was desperate to win the 1960 election against Richard Nixon and | , and needed Johnson on the ticket to help carry Southern states. Accordin ... |
Carlos Reutemann | ... each driving identical Mercedes 190E 2.3–16. Senna won from Niki Lauda and | . After the race Senna was quoted as saying, "Now I know I can do it. |
Joe Lieberman | ... ed Bush and the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. He and then-Democratic Senator | wrote the legislation that created the 9/11 Commission, while he and Democ ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... to junior members—an aide rushed in to tell him that his brother, President | , had been shot; his brother Robert soon told him that the President was d ... |
President Svinhufvud | ... nd Progressive) and social democratic coalition which wanted to ensure that | would not be re-elected. Kallio took a role of a parliamentarian president ... |
DeWitt Clinton | ... c-Republican President James Madison and a dissident Democratic-Republican, | , nephew of Madison's late Vice President. The Federalist opposition threw ... |
Robert M. La Follette | ... l Democrats bolted the party and backed the third-party campaign of Senator | of Wisconsin, who ran as the candidate of the Progressive Party |
Andrew Jackson | ... a U.S. possession as the Florida Territory, in 1822, with future president | as the military governor, succeeded by William Pope DuVal as territorial g ... |
Barack Obama | ... ntion, and behavioral and social sciences research. In July 2009, President | nominated Dr. Francis S. Collins, M.D., PhD, to be the Director of the NIH ... |
Sam Ervin | ... nators James Eastland of Mississippi, John Little McClellan of Arkansas and | of North Carolina along with Republican Senators Roman Hruska of Nebraska, ... |
Joe Biden | ... e committee member, Democratic Delaware Senator (and future Vice President) | , later stated that he regretted not having opposed Scalia "because he was ... |
Jim Jeffords | ... remaining from the previous year's campaign. Later, when Republican Senator | became an Independent, throwing control of the Senate to the Democrats, Mc ... |
Thomas Jefferson Rusk | ... ed by an act of the Texas legislature on April 11, 1846. It was named after | , signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. By 1850, Rusk reportedl ... |
Joseph McCarthy | ... nhower was criticized for failing to defend George Marshall from attacks by | , though he privately deplored McCarthy's tactics and claims. Such omissio ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... pular in New York during the 1930s. As a New Dealer, he supported President | , a Democrat, and in turn Roosevelt heavily funded the city and cut off pa ... |
Francis Marion | ... astillo de San Marcos (British, Fort St. Marks) was renamed Fort Marion for | , the "Swamp Fox" of the American Revolution |
Robert M. La Follette | Senator | , who had left the Republican Party and formed his own political party, th ... |
George M. Dallas | ... and Gastonia. The population was 3,402 at the 2000 census. It was named for | , Vice President of the United States of America under James K. Polk |
Barack Obama | ... ived 43,269 votes (85% of the total) to just 6,681 votes (13%) for Democrat | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... e, has been associated with the Democratic Party since the 1932 campaign of | . Since the 1950s, however, music has declined in importance in politics, ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... uent incursions into Spanish territory to recapture escaped slaves. General | 's 1817–1818 campaign against the Seminoles became known as the First Semi ... |
Frank B. Kellogg | ... ri Fromageot, José Gustavo Guerrero, Cecil Hurst, Edouard Rolin-Jaequemyns, | , Negulesco, Michel Rostworowski, Walther Schücking and Wang Ch'ung-hui |
Hiram Fong | ... of North Carolina along with Republican Senators Roman Hruska of Nebraska, | of Hawaii and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, all argued that although t ... |
Jimmy Carter | On September 9, 1979 Norman performed for US president | and about 1,000 guests at the Old Fashioned Gospel Singin concert held on ... |
Frank Porter Graham | ... or for Willis Smith in the U.S. Senate campaign against a prominent liberal | . Graham, who supported school desegregation, was labelled by Smith (a con ... |
John B. Kendrick | ... home to three former governors, James Stephen Hogg, Thomas M. Campbell, and | (Governor of Wyoming) |
Nathaniel Macon | ... should not be added to the country. Proslavery Congressmen, led by Senator | of North Carolina, argued that since the Declaration was not a part of the ... |
John Bell | ... pported by plurality the Constitutional Union Party candidate, U.S. Senator | of Tennessee, who pledged merely to support the Constitution of the United ... |
Kevin Eltife | ... ts U.S. representative is Louie Gohmert(R), and the Texas Senate by Senator | (R) |
Dan Burton | ... elli Act with new legislation. Its companion sponsored through the House by | of Indiana, it would strengthen the embargo against Cuba: further codifyin ... |
Stuart Symington | ... his running-mate and did not want to ask him. Kennedy's reported choice was | . Johnson decided to seek the Vice Presidency and with House Speaker Sam R ... |
Hamilton Fish | ... lony Governor Peter Stuyvesant. They were grandparents to New York Governor | . Another daughter of Gilbert Livingston named Margaret Livingston married ... |
Obama | ... e governor of Alabama did not request military assistance nor did President | authorize their deployment. Subsequent investigation found that the Posse ... |
Hiram Johnson | ... rnia state primary election, where he came close to beating popular Senator | . But having lost in his home state, Hoover was not considered a serious c ... |
Richard Nixon | ... outcomes of real-world events such as the Vietnam War and the presidency of | . In keeping with the realism of the series, although the costumed crimefi ... |
Mikhail Muravyov | ... books were not commonly available. In 1864, following the January Uprising, | , the Russian Governor General of Lithuania, banned the language in educat ... |
Ion Iliescu | ... affected Romania or Bulgaria's chances for EU accession. Romanian President | called Chirac's remarks irrational, saying "such reproaches are totally un ... |
Lisa Murkowski | ... ived 335 votes (43.7%) compared with 211 votes each (27.5%) for Republicans | and Joe Miller. Statewide, McAdams came in third with only 23% of the vote |
Howard Metzenbaum | ... behind him, found time for a humorous exchange with Democratic Ohio Senator | , whom Scalia had defeated in a tennis match in, as the nominee put it, "a ... |
John Taylor of Caroline | ... icance of the writings of Jefferson and his followers in the South, such as | in the development of agricultural fundamentalism |
Willis Smith | In 1950, Helms played a critical role as campaign publicity director for | in the U.S. Senate campaign against a prominent liberal Frank Porter Graha ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... f the world. Macmillan returned in 1961 for the third summit with President | , who was familiar with Bermuda, having made numerous personal visits. The ... |
Al Gore | ... the county voted for Bill Clinton in 1996 and continued the trend by giving | an 11-percent victory in the county in 2000. 2004 Democratic candidate Joh ... |
Stanisław Leszczyński | ... a Theresa's fiancé surrender his ancestral Duchy of Lorraine to accommodate | , the deposed King of Poland. Maria Theresa's father compelled Francis to ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... or Distinguished Federal Civilian Service at a 1962 ceremony with President | . In September 2010, the FDA honored Kelsey with the first Kelsey award. T ... |
Albert Gallatin | ... horough-bred Frenchman". It has been said that the Alien Acts were aimed at | , the Jeffersonian from Geneva; and the Sedition Act aimed at Benjamin Fra ... |
Henry Cabot Lodge | ... hevik-controlled areas of Russia in 1921, despite the opposition of Senator | and other Republicans. When asked if he was not thus helping Bolshevism, H ... |
Betty Kennedy | ... bly stable cast of panelists, including journalist-historian Pierre Berton, | (who later become a Canadian senator), Toby Robins (who later became a mov ... |
Arturo Toscanini | ... Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio and was conducted by the young | . The opera quickly became popular throughout Italy and productions were s ... |
Pietro Badoglio | ... m and arrested by order of King Victor Emmanuel III, that appointed General | as new Prime Minister. Badoglio stripped away the final elements of Fascis ... |
Bob Dole | ... ntt's 1,173,875 (45.9 percent). Helms supported his former Senate colleague | for president, while Gantt endorsed Bill Clinton. Although Helms is genera ... |
Sean Parnell | ... election, Democrat Ethan Berkowitz received 419 votes (54.8%) to Republican | 's 321 votes (42.0%). In the 2010 Senate election, Democrat Scott McAdams ... |
William A. Blakley | ... percent) to Republican John Tower's 927,653 (41.1 percent). Fellow Democrat | was appointed to replace Johnson as Senator, but Blakley lost a special el ... |
John Edwards | ... , military, science, academia, business, arts, and athletics, among others. | , former U.S. Senator and two time presidential candidate, James B. Hunt J ... |
William Cohen | ... peacekeeping efforts on the continent. In 1998, the U.S. Defence Secretary, | , said that Morocco and the U.S. have "mutual concerns over transnational ... |
Robert F. Wagner | Senator | proposed the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, which empowered workers ... |
Heulette Fontenot | ... n Parish has been represented in the Louisiana State Senate by Republicans, | (2000–2008) and Dale M. Erdey (since 2008) |
Ferdinand Marcos | ... Commission was created to administer the emerging metropolis when President | issued Presidential Decree No. 824. Marcos appointed his wife Imelda Marco ... |
Duff Green | ... issouri during the Bleeding Kansas incidents. In October several men led by | demanded that Daniel Marshall provide medical assistance to the pro-slaver ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | The FBI, under written directive from Attorney General | , began telephone tapping King in the fall of 1963. Concerned that allegat ... |
Manuel L. Quezon | In 1941 with the onset of World War II, President | created the City of Greater Manila as an emergency measure, merging the ci ... |
John Tower | ... nson was re-elected Senator with 1,306,605 votes (58 percent) to Republican | 's 927,653 (41.1 percent). Fellow Democrat William A. Blakley was appointe ... |
Edward Livingston | Livingston is an eponym honoring | , a prominent American and Louisianan jurist and statesman who assisted in ... |
Bobby Kennedy | ... on with the murders of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator | , and backed into the shadows, largely to make way for the feminist revolu ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... with Republican Senators Roman Hruska of Nebraska, Hiram Fong of Hawaii and | of South Carolina, all argued that although the present system had potenti ... |
President Johnson | ... ski notes: “It was significant that, in contrast to his secretary of state, | fully accepted the Israeli version of the tragic incident.” He notes that ... |
John Dickinson | ... Virginia presiding, and resumed debate on Lee's resolution of independence. | made one last effort to delay the decision, arguing that Congress should n ... |
John McCain | ... received. The Republicans fared better still in the 2008 election, in which | received 43,269 votes (85% of the total) to just 6,681 votes (13%) for Dem ... |
Richard Henry Lee | ... opposition to taxation without representation was led by Patrick Henry and | , among others. Virginians began to coordinate their actions with other co ... |
Herbert Lehman | ... borated closely with Robert Moses, with support from the governor, Democrat | , to upgrade the decaying infrastructure. The city was favored by the New ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ess, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and | on economic matters and became a philanthropist |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... eferred Hoover as his successor. "There could not be a finer one," asserted | , then a rising star from New York. Hoover briefly considered becoming a D ... |
Nathaniel P. Banks | The Union forces led by General | who occupied Opelousas found what the historian John D. Winters describes ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | On the orders of allied leaders | , Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower, records were destroyed and t ... |
Arturo Toscanini | ... Victor, including one of the first stereo recordings of the music. In 1945, | and the NBC Symphony Orchestra recorded the music in Carnegie Hall, one of ... |
John McCain | ... ck Obama 379 votes (50.9% of the total) compared with 320 votes (43.0%) for | .. In the 2010 gubernatorial election, Democrat Ethan Berkowitz received 4 ... |
Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | received 50.2% of the vote here (507 ballots cast), ahead of Republican Jo ... |
William Henry Harrison | ... provide entertainment at political functions. The presidential campaign of | was the first to greatly benefit from music, after which it became standar ... |
Robert Morris | ... n and voted for independence. In the Pennsylvania delegation, Dickinson and | abstained, allowing the delegation to vote three-to-two in favor of indepe ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... life; he spoke at the 1964 Republican National Convention and appeared with | in a Republican campaign commercial from Gettysburg. However, his endorsem ... |
William Crawford | ... s Monroe narrowly won the party's nomination for President in Congress over | in 1816 and defeated Federalist Rufus King in the general election |
Arturo Toscanini | ... in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio and conducted by the young | . Since then, La bohème has become part of the standard Italian opera repe ... |
General Benjamin F. Butler | Although | bought 12 and Admiral David Dixon Porter bought one, it wasn't until 1866 ... |
Warren G. Harding | ... evelt as vice president, but they were defeated by the Republican ticket of | and Calvin Coolidge. On their election, Marshall sent a note to Coolidge i ... |
John Kerry | ... e county's total, more than three times the 9,895 votes (22%) his opponent, | , received. The Republicans fared better still in the 2008 election, in wh ... |
Barack Obama | ... candidates. Austin also hosted one of the last presidential debates between | and Hillary Clinton during their heated race for the Democratic nomination ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... Keckly, a free black dressmaker who worked for two presidents' wives: Mrs. | and later Mary Todd Lincoln. Thomas Day was also a native; he was well kno ... |
John McCain | ... ama received 50.2% of the vote here (507 ballots cast), ahead of Republican | , who received 48.7% of the vote (487 ballots), with 83.4% of registered v ... |
Barack Obama | ... d Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) was signed into law by President | on March 23, 2010. Along with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation ... |
Manuel L. Quezon | During the Philippine Commonwealth era, President | , the first president of the Commonwealth, renamed the Philippine Army to ... |
Luis Muñoz Marín | ... il 1985, when then Governor Rafael Hernández Colón decided to name it after | , Puerto Rico's first democratically elected governor |
Ezra Cornell | ... ed in a search to bring a university to the city, having failed to convince | and Andrew Dickson White to locate Cornell University there rather than in ... |
Luigi Einaudi | ... on inflation in Italy during and after World War I. Notably, his tutor was | , one of the most important Italian economists and later a president of th ... |
Thomas E. Trowbridge | | (1930-2009), a member of both houses of the Wyoming State Legislature (197 ... |
Kyösti Kallio | ... e sabotaged the prospects of his former Agrarian League colleague and rival | , so that Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Relander's former Prime Minister, was ele ... |
Al Gore | ... Bush. The same went for Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut in 2000 after | lost to George W. Bush. In 2008, Joseph Biden was elected Vice President a ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... endorsed his own Vice-President, Republican Richard Nixon against Democrat | . He told friends, "I will do almost anything to avoid turning my chair an ... |
William Crawford | ... the party in Congress boycotted the caucus; only a small rump group backed | . The Crawford faction included most "Old Republicans", who remained commi ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... t, but they were defeated by the Republican ticket of Warren G. Harding and | . On their election, Marshall sent a note to Coolidge in which he offered ... |
Paul Tsongas | ... 93, despite his having initially backed former fellow Massachusetts Senator | in the 1992 Democratic presidential primaries. Kennedy floor managed succe ... |
Andrew Dickson White | ... ters of the period carried this account further. For instance, according to | , Bacon was repeatedly persecuted and imprisoned because of the opposition ... |
Barack Obama | ... th Star Borough. In the 2008 presidential election, the Ester precinct gave | 379 votes (50.9% of the total) compared with 320 votes (43.0%) for John Mc ... |
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud | ... ts of his former Agrarian League colleague and rival Kyösti Kallio, so that | , Relander's former Prime Minister, was elected. In Relander's opinion, Ka ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ed. Honorary membership was once bestowed in special circumstances, as with | and Dwight D. Eisenhower, but this practice was officially discontinued in ... |
John McCain | ... anoi Hilton, as was future Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee | , who spent parts of his five and a half years as a POW there. Air Force c ... |
Barbara Boxer | ... the more conservative Bruce Herschensohn, and the election to the Democrat | . Bono and Herschensohn became close friends after the campaign. Bono was ... |
Andrew Dickson White | ... bring a university to the city, having failed to convince Ezra Cornell and | to locate Cornell University there rather than in Ithaca. White pressed th ... |
Barack Obama | In 2009, Frank Stella was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President | |
Kenneth McClintock | In late 2004, incoming Senate President | 's decision to recognize Santiago's status as Minority Leader provoked the ... |
Rafael Hernández Colón | ... s known as Isla Verde International Airport, until 1985, when then Governor | decided to name it after Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rico's first democratica ... |
Lew Wallace | ... ng liberties" with the young boys in their boarding house. She hired lawyer | , the author of , and filed a suit demanding that Marshall pay her $20,000 ... |
Joe Lieberman | ... enate despite Dukakis' loss to George H. W. Bush. The same went for Senator | of Connecticut in 2000 after Al Gore lost to George W. Bush. In 2008, Jose ... |
John McCain | ... followed in regards to all enemy combatants. Prominent Republicans such as | , Mike Huckabee, and Ron Paul strongly oppose the use of enhanced interrog ... |
Kyösti Kallio | ... by the fact that some of the party's key figures, such as Santeri Alkio and | , declined to stand |
Tom Cole | ... l level, Lawton lies in Oklahoma 4th Congressional district, represented by | . In the State Senate, the county is represented by District 31 (Don Barri ... |
Juho Kusti Paasikivi | ... Agrarian minister in the Senates of Oskari Tokoi, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud and | |
Henry Clay | ... . As of the 2010 census, the population was 13,864. Its name is in honor of | , American statesman, member of the United States Senate from Kentucky and ... |
Charles Carroll | ... along this route by Richard Caton, under the authority of his father-in-law | , a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Travelers along "the turnpi ... |
Samuel Adams | ... ommanded the legislature to "vindicate the insulted dignity of government." | claimed that foreigners ("British emissaries") were instigating treason am ... |
Joseph McCarthy | ... mmittee of the Senate of the United States. A young Senator from Wisconsin, | (who was Irish-American but, represented a heavily German-American ethnic ... |
Robert Todd | ... bon County), Henry Lee (Mason County), Thomas Kennedy (Madison County), and | (Fayette County). A number of communities competed for this honor, but Fra ... |
Luis Muñoz Marín | ... neously the gubernatorial mansion La Fortaleza, where Puerto Rican governor | resided, and the United States Federal Court House which is located close ... |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... d in formation of the Clinton health care plan, which was run by First Lady | and others. It failed badly and damaged the prospects for such legislation ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ril 2008 meeting between Hamas leader Khaled Meshal and former US President | , an understanding was reached in which Hamas agreed it would respect the ... |
Aaron Burr | ... sts who took advantage of Suffern's hospitality included Lieutenant Colonel | , who later became the third Vice President of the United States; General ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... the Former Presidents Act; two living former Presidents, Herbert Hoover and | , left office before the Act was passed. Under the act, Eisenhower was ent ... |
Anicius Probus | ... r. He was educated in Rome, studying literature, law, and rhetoric. Praetor | first gave him a place in the council and then in about 372 made him consu ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | President | signed into law an act of Congress on 25 May 1933 providing for the Bachel ... |
James Byrnes | ... needed and who would produce it. Baruch's ideas were largely adopted, with | appointed to carry them out. During the war Baruch remained a trusted advi ... |
John Abbott | | (1821–1893) was Prime Minister of Canada, 1891–1892 |
General William Lenoir | ... y was named for Revolutionary War figure and early North Carolina statesman | , who settled north of present day Lenoir. His restored home, Fort Defianc ... |
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg | ... ckname of Reissu-Lasse ('Travelling Larry'). He was continually compared to | and his performance as president |
Benjamin Harrison | ... s in search of a defence lawyer and employed future United States President | , then a prominent lawyer in the area. Harrison had the suit dropped by sh ... |
Al Gore | ... Climate Change, an organization that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with | . Abdurrahim El-Keib is the interim prime minister of Libya |
Richard Nixon | ... hoose his successor, Eisenhower endorsed his own Vice-President, Republican | against Democrat John F. Kennedy. He told friends, "I will do almost anyth ... |
Barack Obama | ... e Peoria Journal Star by Deanna Bellandi of the Associated Press, President | , who worked and lived in Chicago, Illinois, will visit Atkinson during a ... |
John Glenn | When the film came out, former (and future) astronaut and Senator | (Ohio) was running for the Democratic nomination for President of the Unit ... |
John C. Calhoun | ... 98, and distrustful of the nationalizing program promoted by Henry Clay and | |
Lincoln Chafee | ... s have recently held the governorships in several New England States, while | , a former moderate Republican senator is currently the independent govern ... |
Harold Washington | ... vote with Byrne and allowing the relatively unknown legislator Congressman | to become Chicago's first black mayor |
Robert M. La Follette, Jr. | ... lican Senators William Edgar Borah, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Gerald P. Nye and | , but support of non-interventionism was not limited to the Republican par ... |
Arthur H. Vandenberg | ... nd strong Neutrality Acts were the Republican Senators William Edgar Borah, | , Gerald P. Nye and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., but support of non-interve ... |
Pete Wilson | ... California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports under Governor | . Yet, political analysts have identified Schwarzenegger as a liberal, as ... |
Ken Salazar | ... Cheney, and their two daughters, as well as U.S. Secretary of the Interior | , and United States Representative Diana DeGette |
Andrew Jackson | The situation was complicated by the American spoils system. After | assumed the U.S. presidency in March 1829, many competent Indian agents we ... |
Richard Nixon | The 1986 comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off includes a scene where former | speech writer Ben Stein, in the role of a high school teacher, leads a cla ... |
Kennedy | By targeting federal resources to specific geographic areas the | administration realized that political favors could be bought. This is als ... |
Barack Obama | ... Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all won the county twice. In 2008 Democrat | won Klickitat County over Republican by only 21 votes or percentage wise 4 ... |
Mike Enzi | ... elegation. Today, Wyoming is represented in Washington by its two Senators, | and John Barrasso, and its one member of the House of Representatives, Con ... |
Harry Reid | ... e unless Stevens resigned first. Late on November 1, Senate Majority Leader | confirmed that he would schedule a vote on Stevens's expulsion, saying tha ... |
James W. Grimes | ... in the Civil War, a medal for individual valor was proposed by Iowa Senator | to Winfield Scott, the Commanding General of the United States Army. Scott ... |
Hugo Black | ... 9 deaths of Supreme Court justices Frank Murphy and Wiley Rutledge, leaving | and William O. Douglas as the only remaining civil libertarians on the Cou ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... f only included one small paragraph about the Liberty in his autobiography, | , Vantage Point, p.300–301 We learned that the ship had been attacked in e ... |
President Harry S. Truman | ... ngressional charter for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which | signed on October 26, 1949. Finley served as the National Trust's first ch ... |
Ted Kennedy | ... randfather Joe Kennedy to father John Kennedy and uncles Robert Kennedy and | , to the House of Atreus, and Caroline and her brother John Kennedy Jr.'s ... |
Henry Clay | ... rinciples of 1798, and distrustful of the nationalizing program promoted by | and John C. Calhoun |
Strom Thurmond | ... look into gold-backed currency. After the presidential election, Helms and | sponsored a Senate amendment to a Department of Justice appropriations bil ... |
Olympia Snowe | ... can senator is currently the independent governor of Rhode Island. Senators | and Susan Collins, both of Maine, and Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts ... |
Harley M. Kilgore | ... sus on what to do. Two primary proposals emerged, one from New Deal Senator | and another from Vannevar Bush |
James Monroe | ... tter in this category in competition between multiple candidates (incumbent | was the only candidate in 1820 and thus took every vote). The Republicans ... |
Al Gore | ... sage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) then-Vice President | mentioned the Smoot-Hawley tariff as a response to NAFTA objections voiced ... |
Charles Bass | ... e of this occurred in 2006 when Tad Furtado, a staffer for then-Congressman | (R-NH), was caught posing as a "concerned" supporter of Bass's opponent, D ... |
Dean Florez | ... ore Station is located in the 16th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 30th Assembly District, represented by Republican Danny Gilmo ... |
