| Abraham Lincoln | ... , and imperfect but clear English on the other") to United States President | , proposing an "alliance" between the two democratic nations and offering ... |
| Greg Craig | ... president when he was gloomiest and getting him to add past Kennedy staffer | to his defense team, which helped improve the president's fortunes. In the ... |
| Archibald Cox | ... cre", U.S. President Richard Nixon's firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor | , following Cox's request for tapes of his Oval Office conversations. Nixo ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... vate companies and chairperson of interest groups; while Pierre Trudeau and | returned to legal practice. Former prime ministers also commonly penned au ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... y (founded in 1854), was an American political party founded around 1791 by | and James Madison |
| 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 ... |
| Two-Face | ... om Batman's own rogues gallery (such as the Joker, Poison Ivy, the Riddler, | , the Scarecrow, Bane, Killer Croc, and Harley Quinn) have been imprisoned ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... n envelope of anti-government materials that included a bumper sticker with | slogan, "When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the ... |
| Grover Cleveland | ... icted for defrauding the Post Office, they renamed it on March 5, 1885, for | , the newly elected President of the United States |
| Adam W. Snyder | ... g to the west. In the First Battle of Kellogg's Grove, militia commanded by | pursued a British Band raiding party of about thirty warriors. Three Illin ... |
| Peter Hogg | ... cumstances, at the expense of the government powers. Constitutional scholar | has approved of the generous approach in some cases, although for others h ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... hind Herbert Hoover in the 1928 presidential election. Hearst's support for | at the 1932 Democratic National Convention, via his allies William Gibbs M ... |
| John Kerry | In the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, | carried the county by a 6.6% margin over George W. Bush, with Kerry carryi ... |
| Robert Ingersoll | ... is autobiography, “In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of | 's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confir ... |
| Michael Farris | ... Bible, takes a similarly critical view of More, as does the American writer | . The novelist Hilary Mantel portrays More as a religious and masochistic ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... in the U.S. since Medicaid began in the 1960s. Senator Hatch and First Lady | also played major roles in SCHIP passing |
| Robert Bork | On October 20, 1973 Solicitor General | was instrumental in the "Saturday Night Massacre", U.S. President Richard ... |
| Noel Pearson | ... (series 3), in which she turns her famous "please explain?" phrase on Mike. | appears as an interviewee later in the same episode. Other appearances inc ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... Laurent was ranked #4 on a survey of the first 20 prime ministers (through | ) of Canada done by Canadian historians, and used by J. L. Granatstein and ... |
| Paul Martin | ... hies Tupper, for example or published their memoirs such as Diefenbaker and | |
| Oscar Goodman | ... rmer presidential candidate and Secretary of Education in the Philippines), | (Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada), Harry Arista Mackey (Mayor of Philadelphia), ... |
| David Risstrom | ... idate Steve Fielding was elected on preferences over the Australian Greens' | , an unintended consequence of these strategies. In Tasmania, Christine Mi ... |
| Fred Whitlam | ... children (he has a younger sister, Freda) born to Martha (née Maddocks) and | . His father was a federal public servant who later served as Commonwealth ... |
| Jean Lapierre | ... hartrand, and François Gérin, along with two Liberals, Gilles Rocheleau and | . The first Bloquiste candidate to be elected was Gilles Duceppe, then a u ... |
| Keith Ellison | ... n Minnesota's 5th congressional district, represented by Minneapolis lawyer | , a Democrat |
| John Calvin | ... lt of his sin by imputation. Redemption by Jesus Christ is the only remedy. | defined original sin in his Institutes of the Christian Religion as follow ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | ... rs." Ted now served as a role model for Maria Shriver, Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, | , Joseph Patrick Kennedy II, and other family members. The Boston Globe wr ... |
| Eric Holder | Richard L. Thornburgh (1977) and | (2001) served as acting attorney general in their capacity as deputy attor ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | On August 27, 1856, | spoke at a rally in Bronson Park, promoting the presidential candidacy of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lord Coleridge | ... city (Re Stepney Election Petition, Isaacson v Durant (1886) 17 QBD 54 (per | CJ)). Attachment to the person of the reigning Sovereign is not sufficient ... |
