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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 DuffyIn 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 electto 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 bypursued a British Band raiding party of about thirty warriors. Three Illin ...
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe department was established on September 9, 1965, whensigned 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 Senatorcataloged 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 forat the 1932 Democratic National Convention, via his allies William Gibbs M ...
John KerryIn 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 Ladyalso 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 underencountered 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 alliesand John Nance Garner, can also be seen as part of his vendetta against Sm ...
Jimmy CarterFollowing 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 influencedto 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, Senatormade 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, Democratwon 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 Chicagoand 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 EnrileOn 1986, a faction of AFP headed by then Defense Ministerand 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 Presidentin 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, ‘Whenproposed 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 bossdid 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 theit 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 MarconiRadio 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. Presidentand 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, Governorof 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, Presidentreopened negotiations, appointing Sol Linowitz as co-negotiator without Se ...
Nixon Administration... ther investigations in the 1970s found that they were not at fault, and thereversed 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. Senatorof 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 Ministerof 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 withfor 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 Senatornamed as his running mate
Mark PryorFollowing the storm, U.S. Senatorhad 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 Mayortook 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 thatcould 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 Presidentin changing the focus of the march. Kennedy initially opposed the march ou ...
Pietro Badoglio... ts colonial empire. Hesitance remained from the King and military commanderwho 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 Democratand Republican Tom Berryhill respectively. County government was recently ...
Sam HoustonTorrey Trading Houses opened as a part of thepeace 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 theAdministration, although it can be said that the committee's investigation ...
Richard Nixon... years in Charlottesville, in 1971, Scalia entered public service. Presidentappointed 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, Democratcaptured McHenry County with 52% of the vote
Coolidge... hite House at the time leading up to the Great Depression — first Presidentin 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 byin 1797. The Duchy of Warsaw, a small, semi-independent Polish state, was ...
James Monroeconstructed 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 Presidentand 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. Presidentgreat 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. MarionneauxLouisiana State Senatorresides on a cattle farm in Grosse Tete but practices law in Baton Rouge
Pamela AlthoffIn 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 Presidentused 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, whendied
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. RooseveltHardy holds the distinction of playing both Winston Churchill and, and having played both roles on more than one occasion. He played Church ...
Andrew JacksonOn 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-Presidentinto 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 Presidentand almost succeeded in amending the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to explicit ...
Richard BurrIn 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 Senatoras a demonstration of extreme methods used by credit companies to attract ...
Chris Dodd... Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator Barack Obama intensified, as his friendwas also running. After the initial caucuses and primaries had been split ...
Hillary Rodham Clinton... n remained neutral as the 2008 Democratic nomination battle between Senatorand Senator Barack Obama intensified, as his friend Chris Dodd was also ru ...
Gabrielle GiffordsThe 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 Senatorintensified, 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 NixonNOAA was formed on October 3, 1970, afterproposed 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 andfound 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. Delegateof 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 Senatoron 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 afterof 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 andjoined 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 wasin 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 wherewas 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 thegovernment. 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 wasof 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 BakerIn 1990, Frist met with former Senate Majority Leaderabout 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. Democratwon 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, Senatorof 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, includingand 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 Leaderin 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 GoebelOn February 3, 1900 Governor-electwas 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 Senatorof 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 theencampment — 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 betweenand 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 byin 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." Senatorof 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, Republicanreceived 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 ofon December 17, 1973
LucullusSeleucid 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, Republicanreceived 2797 votes here (about 70%), while Democrat Barack Obama received ...
Chris Dodd... ttee's expansive plan resulted in a poor public reception. Kennedy's friendhad 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 byand 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 Democratreceived 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 theadministration's policies regarding "Korea, Communism and Corruption.
Barack ObamaAlthoughgot 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. Presidentfrom 1979–1981
Pompey... historian Appian. The 4th century commentary on Vergil by Servius says thatsettled some of these pirates in in southern Italy
Franklin D. Roosevelt... Democrat presidential candidate has been able to get for this county sincein 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 professorand 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. RooseveltTheadministration 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 inwho 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, Republicanreceived 62% of the vote, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who received ar ...
Richard M. DaleyIn 1994, Mayorannounced 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 WebsterLike, 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 electingpresident 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 overby 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. TrumanIn 1946 Presidentappointed 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 Senatorsof 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 NixonTanaka'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 candidatewon 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 SchurzTogether 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 Warwould 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, Senatorwon 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. Congressmanresigned 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 candidatewon by a slightly larger 4.4 percent margin, 52%-47%
President TrumanIn July 1946, as Chairman of the Council on African Affairs, he telegraphedon 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 Republicanin 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 Presidentthat 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, Democratwon 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 sincein 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 withconducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra
Franklin D. Roosevelt's... consciousness fostered at Grinnell during these years became evident duringpresidency, when Grinnell graduates Harry Hopkins '12, Chester Davis '11, ...
Roman Hruska... of Arkansas and Sam Ervin of North Carolina along with Republican Senatorsof 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 Democrathad 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 Senatorwrote 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 thatwould 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 Senatorof Wisconsin, who ran as the candidate of the Progressive Party
Andrew Jackson... a U.S. possession as the Florida Territory, in 1822, with future presidentas the military governor, succeeded by William Pope DuVal as territorial g ...
Barack Obama... ntion, and behavioral and social sciences research. In July 2009, Presidentnominated 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 andof 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 Senatorbecame 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 FolletteSenator, 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 CarterOn September 9, 1979 Norman performed for US presidentand 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 Senatorof 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. Senatorof 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 byof 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 Presidentauthorize 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 Presidentcalled 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 Republicansand 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 asin the development of agricultural fundamentalism
Willis SmithIn 1950, Helms played a critical role as campaign publicity director forin 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 givingan 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 Senatorand 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 Generalas 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 colleaguefor 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 Democratwas 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. WagnerSenatorproposed 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 Presidentissued Presidential Decree No. 824. Marcos appointed his wife Imelda Marco ...
Duff Green... issouri during the Bleeding Kansas incidents. In October several men led bydemanded that Daniel Marshall provide medical assistance to the pro-slaver ...