Ferruccio Parri | ... i-fascist leader Ivanoe Bonomi. In June 1945 Bonomi was in turn replaced by | , who in turn gave way to Alcide de Gasperi on 4 December 1945. Finally, D ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... satellite alarms the United States government. Politicians such as Senator | and military leaders demand that NASA help America defeat the Russians in ... |
Tom Daschle | ... '08, an initiative of the ONE campaign, with Former Senate Majority Leader | (D-SD). According to , "ONE Vote '08 is an unprecedented, non-partisan cam ... |
John Porter East | ... ans unexpectedly won a majority, their first in twenty-six years, including | , a social conservative and a Helms protégé soon dubbed "Helms on Wheels", ... |
Reed Smoot | ... e and U.S. House of Representatives, such as former Dean of the U.S. Senate | (class of 1876). Cabinet members of American presidents include former Sec ... |
William H. Seward | Even before Fort Sumter, U.S. Secretary of State | issued formal instructions to the American minister to Great Britain: Make ... |
François Mitterrand | In 1985, President | commissioned a statue of Dreyfus by sculptor Louis Mitelberg. It was to be ... |
Norm Coleman | ... nate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, as well as fellow Republican Senators | , John Sununu and Gordon Smith also called for Stevens to resign. McConnel ... |
Benjamin Harrison | ... ere U.S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, and | have all attended services. Because of this, it is now called the "Church ... |
Stephen A. Douglas | ... in 1849. Daniel Webster, General Winfield Scott, Louis Kossuth, John Brown, | , and other notables were greeted there |
William Henry Harrison | ... 1809, Little Turtle suffered a break with other Miami leaders when Governor | came to Fort Wayne to renegotiate treaty terms. Little Turtle admitted Pot ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... hose involved wanted a similar framework for international trade. President | launched this process in December 1945 with negotiations for the creation ... |
James Monroe | ... party unity was greatly diminished and the party's organization faded away. | ran under the party's banner in the 1820 election and built support by con ... |
Hugo Black | ... Tom C. Clark, with concurring opinions by Justice Arthur Goldberg, Justice | , and Justice William O. Douglas |
Jimmy Carter | ... an outbreak of cancers, birth defects, and other health problems. President | eventually declared the Love Canal area a state of emergency, and all resi ... |
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo | ... onal Capital Region Command is in Metro Manila and was created by President | to defend the metropolis from insurgents and terrorist groups. Philippine ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... television career that spanned half a century. Robertson portrayed a young | in the 1963 film PT 109, and won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actor for ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... s v. White ruled Texas' declaration of secession was legally null and void. | , former President of the Confederacy, and Alexander Stephens, its former ... |
Howard Baker | ... otégé soon dubbed "Helms on Wheels", winning the other North Carolina seat. | was set to become Majority Leader, but conservatives, angered by Baker's s ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ." In 1988 Michael Dukakis narrowly won the county with 49.15% of the vote. | (1960, 1972), Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all won the ... |
Birch E. Bayh II | ... aides, were killed. Kennedy was pulled from the wreckage by fellow Senator | and spent months in a hospital recovering from a severe back injury, a pun ... |
Harry Reid | ... any that produces The Rush Limbaugh Show and Glenn Beck Program) by Senator | and forty other Democratic senators, complaining about comments made by co ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... il 7 a national day of mourning for the civil rights leader. Vice-President | attended King's funeral on behalf of the President, as there were fears th ... |
John Kerry | ... ail message that reporters should not "artificially hold George W. Bush and | 'equally' accountable" to the public interest, and that complaints from Bu ... |
Scott Brown | ... sland. Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, both of Maine, and Senator | of Massachusetts are notable moderate Republicans from New England. From 1 ... |
Cynthia Lummis | ... Barrasso, and its one member of the House of Representatives, Congresswoman | . All three are Republicans. The state has not voted for a Democrat for pr ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... e last months of the Roosevelt administration) and 10 June, and in 1925 (by | ) expanded the National Forest. An early supervisor of the forest was Will ... |
Arthur Meighen | ... bills in the case of Joe Clark and Pierre Trudeau or supply in the case of | |
Domitien Ndayizeye | ... ational human rights groups claimed that the current government was framing | by torturing him into false confessions of a coup plot. Along with these a ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... gate scandal. It favored the relatively unknown former governor of Georgia, | , the Democratic candidate against the incumbent President Gerald Ford, th ... |
John Calvin Coolidge, Sr. | ... . Harding in 1923, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as President by his father, | , a Vermont notary public. However, as there was some controversy as to wh ... |
Daniel Webster | ... ially roads. Many former members of the defunct Federalist Party, including | , joined the party. After Clay's defeat by Jackson in the 1832 presidentia ... |
Charles H. Percy | ... t Helms in charge of the Foreign Relations Committee instead of the liberal | , he instead became chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Fore ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... resentatives, Henry Clay backed John Quincy Adams to deny the presidency to | , a longtime political rival |
Harry S. Truman | ... till not accomplished when Roosevelt died. In April 1945, the new president | and the British suspended the dissolution and the decision to liquidate th ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... ons. After World War II Eisenhower served as Chief of Staff under President | , then assumed the post of President at Columbia University |
Bob Dole | ... s a potential presidential candidate for the Republican party in 2008, like | , a previous holder of the Senate Majority Leader position. On November 28 ... |
John Taylor of Caroline | ... ranklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (1735–1813), and | (1753–1824) in the early national period. In the mid-19th century importan ... |
Domitien Ndayizeye | Former President | and his political supporters were arrested in 2006 and accused of plotting ... |
Richard Nixon | ... States presidential election of 1976 followed the resignation of President | in the wake of the Watergate scandal. It favored the relatively unknown fo ... |
John Quincy Adams | ... the election was thrown to the House of Representatives, Henry Clay backed | to deny the presidency to Andrew Jackson, a longtime political rival |
John Eager Howard | To honor | , an officer in the American Revolutionary War and later the fifth Governo ... |
Warren G. Harding | Upon the death of President | in 1923, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as President by his father, John Cal ... |
Rafael Hernández Colón | ... ildings. The Ponce en Marcha project was conceived in 1985 by then governor | during his second term in La Fortaleza and Ponce mayor Jose Dapena Thompso ... |
Mitch McConnell | ... mate, Sarah Palin, governor of Stevens's home state. Senate Minority Leader | , as well as fellow Republican Senators Norm Coleman, John Sununu and Gord ... |
Henry Clay | ... 24 elections. When the election was thrown to the House of Representatives, | backed John Quincy Adams to deny the presidency to Andrew Jackson, a longt ... |
Catiline | ... ro delivered his famous speech denouncing the companions of the conspirator | at the Forum (in the Temple of Concord, whose spacious hall was sometimes ... |
Calvin Coolidge | Upon the death of President Warren G. Harding in 1923, | was sworn in as President by his father, John Calvin Coolidge, Sr., a Verm ... |
William O. Bradley | ... ation for the christening of the Kentucky, the Navy asked Kentucky Governor | to select a member of his family to perform the ceremony. Bradley chose hi ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ft of an address to the nation that was to have been delivered by President | on July 5, 1979 |
Bob Corker | ... n primary for his Senate seat. He campaigned heavily for Republican nominee | , who won by a small margin over Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. in the gener ... |
Gouverneur Morris | ... each state "in such manner as its Legislature may direct." Committee member | explained the reasons for the change; among others, there were fears of "i ... |
John Slidell | ... them low marks for their poor diplomacy. James M. Mason went to London and | traveled to Paris. They were unofficially interviewed, but neither secured ... |
Joseph McCarthy | ... m as a "front" for communism. Critics included the American Legion, senator | , the HUAC, and the FBI. Several ACLU leaders were sympathetic to the FBI, ... |
Richard Nixon | ... in his undescribed cause. (Some of SEN's dialogue is taken from speeches by | . |
Alessandro Manzoni | ... Karl von Savigny, Varnhagen von Ense, Victor Cousin, Benjamin Constant and | |
Tom McClintock | ... Davis. Schwarzenegger defeated Democrat Cruz Bustamante, fellow Republican | , and others. His nearest rival, Bustamante, received 31% of the vote. In ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... dmirer of Martin Luther King, Jr., she campaigned for Robert F. Kennedy and | in the 1968 U.S. elections. She studied political science at the School of ... |
Susan Collins | ... rently the independent governor of Rhode Island. Senators Olympia Snowe and | , both of Maine, and Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts are notable mode ... |
John McCain | ... or his resignation. Both parties' presidential candidates, Barack Obama and | , were quick to call for Stevens to stand down. Obama said that Stevens ne ... |
James J. Davis | ... hrough the Coolidge and Hoover administrations. Along with James Wilson and | , he is one of only three Cabinet members to serve under three consecutive ... |
Martin Van Buren | ... in their votes required complex party organization. Under the leadership of | , a firm believer in political organization, the Jacksonians built strong ... |
Jon Kyl | In September 2006, working with Arizona Senator | , Frist was a major Senate supporter of H.R. 4411 — the Unlawful Internet ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... accounts of the Holocaust to the mostly disbelieving Winston Churchill and | . Before leaving, Karski was visited by two leaders of the Jewish undergro ... |
Mike Duffy | One month later, on October 4, | , now a Conservative senator (appointed by Harper), said "It is possible t ... |
John Barrasso | ... ay, Wyoming is represented in Washington by its two Senators, Mike Enzi and | , and its one member of the House of Representatives, Congresswoman Cynthi ... |
Joseph E. Brown | R&B group Audio lives in Canton. Canton was the hometown of | . In 1844, Brown served as headmaster at the academy in Canton, which bega ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... concrete in 1938, but demolished in 1969 to make way for the current pool. | and Thomas Edison both traveled through Sylva, Edison in 1911 and FDR in 1 ... |
Jeremiah Denton | ... nd that the worst that especially resistant prisoners such as Stockdale and | encountered was being confined to small cells. Tran Trong Duyet, a jailer ... |
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau | ... provincial election. Cartier was elected as a Conservative supporter of the | government. As a result, Cartier was both a member of the Parliament of Ca ... |
Colonel Benjamin Cleveland | ... amed after General Benjamin Cleveland, a War of 1812 figure and grandson of | , a Revolutionary War figure. It is also home to a large manufacturing loc ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... , Kentucky, Kansas City, and dozens of other cities. Presidential candidate | was on his way to Indianapolis for a campaign rally when he was informed o ... |
Otway Burns | ... from land conveyed by John "Yellow Jacket" Bailey, and named after Captain | , a naval hero of the War of 1812. In 1909 a statue of Captain Burns was g ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | An admirer of Martin Luther King, Jr., she campaigned for | and Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 U.S. elections. She studied political scie ... |
Warren G. Harding | Andrew Mellon was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by new President | in 1921. He served for ten years and eleven months; the third-longest tenu ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... e, but colonial officials opposed the program anyway. The next year Senator | helped fund the program, which trained some 70% of the top leaders of the ... |
J. William Fulbright | ... ining more information about the attack, as expressed by Committee Chairman | : "We asked for [the attack investigation report] about 2 weeks ago and ha ... |
Barack Obama | ... outnumbers that of the Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, | defeated John McCain in the city by a margin of 20,357 votes, 65% to 32%. ... |
J. Lister Hill | ... hed on 16 February 1942, and sponsored by Henrietta McCormick Hill, wife of | , the senior Senator from Alabama. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, spoke ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... mmission that set up a plan of withdrawal that was achieved under President | . The first step was a gradual, systematic turnover of government function ... |
John Taylor of Caroline | ... rion counties in Virginia. Most historians think the county was named after | , while a minority believe it was named after Zachary Taylor |
Morgan Lewis Martin | ... ne of several he would establish in the area. Father Van den Broek also met | , who was in charge of the local canal project. Father Van den Broek purch ... |
Barack Obama | ... er, the Washington Democratic caucus awarded two-thirds of its delegates to | and one-third to Clinton. After Clinton's June 7 concession, Murray switch ... |
Aaron Burr | ... epublican Party again nominated Jefferson for President, and also nominated | for Vice President. After the election, Jefferson and Burr both obtained a ... |
Bob Dole | ... list of possible vice-presidential picks, this time for Republican nominee | . The following year, Time magazine named McCain as one of the "25 Most In ... |
Joseph McCarthy | On the domestic front, he covertly opposed | but contributed to the end of McCarthyism by openly invoking the modern ex ... |
Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Introduced by Senator | , Section 1706 added a subsection(d) to Section 530 of the Revenue Act of ... |
Warren G. Harding | ... o the League of Nations, high tariffs, and promotion of business interests. | , Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover were resoundingly elected in 1920, 19 ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... d to influence from his own party and business leaders and signed the bill. | spoke against the act while campaigning for president during 1932 |
John Sobieski | ... is responsibilities and with Poland's quarreling factions. After his death, | was elected King of the and crowned as John III |
Jefferson Davis | ... , North Carolina Governor David Lowry Swain persuaded Confederate President | to exempt some students from the draft, so the university was one of the f ... |
Dudley Mays Hughes | The city was named for Senator | |
Jim McGreevey | ... the first Canadian Member of Parliament to come out. Governor of New Jersey | announced his decision to resign, publicly came out as "a gay American" an ... |
Dino Rossi | Murray was challenged by Republican nominee | . Leading up to the election, Murray was endorsed by several prominent Was ... |
Brian P. Stack | ... to what had historically been a town unfriendly to them, according to Mayor | . Through approval of varied construction projects to address the needs of ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... of Americans. Johnson gave the first two Medicare cards to former President | and his wife Bess after signing the medicare bill at the |
George Voinovich | ... es the second time and even losing the support of one moderate Republican ( | of Ohio). On June 21, 2005, Frist said the situation had been "exhausted" ... |
Carter administration | ... es had long been opposed to the socialist FSLN and after the revolution the | moved quickly to support the Somocistas with financial and material aid. W ... |
Vito Volterra | ... xplained in terms of the theory of dislocations which had been developed by | in 1905. The insight was critical in developing the field of solid mechani ... |
Julia Carson | ... André Carson. He is the grandson of the district's previous representative, | who held the seat from 1997 until her death on December 15, 2007. The youn ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... rate strong public support for public ownership of dams. In 1933, President | signed a bill that enabled the construction of the Bonneville and Grand Co ... |
Alan K. Simpson | ... 1988, which had been sponsored by Representative Norman Mineta and Senator | – the two had met while Mineta was interned at a camp in Wyoming – which p ... |
John McCain | ... Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama defeated | in the city by a margin of 20,357 votes, 65% to 32%. This was despite Obam ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... United States presidential election of 1924 was won by incumbent President | , the Republican candidate |
Dan Burton | ... ern portions of the city are in the 5th District, represented by Republican | . A portion of western Indianapolis is in the 4th District, represented by ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... lakes at the base of the mountains. After congressional approval, President | signed the executive order establishing the Grand Teton National Park on F ... |
Giuseppe Verdi | ... four years' study in Paris, she had her operatic début 1864 as Violetta in | 's opera La Traviata at the Théâtre Lyrique, Paris. After this success she ... |
Giulio Andreotti | ... had no knowledge of the links that various politicians like Salvo Lima and | had with the Mafia, but in the 1990s he admitted that he knew of such ties ... |
Jon Corzine | ... , Republican Chris Christie carried the county with 60%. Incumbent Democrat | received 31%, and Independent Chris Daggett received 8% |
John F. Fitzgerald | ... d Rose Fitzgerald (1890–1995), the daughter of Boston (Massachusetts) Mayor | . Joseph served as the first chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange ... |
Pompey | ... Lucullus against Mithradates VI of Pontus (75-66 BC), and the victories of | in the East (66-62 BC) |
Strom Thurmond | ... wide margin. On August 2, 2006, the New York Times said, "In 1994, Senator | of South Carolina was said to have engaged in excessive touching of his th ... |
Clarence Dill | ... ributed to the efforts of Oregon Senator Charles McNary, Washington Senator | , and Oregon Congressman Charles Martin, among others |
Bourke B. Hickenlooper | ... part, the senators were dismayed about the attack, as expressed by Senator | : "From what I have read I can't tolerate for 1 minute that this [attack] ... |
Elizabeth Hanford Dole | ... inet. Dole is married to former U.S. cabinet member and former U.S. Senator | of North Carolina. Bob Dole is currently a member of the advisory council ... |
Barack Obama | President | established a new position in the White House, the Assistant to the Presid ... |
Roy Ashburn | ... Wilkerson is located in the 18th Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 18th Assembly District, represented by Republican Bill Maze. ... |
Roosevelt | Democratic President | and especially his Secretary of State Cordell Hull were critical of the Ne ... |
Richard Nixon | ... privilege. He otherwise left most political activity to his Vice President, | . He was a moderate conservative who continued New Deal agencies, expanded ... |
Charlie Dent | ... rt of Pennsylvania's 15th congressional district, represented by Republican | , elected in 2004 |
DeWitt Clinton | ... s of dissident Democratic-Republicans in the New York legislature nominated | , the nephew of the late Vice President, who had served as Senator and now ... |
John McCain | ... rrying the state by 6.7% over Bush. In the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, | carried the county by an 8.1% margin over , with Obama carrying the state ... |
Barack Obama | ... hold the position on January 20, 2009, serving under the administration of | . He is also the first and only Nobel Prize winner to be a Cabinet secreta ... |
Lucullus | ... period, embracing the war against Sertorius (died 72 BC), the campaigns of | against Mithradates VI of Pontus (75-66 BC), and the victories of Pompey i ... |
John Kerry | ... , with 59.22% of the 1920 vote. In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat | received 82.1% of the vote in Manhattan and Republican George W. Bush rece ... |
Jason Crowell | ... t of Missouri's 27th District and is currently represented by State Senator | (R-Cape Girardeau). Crowell defeated (D-Jackson) by almost a two-to-one ma ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ctober 1, 1977 with the creation of the Department of Energy when President | signed the Department of Energy Organization Act. Originally the post focu ... |
Daniel Webster | ... on Henry Clay was welcomed on his visit to the New York State Fair in 1849. | , General Winfield Scott, Louis Kossuth, John Brown, Stephen A. Douglas, a ... |
Tom Coburn | On May 26, 2011, Senator | released a 73-page critical report, "", receiving immediate attention from ... |
John Kerry | ... idential election, George W. Bush carried the county by a 15.8% margin over | , with Kerry carrying the state by 6.7% over Bush. In the 2008 U.S. Presid ... |
Gabrielle Giffords | ... merican politician and member of the United States House of Representatives | . His family was of Eastern European Jewish descent. He studied at Tulane ... |
James H. Duff | ... treets designed to follow the natural contours of the land. Future Governor | helped found Virginia Manor in 1929 |
Lou Correa | ... re Santa Ana is located in the 34th Senate District represented by Democrat | , and in the 69th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jose Solorio. ... |
Barack Obama | ... icies undertaken in response to the crisis by Presidents George W. Bush and | of the United States, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom, P ... |
Richard M. Johnson | ... med 13 December 1834 from Lafayette County and was named for Vice President | |
Ecdicius Avitus | ... least two sons and a daughter: Agricola (440 – after 507, a vir inlustris), | (later patricius and magister militum under Emperor Julius Nepos), and, cl ... |
Andrew Dickson White | ... s of the Middle Ages were highly influential (19th century view typified by | ); current historians (late 20th century view typified by historian and re ... |
John P. Daley | ... and former United States Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton | ;, a commissioner on the Cook County Board of Commissioners who also serve ... |
Russ Feingold | ... nature issue. Starting in 1994, he worked with Democratic Wisconsin Senator | on campaign finance reform; their McCain-Feingold bill attempted to put li ... |
Fred Harris | Image:FredRoyHarris.jpg|Former Senator | of Oklahom |
Adlai Stevenson III | ... eclassified documents show that in early 1976, at a meeting with US Senator | , Arafat suggested a "few kilometers" of Israeli withdrawal from parts of ... |
Richard Nixon | President | first considered nominating Hershel Friday to fill the vacant seat, but ch ... |
Warren G. Harding | ... ity of the New York County vote over Democrat John W. Davis, 41.20%–39.55%. | was the most recent Republican presidential candidate to win a majority of ... |
Brock Adams | ... a series of articles by The Seattle Times alleging that incumbent Democrat | had sexually assaulted a number of women. When Adams dropped out of the el ... |
Paul Douglas | ... s in the U.S. asking President Hoover to veto the legislation, organized by | , Irving Fisher, James TFG Wood, Frank Graham, Ernest Patterson, Henry Sea ... |
Jim Jeffords | ... re always represented in the cabinets of Republican presidents. In Vermont, | , a Republican Senator became an independent in 2001 due to growing disagr ... |
Thomas Eagleton | ... e presidential running mate, but was turned down. When McGovern's choice of | stepped down soon after the convention, McGovern again tried to get Kenned ... |
Richard Nixon | File:1970s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: US President | doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office after the W ... |
Warren G. Harding | Coolidge was vice-president under | and became president in 1923 when Harding died in office. Coolidge was giv ... |
Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart | ... rm in the United States House of Representatives. Archibald was a cousin of | . Elizabeth Letcher Pannill Stuart, Jeb's mother, who was known as a stric ... |
Gerry St. Germain | ... asurer (finance minister) of Alberta. One Progressive Conservative senator, | , joined the new party in October 2000, becoming the Alliance's only membe ... |
John C. Frémont | ... d Spanish by José Antonio Carrillo, approved by American Lieutenant-Colonel | and Mexican Governor Andrés Pico on January 13, 1847 at Campo de Cahuenga ... |
James Monroe | ... York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 744,344. It is named after | , fifth President of the United States of America. Its county seat is the ... |
Hordeonius Flaccus | ... e result of these accessions to the forces of Civilis was a rising in Gaul. | was murdered by his troops (70), and the whole of the Roman forces were in ... |
Giulio Andreotti | ... by Luciano Violante about the links between Cosa Nostra and Salvo Lima and | . He indicated Salvo Lima as the contact of the Mafia in Italian politics. ... |
Bill Bradley | ... Democrats, Richard Gephardt of Missouri in the House of Representatives and | of New Jersey in the Senate |
Mark Begich | Nonetheless, during a debate with his opponent | days after his conviction, Stevens continued to claim innocence. "I have n ... |
George McGovern | ... him in first place in the Democratic nomination race with 28 percent. Once | was near clinching the Democratic nomination in June 1972, various anti-Mc ... |
Andrés Pico | ... pproved by American Lieutenant-Colonel John C. Frémont and Mexican Governor | on January 13, 1847 at Campo de Cahuenga in what is now North Hollywood, L ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... included Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Winston Churchill and a young | . Upon visiting St. Donat's, George Bernard Shaw was quoted as saying: "Th ... |
John Glenn | ... ng physical and mental tests select the Mercury Seven astronauts, including | (Ed Harris) of the United States Marine Corps, Alan Shepard (Scott Glenn) ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... Republican has won the presidential election in Manhattan since 1924, when | won a plurality of the New York County vote over Democrat John W. Davis, 4 ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... on County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of | , general in the United States Army and President of the United States of ... |
Jim DeMint | On November 13, Senator | of South Carolina announced he would move to have Stevens expelled from th ... |
Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, | easily won in Indianapolis by earning 64% of all Marion County votes while ... |