| Trent Lott | ... for 2001–2002, 50% more than the previous year. Shortly afterwards, Senator | made comments at a Strom Thurmond birthday celebration in which he said th ... |
| Bruce Hyman | ... original novels), and there is a foreword by Simon Jones, introductions by | and Dirk Maggs, and other introductory notes from other members of the cas ... |
| Kim Campbell | ... r B. Pearson, who acted as Chancellor of Carleton University; Joe Clark and | , who became university professors, Clark also consultant and Campbell wor ... |
| Barack Obama | ... won pluralities in the county in 1992 and 1996. However, in 2008, Democrat | won 54% of the county's vote |
| Cyrus Vance | ... attan's Borough President is Scott Stringer, elected as a Democrat in 2005. | , a Democrat, has been the District Attorney of New York County since 2010 ... |
| Sarah T. Hughes | ... as assassinated in Dealey Plaza in Dallas. He was sworn in by Federal Judge | , a family friend, making him the first President sworn in by a woman. He ... |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | ... of Balls Bluff took place near Leesburg on October 21, 1861. Future jurist | was critically wounded in that battle along the Potomac River. During the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nicholas Katzenbach | | (1964–1965), Ramsey Clark (1966–1967) and William P. Barr (1991) served as ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... and the spurious “socialist” Mensheviks in the Petrograd Soviet. Guided by | 's leadership and his firm grasp of scientific Marxist theory, the Party l ... |
| Edmond Stanley | The first Superior Court Judge in Malaya originated from Penang when Sir | assumed office as the First Recorder (later, Judge) of the Supreme Court i ... |
| Alan García | ... resident of Peruvian Chamber of Deputies during the government of President | |
| John F. Kennedy, Jr. | ... tic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The accident killed its pilot | , and also his wife and sister-in-law. As patriarch, Ted consoled his exte ... |
| Ramsey Clark | Nicholas Katzenbach (1964–1965), | (1966–1967) and William P. Barr (1991) served as acting attorney general i ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... osition to them resulted in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolves, authored by | and James Madison, which were foundational to the states rights theory tha ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... to contest elections and oppose the programs of Secretary for the Treasury | . Jefferson needed to have a nationwide party to counteract the Federalist ... |
| Juan Ponce Enrile | On 1986, a faction of AFP headed by then Defense Minister | and AFP vice-chief of staff Lt. General Fidel V. Ramos took a stand agains ... |
| Williams Carter Wickham | ... t Transcontinental Railroad. He was recruited by former Confederate General | to become a major investor and guiding light for a southern railroad. He h ... |
| Eric Holder | The current attorney general, | , was confirmed to office by the Senate on February 2, 2009, and sworn int ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... n a majority in the county before 2008 was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, although | won pluralities in the county in 1992 and 1996. However, in 2008, Democrat ... |
| E.C. Quist | ... mbly met on 20 February, with Nkrumah as Leader of Government Business, and | as President of the Assembly |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... e refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" (from | ). He also carried an envelope of anti-government materials that included ... |
| Daniel Dulany | “Frederick Town” was laid out by | — a land speculator — in 1745; it was settled by a German immigrant party ... |
| Peter Angelos | In 1993, Tom Clancy joined a group of investors that included | and bought the Baltimore Orioles from Eli Jacobs. In 1998, he reached an a ... |
| Joseph Holt | ... town was changed to Holtsville in 1860, in honor of U.S. Postmaster General | . As of 1874, Holtsville consisted of 15 houses, a school, and a general s ... |
| 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 ... |
| Henryk Woliński | ... Bartoszewski, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Aleksander Kamiński, Jan Dobraczyński, | , and others |
| Office of Legal Counsel | ... acy. In mid-1974, Nixon nominated him as Assistant Attorney General for the | . After Nixon's resignation, the nomination was continued by President Ger ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... anted in conjunction with the university's celebration in 1993 by President | . Another university landmark is the Confederate monument, known to studen ... |
| Nixon Administration | ... ther investigations in the 1970s found that they were not at fault, and the | reversed all dishonorable discharges |