Robert F. KennedyThe FBI, under written directive from Attorney General, began telephone tapping King in the fall of 1963. Concerned that allegat ...
Manuel L. QuezonIn 1941 with the onset of World War II, Presidentcreated 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 LivingstonLivingston 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 andof 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 whichreceived 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 andon 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. BanksThe Union forces led by Generalwho occupied Opelousas found what the historian John D. Winters describes ...
Franklin D. RooseveltOn 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 ObamaIn the 2008 presidential election, Democratreceived 50.2% of the vote here (507 ballots cast), ahead of Republican Jo ...
William Henry Harrison... provide entertainment at political functions. The presidential campaign ofwas the first to greatly benefit from music, after which it became standar ...
Robert Morris... n and voted for independence. In the Pennsylvania delegation, Dickinson andabstained, 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 within a Republican campaign commercial from Gettysburg. However, his endorsem ...
William Crawford... s Monroe narrowly won the party's nomination for President in Congress overin 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. ButlerAlthoughbought 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 ofand 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 betweenand 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 Presidenton March 23, 2010. Along with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation ...
Manuel L. QuezonDuring 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 convinceand 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 afterlost 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 Senatorin 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 gave379 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 withand 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 andto locate Cornell University there rather than in Ithaca. White pressed th ...
Barack ObamaIn 2009, Frank Stella was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President
Kenneth McClintockIn 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 Governordecided 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 Senatorof 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 governorresided, 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 Ladyand 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. Praetorfirst gave him a place in the council and then in about 372 made him consu ...
Franklin D. RooseveltPresidentsigned 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, withappointed 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 toand 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, Republicanagainst 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 GlennWhen 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 Congressmanto 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 JacksonThe situation was complicated by the American spoils system. Afterassumed the U.S. presidency in March 1829, many competent Indian agents we ...
Richard NixonThe 1986 comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off includes a scene where formerspeech writer Ben Stein, in the role of a high school teacher, leads a cla ...
KennedyBy targeting federal resources to specific geographic areas theadministration 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 Democratwon 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 Leaderconfirmed 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 Senatorto Winfield Scott, the Commanding General of the United States Army. Scott ...
Hugo Black... 9 deaths of Supreme Court justices Frank Murphy and Wiley Rutledge, leavingand 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, whichsigned 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 byand John C. Calhoun
Strom Thurmond... look into gold-backed currency. After the presidential election, Helms andsponsored a Senate amendment to a Department of Justice appropriations bil ...
Olympia Snowe... can senator is currently the independent governor of Rhode Island. Senatorsand 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 Senatorand another from Vannevar Bush
James Monroe... tter in this category in competition between multiple candidates (incumbentwas 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 Presidentmentioned 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 Senatorand 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. SewardEven before Fort Sumter, U.S. Secretary of Stateissued formal instructions to the American minister to Great Britain: Make ...
François MitterrandIn 1985, Presidentcommissioned 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, andhave 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 Governorcame to Fort Wayne to renegotiate treaty terms. Little Turtle admitted Pot ...
Harry S. Truman... hose involved wanted a similar framework for international trade. Presidentlaunched 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. Presidenteventually 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 Presidentto defend the metropolis from insurgents and terrorist groups. Philippine ...
John F. Kennedy... television career that spanned half a century. Robertson portrayed a youngin 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 Senatorand 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 Senatorand 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-Presidentattended 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 Senatorof 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 framingby 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 presidentand 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 NdayizeyeFormer Presidentand his political supporters were arrested in 2006 and accused of plotting ...
Richard Nixon... States presidential election of 1976 followed the resignation of Presidentin 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 backedto deny the presidency to Andrew Jackson, a longtime political rival
John Eager HowardTo honor, an officer in the American Revolutionary War and later the fifth Governo ...
Warren G. HardingUpon the death of Presidentin 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 governorduring 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 conspiratorat the Forum (in the Temple of Concord, whose spacious hall was sometimes ...
Calvin CoolidgeUpon 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 Governorto 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 Presidenton 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 memberexplained 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 andtraveled 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 andin 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 KylIn 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 DuffyOne 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. BrownR&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 andencountered 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 thegovernment. 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 candidatewas 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. KennedyAn admirer of Martin Luther King, Jr., she campaigned forand Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 U.S. elections. She studied political scie ...
Warren G. HardingAndrew Mellon was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by new Presidentin 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 Senatorhelped 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 toand one-third to Clinton. After Clinton's June 7 concession, Murray switch ...
Aaron Burr... epublican Party again nominated Jefferson for President, and also nominatedfor 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 McCarthyOn the domestic front, he covertly opposedbut contributed to the end of McCarthyism by openly invoking the modern ex ...
Daniel Patrick MoynihanIntroduced 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 Presidentto exempt some students from the draft, so the university was one of the f ...
Dudley Mays HughesThe city was named for Senator
Jim McGreevey... the first Canadian Member of Parliament to come out. Governor of New Jerseyannounced his decision to resign, publicly came out as "a gay American" an ...
Dino RossiMurray 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 Presidentand 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 themoved 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 byin 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, Presidentsigned 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 defeatedin 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, Presidentsigned 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 andhad 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 Democratreceived 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 ofin the East (66-62 BC)
Strom Thurmond... wide margin. On August 2, 2006, the New York Times said, "In 1994, Senatorof 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. Senatorof North Carolina. Bob Dole is currently a member of the advisory council ...
Barack ObamaPresidentestablished 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. ...
RooseveltDemocratic Presidentand 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 ofagainst 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, Democratreceived 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 Presidentsigned 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 CoburnOn May 26, 2011, Senatorreleased 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 Governorhelped 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 andof 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 Senatoron campaign finance reform; their McCain-Feingold bill attempted to put li ...
Fred HarrisImage:FredRoyHarris.jpg|Former Senatorof 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 NixonPresidentfirst 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 Democrathad 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 ofstepped down soon after the convention, McGovern again tried to get Kenned ...
Richard NixonFile:1970s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: US Presidentdoing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office after the W ...
Warren G. HardingCoolidge was vice-president underand 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-Coloneland 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 andof New Jersey in the Senate
Mark BegichNonetheless, during a debate with his opponentdays 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. Oncewas near clinching the Democratic nomination in June 1972, various anti-Mc ...