John P. Daley | ... atic committeeman, a party post, until succeeded in the post by his brother | in 1980. With John P. Daley holding the post from 1980 to the present, a D ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... election of 1968 ended with Richard Nixon receiving 301 electoral votes to | 's 191. Yet, Nixon had only received 511,944 more popular votes than Humph ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... rs old, and had accumulated an impressive set of legal victories. President | sent a congratulatory telegram to the ACLU on the occasion of their 25th a ... |
Richard Nixon | ... al times by others), as well as numerous territories and trust possessions. | confidant Robert Abplanalp was a notary for many years, as were Fawn Hall, ... |
Calvin Coolidge | Warren G. Harding, | and Herbert Hoover were resoundingly elected in 1920, 1924, and 1928 respe ... |
James A. McClure | ... churches, and its counterpart was defeated in the House. Senators Helms and | blocked Ted Kennedy's comprehensive criminal code that did not relax feder ... |
Frank Porter Graham | Despite initial skepticism from university President | , on March 27, 1931, legislation was passed to group UNC with the State Co ... |
Richard Nixon | ... rred during the 91st Congress. The presidential election of 1968 ended with | receiving 301 electoral votes to Hubert Humphrey's 191. Yet, Nixon had onl ... |
George W. Joseph | ... ong the Columbia. But the overwhelming victories of gubernatorial candidate | in the 1930 Oregon Republican Party primary, and later his law partner Jul ... |
John McCain | ... is by earning 64% of all Marion County votes while 35% of the votes went to | |
Archibald Stuart | ... of Guilford Court House during the American Revolutionary War. His father, | , was a War of 1812 veteran, slaveholder, attorney, and politician who rep ... |
Martin Van Buren | His entry into politics came in 1837 with his appointment by | as Collector of Customs of the Port of Boston. In this position, two of Ba ... |
William H. Crawford | ... secretary between the resignation of Alexander J. Dallas and appointment of | |
Richard J. Daley | ... inst his staging a violent event, and he negotiated an agreement with Mayor | to cancel a march in order to avoid the violence that he feared would resu ... |
Jim McClure | ... epublican (and then-Majority) leader, running against Bob Dole, Dick Lugar, | and Pete Domenici. As Republican whip, Stevens was theoretically the favor ... |
James Buchanan | ... orn nation. Previously John B. Floyd, U.S. Secretary of War under President | , had moved arms south out of northern U.S. armories. To economize War Dep ... |
William Henry Harrison | ... buy as much Native American land as possible. In 1804, territorial governor | negotiated a treaty in St. Louis in which a group of Sauk and Meskwaki lea ... |
Mark Begich | ... display of memorabilia of his wartime service in China-Burma-India. Senator | stated, "Over his four decades of public service in the U.S. Senate, Senat ... |
Justice O'Connor | ... urt will take in future decisions remains unclear. (See Gonzales v. Oregon) | , dissenting in Gonzalez , began her opinion by citing United States v. Lo ... |
Dick Lugar | ... osition of Republican (and then-Majority) leader, running against Bob Dole, | , Jim McClure and Pete Domenici. As Republican whip, Stevens was theoretic ... |
Jefferson Davis | The new Confederate President | , a former "Cooperationist" who had insisted on delaying secession until a ... |
Mary Landrieu | He is the father of U.S. Senator | and of current New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu |
Jimmy Carter | ... ailed from Roswell and Bulloch Hall was her home. Emily Dolvin, the aunt of | (the 39th U.S. President), lived in Roswell the majority of her life and w ... |
Birch Bayh | Image:Birch bayh.jpg|Senator | of Indian |
Reed Smoot | ... goal emerged to protect American jobs and farmers from foreign competition. | championed another tariff increase within the USA in 1929, which became th ... |
Lloyd Bentsen | Image:Lloyd Bentsen, bw photo as senator.jpg|Senator | of Texa |
Barack Obama | ... 1999, the United States Senate rejected ratification of the CTBT. President | stated during his 2008 election campaign that "As president, I will reach ... |
James Henry Hammond | ... sion Convention. U.S. Senator James Chesnut, Jr. resigned, and U.S. Senator | followed |
Harry S. Truman | Unpopular incumbent President | decided not to run, so the Democratic Party instead nominated Governor Adl ... |
Robert Byrd | ... hip when he lost the support of several members and was defeated by Senator | of West Virginia, 31–24. Kennedy would later tell Byrd that the defeat was ... |
Paul G. Kirk | ... idential campaign succeed.) The law was amended, and on September 24, 2009, | , former Democratic National Committee chairman, and former aide to Kenned ... |
Terry Sanford | Image:Terry Sanford.jpg|Former Governor | of North Carolin |
Victor Schoelcher | ... ) – an indemnity for profits lost from the slave trade. French abolitionist | wrote, "Imposing an indemnity on the victorious slaves was equivalent to m ... |
Elmer Thomas | ... mas Gore, US Representatives: Scott Ferris, L. M. Gensman, Toby Morris, and | . Other politicians include Democratic State Senator Randy Bass and former ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... and Sargent Shriver became my heroes." Eunice Kennedy Shriver was sister of | , and mother-in-law to Schwarzenegger; Sargent Shriver is husband to Eunic ... |
Scott Brown | ... ndidate in the special election. In that election, Republican State Senator | won the seat in a stunning upset, ending Democratic control of it going ba ... |
James Buchanan | ... truction of federal officials in Utah (most notably judges), U.S. President | decided to install a non-Mormon governor. Buchanan accepted the reports of ... |
Randy Bass | ... orris, and Elmer Thomas. Other politicians include Democratic State Senator | and former US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Julian Niemczyk |
Strom Thurmond | ... irginia, and the third-longest serving senator of all time, behind Byrd and | of South Carolina (he was passed later in 2009 by Daniel Inouye) |
Jimmy Carter | ... e candidacy of her state's progressive governor Mary Bailey, and voting for | in both of his presidential elections |
Robert Byrd | ... as the second most senior member of the Senate, after President pro tempore | of West Virginia, and the third-longest serving senator of all time, behin ... |
Lyndon Johnson | ... recently, the last Democrat to win a majority in the county before 2008 was | in 1964, although Bill Clinton won pluralities in the county in 1992 and 1 ... |
Lisa Murkowski | ... spectrum spoke highly of the man many Alaskans knew as "Uncle Ted." Senator | said of Stevens: "His entire life was dedicated to public service—from his ... |
Horace Mann | ... State University, an institution founded by the renowned education reformer | . It was the first institution in the country to admit people regardless o ... |
Barack Obama | ... .In 2008 racist and threatening graffiti directed at (then) President-elect | prompted an investigation from the United States Secret Service. Students ... |
John McCain | ... or bills with him". In May 2008, soon-to-be Republican presidential nominee | said, "[Kennedy] is a legendary lawmaker and I have the highest respect fo ... |
Zebulon Baird Vance | ... n. Captain Oscar R. Rand recruited willing men of all ages to join Governor | 's 26th Infantry Regiment in the Confederate States Army. On a single day ... |
Daniel Inouye | ... d Byrd and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina (he was passed later in 2009 by | ) |
Barack Obama | ... John Williams' "Air and Simple Gifts" at the 2009 inauguration ceremony for | , along with Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Gabriela Montero (piano) and Anthony McGill ... |
Patrick J. Kennedy | The family patriarch was | (1858–1929), a first-generation American who married Mary Augusta Hickey ( ... |
Ferdinand Marcos | President | , who acted also as national defense secretary (from 1965–1967 and 1971–19 ... |
Marcus Licinius Crassus | ... mpany. San Simeon was also used in the 1960 film Spartacus as the estate of | (played by Laurence Olivier). According to Hearst Over Hollywood, Jack and ... |
Tom Daschle | In 2007, Dole joined fellow former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, | , and George Mitchell to found the Bipartisan Policy Center, a non-profit ... |
Alan García | ... tion for an Asian American in the U.S. On June 14, 2011, Peruvian president | apologized for his country's internment of Japanese immigrants during Worl ... |
Aaron Burr | ... rst bid for the presidency with Jefferson as its presidential candidate and | as its vice presidential candidate. Jefferson came in second in the electo ... |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... y as a reliable "bogeyman" to mention in fundraising letters, on a par with | and similar to Democratic and liberal appeals mentioning Newt Gingrich. Th ... |
Barack Obama | ... t in orientation. In the 2008 presidential contest, the successful Democrat | of Illinois, won Tensas Parish, 1,646 (54.1 percent) to 1,367 (45.0) for t ... |
Jesse Helms | ... amous racially motivated "Hands" negative ad used in North Carolina Senator | 's 1990 re-election campaign against Harvey Gantt accused Gantt of support ... |
Jimmy Carter | The surprise winner of the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination was | , a former state senator and governor of Georgia. When the primaries began ... |
Reed Smoot | ... moot-Hawley Tariff or Hawley-Smoot Tariff, was an act, sponsored by Senator | and Representative Willis C. Hawley, and signed into law on June 17, 1930, ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... 558. Russell Cave was declared a National Monument in May 1961 by President | . The Monument consists of of land donated by the National Geographic Soci ... |
Arthur Meighen | ... r Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Canadian parliament: John A. Macdonald, | , William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Pierre Trudeau, all before being re-app ... |
Orrin Hatch | ... letics, such as gold-medal wrestler Kurt Angle; politics, such as Utah Sen. | ; business, such as self-made billionaire Mark Cuban; and science, such as ... |
Howard Baker | In 2007, Dole joined fellow former Senate Majority Leaders | , Tom Daschle, and George Mitchell to found the Bipartisan Policy Center, ... |
Thomas Gore | Politicians from Comanche County include: US Senator | , US Representatives: Scott Ferris, L. M. Gensman, Toby Morris, and Elmer ... |
John Randolph | ... ith the antislavery movement gaining momentum, defenders of slavery such as | and John C. Calhoun found it necessary to argue that the Declaration's ass ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... o convey a peace proposal to Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President | without the knowledge of Adolf Hitler. The main point of the proposal was ... |
Daniel Webster | ... 0,253. Its county seat is Walthall. Webster County is named after statesman | |
Giovanni Spadolini | ... e 1980s, for the first time, two governments were managed by a republican ( | 1981-82) and a socialist (Bettino Craxi 1983-87) rather than by a Christia ... |
Henry M. Jackson | ... tical pundits regarded a number of better-known candidates, such as Senator | of Washington, Governor George Wallace of Alabama, and California Governor ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ounder John Hume. In scores of anti-war speeches, Kennedy opposed President | 's policy of Vietnamization, calling it "a policy of violence [that] means ... |
James Buchanan | Eisenhower, at 62, was the oldest man to become President since | in 1856. Truman was 60 when he became President in April 1945, upon the de ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... 1957, and there was a view, disputed by CND supporters, that U.S. President | 's success in facing down Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev turned the Brit ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... closing credits for the special were airing, word came in that U.S. Senator | of New York had just been shot. ABC simply showed a wide shot of the chaot ... |
Stephen A. Douglas | ... Vice President John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky. Regular Democratic nominee | of Illinois ran poorly in Louisiana, and the Republican candidate, Abraham ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... 56. Truman was 60 when he became President in April 1945, upon the death of | , and 64 when elected President in 1948 |
John Kerry | ... ttee on POW/MIA Affairs, chaired by Democrat and fellow Vietnam War veteran | , McCain investigated the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, to determine the fate ... |
Gouverneur Morris | ... philosophy include Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Cornelius Harnett, | , and Hugh Williamson. Their political speeches show distinct deistic infl ... |
Francis Marion | ... bia. Marion County is named for American Revolutionary War guerrilla leader | |
Arturo Toscanini | ... hly enough to be recorded for RCA Victor with the NBC Symphony conducted by | (in Carnegie Hall in 1945, with the composer present). The earlier Mississ ... |
General William Lenoir | ... eturned from Christmas holidays in January 1940. The building was named for | , first chairman of the Board of Trustees of the university in 1790. The n ... |
Richard M. Johnson | ... , "[I]f a majority of the number of Senators shall vote for either the said | or Francis Granger, he shall be declared by the presiding officer of the S ... |
Barack Obama | ... taking some steps to allow limited economic exchanges with Cuba, President | recently reaffirmed the policy, stating that without improved human rights ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... s. Delegates from those seven formed the C.S.A. in February 1861, selecting | as the provisional president. Unionist talk of reunion failed and Davis be ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... lection of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, he and his two younger brothers, | and Edward M. Kennedy, soon all held prominent positions in the federal go ... |
Carlos Reutemann | ... udovico Scarfiotti, Jacky Ickx, Mario Andretti, Clay Regazzoni, Niki Lauda, | , Jody Scheckter, Gilles Villeneuve, Didier Pironi, Patrick Tambay, René A ... |
Estes Kefauver | File:SenatorKefauver(D-TN).jpg|Senator | of Tennesse |
Jimmy Carter | ... 978 in the famous Camp David Accords after negotiations hosted by president | . In accordance with the treaty, Israeli forces withdrew gradually from Si ... |
Charles Carroll of Carrollton | ... rganized on January 2, 1833 from part of Ray County, Missouri and named for | , a signer of the |
David Holmes | ... Mississippi. As of 2010, the population was 19,198. It is named in honor of | , the first governor of Mississippi. Its county seat is Lexington. Holmes ... |
Arlen Specter | ... late. After the 2004 elections, Frist played a role in the controversy over | 's post-election remarks. Frist demanded a public statement from Specter i ... |
Daniel Inouye | ... senator in history with a career spanning over 38 years. His colleague Sen. | (D-HI) referred to Stevens as "The Strom Thurmond of the Arctic Circle. |
John C. Breckinridge | ... cast its electoral votes for the Southern Democratic choice, Vice President | of Kentucky. Regular Democratic nominee Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois ran ... |
Carol Moseley Braun | ... chmond, Virginia get confirmed. Helms also tried to block the nomination of | , the first African-American female senator, as ambassador to New Zealand |
John F. Kennedy | ... of a prominent game show, an excerpt from the Count from Sesame Street, or | 's remark that walking is a good form of exercise |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla | ... d then returned to Numidia to take control of the war. He sent his Quaestor | to neighbouring Mauretania in order to eliminate their support for Jugurth ... |
John F. Kennedy | Following the 1960 election of U.S. President | , he and his two younger brothers, Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy ... |
Richard Russell, Jr. | File:Richard Brevard Russell.jpg|Senator | of Georgi |
Albert Gallatin | ... inst him two-thirds of the time, leaving almost half as fairly independent. | recalled only two caucuses on legislative policy between 1795 and 1801, on ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... years. His colleague Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) referred to Stevens as "The | of the Arctic Circle. |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ft considered himself a "New Deal Democrat", and was an ardent supporter of | . His political views can be considered as "moderately socialist. |
William H. Seward | ... ing of all of Canada to the United States. When American Secretary of State | negotiated the Alaska Purchase in 1867, he intended it as the first step i ... |
Aaron Burr | ... 1800 election, but an equal number of electors cast votes for Jefferson and | . The tie sent the election to the House, and Federalists there blocked an ... |
Richard Nixon | ... backlash from Southern whites against Johnson's Democratic Party. Moreover, | politically counterattacked with the Southern Strategy where it would "sec ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... 9 and named after John C. Calhoun, who was at the time Vice President under | , making it one of Michigan's Cabinet counties. County government was firs ... |
Tom Daschle | ... outh Dakota) of the opposition party (Democrat)'s minority leader, Democrat | , and actively campaigned against him. Daschle's Republican opponent, John ... |
John C. Calhoun | Calhoun County was established on October 19, 1829 and named after | , who was at the time Vice President under Andrew Jackson, making it one o ... |
Stephen A. Douglas | ... Lincoln’s election, most notably by William L. Yancey touring the north as | toured the South calling for Union if Lincoln were elected. But to Secessi ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | In Washington, President | had received word from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the Liberty had been ... |
Jimmy Carter | Image:Jimmy Carter.jpg|Former Governor | of Georgi |
Barack Obama | ... win a majority in the county was Barry Goldwater in 1964. In 2008, Democrat | won 81% of the county's vote |
Charles Sumner | ... sed, on the notion that British involvement had lengthened the war. Senator | , the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, originally wante ... |
Barack Obama | ... 008. On October 28, Colbert turned his attention back to Canton, Ohio after | made a campaign stop there, forcing Colbert to find it "crappy" |
John Thune | ... aschle, and actively campaigned against him. Daschle's Republican opponent, | , defeated Daschle. In Daschle's farewell address, Frist arrived late. Aft ... |
Paul Laxalt | ... litically easier for Carter, causing them to be replaced by the soft-spoken | |
John McCain | The trending Republican has continued since 2004. In 2008 | won the county with 67.7% of the vote. In 2010 Republican gubernatorial ca ... |
Kay Hagan | ... ted States Congress by U.S. Senator Richard Burr (Republican), U.S. Senator | (Democrat) and U.S. Representative G.K. Butterfield (Democrat) |
Salvador Allende | ... o manage the allocation of economic inputs. The socialist-run government of | in Chile experimented with Project Cybersyn, a real-time information bridg ... |
Dan Quayle | ... s chairman, being recruited by Cerberus' international advisory board chair | , himself the former vice president of the United States. Cerberus was rej ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... crowd. It is regarded, along with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and | 's Infamy Speech, as one of the finest speeches in the history of American ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... dren lived in Washington, D.C., where she struck up a close friendship with | . She died in 1954, before her husband ascended the throne |
Richard Burr | The town is also served in the United States Congress by U.S. Senator | (Republican), U.S. Senator Kay Hagan (Democrat) and U.S. Representative G. ... |
Richard Nixon | In 1959, following the Kitchen Debate between United States Vice President | and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, the designers of the kitchen, includ ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... ed the first-ever televised presidential debates, held between U.S. Senator | of Massachusetts and Vice President Richard M. Nixon |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... and later Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, a protege of John B. Connally and | , and the 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner William White, whose The Taft Story f ... |
Richard W. Thompson | ... on-class destroyer of the U.S. Navy named in honor of Secretary of the Navy | (1809–1900), never saw action against an enemy. She was the first Navy shi ... |
John Kerry | ... Election, Jackson County voted for Republican George W. Bush over Democrat | . It was the first time Jackson County voters chose a Republican president ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... 62 Nassau Agreement that emerged from meetings between Harold Macmillan and | , the United States would supply Britain with Polaris missiles, launch tub ... |
Barack Obama | ... ties in Missouri in 2008, voters in Madison County favored John McCain over | , although not as strongly as most of the other rural counties throughout ... |
Barack Obama | ... ounties throughout Missouri, Texas County strongly favored John McCain over | in 2008 |
John McCain | ... e many rural counties in Missouri in 2008, voters in Madison County favored | over Barack Obama, although not as strongly as most of the other rural cou ... |
Pompey | ... ued to be governed by native princes until the civil war between Caesar and | . After Cato the Younger was defeated by Caesar, he committed suicide (46 ... |
Richard Nixon | Following Republican | 's victory in November, Kennedy was widely assumed to be the front-runner ... |
Daniel Moynihan | ... that year, Kennedy created the Friends of Ireland organization with Senator | and House Speaker Tip O'Neill to support initiatives for peace and reconci ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... ernatives. After the election of November 1960, Eisenhower in briefing with | pointed out the communist threat in Southeast Asia as requiring prioritiza ... |
Coolidge | ... st tenure of a Secretary of the Treasury. His service continued through the | and Hoover administrations. Along with James Wilson and James J. Davis, he ... |
Al Gore | ... financially supported a variety of Democratic Party politicians, including | and Tom Daschle, but also made contributions to the Republican Party's Phi ... |
Albert Gallatin | ... " Outstanding propagandists included editor William Duane and party leaders | , Thomas Cooper and Jefferson himself |
John Cornyn | At the Federal level, the two U.S. Senators from Texas are Republicans | and Kay Bailey Hutchison; Waxahachie is part of Texas' US Congressional 6t ... |
Phil Gramm | ... Gore and Tom Daschle, but also made contributions to the Republican Party's | as late as 1995. He said publicly in 2008 that he has no ambition to run f ... |
Philippe Madrelle | The President of the General Council is | of the Socialist Party |
Barack Obama | ... n 2003 and was given official status by the United States Congress in 2007. | became the first president to personally attend Diwali at the White House ... |
McGovern | ... (this was later surpassed by incumbent President Nixon's defeat of Senator | in 1972). Johnson's popular vote margin of over 22 percentage points is a ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... essional elections. The last Republican to win a majority in the county was | in 1964. In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama won 81% of the county's vote |
Russell B. Long | ... ercent of the vote in a race for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Democrat | . Tensas Parish also voted for Republican presidential nominee Barry M. Go ... |
Nicolae Iorga | ... i people came to Wallachia and Moldavia as free men or as slaves. Historian | associated the Roma people's arrival with the 1241 Mongol invasion of Euro ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... A's talent agency—which represented most of the industry's biggest names—by | 's Department of Justice, as owning both the movie studio and a talent age ... |
Pierre Buyoya | ... operated under a power-sharing political system until July 1996, when Tutsi | seized power in a military coup. Under international pressure, the warring ... |
John Kerry | ... ent of Protestants voted for Bush, along with 52% of Catholics (even though | was Catholic). Since 1980, large majorities of evangelicals have voted Rep ... |
Tom Daschle | ... supported a variety of Democratic Party politicians, including Al Gore and | , but also made contributions to the Republican Party's Phil Gramm as late ... |
Cato the Younger | ... rned by native princes until the civil war between Caesar and Pompey. After | was defeated by Caesar, he committed suicide (46 BC) in Utica, and Numidia ... |
John Tower | ... raised $7.5m, over twice as much as the second most-expensive nation-wide ( | 's in Texas), thanks to Richard Viguerie and Alex Castellanos's pioneering ... |
John F. Kennedy | In 1963, U.S. President | visited the Brandenburg Gate. The Soviets hung large red banners across it ... |
Harry F. Byrd | ... olicy of "massive resistance" led by the influential segregationist Senator | and his Byrd Organization, the Commonwealth prohibited desegregated local ... |
Edward M. Kennedy | ... ent John F. Kennedy, he and his two younger brothers, Robert F. Kennedy and | , soon all held prominent positions in the federal government, and receive ... |
Nathan Dane | Dane County was formed in 1836 as a territorial county. It was named after | , a Massachusetts delegate to the Congress of the Confederation who helped ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... soil. Several groups developed competing proposals, and in 1933, President | authorized the Columbia Basin Project. The Grand Coulee Dam was the projec ... |
John Tyler | ... n was 9,208. The County is named after John Tyler, Sr., father of President | . Its county seat is |
Sandra Day O'Connor | ... alled into the White House to express his discontent over the nomination of | to the Supreme Court; the opposition hinged over the issue of O'Connor's p ... |
Philip Doddridge | ... 5 from parts of Harrison, Tyler, Ritchie, and Lewis Counties, and named for | (1773–1832), a distinguished of Western Virginia, who spent the greater pa ... |
Barack Obama | In the final days before the 2008 election, Costner campaigned for | , visiting various places in Colorado—a state in which he has a home. In h ... |
John Quincy Adams | ... nited States Congress as a Whig, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of | . His first speech in that body was in advocacy of its right and duty to e ... |
Jim Bunning | ... , Callison's teammate, future Hall of Fame member and United States Senator | , pitched a perfect game against the Mets |
Pietro Badoglio | ... and requested combat and Italian advancement to cease. The Italian General | sharply rejected the proposal, and threatened to stop all negotiations and ... |
Sean Parnell | ... ing Vice-President Joe Biden, former Governor Sarah Palin, current Governor | and three other former governors, 11 senators, 9 former senators, and 2 co ... |
Brian P. Stack | The current mayor of Union City is | , who became mayor in 2000 after a recall election forced the resignation ... |
Henry M. Jackson | Image:HenryJackson.jpg|Senator | of Washingto |
Eleazar López Contreras | ... relevant (apart from the general Gómez himself), were the General in Chief | and Division General Isaías Medina Angarita |
Daniel Webster | ... essive days in their defense. In 1850, he was engaged in a controversy with | in regard to the extension of slavery and the Fugitive Slave Law. Mann was ... |