| Ferdinand Eberstadt | ... William Matheson, Marshall Field III, Ronald Conklin, Harold Dimppel, Sr., | and George McKesson. In 1926, Lloyd Neck and West Neck became incorporated ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | The presidents selected by the party were | (1801–1809), James Madison (1809–1817), and James Monroe (1817–1825). Afte ... |
| Sol Linowitz | ... position. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter reopened negotiations, appointing | as co-negotiator without Senate confirmation, and Helms and Strom Thurmond ... |
| James Baker | ... rn personalities visited the capital such as former U.S. Secretary of State | and Pope John Paul II. The former visit came amidst an historical setting ... |
| Henry L. Stimson | Named after | , United States Secretary of State in the Hoover Administration (1929–1933 ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... eneficiary of the rebellion due to its sheltering of the rebel ringleaders. | broke from other New Yorkers, including major landowners with claims on Ve ... |
| William O. Douglas | ... ng for a dozen years, during which Roosevelt appointees (led by Hugo Black, | , and Frank Murphy) established a body of civil liberties law. In 1938, Ju ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... ich was shouted by John Wilkes Booth immediately after the assassination of | ) and "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the bl ... |
| Deputy Attorney General | | Mark Filip was asked to assume the position of acting attorney general by ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... unsel. After Nixon's resignation, the nomination was continued by President | , and Scalia was confirmed by the Senate on August 22, 1974 |
| William Henry Coleman | ... urage other deserters. In 1915 an inquiry was initiated by U.S. congressmen | and Frank L. Greene. This resulted in the U.S. Army's admitting its denial ... |
| John Calvin | ... o's notion of original sin was strongly affirmed by the Protestant Reformer | . Calvin believed that humans inherit Adamic guilt and are in a state of s ... |
| Charles Curtis | ... rity coalesced to give him the nomination on the first ballot, with Senator | named as his running mate |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... 1974–92, and served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the government of | from June 1983 to October 1989. He was made a life peer in 1992 |
| Hugo Haase | ... sisting of three MSPD and three USPD members. Led by Ebert for the MSPD and | for the USPD it sought to act as a provisional cabinet of ministers. But t ... |
| Mark Pryor | Following the storm, U.S. Senator | had criticized the 's response to the recovery and cleanup efforts |
| Richard M. Daley | ... commuter airline service to the public, peaking in the late 1980s as Mayor | took office. During the 1960s to 1980s, typical destinations were Springfi ... |
| David T. Caldwell | Former Second Judicial District Court Judge | (1925–1993), based in Jonesboro, was born in Saline and graduated from Sal ... |
| Sam Houston | Torrey Trading Houses opened as a part of the | peace policy to develop friendly relationships with native tribes. They bo ... |
| Grover Cleveland | ... stein-Friesian Association of America. Susan Cleveland, sister of President | married into the Yeomans family |
| Alyson Huber | ... crat Cathleen Galgiani while the 10th, 15th, and 26th are held by Democrats | and Joan Buchanan, and Republican Bill Berryhill, respectively. In the Sta ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... years in Charlottesville, in 1971, Scalia entered public service. President | appointed him as the general counsel for the Office of Telecommunications ... |
| William Jennings Bryan | ... son Brady, a character in the 1955 play Inherit the Wind loosely based upon | . In the climactic scene of the 1960 movie version, Brady argues, "Natural ... |
| James A. Garfield | During the American Civil War, Union troops under future president | occupied the town from December 1861 until the end of the war, despite sev ... |
| Assistant Attorney General | ... left office 24 hours later. On September 17, President Bush announced that | for the DOJ Civil Division Peter Keisler would become acting attorney gene ... |
| James Monroe | ... the party were Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809), James Madison (1809–1817), and | (1817–1825). After 1800, the party dominated Congress and most state gover ... |
| Barack Obama | ... nty vote, respectively. However in the 2008 Presidential Election, Democrat | captured McHenry County with 52% of the vote |
| Eugenio Espejo | ... bamba in 1707, and the printer, independence precursor, and medical pioneer | , born in 1747 in Quito |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... s Rousseau (1712–1778); the future US Presidents John Adams (1735–1826) and | (1743–1826); Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790); the German landscape artist Pr ... |