Andrés Pico... pproved by American Lieutenant-Colonel John C. Frémont and Mexican Governoron 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, whenwon 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 DeMintOn November 13, Senatorof South Carolina announced he would move to have Stevens expelled from th ...
Barack ObamaIn 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 brotherin 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. Presidentsent 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 CoolidgeWarren 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 andblocked Ted Kennedy's comprehensive criminal code that did not relax feder ...
Frank Porter GrahamDespite 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 withreceiving 301 electoral votes to Hubert Humphrey's 191. Yet, Nixon had onl ...
George W. Joseph... ong the Columbia. But the overwhelming victories of gubernatorial candidatein 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 BurenHis entry into politics came in 1837 with his appointment byas 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 Mayorto 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 governornegotiated 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. Senatorstated, "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 DavisThe new Confederate President, a former "Cooperationist" who had insisted on delaying secession until a ...
Mary LandrieuHe is the father of U.S. Senatorand 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 BayhImage:Birch bayh.jpg|Senatorof 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 BentsenImage:Lloyd Bentsen, bw photo as senator.jpg|Senatorof Texa
Barack Obama... 1999, the United States Senate rejected ratification of the CTBT. Presidentstated 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. Senatorfollowed
Harry S. TrumanUnpopular incumbent Presidentdecided 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 Senatorof 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 SanfordImage:Terry Sanford.jpg|Former Governorof North Carolin
Victor Schoelcher... ) – an indemnity for profits lost from the slave trade. French abolitionistwrote, "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 Senatorwon 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. Presidentdecided to install a non-Mormon governor. Buchanan accepted the reports of ...
Randy Bass... orris, and Elmer Thomas. Other politicians include Democratic State Senatorand former US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Julian Niemczyk
Strom Thurmond... irginia, and the third-longest serving senator of all time, behind Byrd andof 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 forin both of his presidential elections
Robert Byrd... as the second most senior member of the Senate, after President pro temporeof 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 wasin 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." Senatorsaid 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-electprompted an investigation from the United States Secret Service. Students ...
John McCain... or bills with him". In May 2008, soon-to-be Republican presidential nomineesaid, "[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. KennedyThe family patriarch was(1858–1929), a first-generation American who married Mary Augusta Hickey ( ...
Ferdinand MarcosPresident, 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 DaschleIn 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 presidentapologized for his country's internment of Japanese immigrants during Worl ...
Aaron Burr... rst bid for the presidency with Jefferson as its presidential candidate andas 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 withand similar to Democratic and liberal appeals mentioning Newt Gingrich. Th ...
Barack Obama... t in orientation. In the 2008 presidential contest, the successful Democratof 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 CarterThe 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 Senatorand 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 BakerIn 2007, Dole joined fellow former Senate Majority Leaders, Tom Daschle, and George Mitchell to found the Bipartisan Policy Center, ...
Thomas GorePoliticians 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 asand 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 Presidentwithout 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 Senatorof 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 BuchananEisenhower, at 62, was the oldest man to become President sincein 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. Senatorof 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 nomineeof 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 saidor 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, Presidentrecently reaffirmed the policy, stating that without improved human rights ...
Jefferson Davis... s. Delegates from those seven formed the C.S.A. in February 1861, selectingas 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 KefauverFile:SenatorKefauver(D-TN).jpg|Senatorof 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 Presidentof 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 Quaestorto neighbouring Mauretania in order to eliminate their support for Jugurth ...
John F. KennedyFollowing 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|Senatorof 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 "Theof 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 Statenegotiated 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. CalhounCalhoun 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 astoured the South calling for Union if Lincoln were elected. But to Secessi ...
Lyndon B. JohnsonIn Washington, Presidenthad received word from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the Liberty had been ...
Jimmy CarterImage:Jimmy Carter.jpg|Former Governorof Georgi
Barack Obama... win a majority in the county was Barry Goldwater in 1964. In 2008, Democratwon 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 aftermade 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 McCainThe trending Republican has continued since 2004. In 2008won 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 ofin 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 BurrThe 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 NixonIn 1959, following the Kitchen Debate between United States Vice Presidentand Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, the designers of the kitchen, includ ...
John F. Kennedy... ed the first-ever televised presidential debates, held between U.S. Senatorof 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 overin 2008
John McCain... e many rural counties in Missouri in 2008, voters in Madison County favoredover 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 NixonFollowing 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 Senatorand 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 withpointed out the communist threat in Southeast Asia as requiring prioritiza ...
Coolidge... st tenure of a Secretary of the Treasury. His service continued through theand Hoover administrations. Along with James Wilson and James J. Davis, he ...
Al Gore... financially supported a variety of Democratic Party politicians, includingand 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 CornynAt the Federal level, the two U.S. Senators from Texas are Republicansand 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'sas late as 1995. He said publicly in 2008 that he has no ambition to run f ...
Philippe MadrelleThe President of the General Council isof 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 Senatorin 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 wasin 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. Historianassociated 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 Tutsiseized power in a military coup. Under international pressure, the warring ...
John Kerry... ent of Protestants voted for Bush, along with 52% of Catholics (even thoughwas 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. Afterwas 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. KennedyIn 1963, U.S. Presidentvisited the Brandenburg Gate. The Soviets hung large red banners across it ...
Harry F. Byrd... olicy of "massive resistance" led by the influential segregationist Senatorand 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 DaneDane 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, Presidentauthorized 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 ofto 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 ObamaIn 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 Generalsharply rejected the proposal, and threatened to stop all negotiations and ...
Sean Parnell... ing Vice-President Joe Biden, former Governor Sarah Palin, current Governorand three other former governors, 11 senators, 9 former senators, and 2 co ...
Brian P. StackThe current mayor of Union City is, who became mayor in 2000 after a recall election forced the resignation ...
Henry M. JacksonImage:HenryJackson.jpg|Senatorof Washingto
Eleazar López Contreras... relevant (apart from the general Gómez himself), were the General in Chiefand Division General Isaías Medina Angarita
Daniel Webster... essive days in their defense. In 1850, he was engaged in a controversy within regard to the extension of slavery and the Fugitive Slave Law. Mann was ...