Frank Church | Image:FrankChurch.jpg|Senator | of Idah |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... s reason, National Park Service officials have attempted to avoid the term. | , Dwight D. Eisenhower and Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes each ... |
Kay Hagan | ... se Helms. However, she lost her seat in 2008, a heavily Democratic year, to | |
John McCain | ... ny of the rural counties throughout Missouri, Texas County strongly favored | over Barack Obama in 2008 |
Sandra Day O'Connor | ... . Reproductive Health Services, but was not successful in doing so. Justice | authored the decision of the Court, allowing the abortion regulations at i ... |
Rufus King | ... President in Congress over William Crawford in 1816 and defeated Federalist | in the general election |
Mackenzie Bowell | ... ein their casket lies in state in the Centre Block of Parliament Hill. Only | and the Viscount Bennett were given private funerals, Bennett also being t ... |
Thomas E. Trowbridge | ... County was represented in the Wyoming House of Representatives by Democrat | (1930-2009) of Saratoga, a Nebraska native. From 1982-1986, Trowbridge was ... |
Kay Bailey Hutchison | ... ral level, the two U.S. Senators from Texas are Republicans John Cornyn and | ; Waxahachie is part of Texas' US Congressional 6th District, which is cur ... |
Benigno Aquino III | ... of the program. , U.S. observers were uncertain whether Arroyo's successor, | , chosen in Philippine Presidential elections on May 10, 2010, will contin ... |
Richard Nixon | ... and mines and anti-armor weapons, but were especially heavy after President | ordered US forces into Cambodia on May 1, 1970 in which, among other caval ... |
George M. Dallas | ... , who was the 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury and the father of | , the vice president of James Polk. The local government describes the bor ... |
Carol Berman | ... g rejecting efforts by the Port Authority and a grass-roots campaign led by | to continue the ban. In spite of complaints about noise, the noise report ... |
Frank Graham | ... issue up for discussion again at the 1954 bi-annual convention. ACLU member | , president of the University of North Carolina, attacked the anti-communi ... |
Chuck Purgason | ... t of Missouri's 33rd District and is currently represented by State Senator | (R-Caulfield). In 2008, Purgason defeated Eric Reeve (D) 67.31-32.69 perce ... |
Jesse Helms | ... ted to the United States Senate in 2002, to succeed the retiring Republican | . However, she lost her seat in 2008, a heavily Democratic year, to Kay Ha ... |
Robert Byrd | Image:Sen robert byrd.jpg|Senator | of West Virgini |
James Chesnut, Jr. | ... South Carolina legislature to call for a Secession Convention. U.S. Senator | resigned, and U.S. Senator James Henry Hammond followed |
Barack Obama | On 4 May 2009, United States President | declared his intentions to curb the use of financial centres by multinatio ... |
Barack Obama | Other well-known government figures, such as Senior Advisor to President | David Axelrod, former Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey and f ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... tter dated July 25, 1946, Prime Minister Attlee wrote to American President | : "I am sure you will agree that the inhuman crime committed in Jerusalem ... |
Joe Biden | ... Baptist Temple was attended by some 3,000 people, including Vice-President | , former Governor Sarah Palin, current Governor Sean Parnell and three oth ... |
Sam Houston | ... in a Southern Convention. Under the influence of men such as Texas Governor | , delay had the effect of sustaining the Union. "Unionists", especially in ... |
Elizabeth Dole | Dole has been married to Former Senator | , née Hanford, of North Carolina since 1975. Mrs. Dole ran unsuccessfully ... |
Joseph McCarthy | ... ion was escalating rapidly. In the United States Senate, Republican Senator | of Wisconsin had become a national figure after chairing congressional inv ... |
Frank Keating | At 9:45 am CST, Governor | declared a state of emergency and ordered all non-essential workers in the ... |
Patrick Leahy | ... out written parental consent. In 1979, Helms supported, along with Democrat | , a federal Taxpayer Bill of Rights |
Russell B. Long | In January 1969, Kennedy defeated Louisiana Senator | by a 31–26 margin to become Senate Majority Whip, the youngest person to a ... |
Jean-Baptiste Bagaza | In 1976, Colonel | took power in a bloodless coup. Although Bagaza led a Tutsi-dominated mili ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... n. McCain succeeded longtime American conservative icon and Arizona fixture | upon the latter's retirement as United States Senator from Arizona |
William Henry Gist | Secessionists were active politically. Governor | of South Carolina corresponded secretly with other Deep South governors, a ... |
Pierre Buyoya | In 1987, Major | overthrew Col. Bagaza in a military coup d'état. He dissolved opposition p ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... he previous year. Shortly afterwards, Senator Trent Lott made comments at a | birthday celebration in which he said that if Thurmond's presidential bid ... |
Aulus Gabinius | In 57–55 BCE, | , proconsul of Syria, split the former Hasmonean Kingdom into Galilee, Sam ... |
Arturo Toscanini | ... conductors closely associated with Puccini. In the 1946 RCA Victor release, | , who conducted the world premiere of the opera, conducts the NBC Symphony ... |
Frank Church | The U.S. Senate Select Committee chaired by Senator | (the Church Committee) reported in 1975 that it had found "concrete eviden ... |
Roger Sherman | ... lvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and | of Connecticut, to draft a declaration. Because the committee left no minu ... |
Barack Obama | ... t headed by Paul Martin (as well as many Americans such as Bill Clinton and | ), made a policy distinction between conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, un ... |
Barack Obama | ... 44%. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McCain and Democrat | tied, with each receiving 49% of the vote This gives Andover a Cook PVI of ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... biographies of major southern figures, such as Varina Davis' of her husband | . Later, women began adding more of their own experiences to the "public d ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... and early 50s after the second world war, the man where "The Buck Stopped" | was president of the United States, and the baby boomer generation was evo ... |
John Quincy Adams | ... ted debate in Congress, Massachusetts Representative (and former President) | successfully argued to restore the lost funds with interest. Though Congre ... |
John McCain | ... John Kerry, who received 44%. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican | and Democrat Barack Obama tied, with each receiving 49% of the vote This g ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... he was greeting the President of the United States as he did when President | thanked him for donating money to school drop-out prevention programs |
Robert S. Kerr | Other minor or favorite son candidates included Oklahoma Senator | , Governor Paul A. Dever of Massachusetts, Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minn ... |
Al Gore | ... minee George W. Bush were colored red, and states won by Democratic nominee | were colored blue. Although the assignment of colors to political parties ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ven though Lott ran as a Republican. Lott won handily, in large part due to | 's landslide victory in that year's presidential election. Nixon won the 5 ... |
Robert Hurt | ... is part of Virginia's 5th congressional district, represented by Republican | , elected in 2010 by defeating incumbent Tom Perriello |
Trent Lott | ... 1994 gift of $2.5 million to the RNC. In July 1997, Senate Majority leader | and House Speaker Newt Gingrich slipped a last-minute provision into a hot ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... the appointment of John H. Reagan to the position of Postmaster General, by | in 1861, making him the first Postmaster General of the Confederate Post O ... |
Robert Dutton | ... d Terrace is located in the 31st Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 63rd Assembly District, represented by Republican Bill Emmers ... |
Andrew Jackson | Jackson Township, named after | , is a township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... r days as the assassination of JFK and the transition of power to President | took center stage |
Barack Obama | ... uerto Rico's head of state is the President of the United States, currently | . The governor and legislators are elected by popular vote every four year ... |
John Cornyn | At the Federal level, the two U.S. Senators from Texas are Republicans | and Kay Bailey Hutchison; Nacogdoches is part of Texas's 1st congressional ... |
John East | With | and John Stennis, Helms led the senatorial opposition to establishing Mart ... |
Kay Bailey Hutchison | ... ral level, the two U.S. Senators from Texas are Republicans John Cornyn and | ; Nacogdoches is part of Texas's 1st congressional district, which is curr ... |
Richard Nixon | The scandal eventually led to the resignation of | , the President of the United States, on August 9, 1974, the only resignat ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... d High School and Enrico Fermi High School are the district's high schools. | Middle School is the town's middle school. There are nine elementary schoo ... |
Arlen Specter | ... by running a small creamery. Among his father's customers was the father of | who ran a junkyard in the town and used Dole's scales to weigh junk. Spect ... |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla | ... ilius Lepidus on the site of the Curia Hostilia, which had been restored by | but demolished by Caesar in 44 BC. This temple no longer existed by the ti ... |
Bill Emmerson | ... Robert Dutton, and in the 63rd Assembly District, represented by Republican | . Federally, Grand Terrace is located in California's 41st congressional d ... |
Governor Jay Nixon | In Missouri's gubernatorial election of 2008, Democratic Governor | solidly defeated Republican U.S. Representative Kenny Hulshof with 58.40 p ... |
Edward D. Newell | ... ter and attorney John David Stokes Newell, Sr., who named it for his father | , a North Carolina native. All three communities are linked by Highway 65, ... |
Alben W. Barkley | ... nd was inexperienced in politics. Truman next turned to his Vice President, | , but at 74 he was rejected as being too old by labor union leaders |
Lyndon Johnson | ... gressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the county was | in 1964 |
Jesse Jackson | ... erforming benefit concerts for various civil rights organizations including | 's PUSH and The Black Panther Party's Breakfast program throughout the ear ... |
Barack Obama | ... e was invited to perform at the White House concert series before President | . When Mick held out a mic to him, Obama sang twice the line "Come on, bab ... |
Gary Hart | ... n and Hensley were married on May 17, 1980, with Senators William Cohen and | attending as groomsmen. McCain's children did not attend, and several year ... |
Richard Nixon | ... d United States Senator George Smathers and then former U.S. Vice President | , who had promised to leave politics. During his subsequent presidency fro ... |
Barack Obama | ... ohn McCain received 22,263 votes (50.83% of the county's share) to Democrat | 's 20,701 (47.26%), even as Obama carried the state by a double-digit marg ... |
Guglielmo Marconi | ... nts conducted by physicists such as Nikola Tesla, Jagadish Chandra Bose and | during the 1890s leading to the invention of radio |
John F. Kennedy | ... in a span of 12 months, coming as it did just after the deaths of President | and General Douglas MacArthur, former Chaplain of the Senate Frederick Bro ... |
John McCain | In the 2008 presidential election, Republican candidate | received 22,263 votes (50.83% of the county's share) to Democrat Barack Ob ... |
François Mitterrand | ... s. Before 1996, the same request was turned down several times including by | , the former Socialist President |
Jon Corzine | ... n, Republican Chris Christie received 58.5% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 33% |
Richard Lugar | ... cities to two, Phoenix and Indianapolis. Under the administrations of mayor | and then William Hudnut, Indianapolis was making an ambitious effort to re ... |
Zebulon Baird Vance | In the 1890 Census, Vance County was more than 63 percent African American. | was a Governor of North Carolina (1862–1865, 1877–1879) and United States ... |
Richard Nixon | ... attractive in the wake of the Watergate scandal, which had led to President | 's resignation. Ford, although personally unconnected with Watergate, was ... |
Redfield Proctor | ... and Pittsford. Proctor was named for and almost completely owned by Senator | . The closing of the marble quarries in the town in the 1980s and 1990s co ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... tatistical Area. The county seat is Jackson. It is named for U.S. President | . It is considered to be one of Michigan's "Cabinet counties", named for m ... |
Augustus Hill Garland | ... ted in 1887. The new location was named Garland after U.S. Attorney General | . Soon after, the towns of Embree and Duck Creek were combined, and the th ... |
Frank Lautenberg | ... program. The Responsible Education About Life Act was introduced by Senator | (D-NJ) and Representatives Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Christopher Shays (R-CT) ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... ll but once, the exception being 1964 when Warren County voted for Democrat | over Barry M. Goldwater. Before the Republican party was formed, Warren Co ... |
George Smathers | ... ey Biscayne millionaire Bebe Rebozo, Miami native and United States Senator | and then former U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon, who had promised to lea ... |
Bob Dole | ... k control of the Senate in 1995, succeeding as Majority Leader in 1996 when | resigned from the Senate to focus on his presidential campaign. As majorit ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... nvention, ill health prevented him from attending. The Presidential nominee | acknowledged Hoover's absence in his acceptance speech |
Hugh Scott | ... from people's minds with a wave of the hand." The Senate Republican Leader | said the transcripts revealed a "deplorable, disgusting, shabby, and immor ... |
Richard Russell, Jr. | ... idates. However, most of the other candidates had a major weakness. Senator | of Georgia had much Southern support, but his support of racial segregatio ... |
Barbara Lee | ... e Act was introduced by Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Representatives | (D-CA) and Christopher Shays (R-CT) to support age-appropriate . This prog ... |
Fran Pavley | ... rd City in Los Angeles County. Elected to the first City Council were Mayor | , Mayor Pro Tem Carol Sahm, Councilmembers Ernest Dynda, John Hood and Vic ... |
Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 59% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 40%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
Julian Bond | ... laws. The ACLU's southern office also defended African-American congressman | in Bond v. Floyd, when the Georgia congress refused to formally induct Bon ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... . To date, he has the longest retirement of any President. Former President | will surpass the length of Hoover's retirement on September 7, 2012. At th ... |
Dennis Hollingsworth | ... re Alpine is located in the 36th Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 77th Assembly District, represented by Republican Joel Anders ... |
Ted Stevens | Slashdotters typically like to mock United States Senator | ' 2006 description of the Internet as a "series of tubes" or Microsoft CEO ... |
Al Gore | In 2000, Bush received 21,887 votes (56.28%) to Democrat | 's 15,959 (41.04%) |
Darrell Steinberg | ... t and 6th Senate Districts, represented by Republican Dave Cox and Democrat | respectively, and in the 4th and 5th Assembly Districts, represented by Re ... |
John Kerry | ... Republican George W. Bush received 56% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 44%. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McC ... |
Warren G. Harding | ... nship) and it was named after the incumbent President of the United States, | |
Senator Joe McCarthy | ... ." Walt Kelly's Pogo was likewise censored in 1952 over his overt satire of | , caricatured in his comic strip as "Simple J. Malarky". Garry Trudeau, wh ... |
Robert A. Starr | ... County. It is represented in the Vermont Senate by Vincent Illuzzi (R) and | (D) |
John Kerry | ... ublican president George W. Bush received 24,369 (56.31%) votes to Democrat | 's 18,355 (42.41%) |
Jimmy Carter | The act jump-started the peace process. United States President | invited both Sadat and Begin to a summit at Camp David to negotiate a fina ... |
Robert Taft | ... esidential election to counter the candidacy of non-interventionist Senator | . The effort was a long struggle; Eisenhower had to be convinced that 1) t ... |
Dave Cox | ... s is located in the 1st and 6th Senate Districts, represented by Republican | and Democrat Darrell Steinberg respectively, and in the 4th and 5th Assemb ... |
Verdi's | ... Gramophone Company's house conductor since 1904; he had made recordings of | Ernani and Rigoletto before tackling Tosca with a young and largely unknow ... |
Bob Bartlett | ... avel. In December 1968, after the death of Alaska's other senator, Democrat | , Governor Wally Hickel appointed Stevens to the U.S. Senate. Since Gravel ... |
Barack Obama | ... t of the rural counties in Missouri, Ripley County favored John McCain over | in 2008 |
Andrew Jackson | ... nowledge among men". After the nephew died without issue in 1835, President | informed Congress of the bequest. Richard Rush was appointed as agent of t ... |
Justin Smith Morrill | ... e, including 12.2% of those under age 18 and 13.9% of those age 65 or over. | , US Representative and Senator, known as the chief sponsor and author of ... |
Al Gore | ... with Beau Bridges and Blair Underwood for the album An Inconvenient Truth ( | ) |
John McCain | ... nd 1996. Like most of the rural counties in Missouri, Ripley County favored | over Barack Obama in 2008 |
Darrell Steinberg | ... and 6th Senate Districts, represented by Republican Ted Gaines and Democrat | respectively, and in the 10th Assembly District, represented by Democrat A ... |
Vincent Illuzzi | ... klin County and Lamoille County. It is represented in the Vermont Senate by | (R) and Robert A. Starr (D) |
Jefferson Davis | ... vote in both houses of Congress. The only person to serve as president was | , due to the Confederacy being defeated before the completion of his term |
Mike Gravel | ... age Mayor Elmer E. Rasmuson. Rasmuson lost the general election to Democrat | . In December 1968, after the death of Alaska's other senator, Democrat Bo ... |
Frank Lausche | ... ns being in 1924 when it supported Vic Donahey, 1932 (George White), 1952 ( | ), and 1958 (Michael V. DiSalle). However, excepting DiSalle, each of thes ... |
Willie Jones | ... ormed in 1779 from the southwestern part of Craven County. It was named for | , a Revolutionary leader and president of the North Carolina Council of Sa ... |
Paul Pate | ... is system. The last mayor of Cedar Rapids under this form of government was | |
Théodore Robitaille | ... nada. The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec | for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony; Calixa Lavallée wrote the m ... |
Estes Kefauver | Truman's main opponent was populist Tennessee Senator | , who had chaired a nationally televised investigation of organized crime ... |
Emil Lockwood | ... f Port Huron's Fort Gratiot. See, List of Michigan county name etymologies. | , a noted Michigan legislator, represented Gratiot County in the from 1963 ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... e word "Camelot" is sometimes used to refer admiringly to the presidency of | , as his term was said to have potential and promise for the future, and m ... |
Tom Coburn | ... s and one Democrat. Oklahoma's U.S. senators are Republicans Jim Inhofe and | , and its U.S. Representatives are John Sullivan (R-OK-1), Dan Boren (D-OK ... |
Mitch McConnell | ... red from CIA custody. He stated that his visit with fellow Republicans Sen. | of Kentucky and Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the Senate Judiciary C ... |
Mark Begich | ... He won the Republican primary in August and was defeated by Anchorage Mayor | in the general election |
Tom McClintock | ... al district, which has a Cook PVI of R +11 and is represented by Republican | |
Sam Houston | ... blish the street grid that is still current. In those years, the Texas hero | , for whom the street is sometimes incorrectly said to have been named, wa ... |
Massachusetts Senate | ... Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833. He served in the | from 1834 to 1837. In 1848, after serving as Secretary of the Massachusett ... |
Jay Dardenne | ... sas Parish. The parish gave a plurality of 48 percent to Secretary of State | . Both Jindal and Dardenne were easy statewide winners in the nonpartisan ... |
James Buchanan | ... th century, and at age 62, was the oldest man to be elected President since | in 1856. Eisenhower was the only general to serve as President in the 20th ... |
Jim Inhofe | ... four Republicans and one Democrat. Oklahoma's U.S. senators are Republicans | and Tom Coburn, and its U.S. Representatives are John Sullivan (R-OK-1), D ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... he previous most senior Republican senator and former President Pro Tempore | retired |
Charles Alfred Pillsbury | Dartmouth alumni serving as CEOs or company presidents include | , founder of Pillsbury Company and patriarch of Pillsbury family, Sandy Al ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... r assaulted. An invitation was extended to Nixon's opponent, Vice-President | , but he declined. According to George Schlatter, the show's creator, "Hum ... |
John Doolittle | ... al district, which has a Cook PVI of R +11 and is represented by Republican | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ing his term, but served as the groundwork for various policies laid out in | 's New Deal. After 1933 he became a leading conservative spokesman in oppo ... |
President Roosevelt | In December 1943, | decided that Eisenhower—not Marshall—would be Supreme Allied Commander in ... |
Henry W. Grout | ... ished in 1932, the district started with an endowment set up in the will of | . The district is a nonprofit educational entity that is active in engagin ... |
Richard Nixon | During the September 16, 1968 episode, | , running for president, appeared for a few seconds with a disbelieving vo ... |
John Ensign | ... en of Nebraska, Dick Chrysler of Michigan, Richard Rombo of California, and | of Nevada. Their informal caucus meets several times a year with Amway big ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... 7 along with many other non-combat awards, but it was restored by President | in 1977 (see Evolution of Criteria, above) |
Howard Baker | After | retired in 1984, Stevens sought the position of Republican (and then-Major ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... ensive care units and a new concrete emergency heliport. The Indio (renamed | ) hospital opened in a new location in 1983 on land donated by hospital co ... |
Daniel Inouye | Since 1987, Hawaii's Senator | , a World War II veteran, has introduced a measure to return Memorial Day ... |
John Edwards | In 2004, the Democratic ticket of John F. Kerry and | carried Tensas Parish, 1,460 to 1,453 for President George W. Bush and Ric ... |
Raymond Poincaré | ... reparations; he described the French Prime Minister (and former President) | as a "horrid little man" |
John McCain | ... nt in all but one election since 1952. In 2004 and 2008, George W. Bush and | swept every county in the state, both receiving over 65 percent of the sta ... |
Marozia | ... . [who] exercised power on the Roman citizenry like a man" and her daughter | , the mother of Pope John XI (931–935) and reputed to be the mistress of S ... |
Dave Cox | ... ure Paxton is located in the 1st Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 3rd Assembly District, represented by Republican Rick Keene. ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... of the Pacific "Wall of the Missing" in Honolulu. In March 1963, President | did a wreath-laying ceremony at O'Hare Airport to honor Butch O'Hare. The ... |
Andrew Johnson | ... in the state and features call boxes built prior to the American Civil War. | , later president of the United States, was an apprentice tailor in Moores ... |
Dave Cox | ... cent Mills is located in the 1st Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 3rd Assembly District, represented by Republican Dan Logue. F ... |
John Doolittle | ... al district, which has a Cook PVI of R +11 and is represented by Republican | |
Bob Dole | ... ught the position of Republican (and then-Majority) leader, running against | , Dick Lugar, Jim McClure and Pete Domenici. As Republican whip, Stevens w ... |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla | ... e. Kim Il-Sung was named Eternal President of the Republic after his death. | appointed himself in 82 BC to an entirely new office, dictator rei publica ... |
Stanisław Leszczyński | ... use of Habsburg and the Lorraine House of Vaudémont: The Duchy was given to | , the former king of Poland and father-in-law to King Louis XV of France, ... |
Al Gore | ... 000 elections produced a 50-50 partisan split in the Senate, Vice President | 's tie-breaking vote gave the Democrats the majority from January 3 to Jan ... |
John McCain | ... toward the Republican Party. In the 2008 Presidential Election, Republican | received 59% of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received ar ... |
Michele Bachmann | ... used as the Waterloo Woman's Club. The front lawn of the house was used for | 's Presidential candidacy announcement on June 27, 2011 |
Edward Rutledge | ... randson of South Carolina Governor William Bull. Henrietta married Governor | , and Sarah was the first wife of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney |
Pete Domenici | ... hen-Majority) leader, running against Bob Dole, Dick Lugar, Jim McClure and | . As Republican whip, Stevens was theoretically the favorite to succeed Ba ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... ion to the domestic and foreign policies of the New Deal. In 1947 President | brought him back to help make the federal bureaucracy more efficient throu ... |
Jeff Denham | ... al district, which has a Cook PVI of R +10 and is represented by Republican | |
Edward Vincent | ... lls Estates is located in the 25th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 54th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Bonnie Lowent ... |
Joseph McCarthy | ... und Eisenhower's relented decision to confront the controversial methods of | on his home turf in a Wisconsin appearance. Just two weeks prior to the el ... |
Roberto Arango | ... Rico Senatorial district I, which is represented by two Senators. In 2008, | and Kimmey Raschke were elected as District Senators. However, Arango resi ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... deral gun regulations came as a response to the murders of John F. Kennedy, | , and Martin Luther King Jr. |
Cordell Hull | ... rence, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of State | declared the Good Neighbor Policy, which opposed U.S. armed intervention i ... |
Garret Hobart | ... soldiers had camped during the war, was built in 1788 and was once owned by | , later Vice President of the United States. The stone with the engraved d ... |
Claude Pepper | ... , Maryland and was founded in 1988 through legislation sponsored by Senator | . The NCBI houses genome sequencing data in GenBank and an index of biomed ... |
Jefferson Davis | When General Grant's forces broke through Richmond's defenses, | ordered the destruction of Richmond's militarily significant supplies; the ... |