| Edmundo O'Gorman | ... exico. Other Mexicans of Irish descent are: Romulo O'Farril, Juan O'Gorman, | , Anthony Quinn, Alejo Bay (Governor of the state of Sonora), Famed Conduc ... |
| Jim Doyle | ... pson became the Libertarian party nominee in April and ran against Democrat | , the state Attorney General, and incumbent Republican Governor Scott McCa ... |
| Coolidge | ... hite House at the time leading up to the Great Depression — first President | in 1928, and then later followed by President Hoover later in 1931 — choos ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... n County is Arkansas's 65th county, formed on March 28, 1871, and named for | , the sixteenth President of the United States. It is an alcohol prohibiti ... |
| 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 ... |
| Harlan F. Stone | ... d Frank Murphy) established a body of civil liberties law. In 1938, Justice | wrote the famous "footnote four" in United States v. Carolene Products Co. ... |
| James Monroe | | constructed and resided at Oak Hill near Aldie after his presidency. Ameri ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... st Stage of Imperialism (1965). The work is self-defined as an extension of | 's Imperialism, the Last Stage of Capitalism (1916), in which Lenin argues ... |
| John Gomery | ... stigate what has come to be known as the Sponsorship Scandal, and nominated | to head it |
| Richard M. Nixon | ... ld between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Vice President | |
| Rudy Giuliani | Soon after the September 11 attacks, Mayor | , Governor George Pataki, and President George W. Bush vowed to rebuild th ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | | , who was serving as ambassador to France at the time, refused to be alarm ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... to the complexity of city life, with its banks and factories. The American | was a representative agrarian who built Jeffersonian Democracy around the ... |
| Ted Poe | ... Military Veterans Post Office" in a ceremony hosted by U.S. Congressperson | |
| Robert M. Marionneaux | Louisiana State Senator | resides on a cattle farm in Grosse Tete but practices law in Baton Rouge |
| Bob Black | ... ards mysticism, occultism, and irrationalism. Bey did not respond publicly. | wrote a rejoinder to Bookchin in Anarchy after Leftism |
| Ferdinand Marcos | ... ion of Martial Law on 1972 - Martial Law in the Philippines, then President | used the AFP to arrest, torture or kill his political opponents and theref ... |
| Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf | ... l Assembly for a four-year term. Present members are: Doris Leuthard (CDP), | (Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland), Ueli Maurer (SPP), Didier ... |
| Assistant Attorney General | | for the DOJ Civil Division Stuart M. Gerson was acting attorney general fr ... |
| 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 ... |
| Kenneth Feinberg | ... the families, and recommended the appointment of his former chief of staff | as Special Master of the government's September 11th Victim Compensation F ... |
| Frank Murphy | ... ring which Roosevelt appointees (led by Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and | ) established a body of civil liberties law. In 1938, Justice Harlan F. St ... |
| Fred M. Vinson | The city was home to | , 13th Chief Justice of the United States |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Hardy holds the distinction of playing both Winston Churchill and | , and having played both roles on more than one occasion. He played Church ... |
| Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander | ... Penn Law's first female graduate was Carrie Burnham Kilgore, in 1883, while | , who was the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in the U.S., ... |
| Chris Christie | In the 2009 race for Governor, Republican | received 43.6% of the vote in South Hackensack (333 cast), ahead of Democr ... |
| John S. Mosby | ... d in the battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville. Confederate partisan | based his operations in Loudoun and adjoining Fauquier County (for a more ... |
| 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 ... |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah | ... ped found the All India Home Rule League in 1916-18 with G. S. Khaparde and | and Annie Besant. After years of trying to reunite the moderate and radica ... |
| Kay Hagan | ... eld the seat for a single term, losing her 2008 re-election bid to Democrat | |
| Louis St. Laurent | ... deaths; Wilfrid Laurier dying while still in the post; and Charles Tupper, | , and John Turner, each before they returned to private business. Meighen ... |
| Wells Spicer | ... watchmaker from New York, one of three men implicated in the robbery. Judge | issued an arrest warrant for Holliday. The Earps found witnesses who could ... |
| 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 ... |