Frank ChurchImage:FrankChurch.jpg|Senatorof 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 favoredover Barack Obama in 2008
Sandra Day O'Connor... . Reproductive Health Services, but was not successful in doing so. Justiceauthored the decision of the Court, allowing the abortion regulations at i ...
Rufus King... President in Congress over William Crawford in 1816 and defeated Federalistin the general election
Mackenzie Bowell... ein their casket lies in state in the Centre Block of Parliament Hill. Onlyand 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 Presidentordered 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 byto 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 ByrdImage:Sen robert byrd.jpg|Senatorof West Virgini
James Chesnut, Jr.... South Carolina legislature to call for a Secession Convention. U.S. Senatorresigned, and U.S. Senator James Henry Hammond followed
Barack ObamaOn 4 May 2009, United States Presidentdeclared his intentions to curb the use of financial centres by multinatio ...
Barack ObamaOther well-known government figures, such as Senior Advisor to PresidentDavid 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 DoleDole 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 Senatorof Wisconsin had become a national figure after chairing congressional inv ...
Frank KeatingAt 9:45 am CST, Governordeclared 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. LongIn January 1969, Kennedy defeated Louisiana Senatorby a 31–26 margin to become Senate Majority Whip, the youngest person to a ...
Jean-Baptiste BagazaIn 1976, Coloneltook power in a bloodless coup. Although Bagaza led a Tutsi-dominated mili ...
Barry Goldwater... n. McCain succeeded longtime American conservative icon and Arizona fixtureupon the latter's retirement as United States Senator from Arizona
William Henry GistSecessionists were active politically. Governorof South Carolina corresponded secretly with other Deep South governors, a ...
Pierre BuyoyaIn 1987, Majoroverthrew 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 abirthday celebration in which he said that if Thurmond's presidential bid ...
Aulus GabiniusIn 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 ChurchThe 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, andof 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 Democrattied, 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, Republicanand 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 Presidentthanked him for donating money to school drop-out prevention programs
Robert S. KerrOther 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 nomineewere 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 leaderand 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, byin 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 JacksonJackson 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 Presidenttook 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 CornynAt the Federal level, the two U.S. Senators from Texas are Republicansand Kay Bailey Hutchison; Nacogdoches is part of Texas's 1st congressional ...
John EastWithand 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 NixonThe 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 ofwho 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 bybut 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 NixonIn Missouri's gubernatorial election of 2008, Democratic Governorsolidly 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 wasin 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 andattending 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 andduring 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 Presidentand General Douglas MacArthur, former Chaplain of the Senate Frederick Bro ...
John McCainIn the 2008 presidential election, Republican candidatereceived 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 mayorand then William Hudnut, Indianapolis was making an ambitious effort to re ...
Zebulon Baird VanceIn 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 Democratover Barry M. Goldwater. Before the Republican party was formed, Warren Co ...
George Smathers... ey Biscayne millionaire Bebe Rebozo, Miami native and United States Senatorand 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 whenresigned from the Senate to focus on his presidential campaign. As majorit ...
Barry Goldwater... nvention, ill health prevented him from attending. The Presidential nomineeacknowledged Hoover's absence in his acceptance speech
Hugh Scott... from people's minds with a wave of the hand." The Senate Republican Leadersaid the transcripts revealed a "deplorable, disgusting, shabby, and immor ...
Richard Russell, Jr.... idates. However, most of the other candidates had a major weakness. Senatorof 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 congressmanin 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 Presidentwill 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 StevensSlashdotters typically like to mock United States Senator' 2006 description of the Internet as a "series of tubes" or Microsoft CEO ...
Al GoreIn 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 Democratrespectively, 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 CarterThe act jump-started the peace process. United States Presidentinvited 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 Republicanand Democrat Darrell Steinberg respectively, and in the 4th and 5th Assemb ...
Verdi's... Gramophone Company's house conductor since 1904; he had made recordings ofErnani 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 overin 2008
Andrew Jackson... nowledge among men". After the nephew died without issue in 1835, Presidentinformed 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 favoredover Barack Obama in 2008
Darrell Steinberg... and 6th Senate Districts, represented by Republican Ted Gaines and Democratrespectively, 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 Quebecfor the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony; Calixa Lavallée wrote the m ...
Estes KefauverTruman'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 Mayorin 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 thefrom 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 sincein 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 Republicansand 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 Temporeretired
Charles Alfred PillsburyDartmouth 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 RooseveltIn 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 NixonDuring 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, andof 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 Presidentin 1977 (see Evolution of Criteria, above)
Howard BakerAfterretired 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 InouyeSince 1987, Hawaii's Senator, a World War II veteran, has introduced a measure to return Memorial Day ...
John EdwardsIn 2004, the Democratic ticket of John F. Kerry andcarried 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 andswept 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, Presidentdid 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, Republicanreceived 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 Presidentbrought 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 ofon 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 Statedeclared 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 DavisWhen 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, whilewon 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 ofin 1850, the arrival of the California and Oregon Railroad in 1870, the es ...
Don YoungDue 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 ObamaAlso circulating is the Chesterfield Observer, a county-wide newspaper.stopped at John Tyler Community College in Chester on August 21, 2008, whe ...
John F. KennedyDespite 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 generalsought 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 andwere 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 CorzineIn December 2006, Governorspeculated 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 senatorbecame 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 Senatorfor 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 Republicanin 2008
Lyndon B. Johnson... the US public for his time frame, and was struggling to convince Presidentto 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 Presidentselected 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, Congressmanof 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 forand 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, Democratnarrowly defeated John McCain, 49.51% to 48.50%. In the 2012 Maine Republi ...
Richard BurrGoldsboro is represented in the Senate by Republicanand 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 SnoweSenators(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 ThurmondTrent 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. BarkleyImage:AlbenBarkley.jpg|Vice Presidentof Kentuck
Gn. PompeiusThe last two treatises are supplemented by letters toand Ammaeus (two)
Luis Muñoz Marín... ned and approved the conditions established by . On July 25, 1952, Governorproclaimed that the Constitution of Puerto Rico was in effect
Arthur Foulkes... is supporters in the House of Assembly. The current governor-general is Sirand 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 DorganSenators 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 byand 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. HannaThe county was created by proclamation of Governoron 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 HullDemocratic President Roosevelt and especially his Secretary of Statewere critical of the Neutrality Acts, fearing that they would restrict the ...