Dave Cox | ... Greenhorn is located in the 1st Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 3rd Assembly District, represented by Republican Rick Keene. ... |
Robert M. La Follette | ... ry was also notable for the emergence of progressive politics championed by | . Between 1901 and 1914, Progressive Republicans in Wisconsin created the ... |
John Kerry | ... ection George W. Bush won 52% of the vote, compared to 44% statewide, while | won 46% of the vote, compared to 56% statewide. In the 2006 state governor ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... e expansion of federal gun regulations came as a response to the murders of | , Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. |
Richard Nixon | ... hat he had a 66% disapproval rating, a record only matched decades later by | , and surpassed by George W. Bush |
John Bidwell | ... e events as the most seminal in Chico history. They included the arrival of | in 1850, the arrival of the California and Oregon Railroad in 1870, the es ... |
Don Young | Due to Stevens's long tenure and that of the state's sole congressman, | , Alaska was considered to have clout in national politics well beyond its ... |
Luigi Sturzo | ... ions as well. This led to a surgence of the Partito Populare Italiano under | . Anti-Catholic politicians were gradually replaced by persons who were ne ... |
Barack Obama | Also circulating is the Chesterfield Observer, a county-wide newspaper. | stopped at John Tyler Community College in Chester on August 21, 2008, whe ... |
John F. Kennedy | Despite the criticism, modern politicians as diverse as | , Ronald Reagan, Michael Dukakis, and Sarah Palin, have all made reference ... |
Decimus Junius Brutus | ... s of memory loss as the legendary Lethe River. In 138 BC, the Roman general | sought to dispose of the myth, as it impeded his military campaigns in the ... |
Lornna Soto | ... ct VIII, which is represented by two Senators. In 2008, Héctor Martínez and | were elected as District Senators. In 2011, Martínez had to resign, and wa ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ng the Middle East destabilized. In a June 1973 meeting with U.S. President | , Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev had proposed Israel pull back to its 1967 ... |
Caesar Rodney | ... nce. The tie in the Delaware delegation was broken by the timely arrival of | , who voted for independence. The New York delegation abstained once again ... |
Joseph McCarthy | ... bloody and indecisive Korean War was dragging into its third year, Senator | 's anti-Communist crusade was stirring public fears of an encroaching “Red ... |
Alexander Ramsey | ... sey County was created by the 1872-73 territorial legislature and named for | , a U.S. Senator from Minnesota at the time. County government was not for ... |
Jon Corzine | In December 2006, Governor | speculated on moving port operations further south to allow the community ... |
Felix Grundy | ... town, founded in 1858 upon the formation of Buchanan County, was named for | (1777–1840), United States Attorney General (1838–1839) and United States ... |
Al Gore | ... 1,453 for President George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney. In 2000, Democrat | , won Tensas Parish by 250 votes. The Democratic electors polled 1,580 vot ... |
Jim Jeffords | ... Later in 2001, he became Senate Minority Leader again after Vermont senator | became an independent and caucused with the Democrats, allowing them to re ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... chose Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale, a liberal and political protégé of | , as his running mate |
Dana Redd | , | is the Mayor of Camden. She is a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns ... |
Arlen Specter | ... his visit with fellow Republicans Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. | of Pennsylvania, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, was especially p ... |
Robert M. La Follette, Sr. | ... reed with that paper's editorial criticisms of Wisconsin Republican Senator | for his opposition to U.S. entry into World War I. Through Capital Newspap ... |
Jesse Jackson | ... rdoned for the crime in 1983 by Ohio Governor Jim Rhodes, with letters from | , Coretta Scott King, George Voinovich, Art Modell, and Gabe Paul, among o ... |
Edward Rutledge | ... e next step was for the resolution to be voted upon by the Congress itself. | of South Carolina, who was opposed to Lee's resolution but desirous of una ... |
John McCain | ... ry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat Barack Obama over Republican | in 2008 |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... the US public for his time frame, and was struggling to convince President | to approve widening the war into Cambodia and Laos in order to interdict t ... |
John Tyler Morgan | ... to represent the U.S. and intervene in Hawaii without Senate confirmation. | , an expansionist pro-annexation Senator from Alabama, chaired the commiss ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... evious experience with Germany at the end of World War I, in 1946 President | selected the former president to tour Germany to ascertain the food status ... |
Kay Hagan | ... dsboro is represented in the Senate by Republican Richard Burr and Democrat | |
Vincent Illuzzi | ... ns-1 district of the Vermont House of Representatives. It is represented by | (R-Derby) and Robert Starr (D-North Troy) in the Essex-Orleans district of ... |
John Kerry | ... cratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, and later campaigned for nominee | |
David Vitter | ... on, Tensas Parish gave a plurality to the Republican candidate, Congressman | of St. Tammany Parish. Vitter polled 1,145 votes (41 percent) compared to ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... d-1970s had led to the growth of the religious right through televangelism. | , then president, had avowed his renewed and reaffirmed Christianity; Rona ... |
Ferdinand Marcos | ... e case in many African states; Idi Amin in Uganda, Adolf Hitler in Germany, | in Philippines, for example |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... his era, de Haviland was also notable as a staunch liberal, campaigning for | and Harry Truman. In 1946, determined to protect liberalism from infiltrat ... |
Barack Obama | ... r Democrat John Kerry. Bush won 49.79% to Kerry's 48.47%. In 2008, Democrat | narrowly defeated John McCain, 49.51% to 48.50%. In the 2012 Maine Republi ... |
Richard Burr | Goldsboro is represented in the Senate by Republican | and Democrat Kay Hagan |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... spapermen and lobbyists. Johnson's friends soon included aides to President | , as well as fellow Texans such as Vice President John Nance Garner. He be ... |
Olympia Snowe | Senators | (R-ME) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) cosponsored and spoke on behalf of an amend ... |
Walter Mondale | ... ily won the nomination on the first ballot; he then chose Minnesota Senator | , a liberal and political protégé of Hubert Humphrey, as his running mate |
Strom Thurmond | Trent Lott spoke on December 5, 2002 at the 100th birthday party of Sen. | of South Carolina, a long time conservative leader. Thurmond had run for P ... |
Alben W. Barkley | Image:AlbenBarkley.jpg|Vice President | of Kentuck |
Gn. Pompeius | The last two treatises are supplemented by letters to | and Ammaeus (two) |
Luis Muñoz Marín | ... ned and approved the conditions established by . On July 25, 1952, Governor | proclaimed that the Constitution of Puerto Rico was in effect |
Arthur Foulkes | ... is supporters in the House of Assembly. The current governor-general is Sir | and the current Prime Minister is Hubert Ingraham |
Andrew Jackson | ... ed for Samuel D. Ingham, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President | , making Ingham one of Michigan's so-called Cabinet counties |
John Kerry | ... y two counties in Maine to vote for Republican George W. Bush over Democrat | . Bush won 49.79% to Kerry's 48.47%. In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama narrow ... |
George Voinovich | ... o Governor Jim Rhodes, with letters from Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, | , Art Modell, and Gabe Paul, among others, being written in support of Kin ... |
Byron Dorgan | Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and | (D-ND) cosponsored and spoke on behalf of an amendment that would have ins ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... g a hard-line stance in support of the Vietnam War. He contrasted President | 's decisive stance in Vietnam with the international failure to take preem ... |
John McCain | ... ought; despite being good friends with candidates Rudy Giuliani and Senator | , Schwarzenegger remained neutral throughout 2007 and early 2008. Giuliani ... |
Debbie Wasserman Schultz | ... gressional districts. Wilton Manors citizens are represented in Congress by | and Allen West |
Dennis Kucinich | ... elections, Hagelin and the Natural Law Party endorsed Democratic candidate | |
President John F. Kennedy | ... ll, to avoid KKK mob domination of the city. In a telephone conference with | , the President informed the HRC that after the Birmingham church bombing ... |
Lemuel Shaw | ... Shaw, daughter of chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court | , on August 4, 1847; the couple honeymooned in Canada. They had four child ... |
Richard Nixon | ... y saw election or succession of Republican presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, | , Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. The Re ... |
Louis B. Hanna | The county was created by proclamation of Governor | on September 3, 1914 and named after the Native Americans who live on the ... |
John McCain | ... ived 54.6% of the vote here (3,418 ballots received), outpolling Republican | , who received 44.5% of the vote (2,788 ballots cast), with 81.3% of regis ... |
Ron Ramsey | ... orial District and the Hawkins County portion by the 4th district. Lt. Gov. | and State Senator Mike Faulk currently serve in these positions. All of th ... |
Cordell Hull | Democratic President Roosevelt and especially his Secretary of State | were critical of the Neutrality Acts, fearing that they would restrict the ... |
John F. Kennedy | Robertson was President | 's personal choice to play him in 1963's PT 109 as a young Lieutenant PT b ... |
Howard Baker | ... ersal, his position drew the support of future Minority and Majority Leader | of Tennessee and twelve Senate Democrats. Helms' position was upheld in 19 ... |
Aaron Burr | ... da (1775) under Colonel Benedict Arnold. Samuel carried Benedict Arnold and | , his Princeton classmate, off of separate battlefields. Colonel Seth Read ... |
John McCain | ... 49.79% to Kerry's 48.47%. In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama narrowly defeated | , 49.51% to 48.50%. In the 2012 Maine Republican Presidential Caucuses, th ... |
Michele Bachmann | United States Representative | (R-MN) has been mocked by commentator Keith Olbermann and Maureen Dowd for ... |
John Kerry | ... d area overall, narrowly voting for Republican George W. Bush over Democrat | in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat Barack Obama over Republican J ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... t, an amazingly strong showing for such a challenger. Four days later, Sen. | of New York entered the race. Internal polling by Johnson's campaign in Wi ... |
Mike Faulk | ... s County portion by the 4th district. Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey and State Senator | currently serve in these positions. All of these elected officials are mem ... |
Barack Obama | ... ry 2010, China promised $4.2 million for the quake-hit island. US President | pledged $1.15 billion in assistance. nations promised more than 400 millio ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... ment of greatest ignominy, when it predicted that Thomas Dewey would defeat | in the 1948 election, by five to 15 percentage points. Gallup believed the ... |
James Heflin | ... War. (Note: He imposed racial segregation in federal agencies and offices.) | of Alabama was given the honor of the main address. Heflin was a noted ora ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... notable American participants included Winfield Scott, Zachary Taylor, and | . The war gave impetus to the US policy of Indian removal, in which Native ... |
William O'Connell Bradley | ... t News, Virginia, sponsored by Miss Christine Bradley, daughter of Governor | of Kentucky, and commissioned on 15 May 1900, Captain Colby M. Chester in ... |
John L. Stevens | ... ount concluded in his report that the overthrow had utilized the aid of the | , United States Minister to Hawaii who ordered the landing of troops from ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... rocities and ethnic cleansings in Nazi-occupied Europe. The Allied leaders, | of the United States, Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom and Joseph S ... |
John Foster Dulles | ... ntments. He accepted their recommendations without exception; they included | and George M. Humphrey with whom he developed his closest relationships, a ... |
Barack Obama | ... . Bush over Democrat John Kerry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat | over Republican John McCain in 2008 |
Elijah Boardman | Boardman Township was founded by | in the late 1780s. It is the only Boardman Township statewide. Though the ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... sion was "firm, final, and unconditional." The eventual Democratic nominee, | , built little by way of a relationship with Kennedy during his primary ca ... |
Seth Read | ... Aaron Burr, his Princeton classmate, off of separate battlefields. Colonel | and his brother, Colonel Joseph Read owned more than half of the land in t ... |
John Kerry | ... ived 58.7% of the vote in Jackson Township (12,451 cast), ahead of Democrat | , who received around 39.9% (8,458 votes), with 21,202 ballots cast among ... |
Dave Kleis | The mayor of St. Cloud is | , who won reelection in 2008 after his only opponent, Ryan Fagan, abandone ... |
Barack Obama | ... 08 after coming back from early reversals, but lost to Democratic candidate | in the general election. He subsequently adopted more orthodox conservativ ... |
Peter Shumlin | ... cember 7, 2010. Vermont joined the compact on April 22, 2011, when Governor | signed that state's bill into law. On August 8, 2011 California joined whe ... |
Claiborne Pell | ... sation against the magician Harry Houdini. A similar event involved Senator | . Pell believed in psychic phenomena. When Randi demonstrated viewing a hi ... |
Eugene McCarthy | ... ed to run against a sitting president of the Democratic party. Only Senator | of Minnesota challenged Johnson as an anti-war candidate in the New Hampsh ... |
Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | received 54.6% of the vote here (3,418 ballots received), outpolling Repub ... |
Sam Ervin | ... to approve and establish a select committee to investigate Watergate, with | named chairman the next day. The hearings held by the Senate Committee, in ... |
Richard Henry Lee | ... 10 Congress passed a resolution, which had been promoted by John Adams and | , calling on colonies without a "government sufficient to the of their aff ... |
Thomas Jefferson Rusk | ... n of the newspaper (in Spanish) is preserved and shown at the local Museum. | was one of the most prominent early Nacogdoches Anglo settlers. A veteran ... |
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas | ... 1988 were forecast to be very competitive and they were. Leftist candidate | , son of Lázaro Cárdenas one of the most beloved Mexican presidents, creat ... |
John Kerry | ... hen 65.7% of Union Country voters voted for George W. Bush, 32.8% voted for | , and 1.5% of voters either voted for a third party candidate or wrote in ... |
Barack Obama | , Republican John McCain received 65% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 33%. This gives Montague Township a Cook PVI of R+19 |
James H. Kyle | To celebrate its distinction as the birthplace of | , Cedarville commemorates Labor Day with , an annual festival including a ... |
Alessandro Manzoni | ... ham Bell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Arthur de Gobineau, Frédéric Mistral, | , Alexandre Herculano, Camilo Castelo Branco and James Cooley Fletcher |
Hiram Bingham | In 1911, explorer | used the city as a base for the expedition in which he rediscovered the ru ... |
Robert Taft | ... became the candidate of the party's moderate eastern establishment; Senator | of Ohio, the longtime leader of the GOP's conservative wing; and Governor ... |
James Buchanan | In January, President | had attempted to resupply the garrison with the Star of the West, but Conf ... |
Thad Cochran | ... f anger that is a loss of control. He is a very controlled person." Senator | , who has known McCain for decades and has battled him over earmarks, expr ... |
Trent Lott | ... tate fairs and performed at several social and political events for Senator | |
Martin Van Buren | ... 30 and was named for United States Secretary of State (and later President) | |
John Rafferty, Jr. | ... by Rep. Mike Vereb) and the 44th State Senate District (represented by Sen. | ) |
John F. Kennedy | After President | was assassinated in , his family and friends discussed how to construct a ... |
Rafael Hernández Colón | ... eral important political figures of the island, including Luis A. Ferré and | , both former governors of Puerto Rico, as well as the childhood town of g ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... of customary international law. At the conference, United States President | and Secretary of State Cordell Hull declared the Good Neighbor Policy, whi ... |
Kenneth McClintock | ... r's great-granddaughter Margaret Hoover and Senate of Puerto Rico President | unveiled a life-sized bronze statue of Hoover at Puerto Rico's Territorial ... |
Robert Taft | ... ve Democrats, mostly from the South, joined with Republicans led by Senator | to create the conservative coalition, which dominated domestic issues in C ... |
Barack Obama | In July 2008 | , then the Democratic presidential candidate, said: "If somebody was sendi ... |
Luis A. Ferré | ... birthplace of several important political figures of the island, including | and Rafael Hernández Colón, both former governors of Puerto Rico, as well ... |
John F. Kennedy | In the early morning of June 12, 1963, just hours after President | 's speech on national television in support of civil rights, Evers pulled ... |
Guglielmo Marconi | The original inventors of radio, such as Nikola Tesla and | , expected it to be used for one-on-one wireless communication tasks where ... |
Barack Obama | ... ith the others being Samuel Tilden, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and | |
Richard Nixon | ... at the Chinese had manipulated him. This attack backfired when US President | announced that he would visit China the following year. His National Secur ... |
Max Cleland | ... usands of American military personnel. The hearings were chaired by Senator | , former VA administrator and Vietnam War veteran |
A. S. Mike Monroney | ... osition were Kefauver, Russell, Barkley, Senator John Sparkman, and Senator | . After narrowing it down to Senator Sparkman and Senator Monroney, Presid ... |
Richard J. Daley | ... (and Humphrey), labor unions, and local party bosses (led by Chicago Mayor | ). The second group consisted of students and intellectuals who were vocif ... |
Jim Gerlach | ... he borough is part of the Sixth Congressional District (represented by Rep. | ), the 150th State House District (represented by Rep. Mike Vereb) and the ... |
Fred Thompson | ... 6, 1973, in front of a live, televised audience, the Chief Minority Counsel | asked Butterfield if he was "aware of the installation of any listening de ... |
Nixon | ... irm, he became a law school professor. In the early 1970s, he served in the | and Ford administrations, first at minor administrative agencies, and then ... |
John Bidwell | The City of Chico was founded in 1860 by | , a member of one of the first wagon trains to reach California in 1843. D ... |
Joe Lieberman | ... , although such incidents have become less frequent over the years. Senator | has made this observation: "It is not the kind of anger that is a loss of ... |
Henry Dodge | ... the U.S. troops tried to track down the British Band. Militia under Colonel | caught up with the British Band on July 21 and defeated them at the Battle ... |
Fran Pavley | ... Hills is located in the 23rd State Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 41st State Assembly District, represented by Democrat Julia B ... |
Tom Cole | ... es are John Sullivan (R-OK-1), Dan Boren (D-OK-2), Frank D. Lucas (R-OK-3), | (R-OK-4), and James Lankford (R-OK-5) |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... t the Axis powers. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and President | were determined not to repeat the mistakes of their predecessors. They met ... |
John Kerry | ... e 19th century. Twentieth century descendants include Massachusetts Senator | and educator Charles William Eliot. The towns of Winthrop, Massachusetts a ... |
John Kerry | ... House of Representatives. The current U.S. senators from Massachusetts are | (D) and Scott P. Brown (R) |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... he Medal around his neck. After receiving the Medal of Honor from President | , then-LT O'Hare was described as "modest, inarticulate, humorous, terribl ... |
John A. Logan | ... ral John Murray, a distinguished citizen of Waterloo, New York, and General | , who helped bring attention to the event nationwide, was likely a factor ... |
Sam Houston | Initially, the new capital thrived. But Lamar's political enemy, | , used two Mexican army incursions to San Antonio as an excuse to move the ... |
Benjamin Harrison | ... e Provisional Government was dealt a huge blow when United States President | , who was supportive of the annexation of Hawaiʻi, was voted out of the Wh ... |
Mike Haridopolos | ... two state senatorial districts, 24 and 25. They are held by Thad Altman and | |
Charles Carroll of Carrollton | ... luence of the Kentucky and Ohio rivers. It was formed in 1838 and named for | , the last living signer of the Declaration of Independence. The populatio ... |
LeAnna Washington | ... p. Brendan F. Boyle) and the 4th State Senate District (represented by Sen. | ) |
Joseph McCarthy | ... d to late 20th century, ranging from the anti-communist crusades of Senator | in the 1950s to the radical antiwar protests at UW-Madison that culminated ... |
James Buchanan | ... bears his name, the Burnside carbine. The Secretary of War under President | , John B. Floyd, contracted with the Burnside Arms Company to equip a larg ... |
Barack Obama | ... of the campaign, Sheen stated in a BBC Two interview that he was supporting | |
Ernest Manning | ... ht to expand its base in the east. Manning, son of longtime Alberta Premier | , gained support partly from the same political constituency as his father ... |
Bill Posey | ... ms, and within Florida's 15th congressional district, which seat is held by | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ecame the first naval aviator to receive the Medal of Honor. With President | looking on, O'Hare's wife Rita placed the Medal around his neck. After rec ... |
Al Gore | ... The trophy was handed to captain Dunga from the hands of the vice-president | . The Brazilian national team dedicated the title to the deceased Brazilia ... |
John Kerry | Dunst supported Democratic candidate | in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Four years later, she supported De ... |
John Kerry | ... enior (Class II) member of the United States Senate, re-elected in 2008, is | . The junior (Class I) senator, elected in 2010, is Scott Brown |
Jimmy Carter | However, in December 1978, U.S. President, | announced that the United States would no longer recognize the ROC as the ... |
Pompey | ... n king Tigranes the Great and their ultimate overthrow by the Roman general | |
Wesley Chesbro | ... rat Noreen Evans, and in the 1st Assembly District, represented by Democrat | . Federally, Clearlake Oaks is located in California's 1st congressional d ... |
Roy Ashburn | ... e Olancha is located in the 18th Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 18th Assembly District, represented by Republican Bill Maze. ... |
Benigno Aquino, Jr. | In the Philippines, the assassination of | triggered the eventual downfall of the 20-year autocratic rule of Presiden ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ason, years later libertarians argued that Hoover's economics were statist. | blasted the Republican incumbent for spending and taxing too much, increas ... |
Franklin Roosevelt | ... lics to supporting repeal led by liberal politicians such as La Guardia and | . She, and they, emphasized that repeal would generate enormous sums of mu ... |
George Mitchell | ... joined fellow former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, and | to found the Bipartisan Policy Center, a non-profit think tank that works ... |
Scott Brown | ... d in 2008, is John Kerry. The junior (Class I) senator, elected in 2010, is | |
John Kerry | ... Republican George W. Bush received 64% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 34%. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McC ... |
Allyson Schwartz | ... rough is part of the Thirteenth Congressional District (represented by Rep. | ), the 170th State House District (represented by Rep. Brendan F. Boyle) a ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in 1960, Johnson was asked by | to be his running mate for the 1960 presidential election |
Mike Thompson | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +10 and is represented by Democrat | |
Verdi | ... adily used in an ordinary funeral service; the requiems of Gossec, Berlioz, | , and Dvořák are essentially dramatic concert oratorios. A counter-reactio ... |
Barack Obama | ... e 2004 U.S. presidential election. Four years later, she supported Democrat | in the 2008 presidential election. Dunst revealed that she supported Obama ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... atic. He became Senate Majority Leader, then fell from power after praising | 's 1948 segregationist Dixiecrat presidential bid |
John McCain | ... John Kerry, who received 34%. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican | received 58% of the vote here, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who receiv ... |
William L. Dayton | ... sery. In 1866, the name was changed from Cross Roads to Dayton, in honor of | , an attorney for the Freehold and Jamesburg Agricultural Railroad. Dayton ... |
Barack Obama | ... aska Governor Sarah Palin for Vice President. They were defeated by Senator | of Illinois and Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. In 2009, Republicans Chris ... |
Ferdinand Marcos | ... triggered the eventual downfall of the 20-year autocratic rule of President | . Aquino, a former Senator and a leading figure of the political oppositio ... |
John McCain | ... idential election, 60.2 percent of Union County voters voted for Republican | , while 38.63 percent voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 3.22 percent of ... |
John Sparkman | ... main candidates for this position were Kefauver, Russell, Barkley, Senator | , and Senator A. S. Mike Monroney. After narrowing it down to Senator Spar ... |
John Slidell | ... the Continent, and French Emperor Napoleon III assured Confederate diplomat | that he would make “direct proposition” to England for joint recognition. ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... was consulted by active Democratic politicians and was especially close to | |
Mackenzie Bowell | ... inister. Two former prime ministers Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott and Sir | served in the 1890s while members of the Senate; both, in their roles as G ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... Harry Truman and that Justice Byron White went skiing with Attorney General | . Scalia stated that he was never alone with Cheney during the trip, the t ... |