John F. KennedyRobertson 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 Leaderof 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 BachmannUnited 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 Democratin 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 Senatorcurrently 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 Presidentpledged $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 defeatin 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 Governorof 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 includedand George M. Humphrey with whom he developed his closest relationships, a ...
Barack Obama... . Bush over Democrat John Kerry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democratover Republican John McCain in 2008
Elijah BoardmanBoardman Township was founded byin 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. Coloneland 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 KleisThe 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 candidatein the general election. He subsequently adopted more orthodox conservativ ...
Peter Shumlin... cember 7, 2010. Vermont joined the compact on April 22, 2011, when Governorsigned 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 Senatorof Minnesota challenged Johnson as an anti-war candidate in the New Hampsh ...
Barack ObamaIn the 2008 presidential election, Democratreceived 54.6% of the vote here (3,418 ballots received), outpolling Repub ...
Sam Ervin... to approve and establish a select committee to investigate Watergate, withnamed 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. KyleTo 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 BinghamIn 1911, explorerused 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; Senatorof Ohio, the longtime leader of the GOP's conservative wing; and Governor ...
James BuchananIn January, Presidenthad 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. KennedyAfter Presidentwas 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 Presidentand Secretary of State Cordell Hull declared the Good Neighbor Policy, whi ...
Kenneth McClintock... r's great-granddaughter Margaret Hoover and Senate of Puerto Rico Presidentunveiled 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 Senatorto create the conservative coalition, which dominated domestic issues in C ...
Barack ObamaIn July 2008, then the Democratic presidential candidate, said: "If somebody was sendi ...
Luis A. Ferré... birthplace of several important political figures of the island, includingand Rafael Hernández Colón, both former governors of Puerto Rico, as well ...
John F. KennedyIn the early morning of June 12, 1963, just hours after President's speech on national television in support of civil rights, Evers pulled ...
Guglielmo MarconiThe 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 Presidentannounced 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 Counselasked 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 theand Ford administrations, first at minor administrative agencies, and then ...
John BidwellThe 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. Senatorhas 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 Colonelcaught 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 Presidentwere determined not to repeat the mistakes of their predecessors. They met ...
John Kerry... e 19th century. Twentieth century descendants include Massachusetts Senatorand 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 HoustonInitially, 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 Senatorin 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 Presidentlooking 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 KerryDunst supported Democratic candidatein 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 CarterHowever, 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 oftriggered 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, andto 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 byto 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 Democratin 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, Republicanreceived 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 Senatorof 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 diplomatthat 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 Sirserved 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 Senatorof Delaware. In 2009, Republicans Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell were el ...
Ben Smith... t asked Massachusetts Governor Foster Furcolo to name Kennedy family friendas 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 Stateslaunched 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 Democratand 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. RooseveltThe administration of Presidentsubjected Mellon to intense investigation of his personal income tax retur ...
Barack Obama... to obtain a majority of the popular vote in a presidential election, untilwon 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. KennedyOn the morning of Garner's 95th birthday on November 22, 1963, Presidentcalled 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 nomineeof 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 Senatorand comedian Drew Carey continued to wear non-prescription glasses after b ...
Alfredo LimThe 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, Republicanreceived 65% of the vote here, defeating Democrat Barack Obama, who receiv ...
Barack Obama... size in the 2008 and 2012 elections. 2008 Republican presidential candidatevisited 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. Republicanwas 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 Senatorof 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 Congressmanand 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 aDay, 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. Republicanwon the 2008 special election to replace him
Franklin D. Roosevelt... ity to Barry Goldwater. The last Democratic candidate to win the county wasin 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 Senatorsand 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 Presidentwas 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 Presidentin 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, Republicanreceived 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 Senatorwere 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 Ministerin 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, andand Sarah Palin 46%
John McCain... lin D. Roosevelt in 1936. Although shifting Democratic in the last 12 yearsreceived 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 ObamaIn the 2008 presidential election,and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and John McCain and Sarah P ...
John KerryIn the 2004 US presidential campaign, Howard Dean definedas 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 BidenIn the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama andwon 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, Senatorof Minnesota, and Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas
John F. Kennedy... o planned the Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba, whichwas 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 McCainIn 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 theas a portion of the Cape and Islands district, which includes all of Marth ...
Harry ReidOn August 9, 2011, Senate Majority Leaderappointed 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 conductoralso 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 JohnsonIt 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 Senatorand 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 Democrat59% to 37%. In 2008, however, Democrat Barack Obama won Salt Lake County b ...
Michele BachmannIn September 2011, after Republican presidential candidaterepeated an anecdote shared with her that the HPV vaccine causes "mental r ...
Bob HuffCalifornia 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 LimIn 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 Democratin 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 KerryIn the 2004 presidential electionwon 52% of the vote, whereas George W. Bush won 46% of the vote. In the 20 ...
Franklin D. RooseveltPresidentauthorized 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 Presidentin 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, whilereceived 44%
Andrew JacksonThe 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 NixonA 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 forin the 2008 Presidential election. Obama garnered 56% of the vote, while J ...
Gloria J. RomeroCalifornia 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 McCainU.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 thegovernment in Chile by military leaders under Augusto Pinochet, produced b ...
Brad HenryVice 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. Presidentstarted phasing out price controls on petroleum, while he created the Depa ...
John McCain... won nine of these eleven states (for 222 electoral votes), with Republicantaking a combined 49 electoral votes from Texas and Georgia
Robert La Follette... the first half of the 20th century, Wisconsin's politics were dominated byand 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 Democratby a landslide
Arturo Toscanini... icordi arranged a Roman premiere for the opera, even though this meant thatcould not conduct it as Puccini had hoped—Toscanini was fully engaged at L ...