Elisha M. Pease | # | , politician and two-term Governor of Texas (elected in 1853 and 1855). Re ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... tates government. It wasn't until later that summer when the new President, | , made use of this power. Deputy Director Horace M. Albright had suggested ... |
Joe Biden | ... esident. They were defeated by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and Senator | of Delaware. In 2009, Republicans Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell were el ... |
Ben Smith | ... t asked Massachusetts Governor Foster Furcolo to name Kennedy family friend | as interim Senator for John's unexpired term, which he did in December 196 ... |
Barack Obama | ... n, Republican John McCain received 58% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 40%. This gives Hampton Township a Cook PVI of R+14 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ve Party candidate Henry A. Wallace, who had served as Vice-President under | . Wallace was running on an anti-lynching, pro-civil rights platform and h ... |
Wesley Chesbro | ... rat Noreen Evans, and in the 1st Assembly District, represented by Democrat | . Federally, Clearlake is located in California's 1st congressional distri ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... Egypt. Convinced that that attack was real, President of the United States | launched nuclear-armed planes targeted against Cairo from a U.S. aircraft ... |
DeWitt Clinton | ... y County, Missouri, United States. The city was named for New York Governor | . The population was 9,311 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of He ... |
Palpatine | ... returned to his command as Rogue Leader to battle against Thrawn, Krennel, | 's clones and lead the team to other battles |
Barack Obama | ... rs voted for Republican John McCain, while 38.63 percent voted for Democrat | and 3.22 percent of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wro ... |
Jim Costa | ... ional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +5 and is represented by Democrat | |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | The administration of President | subjected Mellon to intense investigation of his personal income tax retur ... |
Barack Obama | ... to obtain a majority of the popular vote in a presidential election, until | won about 53% of the vote 32 years later. Carter is one of five Democrats ... |
Bob Dole | ... member of the ACLU"). In 1996, President Bill Clinton seized upon opponent | 's promise to take America back to a simpler time, promising in contrast t ... |
John F. Kennedy | On the morning of Garner's 95th birthday on November 22, 1963, President | called to wish the former Vice President a happy birthday, just hours befo ... |
Mike Thompson | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +10 and is represented by Democrat | . The Konocti School District has one of the few Green Candidates elected ... |
Bob Dole | ... enate Majority Leader in 1996, upon the resignation of presidential nominee | of Kansas |
John Kerry | ... Republican George W. Bush received 69% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 30%. In the 2008 presidential electio |
Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. | In 1991, under Governor | , an Independent, the system was changed to one in which the taxes on empl ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... er taking alternate measures against vision problems: United States Senator | and comedian Drew Carey continued to wear non-prescription glasses after b ... |
Alfredo Lim | The current mayor for the 2010–2013 term is | , who defeated former mayor Lito Atienza in the 2010 election. The city ma ... |
Jim Costa | ... ional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +5 and is represented by Democrat | |
John McCain | , Republican | received 65% of the vote here, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who receiv ... |
Barack Obama | ... size in the 2008 and 2012 elections. 2008 Republican presidential candidate | visited the town twice during his campaign and again while President Augus ... |
Guillermo Padrés Elías | ... ora would not have its first PAN governor until 2009, which the election of | |
Richard Russell | ... gton. In 1952, Helms worked on the presidential campaign of Georgia Senator | . After Russell dropped out of the presidential race, Helms returned to wo ... |
Steve Symms | ... had occurred since the purchase requirement was dropped. When Helms' ally, | of Idaho, proposed to reinstitute the purchase requirement, the motion was ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... elections. In 1964, it was one of two Oregon counties to give a majority to | . The last Democratic candidate to win the county was Franklin D. Roosevel ... |
Richard Nixon | ... the 1968 New Hampshire primary, he ended his bid for reelection. Republican | was elected to succeed him. Historians argue that his presidency marked th ... |
Michele Bachmann | ... ort. St. Cloud is in Minnesota's 6th congressional district, represented by | (R). St. Cloud is partly in Minnesota House of Representatives district 15 ... |
Luigi Facta | ... re intending to restore law and order. The Fascists demanded Prime Minister | 's resignation and that Mussolini be named to the post. Although the Itali ... |
J. William Fulbright | ... . Dever of Massachusetts, Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, and Senator | of Arkansas |
Gloria Romero | ... Jose Hills is located in the 24th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 58th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Charles M. Ca ... |
Bob Dole | ... ement for food stamps. With that position he ran afoul of fellow Republican | , who claimed that the purchase requirement had contributed to fraud and a ... |
David Durenberger | ... e first since Senator Harrison A. Williams (D-NJ) in 1981 (although Senator | (R-MN) pled guilty to a felony more recently, in 1995). Stevens faced a ma ... |
Mike Thompson | ... by Democrat Wesley Chesbro. Federally, Arcata is represented by Congressman | and is located in California's 1st congressional district |
John Kerry | ... Republican George W. Bush received 68% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 31%. In the 2008 presidential electio |
Barack Obama | ... d the Selma to Montgomery marches. In 2008, the county voted to establish a | Day, a legal holiday, every second Monday of November |
Mike Thompson | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +10 and is represented by Democrat | |
John Kerry | ... ently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator, (Democrat) | and junior senator Republican Scott Brown |
George Voinovich | ... tizens, including the former governor of Ohio, Ted Strickland, U.S. Senator | , Bob Greene--the former Chicago Tribune columnist who wrote Be True to Yo ... |
Roger Wicker | ... resigned from the Senate and became a Washington-based lobbyist. Republican | won the 2008 special election to replace him |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ity to Barry Goldwater. The last Democratic candidate to win the county was | in 1936. Although shifting Democratic in the last 12 years John McCain rec ... |
William Cohen | ... good terms. McCain and Hensley were married on May 17, 1980, with Senators | and Gary Hart attending as groomsmen. McCain's children did not attend, an ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... April 26 to mid-June. By 1916, the June 3 birthday of Confederate President | was observed as a state holiday in 10 southern states. Across the South, a ... |
Jesse Jackson | ... e Cube, Ludacris, Dr. Dre, Little Richard, Dick Gregory, MC Hammer, Prince, | , Ice-T, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bootsy Collins, LL Cool J, Lil Wayne, Lenny Krav ... |
Scott Brown | ... r, former United Nations Under-Secretary General and former Indian Minister | ;, Republican United States Senator from Massachusetts; Bill Richardson, D ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... and the riderless horse was Black Jack, who also served in that role during | 's funeral |
Strom Thurmond | ... cember 20, 2002, after significant controversy following comments regarding | 's presidential candidacy, Lott resigned as Senate Minority Leader. In Dec ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... ped rocket him to stardom. In 1950, he performed for music-loving President | in the East room of the White House. Despite his success in the supper-clu ... |
Harrison A. Williams | ... ator to be convicted by a jury in U.S. history, and the first since Senator | (D-NJ) in 1981 (although Senator David Durenberger (R-MN) pled guilty to a ... |
John McCain | , Republican | received 64% of the vote here, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who receiv ... |
Giuseppe Verdi | ... rseillaise" in his 1839–40 setting of a French translation of Heine's poem. | quotes from "La Marseillaise" in his patriotic anthem Hymn of the Nations, ... |
Carl Levin | ... that resolved the U.S. debt ceiling crisis. In November, McCain and Senator | were leaders in efforts to codify in the National Defense Authorization Ac ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... ates Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and | , he promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubri ... |
Gloria Romero | ... ado Heights is located in the 24th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 57th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Edward Hernán ... |
Arthur Meighen | ... he was offered a position in the Cabinet of the Conservative Prime Minister | in 1926 and was offered a seat as a justice in the Supreme Court of Canada |
Barack Obama | , Republican John McCain received 64% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 33%. This gives Fredon Township a Cook PVI of R+19 |
John McCain | ... l election, Barack Obama and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and | and Sarah Palin 46% |
John McCain | ... lin D. Roosevelt in 1936. Although shifting Democratic in the last 12 years | received 55.2% of the county's vote in the 2008 U.S. presidential election ... |
Thad Cochran | ... was also an Ole Miss cheerleader, on the same team with future U.S. Senator | . He married Patricia Thompson on December 27, 1964. The couple has two ch ... |
Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, | and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and John McCain and Sarah P ... |
John Kerry | In the 2004 US presidential campaign, Howard Dean defined | as a "flip-flopper," which was widely reported and repeated by the media, ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... warzenegger married television journalist Maria Shriver, niece of President | , in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The Rev. John Baptist Riordan performed the c ... |
Joe Biden | In the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama and | won 54% of the vote in the city, and John McCain and Sarah Palin 46% |
Hubert Humphrey | ... ma Senator Robert S. Kerr, Governor Paul A. Dever of Massachusetts, Senator | of Minnesota, and Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas |
John F. Kennedy | ... o planned the Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba, which | was left to carry out. |
Scott Brown | ... nate by senior Senator, (Democrat) John Kerry and junior senator Republican | |
Richard M. Johnson | ... governed by Cedar County officials. It was named for the US Vice President | |
John McCain | In the Presidential election of 2008, the party's nominees were Senator | , of Arizona, for President and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for Vice Presi ... |
Barack Obama | ... ipartisan calls for his resignation. Both parties' presidential candidates, | and John McCain, were quick to call for Stevens to stand down. Obama said ... |
Massachusetts Senate | ... Nantucket, as well as a portion of Falmouth. The town is represented in the | as a portion of the Cape and Islands district, which includes all of Marth ... |
Harry Reid | On August 9, 2011, Senate Majority Leader | appointed Murray to co-chair the United States Congress Joint Select Commi ... |
Arturo Toscanini | ... ing" and "Il Canto degli Italiani". In his 1944 film, the Italian conductor | also incorporated "The Internationale" for the Soviet Union and "The Star- ... |
François Mitterrand | ... sign competition was launched in 1982 as the initiative of French president | . Danish architect Johann Otto von Spreckelsen (1929–1987) and Danish engi ... |
Wesley Chesbro | ... rat Noreen Evans, and in the 1st Assembly District, represented by Democrat | . Federally, Middletown is located in California's 1st congressional distr ... |
Warren G. Harding | ... so included in the school district, including Blooming Grove, birthplace of | |
Richard Mentor Johnson | It is named for | , the ninth vice president of the United States |
Dianne Feinstein | ... e named delegates to the White House Conference on Aging, Martin by Senator | and Lyon by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi |
Pompey | ... rful men in Rome: Marcus Licinius Crassus, his sponsor, and Crassus' rival, | . The First Triumvirate ("three men"), had satisfied the interests of thes ... |
Robert F. Stockton | ... " and "Mudville". Captain Weber decided on "Stockton" in honor of Commodore | . Stockton was the first community in California to have a name not of Spa ... |
John Kerry | ... . In 2004, Republican President George W. Bush won the county over Democrat | 59% to 37%. In 2008, however, Democrat Barack Obama won Salt Lake County b ... |
Michele Bachmann | In September 2011, after Republican presidential candidate | repeated an anecdote shared with her that the HPV vaccine causes "mental r ... |
Bob Huff | California State Senate: 29th District | (Republican |
Gary Hart | ... aid he too would have ordered the invasion. Indeed Mondale attacked Senator | , his chief opponent for the Democratic nomination, as isolationist and we ... |
Alfredo Lim | In 1992, | became the mayor, and was known for his anti-crime crusades. When Lim ran ... |
Barack Obama | ... an John Warner. Virginia, which has 13 electoral votes, was won by Democrat | in 2008, after being won by Republican candidates in the previous ten pres ... |
John Sparkman | ... this closed with only 18 vehicles built. With the encouragement of Senator | . the U.S. Army Air Force considered it for a major testing facility, but ... |
Charles W. Fairbanks | ... war. Marysville native Cornelia Cole Fairbanks, wife of U.S. Vice President | , would serve as the President of the Daughters of the American Revolution ... |
John Kerry | In the 2004 presidential election | won 52% of the vote, whereas George W. Bush won 46% of the vote. In the 20 ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | President | authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066, issued February 19, 1 ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... e labor unions and the New Deal's deficit spending. He broke with President | in early 1937 over the issue of enlarging the Supreme Court, and helped de ... |
John McCain | ... ma in the 2008 Presidential election. Obama garnered 56% of the vote, while | received 44% |
Andrew Jackson | The town was named in 1825 for future president | , the commander of American forces at the Battle of New Orleans (1815) and ... |
Rafael Caldera | ... on AD slates. A similar deal had been struck by COPEI in 1968 on behalf of | , promising Miguel Angel Capriles a Senate seat and the right to designate ... |
Jo Byrns | ... ess and industry, famous musicians and singers, and politicians, among them | , Al Gore, Sr., Nathan Bachman, and most notably President Woodrow Wilson. ... |
Frank Keating | ... sident Dick Cheney, former president Clinton, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry, | , Governor of Oklahoma at the time of the bombing, and other political dig ... |
Richard Nixon | A notable event of the 1952 campaign concerned a scandal that emerged when | , Eisenhower's running mate, was accused by several newspapers of receivin ... |
Barack Obama | ... tchell County was the whitest county in the country, at 99.27%, to vote for | in the 2008 Presidential election. Obama garnered 56% of the vote, while J ... |
Gloria J. Romero | California State Senate: 24th District | (Democrat |
John Warner | ... the election of former Governor Mark Warner to replace retiring Republican | . Virginia, which has 13 electoral votes, was won by Democrat Barack Obama ... |
Jaime Lusinchi | ... ats to publishers in exchange for favourable coverage. In 1983, a deal with | 's presidential campaign resulted in four representatives of the Bloque De ... |
John McCain | U.S. Senator | (R-Arizona) won Franklin County with 35.68 percent of the vote. Former Gov ... |
Salvador Allende | ... ion's first in-depth expository look of the September 1973 overthrow of the | government in Chile by military leaders under Augusto Pinochet, produced b ... |
Brad Henry | Vice President Dick Cheney, former president Clinton, Oklahoma Governor | , Frank Keating, Governor of Oklahoma at the time of the bombing, and othe ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... on and received an unexpected boost after the assassination of US President | . As a result, the Coalition easily defeated Labor. Whitlam had hoped Calw ... |
Daniel Webster | ... 1817, though the College continued teaching classes in rented rooms nearby. | , an alumnus of the class of 1801, presented the College's case to the Sup ... |
Walter Mondale | ... , and Dole was chosen. Dole stated during the Vice Presidential debate with | , "I figured it up the other day: If we added up the killed and wounded in ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... l oil reserves were created to ease any future short term shocks. President | started phasing out price controls on petroleum, while he created the Depa ... |
John McCain | ... won nine of these eleven states (for 222 electoral votes), with Republican | taking a combined 49 electoral votes from Texas and Georgia |
Robert La Follette | ... the first half of the 20th century, Wisconsin's politics were dominated by | and his sons, originally of the Republican Party, but later of the revived ... |
Jimmy Walker | ... , a Democrat. In 1929, he lost the election for mayor to incumbent Democrat | by a landslide |
Arturo Toscanini | ... icordi arranged a Roman premiere for the opera, even though this meant that | could not conduct it as Puccini had hoped—Toscanini was fully engaged at L ... |
Pietro Badoglio | On 5 May, Marshal | led Italian troops into Addis Ababa, and Mussolini declared Ethiopia an It ... |
Dianne Feinstein | ... Gary Miller (1975). In 1975 the club endorsed George Moscone for mayor over | . The club changed its name to the Alice B. Toklas Gay and Lesbian Democra ... |
George McGovern | ... e Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs Dole joined liberal Senator | to lower eligibility requirements for federal food stamps, a liberal goal ... |
Massachusetts Senate | ... Nantucket, as well as a portion of Falmouth. The town is represented in the | as a portion of the Cape and Islands district, which includes all of Marth ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... st because of a policy of Indian removal developed by the administration of | . Then, in 1831, Jacob Stem, the founder of Green Springs, bought the land ... |
Barack Obama | ... of the rural counties in Missouri, Franklin County favored John McCain over | in 2008 |
John Broome | ... As of the 2010 census, the population was 200,600. It was named in honor of | , who was lieutenant governor in 1806 when Broome County was established. ... |
William Henry Harrison | ... lle, wrote the "Log Cabin Song." It would inspire the Log Cabin Campaign of | , who would go onto win the Presidential election that year |
Nicholas F. Brady | ... ebruary 1990 after being advised by United States Secretary of the Treasury | , the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the New York Stock Ex ... |
Daniel Webster | ... and United States House of Representatives, such as Massachusetts statesman | . Cabinet members of American presidents include Attorney General Amos T. ... |
Robert Taft | ... he Republican party to counter the candidacy of non-interventionist Senator | . Eisenhower's campaign was a crusade against the Truman administration's ... |
George Moscone | ... r presidents were Jo Daly and Gary Miller (1975). In 1975 the club endorsed | for mayor over Dianne Feinstein. The club changed its name to the Alice B. ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... of Oregon. As of 2010, its population was 203,206. The county is named for | , the seventh president of the United States. There are 11 incorporated ci ... |
Franklin Roosevelt | President | moved the INS from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice in ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... played a major role in his defeat in the 1976 presidential election against | |
Jimmy Carter | ... eign policy towards Latin America remained largely static until election of | to the presidency in 1977 |
John McCain | ... hen he won 48.6 percent of the vote compared to 50.9 percent for Republican | . In 2010, political experts have now dubbed Fort Bend County a battlegrou ... |
John McCain | ... 04 and like many of the rural counties in Missouri, Franklin County favored | over Barack Obama in 2008 |
Mark Hatfield | ... 23,756,000 deer hides), to initiating politicians into their club including | and Thomas E. Dewey during his 1948 presidential campaign. Russian newspap ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... unty was in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson won by a landslide nationwide against | — but only by three percentage points in Klamath County |
Richard Nixon | | (1913-1994) was the 37th President of the United States |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | Then-U.S. Senator | (D-New York) carried Franklin County with 55.83 percent of the vote. Then- ... |
Ted Kennedy | ... its political opponents in the United States, including Senators Helms and | , with the assistance of the CIA and National Security Council. Helms prop ... |
Barack Obama | ... is one of the Democratic-leaning counties in Central Florida. It voted for | 59% to 40% in 2008. However, the county also voted for Republicans Richard ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... ublican county. It was one of only three counties in the state to be won by | in 1964. Along with Lincoln County it is the only county in Washington tha ... |
Greg Walden | ... ane, and in the Oregon State Senate by Republican Doug Whitsett. Federally, | , a Republican, is Klamath County's representative in the United States Ho ... |
Zadok Casey | Mt. Vernon was founded in 1817 by | , who was elected to the State Senate in 1822 and was elected Lieutenant G ... |
John Kerry | ... Barney Frank. The state's senior (Class II) Senator, re-elected in 2008, is | . The other Senator is Scott Brown, elected in 2010. Westport is patrolled ... |
Barack Obama | ... 964, when Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas won his second term. In 2008, Democrat | came very close in heavy voting, when he won 48.6 percent of the vote comp ... |
Lewis Cass | ... ine from 14,684 in 2000. Its county seat is Atlantic. It was named to honor | , who was the 1848 Democratic nominee for President |
John III Sobieski | ... eastern part, lost by the Commonwealth, becoming the Tsardom's dependency. | , fighting protracted wars with the Ottoman Empire, revived the Commonweal ... |
Scott Brown | ... in the United States Senate by senior Senator John Kerry and junior Senator | |
John McCain | ... election, however, Barack Obama won 69% of the vote in Agoura Hills, while | only won 29% of the vote. Overall, Agoura Hills is perhaps the most libera ... |
Massachusetts Senate | ... Nantucket, as well as a portion of Falmouth. The town is represented in the | as a portion of the Cape and Islands district, which includes all of Marth ... |
Richard Nixon | ... that were savage, biting satires of politicians such as Lyndon Johnson and | , the Vietnam War, the Cold War and the War on Drugs |
Bill Bolling | ... of Delegates, and a majority of the Senate based on the Lieutenant Governor | as the tie-breaker |
Barack Obama | ... independently from US-led NATO forces. The administration of U.S. President | announced in 2009 that it would increase the number of Afghan troops and p ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... g defeated Democrats that year was McFarland, who lost to then-little-known | , Johnson's future presidential opponent |
John Kerry | ... etts is currently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator | and junior Senator Scott Brow |
Lyndon Johnson | ... gressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the county was | in 1964, although Bill Clinton and Barack Obama won pluralities in 1992 an ... |
Richard Nixon | Following Eisenhower's nomination, the convention chose young Senator | of California as Eisenhower's running mate; it was felt that Nixon's crede ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... árd prepared and Albert Einstein signed the famous letter warning President | of the probability that the Nazis were planning to build an atomic bomb. B ... |
Jesse Helms | ... the late 1980s Kennedy and Hatch staged a prolonged battle against Senator | to provide funding to combat the AIDS epidemic and provide treatment for l ... |
Ben Nighthorse Campbell | ... ian tribe. It was named for their nineteenth-century leader, Chief Ignacio. | , a retired U.S. Senator, lives in the town area |
Warren G. Harding | ... cal Area (as defined by the United States Census Bureau in 2003). President | was a native of Marion. The current administration is led by Mayor Scott S ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... idate in last 48 years. The last Democratic candidate to win the county was | in 1936. The Republican candidate has won by more than 13% in every Presid ... |
Doug Whitsett | ... Bill Garrard and Mike McLane, and in the Oregon State Senate by Republican | . Federally, Greg Walden, a Republican, is Klamath County's representative ... |
George Allen | ... ected to the U.S. Senate from Virginia. His election opponent, then senator | , raised the 1979 article as a campaign issue, depicting Webb as being opp ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... has carried Fort Bend County in the presidential election since 1964, when | of Texas won his second term. In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama came very clo ... |
Barack Obama | ... nt Phil Angelides got over 34%. In the 2008 presidential election, however, | won 69% of the vote in Agoura Hills, while John McCain only won 29% of the ... |
Richard Nixon | ... heek comment from Milton Friedman, a comment later echoed by U.S. President | , that "We are all Keynesians now". The article described the exceptionall ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... ter Stapleton (Donna Hanover), a Christian activist and sister of President | , seeks out Flynt and urges him to give his life to Jesus. Flynt seems mov ... |
Richard Nixon | ... e favored stimulus resulting in an expansion of the money supply. President | 's wage and price controls were abandoned. The federal oil reserves were c ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... es from 1937 to 1971. Black was nominated to the Supreme Court by President | and confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 63 to 13. (6 Democratic Senators ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... , the Chairman of the DNC. In 1968, O'Brien was appointed by Vice President | to serve as the national director of Humphrey's presidential campaign and, ... |
Guglielmo Marconi | ... h the now-famous activities launched by inventors Alexander Graham Bell and | |
John Kerry | ... sachusetts is currently represented in the United States Senate by Senators | and Scott Brown |
Edmund Muskie | ... nly the Democrats don't go too far left," he had insisted. Johnson had felt | would be more likely to defeat Nixon; however, he declined an invitation t ... |
Barack Obama | On October 25, 2010, the 44th President of the United States, | , visited Woonsocket, to showcase his administration's Small Business Admi ... |
Mark Warner | ... The party took both U.S. Senate seats with the election of former Governor | to replace retiring Republican John Warner. Virginia, which has 13 elector ... |
Marcus Licinius Crassus | ... gure of Julius Caesar. Caesar reconciled the two more powerful men in Rome: | , his sponsor, and Crassus' rival, Pompey. The First Triumvirate ("three m ... |
Oregon State Senate | ... epresentatives by two Republicans, Bill Garrard and Mike McLane, and in the | by Republican Doug Whitsett. Federally, Greg Walden, a Republican, is Klam ... |
Thomas J. Walsh | ... day of Francis McDonnell’s disappearance, Richmond County District Attorney | announced his intention to seek an indictment against Fish for the boy’s m ... |
Émile Littré | ... ed the election of agnostic intellectuals. Dupanloup resigned in 1875 after | , an agnostic, was elected to the Academy |
Phil Gramm | ... . Senate campaign; the Senate seat was won by the Republican primary winner | |
Massachusetts Senate | ... erkshire County, as well as the westernmost towns in Hampden County. In the | , the town is represented by the Berkshire, Hampshire and Franklin distric ... |
Zebulon Baird Vance | ... officially recognized as Zebulon, North Carolina. The town was named after | , the Governor of North Carolina during the American Civil War. The first ... |
DeWitt Clinton | ... sus, the population was 75,382. It is named after early American politician | . The county seat is St. Johns |
Tom Daschle | ... ity leader of the Senate today." He also described former Democratic Leader | of South Dakota as trustworthy. He also reveals that President George W. B ... |
Richard Nixon | After US President | made his famous 1972 visit to China, a wave of exchanges took place betwee ... |
Joseph McCarthy | In return, the Democrats criticized Senator | and other GOP conservatives as "fearmongers" who were recklessly trampling ... |
William F. Knowland | ... wever, Stevens was favored by Attorney General Herbert Brownell, by Senator | of California, and by the Republican National Committee, (Alaska itself ha ... |
Ernest McFarland | ... 51, Johnson was chosen as Senate Majority Whip under a new Majority Leader, | of Arizona, and served from 1951 to 1953 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... rmers. The RFC had minimal impact at the time, but was adopted by President | and greatly expanded as part of his New Deal |
John C. Frémont | Even the Governor of the Arizona Territory, | , reported after the gunfight, "Many of the very best law-abiding and peac ... |
Jim Webb | ... 2006, both parties have seen success. In the 2006 Senate election, Democrat | won on a populist platform over the Republican incumbent following a very ... |
John Kerry | ... dominated by the Democratic Party in national elections. In 2004, Democrat | received over 70 percent of the vote, and Republican George W. Bush receiv ... |
Scott Brown | ... urrently represented in the United States Senate by Senators John Kerry and | |
Al Gore | ... luded Ishmael Beah, author of "", 45th Vice President of the United States, | , Economist and Nobel Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, author and columnist, ... |
Ben Nelson | ... rict Method in Nebraska, but those bills were vetoed by Democratic Governor | |
Richard Nixon | ... iety. In 1972, at the peak of the Sino-Soviet split, Mao and Zhou Enlai met | in Beijing to establish relations with the United States. In the same year ... |
John Olver | ... of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by | of Amherst since June 1991. Massachusetts is currently represented in the ... |
Phil Gramm | ... omination against underdog candidates such as the more conservative Senator | of Texas and more moderate Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. However ... |
Charles Curtis | ... American to have dined at the White House, with Theodore Roosevelt in 1901. | , the nation's first Native American Vice President, was from the Kaw trib ... |
Barack Obama | ... ublican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin over the Democratic ticket of | and Joe Biden. In Canfield City, McCain/Palin received 2,470 votes (52.16% ... |
Jim Nielsen | ... ict. The 3rd district is represented by Dan Logue (R-Chico), and the 2nd by | (R-Richvale) in the California State Assembly. All of Butte County falls w ... |
Hubert Humphrey | ... ennedy" coalition he had formed with Adlai Stevenson, Stuart Symington, and | , Johnson received 409 votes on the only ballot at the Democratic conventi ... |
Calvin Coolidge | ... the name changed to its current name, The World Almanac and Book of Facts. | 's father read from The World Almanac when he swore his son into office. S ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... gressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the county was | in 1976 |
Happy Chandler | ... dent of the PCL, took on baseball commissioners Kenesaw Mountain Landis and | at first to get better equity from the major leagues, then to form a third ... |
Jeff Denham | ... al district, which has a Cook PVI of R +10 and is represented by Republican | |
John F. Kennedy | ... he swore his son into office. Since then, photos have shown that Presidents | and Bill Clinton have also used The World Almanac as a resource |
Arlen Specter | ... the more conservative Senator Phil Gramm of Texas and more moderate Senator | of Pennsylvania. However populist Pat Buchanan upset Dole in the early New ... |
Lewis Cass | Cass County is named in honor of | , a Michigan senator and an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the pres ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... lay and film are a one-man show about former President of the United States | . Give 'em Hell, Harry! stars James Whitmore and was directed by Steve Bin ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... hnson has also appointed staff to this position. Initially, Gerald Ford and | tried to operate without a Chief of Staff but both eventually appointed on ... |
Al D'Amato | ... rigorous and highly disciplined school that has produced such graduates as | , U.S. Senator |
John F. Kennedy | ... ts, then adding two 40mm and four twin .50 cal (12.7 mm) mounts. Lieutenant | was the first commanding officer of PT-59 after its conversion. On Novembe ... |
Jeff Merkley | ... 9,185). For the Senatorial race that year, it was much closer with Democrat | winning 48.8% of the vote (111,367); Republican Gordon H. Smith won 46.5% ... |
John Edwards | ... eit exurban county. Although he withdrew from the race, former U.S. Senator | (D-North Carolina) still received 2.96 percent of the vote in Franklin Cou ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... by Kakadu National Park to encourage biodiversity. In 1937, U.S. President | initiated a nationwide fire prevention campaign, highlighting the role of ... |
Barack Obama | ... gton County generally leans Democratic but can be closely divided. In 2008, | won with 59.8% of the popular vote (141,544 total votes) to Republican Joh ... |
Richard Nixon | ... Senator. Weicker was known as a liberal Republican. He broke with President | during Watergate and successfully ran for governor in 1990 as an independe ... |
Joe Biden | ... John McCain and Sarah Palin over the Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and | . In Canfield City, McCain/Palin received 2,470 votes (52.16%) with Obama/ ... |
Warren G. Harding | Marion is best known as the hometown and burial location of President | and First Lady Florence Harding. It is also the birthplace and childhood h ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ident realized his position was actually closer to the Republican candidate | . Personal correspondences between the President and some in the Republica ... |
John McCain | In the 2008 elections | received 66.32% of the county's vote. Meanwhile Republican nominee for gov ... |
Paul Wellstone | ... he city briefly entered the national news in October 2002 when U.S. Senator | , along with seven others, died in a plane crash, two miles away from the ... |
Joe Baca | ... action committee, along with 5 other members, because the caucus chairman, | , authorized political contributions to members of his family who were run ... |
Bill Brock | ... a senator, he did not hire a full time campaign manager, former TN Senator | , until the fall of 1987, well after Bush's team had been in place. Despit ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | Black was an ardent supporter of President | and the New Deal. In particular, he was an outspoken advocate of the Judic ... |
Prescott Bush | ... ore Weicker, the last Republican to represent Connecticut in the Senate was | , the father of former President George H.W. Bush and the grandfather of f ... |
John F. Kennedy | Sheen has played U.S. President | (in the miniseries Kennedy — The Presidential Years); Attorney General Rob ... |
Salmon P. Chase | ... h alumni have served as justices on the Supreme Court of the United States: | and Levi Woodbury. Eugene Norman Veasey (class of 1954) served as the Chie ... |
Everett Dirksen | ... was one of the most bitter and emotional in American history. When Senator | of Illinois, a Taft supporter, pointed at Dewey on the convention floor an ... |
Daniel Inouye | ... se American members of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, among them Senator | . In 2005, President George W. Bush presented the Medal of Honor to Jewish ... |
Dino Rossi | ... ived 66.32% of the county's vote. Meanwhile Republican nominee for governor | received 69.83% of the county's vote. They also gave Republican representa ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... ontests held after IA, NH, MN, and SD. Despite a key endorsement by Senator | , one of many Republican senators who supported their leader, Dole was def ... |
Benjamin Harrison | ... celebrated the 300th anniversary of his landing in the New World. President | called upon the people of the United States to celebrate Columbus Day on t ... |
John McCain | ... both Canfield City and Canfield Township supported the Republican ticket of | and Sarah Palin over the Democratic ticket of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. ... |
Stuart Symington | ... failure of the "Stop Kennedy" coalition he had formed with Adlai Stevenson, | , and Hubert Humphrey, Johnson received 409 votes on the only ballot at th ... |
Hilda Solis | According to Loretta Sanchez, Linda Sanchez, and | , Baca also called Loretta Sanchez "a whore" while speaking to other lawma ... |
Jeff Denham | ... al district, which has a Cook PVI of R +10 and is represented by Republican | |
John F. Kennedy | ... somewhat in 2000 with Thirteen Days, in which he portrayed a top adviser to | . The western Open Range, which he directed and starred in, received criti ... |
Mahlon Pitney | ... etition. In International News Service v. Associated Press of 1918, Justice | wrote for the majority in ruling that INS was infringing on AP's "lead-tim ... |
Levi Woodbury | ... as justices on the Supreme Court of the United States: Salmon P. Chase and | . Eugene Norman Veasey (class of 1954) served as the Chief Justice of Dela ... |
Barack Obama | ... ) carried Franklin County with 55.83 percent of the vote. Then-U.S. Senator | (D-Illinois) received 40.28 percent of the vote from Franklin County Democ ... |
Jim Nielsen | ... n Doug LaMalfa, and in the 2nd Assembly District, represented by Republican | . Federally, Gerber-Las Flores is located in California's 2nd congressiona ... |
Carol Moseley Braun | In a widely publicized incident on July 22, 1993, | , the first black woman in the Senate and the only black Senator at the ti ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... nedy (in the miniseries Kennedy — The Presidential Years); Attorney General | in the television special The Missiles of October; White House Chief of St ... |
Jimmy Carter | #Redirect | |
Jon Corzine | ... Chris Christie received 66.8% of the vote (11,564 cast), ahead of Democrat | , who received around 26.7% (4,620 votes), with 17,315 ballots cast among ... |
Vito Volterra | ... icular case of composition products considered by the Italian mathematician | in 1913 |
Richard Blumenthal | ... ocrat Jim Himes in the Congressional Election in 2008. Joseph Lieberman and | are Connecticut's U.S. senators. The junior Blumenthal is a Democrat while ... |
Russ Feingold | ... islature. Republican Ron Johnson defeated Democratic incumbent U.S. Senator | , and Republicans took two previously Democratic-held House seats, creatin ... |
John Kerry | ... etts is currently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator | and junior Senator Scott Brown |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... uch as releasing recent income tax forms, became expected. Presidents since | had recorded many of their conversations, but after Watergate, this practi ... |
John Kerry | ... y William Keating. The state's senior member of the United States Senate is | , who became the senior Senator following the death of Senator Ted Kennedy ... |
Wade Hampton | ... reach Ewell's flank by taking his three best brigades (those of Brig. Gen. | , Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, and Col. John R. Chambliss, the latter replacin ... |
Chris Buttars | ... s 3rd congressional district of the United States House of Representatives. | , a Republican, represents South Jordan as part of the 10th Utah Senate Di ... |
John Kerry | ... % of Wheeler Country voters voted for George W. Bush, while 27.8% voted for | , and 2.7% of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in ... |
Andrew Johnson | ... took an erratic course, mostly favoring the Radicals and opposing president | in 1865–66. In 1867 Greeley was one of 21 men who signed a $100,000 bond f ... |
Scott Brown | ... in the United States Senate by senior Senator John Kerry and junior Senator | |
Rick Santorum | ... %) for John Kerry. In 2008 John McCain received 62.7% of the vote. In 2006, | and both had significant victories in Tioga County despite their defeats s ... |
Joseph B. Kershaw | ... alry. His defense at Laurel Hill, also directing the infantry of Brig. Gen. | , skillfully delayed the advance of the Federal army for nearly 5 critical ... |
Jeff Denham | ... al district, which has a Cook PVI of R +10 and is represented by Republican | |
Ted Kennedy | ... is John Kerry, who became the senior Senator following the death of Senator | on August 24, 2009. The junior Senator is Scott Brown, who won the special ... |
Gnaeus Ahenobarbus | ... suls of that year had determined to conceal the extent of Antony's demands. | seems to have wished to keep quiet; but Gaius Sosius on 1 January made an ... |
John Gordner | ... d in the State House by a conservative Democrat in the 109th district until | changed parties to Republican in 2001. He was elected to the State Senate ... |
Richard Nixon | ... (based on the "Hibakusha" mix) included an introductory cut-up monologue by | taken from an ad from his 1960 US Presidential campaign ("No.. firm diplom ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... terest afterward, feeling that since the country had accomplished President | 's goal of landing on the moon by the end of the 1960s, there was no need ... |
Joe Schiavoni | ... re Canfield is located in the 33rd Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 59th State Representative District, represented by Democrat R ... |
Scott Brown | ... the death of Senator Ted Kennedy on August 24, 2009. The junior Senator is | , who won the special election in 2010 following Ted Kennedy's death |
Jim Nielsen | ... n Doug LaMalfa, and in the 2nd Assembly District, represented by Republican | . Federally, Mineral is located in California's 2nd congressional district ... |
John Kerry | ... ate. Al Gore carried the presidential vote in 2000 by only 5,700 votes, and | won Wisconsin in 2004 by 11,000 votes. However, in 2008, Barack Obama carr ... |
Leland Yee | ... Hillsborough is located in the 8th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 19th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jerry Hill. F ... |
Barack Obama | ... 2010, the 22 year old ban was lifted after having been signed by President | on October 30, 2009 |
Richard Nixon | ... ay that the Kennedy campaign was desperate to win the 1960 election against | and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., and needed Johnson on the ticket to help carry ... |
John III Sobieski | ... s. Following the successful defense of Vienna in 1683 led by King of Poland | , a series of campaigns resulted in the return of all of Hungary to Austri ... |
Andrew Johnson | ... ch events as the process of Reconstruction and the impeachment of President | |
Louis Lucien Bonaparte | ... ed a particular interest about the Basque Language after meeting the Prince | in London. He started his academic work on Basque in 1852 |
Jefferson Davis | ... gned a $100,000 bond for the release of former president of the Confederacy | . The move was controversial, and many Northerners thought Greeley a trait ... |
Oscar Underwood | ... the United States Senate from Alabama, following the retirement of Senator | . Since the Democratic Party dominated Alabama politics at the time, he ea ... |
Barack Obama | ... es, and John Kerry won Wisconsin in 2004 by 11,000 votes. However, in 2008, | carried the state by 381,000 votes and with 56%. Republicans had a strongh ... |
John McCain | ... column in 2008, with Barack Obama receiving 49.4% of the vote to 48.7% for | . In 2011 the GOP won a majority on the county commissioners board |
John McCain | ... sh received 12,019 votes (68%) to 5,437 votes (31%) for John Kerry. In 2008 | received 62.7% of the vote. In 2006, Rick Santorum and both had significan ... |
Gloria Negrete McLeod | ... ure Ontario is located in the 32nd Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 61st Assembly District, represented by Democrat Norma Torres. ... |
Barack Obama | ... 2004. Cambria returned to the Democratic Presidential column in 2008, with | receiving 49.4% of the vote to 48.7% for John McCain. In 2011 the GOP won ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... McCain - a difference of 296 votes. It was the first time since 1964, when | was the Democratic candidate, that Salt Lake County had voted for a Democr ... |
Horace Mann | ... ponents such as Rebecca Smith Pollard, some American educators, prominently | , argued that phonics should not be taught at all. This led to the commonl ... |
Massachusetts Senate | ... s northern Berkshire County, as well as portions of Franklin County. In the | , the town is represented by the Berkshire, Hampshire and Franklin distric ... |
James Eastland | Doddsville was the hometown of longtime United States Senator | |
John Kerry | ... n 2004, George W. Bush received 12,019 votes (68%) to 5,437 votes (31%) for | . In 2008 John McCain received 62.7% of the vote. In 2006, Rick Santorum a ... |
Joe Baca | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +13 and is represented by Democrat | |
Philip Schuyler | ... was formed in 1825 out of Pike and Fulton Counties. It is named in honor of | , member of the Continental Congress and Senator from New York |
Gordon H. Smith | ... with Democrat Jeff Merkley winning 48.8% of the vote (111,367); Republican | won 46.5% of the vote (106,114) |
Lewis F. Linn | ... ty is a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is named in honor of | , a U.S. Senator from Missouri who advocated the American occupation of th ... |
Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire | ... Paris, for Auguste Blanqui, but flatly refused and his personal secretary, | , declared: "The hostages! The hostages! too bad for them (tant pis pour e ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... a reversal from the policy of détente, which began in 1979 under President | following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Reagan then ordered a massiv ... |
François Mitterrand | ... opposition from both sides of the spectrum: from the newly unified left of | , and from a rising Jacques Chirac, who resurrected Gaullism on a right-wi ... |
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. | ... vote totals. Eisenhower's managers, led by Dewey and Massachusetts Senator | , accused Taft of "stealing" delegate votes in Southern states such as Tex ... |
John Kerry | ... 3 the hospital was the birthplace of 2004 Democratic presidential candidate | . Decommissioned in 1999, the facility is part of the Anschutz Medical Cam ... |
John C. Frémont | ... -day Saints in the Utah Territory, and a close friend of Arizona's governor | . Virgil and Morgan remained bedridden throughout the trial and did not te ... |
Rick Santorum | ... . received 51% of its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator | and Ed Rendell received 50.6% of the vote against Lynn Swann |
Barack Obama | In September 2010, President | informed Congress that the State of Emergency in effect since September 14 ... |
Lamar Alexander | ... Hampshire primary, with Dole finishing second and former Tennessee governor | finishing third. Publisher Steve Forbes also ran and broadcast a stream of ... |
Bill Bradley | ... e tax base, eliminate many deductions, and reduce rates. In 1983, Democrats | and Dick Gephardt had offered a proposal to clean up/broaden the tax base; ... |
Dianne Feinstein | U.S. Senate: California | (Democrat |
Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. | Lieberman's predecessor, | , was the last Connecticut Republican to serve as Senator. Weicker was kno ... |
John Kerry | ... ge W. Bush in 2000, but Bush carried it with 50.8% of the vote to 48.7% for | in 2004. Cambria returned to the Democratic Presidential column in 2008, w ... |
John Kerry | ... George W. Bush received 55.2% of the vote (14,069 cast), ahead of Democrat | , who received around 43.0% (10,951 votes), with 25,480 ballots cast among ... |
Barack Obama | ... , Wisconsin voted for the Democratic presidential nominee, Illinois Senator | . Obama captured 56% of the vote statewide, with the urban centers of Milw ... |
Fran Pavley | ... goura Hills is located in the 23rd Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 41st Assembly District, represented by Democrat Julia Brownle ... |
Daniel Webster | ... d in the early 20th century from relative obscurity. Dartmouth alumni, from | to the many donors in the 19th and 20th centuries, have been famously invo ... |
Barack Obama | ... ty voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 34.61% voted for Democrat | and 4.06% of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a ... |
Barack Obama | ... the county over Democrat John Kerry 59% to 37%. In 2008, however, Democrat | won Salt Lake County by an extremely narrow margin, 48.17% to 48.09, over ... |
Barbara Boxer | U.S. Senate: California | (Democrat |
John Olver | ... of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by | of Amherst since June 1991. Massachusetts is currently represented in the ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... ons from other world leaders, including Lord Beaverbrook, Yasser Arafat and | . The complete soundtrack to the extended video was eventually released as ... |
Johnson | ... ek re-election in 2002. His Senate seat was won by Elizabeth Dole, a former | , Nixon, and Ford presidential advisor that served as Reagan's Transportat ... |
Paul Joseph James Martin | Martin was born in Windsor, Ontario. His father, | , a Franco-Ontarian of Irish and French descent, served thirty-three years ... |
John McCain | ... Lake County by an extremely narrow margin, 48.17% to 48.09, over Republican | - a difference of 296 votes. It was the first time since 1964, when Lyndon ... |
Joseph Doria | ... in a Special Election in November 2008 to fill out the term of former Mayor | , who was appointed by then-Governor Jon Corzine to head the New Jersey De ... |
Jackie Speier | ... ict, which has a Cook PVI of D +22 and is currently represented by Democrat | . However, of the town's 6,849 registered voters, 42% are registered as Re ... |
John McCain | ... presidential election, 61.33% of Wheeler County voters voted for Republican | , while 34.61% voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 4.06% of voters either ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... s death came just a little less than a week after Michael Kennedy, a son of | , died in a similar skiing accident in Aspen, Colorado. After Bono's death ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... ormed to oppose the Diem administration. The United States, under President | sent advisors and a great deal of financial support to aid the ARVN in com ... |
Strom Thurmond | ... efore the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August, 1963, Senator | railed against Rustin as a "Communist, draft-dodger, and homosexual," and ... |
Russ Feingold | ... ames Sensenbrenner, Jr.; prominent Democrats include Senators Herb Kohl and | , and Congressman David Obey |
Jimmy Carter | ... t Knox until 1978, when it was returned to the nation by order of President | . It has been enshrined in the Hungarian parliament building in Budapest s ... |
Philip Hart | ... Creek, Michigan (where Dole met future fellow politicians Daniel Inouye and | ). His right arm was paralyzed; Dole often carried a pen in his right hand ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... eacher" urban legend supposes the town is named after, as well as President | (President from 1829–1837) after whom the town's officials say it is actua ... |
Richard Nixon | President | dispatched more bombers in Operation Linebacker to provide air support for ... |
Frank Lautenberg | ... enger rail initiatives, notably his 2006 bipartisan introduction, with Sen. | of New Jersey, of legislation to provide 80 percent federal matching grant ... |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | President | found Johnson to be a welcome ally and conduit for information, particular ... |
John McCain | ... and Republicans, the county trends Republican in statewide elections. While | received 51.6% of its vote to 47.1% for Barack Obama, this was a far-close ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... thiest families in the nation. His elder siblings included John F. Kennedy, | , and Eunice Kennedy Shriver. John asked to be the newborn's godfather, a ... |
Daniel Inouye | ... ospital in Battle Creek, Michigan (where Dole met future fellow politicians | and Philip Hart). His right arm was paralyzed; Dole often carried a pen in ... |
Oregon State Senate District 29 | ... rict 57 which is currently represented by Greg Smith. It is also located in | , represented by David Nelson. Both Smith and Nelson are registered Republ ... |
Chris Dodd | ... want to commit to anything long-term. He often caroused with fellow Senator | ; twice in 1985 they were in drunken incidents in Washington restaurants, ... |
Herb Kohl | ... ngressman F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.; prominent Democrats include Senators | and Russ Feingold, and Congressman David Obey |
Homer E. Capehart | From 1959 to 1963 Vance Hartke and | were the U.S. Senators for Indiana, both from Pike County |
Barack Obama | ... ifference of 552 votes. In 2008, Republican John McCain won 51% to Democrat | 's 46% and each of the three state row office winners carried Washington C ... |
Barack Obama | ... Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and | all of Irish descent. Other famous visitors to the Áras an Uachtaráin have ... |
Al Gore | ... in 2008. Cambria County is one of Pennsylvania's most competitive counties. | received 50.3% of the county vote to 46.4% for George W. Bush in 2000, but ... |
Barack Obama | ... tewide elections. While John McCain received 51.6% of its vote to 47.1% for | , this was a far-closer margin than the 20 points that George W. Bush carr ... |
Vance Hartke | From 1959 to 1963 | and Homer E. Capehart were the U.S. Senators for Indiana, both from Pike C ... |
Philander C. Knox | ... rding to the 1911 record of events by the U.S. State Department, under Sec. | , the Declaration was transposed on paper, adopted by the Continental Cong ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... s and sent them by steamboat to Jefferson Barracks, escorted by Lieutenants | and Robert Anderson |
David Nelson | ... mith. It is also located in Oregon State Senate District 29, represented by | . Both Smith and Nelson are registered Republicans |