Pietro BadoglioOn 5 May, Marshalled 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 Senatorto 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 theas 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 overin 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 endorsedfor 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 RooseveltPresidentmoved 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 ofto 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 favoredover Barack Obama in 2008
Mark Hatfield... 23,756,000 deer hides), to initiating politicians into their club includingand 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 ClintonThen-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 for59% 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 byin 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 CaseyMt. 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, Democratcame 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, whileonly 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 theas 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 Governoras the tie-breaker
Barack Obama... independently from US-led NATO forces. The administration of U.S. Presidentannounced 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 Senatorand junior Senator Scott Brow
Lyndon Johnson... gressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the county wasin 1964, although Bill Clinton and Barack Obama won pluralities in 1992 an ...
Richard NixonFollowing Eisenhower's nomination, the convention chose young Senatorof 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 Presidentof 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 Senatorto 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). Presidentwas 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 wasin 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, whenof 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 Presidentand 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 Presidentto 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 Senatorsand Scott Brown
Edmund Muskie... nly the Democrats don't go too far left," he had insisted. Johnson had feltwould be more likely to defeat Nixon; however, he declined an invitation t ...
Barack ObamaOn 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 Governorto 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 theby Republican Doug Whitsett. Federally, Greg Walden, a Republican, is Klam ...
Thomas J. Walsh... day of Francis McDonnell’s disappearance, Richmond County District Attorneyannounced 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 Leaderof South Dakota as trustworthy. He also reveals that President George W. B ...
Richard NixonAfter US Presidentmade his famous 1972 visit to China, a wave of exchanges took place betwee ...
Joseph McCarthyIn return, the Democrats criticized Senatorand other GOP conservatives as "fearmongers" who were recklessly trampling ...
William F. Knowland... wever, Stevens was favored by Attorney General Herbert Brownell, by Senatorof 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 Presidentand greatly expanded as part of his New Deal
John C. FrémontEven 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, Democratwon on a populist platform over the Republican incumbent following a very ...
John Kerry... dominated by the Democratic Party in national elections. In 2004, Democratreceived 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 metin Beijing to establish relations with the United States. In the same year ...
John Olver... of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented byof Amherst since June 1991. Massachusetts is currently represented in the ...
Phil Gramm... omination against underdog candidates such as the more conservative Senatorof 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 ofand 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 wasin 1976
Happy Chandler... dent of the PCL, took on baseball commissioners Kenesaw Mountain Landis andat 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 Presidentsand Bill Clinton have also used The World Almanac as a resource
Arlen Specter... the more conservative Senator Phil Gramm of Texas and more moderate Senatorof Pennsylvania. However populist Pat Buchanan upset Dole in the early New ...
Lewis CassCass 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 andtried 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. Lieutenantwas 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 Democratwinning 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. Presidentinitiated 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 Presidentduring 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. HardingMarion is best known as the hometown and burial location of Presidentand 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 McCainIn the 2008 electionsreceived 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. RooseveltBlack was an ardent supporter of Presidentand 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. KennedySheen 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 Senatorof 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 governorreceived 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. Presidentcalled 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 ofand 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 SolisAccording 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, Justicewrote 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 BraunIn 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 Generalin the television special The Missiles of October; White House Chief of St ...
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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 mathematicianin 1913
Richard Blumenthal... ocrat Jim Himes in the Congressional Election in 2008. Joseph Lieberman andare 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 Senatorand junior Senator Scott Brown
Franklin D. Roosevelt... uch as releasing recent income tax forms, became expected. Presidents sincehad 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 presidentin 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 Senatoron 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 untilchanged 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 bytaken 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, andwon 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 Presidenton October 30, 2009
Richard Nixon... ay that the Kennedy campaign was desperate to win the 1960 election againstand 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 Princein 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 2008received 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, withreceiving 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, whenwas 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 EastlandDoddsville 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); Republicanwon 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 Presidentfollowing 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 Senatorand Ed Rendell received 50.6% of the vote against Lynn Swann
Barack ObamaIn September 2010, Presidentinformed Congress that the State of Emergency in effect since September 14 ...
Lamar Alexander... Hampshire primary, with Dole finishing second and former Tennessee governorfinishing third. Publisher Steve Forbes also ran and broadcast a stream of ...
Bill Bradley... e tax base, eliminate many deductions, and reduce rates. In 1983, Democratsand Dick Gephardt had offered a proposal to clean up/broaden the tax base; ...
Dianne FeinsteinU.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% forin 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, fromto 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 Democratand 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, Democratwon Salt Lake County by an extremely narrow margin, 48.17% to 48.09, over ...
Barbara BoxerU.S. Senate: California(Democrat
John Olver... of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented byof 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 MartinMartin 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 Presidentsent 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, Senatorrailed 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 NixonPresidentdispatched 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. RooseveltPresidentfound Johnson to be a welcome ally and conduit for information, particular ...
John McCain... and Republicans, the county trends Republican in statewide elections. Whilereceived 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 politiciansand 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 Senatorsand Russ Feingold, and Congressman David Obey
Homer E. CapehartFrom 1959 to 1963 Vance Hartke andwere 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 andall 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 HartkeFrom 1959 to 1963and 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 Lieutenantsand 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 SenateBoone 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 wasin 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 candidatefor 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, Democratreceived 50.14% of the vote and Bush received 49.57% a difference of 552 v ...
Al GoreWhile serving in the Army,was stationed at Fort Rucker before his five-month deployment in the Vietn ...
Indiana SenateLawrence 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 offormer 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 ambassadorin 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, Republicanwon 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 Interiorto 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 Presidentwas responsible for establishing the Environmental Protection Agency in 19 ...
Barack Obama... This has made Loudoun more competitive. Nevertheless, after giving Senatornearly 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 Generaladvised 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 Presidentestablished the War Refugee Board, which achieved some success in saving E ...
Herb KohlIn 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 toand 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 electpresident 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, Democratreceived 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 candidateand 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 defeatingof Tennessee 24-23
Horace Mann... school system. He vigorously attacked progressive school reformers such asand 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, Democratwon 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, whileand 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.) TheBlackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor retraces the history of ...
Lucius Cornelius SullaFlorence was established byin 80 BC as a settlement for his veteran soldiers and was named originally ...
William Seward... newspaper, the Jeffersonian, which reached 15,000 circulation. Whig leaderfound 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 Democratwith 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. Senatorand 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." Senatorsimilarly 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 andwon 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 WebbThe 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, and1876), 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 sincein 1964. In recent years, however, the county has experienced rapid growth ...
Andrew Jackson... nly the faces of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson andwere 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 Presidentin 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. Presidentwas 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 ofdistricts 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 Republicanwith 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 andhad 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 forin 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 andfought a prolonged battle for the Democratic nomination. McCain introduced ...
Richard Nixon... financial hardship and instability in the country. The United States undersupported 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 casewere 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 nomineeand defended vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro from criticism ov ...
Andrew Johnson... g his loyalty to the Union should a civil war break out, Tennessee Governorused 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 Presidentpresented, 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. Democratreceived 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 JohnsonOn 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 asIn 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 presidentdied. (Truman's funeral on December 28, 1972 had been one of Johnson's las ...
Thomas SpaldingThe County is named for former United States representative and senator
Alexandre Millerand... ublican Defence at the turn of the century (alongside independent socialist)
Richard NixonIn 1972, United States Presidentannounced 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 Governornamed the then mile and one-half (2.41 km) race in honor of the colt Preak ...
François MitterrandWhenwas 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 candidatewho 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, whenof Tennessee retired, until his resignation from the Senate, Dole was the ...
Verdi's... ertoire of prominent opera houses. Franco Zeffirelli's 1986 film version ofopera 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 ofdistricts 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 Donto 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 ColeU.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 CarrolltonCarroll 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 Presidentand Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both victims of assassination, and Joseph P ...
John E. SununuSenator(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 NixonStarting in 1969 Presidentstarted the process of "Vietnamization", pulling out American forces and r ...
Benjamin Harrison... n). The plan worked, and Michigan split its vote: nine votes for Republicanand 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 byin the United States Congress; a portion of the county is in Indiana's 6th ...
Richard NixonOn November 25, 1969, Presidentunilaterally 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 supportedin 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 driverat his home race at Buenos Aires and a victory in the non-championship Int ...
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Richard Rogers... eodesic domes while the George Pompidou Center, designed by Renzo Piano and, which opened in 1977, was a prominent example. As the decade drew to a c ...
Lucius Licinius Lucullus... when a temple was dedicated to her in the Velabrum in the Campus Martius by, using booty from his 151–150 BC campaign in Spain. The temple was destro ...

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Henry Dodge... as a private in an independent company that was taken into federal service., a Michigan territorial militia colonel who would prove to be one of the ...
Scott Brown... honoring Doug. Nov. 13, 2006 was Doug Flutie Day in Boston. Flutie endorsedfor U.S. Senate in Massachusetts for 2010, and the Flutie Brothers Band pl ...
particularly the United States Senate... amongst women, and unprecedented numbers of women elected to public office,
John Bell... appealed to sentimental attachment to the United States. Their favorite wasof Tennessee
John Glenn... he 2003 Columbia disaster. Discovery also carried Project Mercury astronaut, who was 77 at the time, back into space during STS-95 on October 29, 199 ...
Monroe... l became the first president and vice president team to be re-elected sinceand Tompkins in 1820
Gov. Alexander Mouton... as many weeks by the state legislature in 1843 during the administration of. The parish was created from Natchitoches Parish on March 7, 1843. Since ...
Giuseppe Verdi... n practice with drama and opera at one time. The opera is rarely performed.and librettist Arrigo Boito adapted Shakespeare's play to Otello, an Itali ...
Francis "The Swamp Fox" Marion... 217 in 2000. Its county seat is the city of Marion and is named for General, an officer in the Revolutionary War
William Henry Harrison... expedition to the west coast. A disputed 1804 treaty between Quashquame and(future ninth President of the U.S.) that surrendered much of the future s ...
John Glenn... he best of them all. The Mercury Seven were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper,, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton
Banks... keep a few students until April 23, when the excitement of the approach of's army caused him to close the school and send the cadets home to fight."
William Paterson... t had employed Tories. Haswell was found guilty of seditious libel by judge, and sentenced to a two month imprisonment and a $200 fine
MarcosDuring thedictatorship, the region of the Manila Metropolitan area was enacted as an ...
Obama... d would receive copies of the swearing-in invitation and program, photos ofand Vice President , and a color print of the ceremony
Richard J.Richard M. Daley is the fourth of seven children and eldest son ofand Eleanor Daley, the late Mayor and First Lady of Chicago. Originally fr ...
Stephen Lynch... usetts's 9th congressional district, and has been represented since 2001 by. The state's senior (Class II) member of the United States Senate, re-ele ...
JFK... adversary Papa Midnite, a Vodun shaman. He is accompanied by the spirit of, who has to hold his brain in place from his infamous wound. He eventuall ...
Vance... r and statesman of early North Carolina, under whom North Carolina Governorclerked as an attorney. Woodfin, North Carolina is the only municipality b ...
George Brown... a loyal friend of Macdonald, with whom he created the Great Coalition within 1864. The purpose of the Great Coalition was to end the political insta ...
former President Lyndon Johnson... ular bluebonnets, some planted in an effort by "Lady Bird" Johnson, wife of
John BrownFrankfort had a post office by 1794, with Daniel Weisiger as postmaster., a Virginia lawyer and statesman, built a home, now called Liberty Hall, ...
Verdi... for the title role; Eugenio Giraldoni, whose father had originated multipleroles, became the first Scarpia. The young Enrico Caruso had hoped to crea ...
Scott Brown... was a year of political success for the GOP, starting with the upset win ofin the Massachusetts special Senate election for the seat held for many de ...
Samuel Adams... e arrangement of the British Commonwealth, by 1774 American writers such as, James Wilson, and Thomas Jefferson were arguing that Parliament was the ...
Carter... e agencies, and then as an assistant attorney general. He spent most of theyears teaching at the University of Chicago, where he became one of the fi ...
Henry... d, later on, sign the Declaration of Independence. His grandson, also named(1770–1846), had a long career in politics. He was Governor of South Carol ...
Jack... s Crassus (played by Laurence Olivier). According to Hearst Over Hollywood,and stayed at the house for part of their honeymoon. They watched their fi ...