Indiana Senate | Boone County is part of Indiana's 4th congressional district, | districts 21 and 23, and Indiana House of Representatives districts 28, 38 ... |
Jim Nielsen | ... n Doug LaMalfa, and in the 2nd Assembly District, represented by Republican | . Federally, Greenview is located in California's 2nd congressional distri ... |
Joe Simitian | ... ure, Soquel is located in the 11th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 27th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Bill Monning. ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... first was Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 run as a Progressive and the second was | in 1964. In 2004, George W. Bush received 12,019 votes (68%) to 5,437 vote ... |
Joe Simitian | ... Lake Hills is located in the 11th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 21st Assembly District, represented by Democrat Rich Gordon. ... |
Bill Frist | ... mber 20, 2002, effective at the start of the next session, January 3, 2003. | of Tennessee was later elected to the leadership position. In the book Fre ... |
Salvador Allende | ... da"). He supported the Unidad Popular ("Popular Unity") coalition candidate | for the presidency of Chile, taking part in campaigning, volunteer politic ... |
John Kerry | ... on 53% of the vote and Republican George W. Bush won 44%. In 2004, Democrat | received 50.14% of the vote and Bush received 49.57% a difference of 552 v ... |
Al Gore | While serving in the Army, | was stationed at Fort Rucker before his five-month deployment in the Vietn ... |
Indiana Senate | Lawrence County is part of Indiana's 4th congressional district | ;district 44; and Indiana House of Representatives districts 62 and 65 |
John F. Kennedy | ... d one of the wealthiest families in the nation. His elder siblings included | , Robert F. Kennedy, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver. John asked to be the newb ... |
Elisha M. Pease | ... Texas is a namesake of Enfield, Connecticut, largely named by the family of | former governor of Texas who was born in Enfield, and whose great-great gr ... |
Kenneth Keating | ... nship. After Meir made her decision, at 10:15 am she met with US ambassador | in order to inform the United States that Israel did not intend to preempt ... |
John Edwards | ... arlie Rose, where he debated Senator and future Vice-Presidential candidate | |
Paul Cellucci | ... However the agreement did not alter either country's basic legal position. | , the American ambassador to Canada, in 2005 suggested to Washington that ... |
John McCain | ... ote and Bush received 49.57% a difference of 552 votes. In 2008, Republican | won 51% to Democrat Barack Obama's 46% and each of the three state row off ... |
Douglas McKay | ... n the Department of the Interior, was promoted by Secretary of the Interior | to the Secretary's office. Bennett successfully lobbied McKay to replace h ... |
Fred Thompson | ... Pundits credited the third-place finisher, Tennessee's former U.S. Senator | , with drawing votes from Huckabee in South Carolina, thereby giving a nar ... |
Richard Nixon | ... d to the creation of the modern National Park Service. Republican President | was responsible for establishing the Environmental Protection Agency in 19 ... |
Barack Obama | ... This has made Loudoun more competitive. Nevertheless, after giving Senator | nearly 54% of its presidential vote in 2008, the county shifted back to th ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... struction of a helipad) to accommodate the President. When Attorney General | advised his brother to sever his ties to Sinatra because of the entertaine ... |
Richard Nixon | ... was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972 by the President of the United States, | and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leon ... |
Henry Dodge | ... the war, Congress created the Mounted Ranger Battalion under the command of | , which was expanded to the 1st Cavalry Regiment in 1833 |
Franklin Roosevelt | ... or a Jewish state. However, it was not until January 1944 that US President | established the War Refugee Board, which achieved some success in saving E ... |
Herb Kohl | In the United State Senate Wisconsin is represented by Ron Johnson and | . Wisconsin is divided into eight congressional districts |
Jackie Speier | ... gressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +22, represented by Democrat | |
Senator Orrin Hatch | ... federate flag, Helms ran into Moseley Braun in an elevator. Helms turned to | and said, "Watch me make her cry. I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to ... |
William Henry Harrison | ... the Log Cabin which reached 90,000 subscribers nationwide, and helped elect | president on the Whig ticket. In 1841 he merged his papers into the New Yo ... |
Bob Casey Jr. | ... ee row-office statewide winners carried Columbia in 2008. In 2006, Democrat | received 51% of its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator ... |
Nancy Johnson | ... an and local Democratic House candidate Chris Murphy who defeated incumbent | . In the 2008 Presidential election, the town's voters supported Democrat ... |
Joe Lieberman | ... port to Republican Governor M. Jodi Rell, independent U.S. Senate candidate | and local Democratic House candidate Chris Murphy who defeated incumbent N ... |
Tom McClintock | ... nty is represented in California's 4th congressional district by Republican | |
Lamar Alexander | ... hip position in the Senate, when he was named Minority Whip after defeating | of Tennessee 24-23 |
Horace Mann | ... school system. He vigorously attacked progressive school reformers such as | and John Dewey and argued for the dismantling of the state's influence in ... |
Mick Mulvaney | ... arolina's . As of the 2010 House elections, it is represented by Republican | , who comes from neighboring Lancaster County. The district was one of the ... |
Al Gore | ... trended Republican at the national level in recent years. In 2000, Democrat | won 53% of the vote and Republican George W. Bush won 44%. In 2004, Democr ... |
Barack Obama | ... r the nomination, McCain's focus shifted toward the general election, while | and Hillary Rodham Clinton fought a prolonged battle for the Democratic no ... |
Marozia | ... d been ruled by the so-called "pornocracy" of Roman noblewomen Theodora and | |
John H. Chafee | ... in Hartford, Connecticut, and the second at Watertown, Massachusetts.) The | Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor retraces the history of ... |
Lucius Cornelius Sulla | Florence was established by | in 80 BC as a settlement for his veteran soldiers and was named originally ... |
William Seward | ... newspaper, the Jeffersonian, which reached 15,000 circulation. Whig leader | found him "rather unmindful of social usages, yet singularly clear, origin ... |
Joe Simitian | ... Ben Lomond is located in the 11th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 27th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Bill Monning. ... |
Barack Obama | ... on. In the 2008 Presidential election, the town's voters supported Democrat | with 8,177 votes over Republican John McCain with 6,839 votes |
Bob Huff | ... ino Hills is located in the 29th Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 60th Assembly District, represented by Republican Curt Hagman ... |
Riley Bartholomew | ... city with business and commerce not far away. One of the first settlers was | , a former General in the Ohio Militia who became a Richfield Justice of t ... |
William C. Feazel | ... er her death in 1999, Lallage Feazel Wall, daughter of interim U.S. Senator | and widow of State Representative Shady R. Wall of West Monroe left $18 mi ... |
Vivienne Poy | ... implied "that women can't feel true patriotism or love for Canada." Senator | similarly criticized the English lyrics of the anthem as being sexist and ... |
Norberto Bobbio | ... his stint put him in regular contact with Cesare Pavese, Natalia Ginzburg, | , and many other left-wing intellectuals and writers. He then left Einaudi ... |
Joe Simitian | ... re Stanford is located in the 11th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 21st Assembly District, represented by Democrat Rich Gordon. ... |
Hamilton Fish | ... 1795–1875). His mother was born in Ireland. He said he had been named after | , a distant relative. His father was 43 years older than his mother and 75 ... |
Barack Obama | ... ajority in the county was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, although Bill Clinton and | won pluralities in 1992 and 2008, respectively |
Happy Chandler | ... ation, and his death in 1944 (and subsequent replacement as Commissioner by | ) removed a major obstacle for black players in the major leagues |
Daniel Inouye | ... of three patients who became United States Senators: Dole, Philip Hart and | |
Joe Simitian | ... h Fair Oaks is located in the 11th Senate district, represented by Democrat | , and in the 21st Assembly district, represented by Democrat Rich Gordon. ... |
Jim Webb | The state's senior member of the United States Senate is Democrat | , elected in 2006, who announced his intention to retire and not to run in ... |
Barry Goldwater | ... isclosed details of CIA financial support for Duarte, earning a rebuke from | , but Helms replied that his information came from sources in El Salvador, ... |
Agénor Bardoux | ... ie Jacques Bardoux and a great-granddaughter of minister of state education | , also a granddaughter of historian Georges Picot and niece of diplomat Fr ... |
Catharine Young | ... ed by Brian Higgins) and the New York State Senate 57th district (served by | ). Prior to 2003, the county was part of New York's 31st congressional dis ... |
Reed Smoot | ... David A. Bednar '76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 & '66, Dallin H. Oaks '54, and | 1876), and two General Relief Society Presidents (Julie B. Beck '73 and '2 ... |
Lyndon B. Johnson | ... r to the 2008 election, it had not voted for a Democrat for President since | in 1964. In recent years, however, the county has experienced rapid growth ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... nly the faces of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and | were found on the face of US Postage. Sometimes mistaken for an actual sta ... |
Philip Hart | ... Center in honor of three patients who became United States Senators: Dole, | and Daniel Inouye |
Jimmy Carter | ... l Cody), as well as 12 others. Dr. Walker's medal was restored by President | in 1977. Cody and four other civilian scouts who rendered distinguished se ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... mber 1980, the highest in history. By the time of 1980, when U.S. President | was running for re-election against Ronald Reagan, the misery index (the s ... |
Sherman Minton | ... the Court. The three final candidates were Solicitor General Stanley Reed, | , and Hugo Black. Roosevelt said Reed "had no fire," and Minton did not wa ... |
John Ashcroft | ... a crime in Al-Kidd v Ashcroft, a civil suit against former Attorney General | . In January 2010, the American military released the names of 645 detaine ... |
Indiana Senate | ... t and is represented in Congress by Democrat Baron Hill. It is also part of | districts 47 and 48, and Indiana House of Representatives districts 63, 73 ... |
John McCain | ... n's voters supported Democrat Barack Obama with 8,177 votes over Republican | with 6,839 votes |
Mark Warner | ... ate seat. The state's junior member of the United States Senate is Democrat | , elected in 2008. The Governor of Virginia is Republican Bob McDonnell, e ... |
Fred Andrew Seaton | ... igned in order to run for the U.S. Senate from his home state of Oregon and | had been appointed to replace him. Seaton, a newspaper publisher from Nebr ... |
Lawson Swearingen | ... and state government watchdog C.B. Forgotston relocated to Hammond in 2006. | , a former Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate and a former pr ... |
Barack Obama | ... rically Republican-leaning wealthy town of Wilton voted in the majority for | in the 2008 Presidential Election. Norwalk and Stamford, two larger, afflu ... |
Jimmy Carter | ... tion, resulted in a Democratic primary campaign loss to incumbent President | |
Jacob D. Cox | ... irst Maj. Gen. Jesse L. Reno (killed at South Mountain) and then Brig. Gen. | as the corps commander, funneling orders to the corps through them. This c ... |
William R. King | ... he city was planned and named by future Vice President of the United States | . The name, meaning "high seat" or "throne", came from the Ossianic poem T ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... d Myrna Loy. Upon her death there was found in her apartment photographs of | , whom she voted for in the 1960 presidential election |
John F. Kennedy | ... n Victoria and George V. American presidents hosted here include Presidents | , Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all of Irish ... |
Richard Nixon | ... orge V. American presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, | , Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all of Irish descent. Other ... |
Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... McCain's focus shifted toward the general election, while Barack Obama and | fought a prolonged battle for the Democratic nomination. McCain introduced ... |
Richard Nixon | ... financial hardship and instability in the country. The United States under | supported Pakistan, and mooted a UN resolution warning India against going ... |
Vincent Sheheen | ... ict 27 and represented by Democrat, and former 2010 candidate for governor, | |
Henry F. Schricker | ... ed after General Henry Knox. Knox was the home of two-time Indiana Governor | |
John McCain | ... l candidate Sarah Palin, whom he viewed unready to lead the country in case | were to not make it through his first term. Damon referred to Palin as a " ... |
Walter Mondale | ... ded not to run. Kennedy campaigned hard for Democratic presidential nominee | and defended vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro from criticism ov ... |
Andrew Johnson | ... g his loyalty to the Union should a civil war break out, Tennessee Governor | used his influence in the United States Department of War for Carter to or ... |
Al Gore | ... e National Museum of the American Indian on the Mall. Former Vice President | presented, and artists such as Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood performed |
Jimmy Carter | ... . Six years later, the Presidential Medal of Freedom was awarded to King by | . King and his wife were also awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004 |
Dennis Hollingsworth | ... e La Mesa is located in the 36th Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 77th Assembly District, represented by Republican Joel Anders ... |
John Kerry | ... s Lake precinct plus a very small portion of the Vincent precinct. Democrat | received narrow margins in both precincts, and it is probable that Kerry w ... |
John Kerry | ... sidential election, Beaux Arts Village cast 63.08% of its vote for Democrat | |
Andrew Johnson | On the recommendation of Military Governor of Tennessee | , U.S. naval officer Samuel Powhattan (S.P.) Carter was promoted to the br ... |
Barack Obama | ... ion of any county in the US (85%) and in 2008 with 88.69% of votes cast for | . It is an alcohol prohibition or dry county; i.e., taxes on alcohol illeg ... |
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. | ... d'état carried out by ARVN officers and encouraged by US officials such as | In the confusion that followed, General Duong Van Minh took control, but h ... |
Rubén Berríos | ... als from the mainland United States and abroad, including political leaders | , Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, singers Danny Riv ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... e a ceasefire was signed in Vietnam and just a month after former president | died. (Truman's funeral on December 28, 1972 had been one of Johnson's las ... |
Thomas Spalding | The County is named for former United States representative and senator | |
Alexandre Millerand | ... ublican Defence at the turn of the century (alongside independent socialist | ) |
Richard Nixon | In 1972, United States President | announced the commencement of the so-called "War on Drugs." Later, Preside ... |
Scott Brown | ... hn Kerry (re-elected in 2008); the junior (Class II) senate seat is held by | , the victor in the special Senate election on January 19, 2010 |
Oden Bowie | ... s, during its first-ever spring race meet in 1873. Former Maryland Governor | named the then mile and one-half (2.41 km) race in honor of the colt Preak ... |
François Mitterrand | When | was elected President of France in 1981, he laid out an ambitious plan for ... |
Chris Murphy | ... nt U.S. Senate candidate Joe Lieberman and local Democratic House candidate | who defeated incumbent Nancy Johnson. In the 2008 Presidential election, t ... |
Robert F. Kennedy | ... Kennedy, Sr.; the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator | , both victims of assassination, and Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., killed in act ... |
Howard Baker | ... irman of the Finance Committee in 1981, serving until 1985. From 1985, when | of Tennessee retired, until his resignation from the Senate, Dole was the ... |
Verdi's | ... ertoire of prominent opera houses. Franco Zeffirelli's 1986 film version of | opera starring Plácido Domingo as Othello won the BAFTA for foreign langua ... |
Indiana Senate | ... ion of the county is in Indiana's 6th congressional district. It is part of | districts 14, 15, 16, 17 and 19; and Indiana House of Representatives dist ... |
Abel Maldonado | ... ver Beach is located in the 15th Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 33rd Assembly District, represented by Republican Sam Blakesl ... |
Luigi Sturzo | ... improved as well, as the Pope now permitted Catholic politicians led by Don | to participate in national Italian politics |
John Kerry | ... Kennedy, the state's senior (Class I) member of the United States Senate is | (re-elected in 2008); the junior (Class II) senate seat is held by Scott B ... |
Jefferson Davis | ... . It was named for the only President of the Confederate States of America, | . The 2007 Census Estimate showed a population of 13,291. The county seat ... |
Tom Cole | U.S. Representative | , currently the only Native American serving in Congress, lives in Moore w ... |
John C. Frémont | ... his explorations in the west was published by Washington Irving in 1838.). | of the U.S. Army's Corps of Topographical Engineers and his guide Kit Cars ... |
Richard Nixon | ... ts of the Watergate scandal which lead to the resignation of U.S. president | |
Charles Carroll of Carrollton | Carroll County is named in honor of | , Maryland. He was the only Roman Catholic to sign the Declaration of Inde ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... surviving son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; the youngest brother of President | and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both victims of assassination, and Joseph P ... |
John E. Sununu | Senator | (R) of New Hampshire said, after Lott's election as Senate Minority Whip, ... |
Wade Hampton | ... sus. It is named for American Civil War general and South Carolina governor | |
Richard Nixon | Starting in 1969 President | started the process of "Vietnamization", pulling out American forces and r ... |
Benjamin Harrison | ... n). The plan worked, and Michigan split its vote: nine votes for Republican | and five votes for Democrat Grover Cleveland. Once the Republican party re ... |
Marlin Stutzman | ... ounty is part of Indiana's 3rd congressional district and is represented by | in the United States Congress; a portion of the county is in Indiana's 6th ... |
Richard Nixon | On November 25, 1969, President | unilaterally renounced the use of chemical weapons and renounced all metho ... |
Barack Obama | ... ut you have to go within the system to find what you want." Leary supported | in the 2008 presidential election |
Gloria Negrete McLeod | ... ture Rialto is located in the 32nd Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 62nd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Wilmer Carter ... |
Carlos Reutemann | ... team ran three different models, were pole position for Argentinian driver | at his home race at Buenos Aires and a victory in the non-championship Int ... |
Abel Maldonado | ... e Cayucos is located in the 15th Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 33rd Assembly District, represented by Republican Sam Blakesl ... |
Jeff Merkley | ... pulation was 3,439 at the 2010 census. It is the birthplace of U.S. Senator | |
Frank Carlson | ... ublican nomination for the United States Senate to succeed retiring Senator | , subsequently being elected. Dole was re-elected in 1974, 1980, 1986, and ... |
Joe Simitian | ... Opal Cliffs is located in the 11th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 27th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Bill Monning. ... |
John Kerry | ... in investigating Noriega's role in drugs trafficking, Helms teamed up with | to introduce an amendment to the Intelligence Authorization Act demanding ... |
François Mitterrand | ... e announced his candidacy for the presidency. His two main challengers were | for the left and Jacques Chaban-Delmas, a former Gaullist prime minister. ... |
James Gillett | ... e height of the Sinophobic tension was (then) future Governor of California | , himself a recent resident of the city. The anti-Chinese ordinance was no ... |
Ernest Gruening | ... cial representatives – all Democrats – as unofficial delegates to Congress: | and William Egan as U.S. Senators and as U.S. representative |
Richard Blumenthal | Connecticut's United States Senators are | (Democrat) and Joseph I. Lieberman (Connecticut for Lieberman, Independent ... |
C. A. Wurtz | ... y. He then studied in Bonn, Germany with Friedrich Kekulé and in Paris with | . He received his doctorate under Eduard Mulder at the University of Utrec ... |
Bob Huff | ... h Senate Districts, represented by Democrat Gloria J. Romero and Republican | respectively, and in the 58th and 60th Assembly Districts, represented by ... |
John F. Kennedy | Peter Lawford was a brother-in-law of President | (dubbed "Brother-in-Lawford" by Sinatra), and the group played a role in c ... |
Oliver Ellsworth | ... e federal constitutional convention of 1787, during which Roger Sherman and | helped to orchestrate what became known as the Connecticut Compromise, or ... |
Wade Hampton | ... major general rank, while at the same time promoting Stuart's subordinates | and Fitzhugh Lee to major generals, could be considered an implied rebuke. ... |
John McCain | ... ). In 2008 Valley County was much more competitive than in recent years, as | defeated Barack Obama by only 7% (52-45%) |
Orrin Hatch | ... dy continued his close working relationship with ranking Republican Senator | , and they were close allies on many health-related measures |
Roger Sherman | ... pivotal role in the federal constitutional convention of 1787, during which | and Oliver Ellsworth helped to orchestrate what became known as the Connec ... |
Gloria J. Romero | ... s is located in the 24th and 29th Senate Districts, represented by Democrat | and Republican Bob Huff respectively, and in the 58th and 60th Assembly Di ... |
Joe Baca | ... onal district, which has a Cook PVI of D +10 and is represented by Democrat | |
Benjamin Harrison | ... chool District. Harrison City is named after former United States President | |
Luis A. Ferré | ... home to the Museo de Arte de Ponce (MAP), founded in 1959 by fellow ponceño | . The museum was operated by Ferré until his death at the age of 99, and i ... |
Barack Obama | ... nty was much more competitive than in recent years, as John McCain defeated | by only 7% (52-45%) |
Massachusetts Senate | ... arah Peake, a former Provincetown selectman. The town is represented in the | as a part of the Cape and Islands District, which includes all of Cape Cod ... |
Denise Moreno Ducheny | ... ature Indio is located in the 40th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 80th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Manuel Perez. ... |
Wilson Lumpkin | ... s a teenage resident and later the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition | (1783–1870) - Governo |
Richard Lugar | ... urned, and became the senior Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, | became its chair, after Helms and the moderate Lugar cut a deal to keep li ... |
Dan Burton | ... which has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+20 and has been represented by | for over 25 years |
George Forquer | ... n which the original town of Waterloo was laid out was purchased in 1818 by | later an Illinois State Senator, 5th Secretary of State of Illinois (1825– ... |
Martin Van Buren | ... Iowa Territory. Some settlers started drifting into Iowa in 1833. President | on July 4, 1838, signed the U.S. Congress laws establishing the Territory ... |
Barack Obama | ... Rudd, gave an autographed copy of Keneally's biography Lincoln to President | as a state gift |
David Levy Yulee | In 1851, | established a sugar plantation on the Homosassa River, close to the curren ... |
John F. Kennedy | ... in 1963, and it and the Delaware Turnpike were both dedicated by President | . The highway extended from the northern Baltimore city limits to the Dela ... |
Harry S. Truman | ... wever, after Chief Justice Harlan Stone died in 1946, rumors that President | would appoint Jackson as Stone's successor led several newspapers to inves ... |
Texas military hero | The county is named not after the familiar | but rather after Georgia governor John Houstoun (who used that spelling du ... |
Ted Kennedy | ... trict, and is currently represented by Bill Keating. Following the death of | , the state's senior (Class I) member of the United States Senate is John ... |
Roosevelt | ... declared "the first international airport of the Americas" by US president | |
Henry Clay | ... apitol to Annapolis Junction in Maryland. That day the Whig Party nominated | at its national convention in Baltimore. News of the nomination was hand-c ... |
Joe Simitian | ... re Atherton is located in the 11th Senate district, represented by Democrat | , and in the 21st Assembly district, represented by Democrat Rich Gordon. ... |
William H. Crawford | | (1772–1834) - U.S. Minister to France, U.S. Secretary of War, U.S. Secreta ... |
Dianne Feinstein | ... he recommended that the Democratic candidate be California’s Senior Senator | , Sanchez stated that if no other serious Democratic contender stepped for ... |
Joe Lieberman | ... ozen other state newspapers, as well as from Independent Democratic Senator | . McCain decided not to campaign significantly in the January 3, 2008, Iow ... |
Joe Biden | ... abor and Public Welfare Committee. By now Kennedy had become what colleague | termed "the best strategist in the Senate," who always knew when best to m ... |
Pompey | ... dentified' by the writer Daniel Defoe (1659–1731) as Caesar (100–44 BC) and | (106–48 BC) responsible for the decline of the Roman republic facing a sta ... |
Indiana Senate | Hamilton County is part of Indiana's 5th congressional district | ;districts 20, 21, 28, 29 and 30; and Indiana House of Representatives dis ... |
Andrew Jackson | ... imply was no popular vote for President in those states. Even in 1824, when | lost in spite of having pluralities of both the popular and electoral vote ... |
John Breaux | On January 7, 2008 it was announced that Lott and former Senator | of Louisiana, a Democrat, opened their lobbying firm about a block from th ... |
Marcus Ulpius Traianus | Trajan was the son of Marcia and | , a prominent senator and general from the gens Ulpia. Trajan himself was ... |
Abel Maldonado | ... re Amesti is located in the 15th Senate District, represented by Republican | , and in the 28th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Anna M. Cabal ... |
Rafał Leszczyński | Born in Lviv in 1677, he was the son of | , voivode of Poznań Voivodeship, and Anna Katarzyna Jabłonowska. He marrie ... |
Ken Cuccinelli | ... and being served on the University of Virginia by Virginia Attorney General | , seeking a broad range of documents from Michael E. Mann, who was formerl ... |