George HearstHearst was born in San Francisco to millionaire mining engineerand Phoebe Apperson Hearst. George Hearst's paternal grandfather, John Hea ...
Josiah Wood... t Allison College was organised. The first two students, Howard Sprague and, graduated in May 1863. Mount Allison was the first university in the Bri ...
President... treet in Manhattan to the college. The house had been a home for the futureand First Lady. Today it is known as The Roosevelt House of Public Policy ...
Independent... 1999, by a bipartisan vote of 343-86 (Republicans 205–16; Democrats 138–69;0–1), two months after the Senate had already passed its version of the b ...
Quayle... tee's Health Care Coalition, and was deputy director of the Tennessee Bush-'92 campaign
Huey "Kingfish" LongWinnfield was the home of three Louisiana governors:, Oscar K. Allen and Earl K. Long. Huey became Governor, U.S. Senator, and ...
MitterrandGiscard was defeated in the 1981 presidential election by. At the time, Chirac ran against Giscard in the first round of runoff vot ...
CatilineSallust's account of theconspiracy (De coniuratione Catilinae or Bellum Catilinae) and of the Jugu ...
Jesse JacksonWhen King and his allies returned to the south, they left, a seminary student who had previously joined the movement in the South, ...
Samuel Atkins Eliot... a change in his family's economic circumstances—the failure of his father,, in the Panic of 1857. Eliot had to face in the fact that "he had nothing ...
Paris GibsonGreat Falls was founded in 1883. Businessmanvisited the Great Falls of the Missouri River in 1880, and was deeply impr ...
Roger Sherman... stitutions influenced the US Constitution as one of the leading authors wasof New Haven
Mike Smith... Highway 167. Funding for the structure was obtained by former State Senatorof Winnfield
Mary... In 1954, Landrieu married Verna Satterlee, with whom he had nine children (, Mark, Melanie, Michelle, Mitchell, Madeleine, Martin, Melinda, and Mauri ...
Truman... te had been going on since 1943, and had nearly come to fruition during theadministration in 1950 when a statehood bill passed in the U.S. House of R ...
George Murphy... ai". His first leading role was in the 1949 film Border Incident with actor. He was the first Hispanic actor to appear on the front cover of Life mag ...
Franklin... he last living member of the Coolidge administration. He also outlived bothand Eleanor Roosevelt who died in 1945 and 1962, respectively. By the time ...
"Fighting Bob" La FolletteMadison is associated withand the Progressive movement. La Follette's magazine, The Progressive, fou ...
John Tipton... d, was going to be built, Capt. Meedy Shields who was the cousin of Generaltalked the surveyor, John Seymour, into putting it through his land. In re ...
Charles Curtis... the big screen in Whispers Like Thunder, with Kingsley playing the role of, the first part-Native American to become vice-president of the United St ...
Truman... rmulating policies regarding the atomic bomb and relations with the Sovietswas guided by the U.S. State Department and ignored Eisenhower and the Pen ...
Ramsey... yer, writer, active abolitionist, and personal friend of Minnesota Governor. He was on the state's Republican electoral ticket with Abraham Lincoln i ...
Eduardo... drew inspiration from such famous figures of Neapolitan comedy as Totò, andand Peppino De Filippo
1 President... des Scholars and 24 Marshall Scholars. Additional notable graduates includeof the United States, 2 Nobel Prize recipients (including the first Americ ...
W.H.F. "Rooney" Lee... ee, and Col. John R. Chambliss, the latter replacing the wounded Brig. Gen.) between the Union army and Washington, moving north through Rockville to ...
General Benjamin Smith... ballroom. It was originally named Smith Hall after North Carolina Governor, who was a special aide to George Washington during the American Revoluti ...
Catiline... story of the memorable year 63. Sallust adopts the usually accepted view of, and describes him as the deliberate foe of law, order and morality, and ...
Senate... nted by the Governor General. The Parliament was bicameral, consisting of aand a House of Representatives. In 1971, the Senate was abolished, and the ...
John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald... arly political and personal influence was his affable maternal grandfather,, a former mayor of Boston and U.S. Representative. Kennedy spent his four ...
controversial west coast relocationThe origins of Shea Stadium go back to theof the Dodgers and the Giants which left New York without a National Leagu ...
James Webb... of shame." Two prominent early supporters of the project, H. Ross Perot and, withdrew their support once they saw the design. Said Webb, “I never in ...
McCulloughForrest's defenders consisted of his Tennessee escort company,'s Missouri Regiment, Crossland's Kentucky Brigade, Roddey's Alabama Briga ...
New York State Senate... of New York's 27th congressional district (served by Brian Higgins) and the57th district (served by Catharine Young). Prior to 2003, the county was p ...
Roger Sherman... ,581 at the 2010 census. The town is named for New Haven's Founding Father,
Massachusetts Senate... includes the towns of Abington and Whitman. The town is represented in theas a part of two districts: by Thomas Kennedy in the Second Plymouth and B ...
Henryk Dąbrowski's... itions were first based on Polish alliances with post-revolutionary France.Polish Legions fought in French campaigns outside of Poland, hoping that t ...
Governor Senter... s formerly called Chaldea, and was later renamed to Senterville in honor ofof Tennessee. In April 1848, the courthouse, constructed at the expense of ...
W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel... a special election against the sitting Governor of Texas, radio personality. Johnson lost the election
Long... pulation was 5,749 at the 2000 census. It has long been associated with thefaction of the Louisiana Democratic Party and was home to three governors ...
Richard Taylor... rrest arrived at Selma, "horse and rider covered in blood." He advised Gen., departmental commander, to leave the city. Taylor did so after giving Fo ...
Charles HenryIn 1897 the Interurban Railroad was born in Anderson., a large stock holder, coined the term "Interurban" in 1893. It continued ...
Ben... d two daughters: Susan and Beth. Democratic Governor Tony Knowles appointedto the Alaska Senate in 2001, where he served as the president of the stat ...
George Murphy... i, David Manners, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, Chester Morris, Jean Muir,, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Irving Pichel, Dick Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Edwi ...
William Moultrie... he Cherokee War and remained loyal to the British Crown. Moultrie's brotherof whom Fort Moultrie in South Carolina is named was a general in the Cont ...