| Antonius van den Broek | ... t Z = 79 on the periodic table), a month after Rutherford's paper appeared, | first formally suggested that the central charge and number of electrons i ... |
| Justice Byron White | ... Anthony Kennedy, Justice David Souter, and Justice Clarence Thomas joined. | wrote an opinion concurring in the judgment, which Justice Harry Blackmun ... |
| John Lind | ... al answer to the Declaration, but instead secretly commissioned pamphleteer | to publish a response, which was entitled Answer to the Declaration of the ... |
| Leonard W. Hall | ... ld solve political problems with professional skill. There were exceptions, | , for example, who as chairman of the Republican National Committee, tried ... |
| Mary McAleese | ... onoured with a state funeral which was attended by the President of Ireland | , Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former Taoisigh John Bruton, Albert Reynolds and ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... ssian Germans, along with all other farms and businesses, when Stalin ended | 's New Economic Policy in 1929 and began the forced collectivization of ag ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | The Act of Incorporation, signed by President | on March 3, 1863, created the National Academy of Sciences and named 50 ch ... |
| Morris Dees | ... ould be the victims of lingering racism." Responding with an open letter to | , president of the SPLC, Horowitz stated that his reminder that "the slave ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... tone of the Clinton campaign and what he saw as racially tinged remarks by | . Kennedy gave an endorsement to Obama on January 28, 2008, despite appeal ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... other cities during the colonial era. Ben Franklin, George Washington, and | were known to have regularly eaten and served ice cream. First Lady Dolley ... |
| Chris Christie | ... ma, who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican | received 68% of the vote, defeating Democrat Jon Corzine, who received aro ... |
| Jean Chrétien | In late 2004, Niyazov met with former Canadian Prime Minister | to discuss an oil contract in Turkmenistan for a Canadian corporation. In ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... federal military reservation established by President of the United States | in 1802. It consists of about 16,000 acres including the campus of the U.S ... |
| Robert Borden | ... e after failing to win a riding. Following Meighen into civilian life were: | , who served as Chancellor of Queen's and McGill Universities, as well as ... |
| Chris Dodd | ... Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator Barack Obama intensified, as his friend | was also running. After the initial caucuses and primaries had been split ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... n remained neutral as the 2008 Democratic nomination battle between Senator | and Senator Barack Obama intensified, as his friend Chris Dodd was also ru ... |
| Dalton McGuinty | An unpopular provincial budget by Liberal Premier | , who broke a pledge not to raise taxes, hurt the federal party's numbers ... |
| Jonathan Harker | ... Stoker's Dracula, as the Count, masquerading as his own coach driver, takes | to his castle in the night. The following night, when Harker asks Dracula ... |
| John Cornyn | ... entative Rick Noriega of Houston, who failed to unseat Republican incumbent | |
| Jean Charest | ... government in May 1990 in response to the report of a commission headed by | that suggested changes to the Meech Lake Accord. Bouchard felt the recomme ... |
| Barack Obama | ... cratic nomination battle between Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator | intensified, as his friend Chris Dodd was also running. After the initial ... |
| Richard Nixon | NOAA was formed on October 3, 1970, after | proposed creating a new department to serve a national need "… for better ... |
| Peter Keisler | ... t Bush announced that Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ Civil Division | would become acting attorney general, pending a permanent appointment of a ... |
| John C. Calhoun | ... y movement gaining momentum, defenders of slavery such as John Randolph and | found it necessary to argue that the Declaration's assertion that "all men ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 62% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
| Serafino Mazzolini | ... Hitler and one to Benito Mussolini, the latter delivered by a delegation to | , a high-ranking diplomat in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dema ... |
| Oliver Ellsworth | ... met in Philadelphia was dominated by strong-government advocates. Delegate | of Connecticut argued that because the people could not be trusted (as exe ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... re allowed to consolidate. The legislation was signed into law by President | |
| Victoria Anne Reggie | Meanwhile, at a June 17, 1991 dinner party, Kennedy saw | , a Washington lawyer at Keck, Mahin & Cate, a divorced mother of two, and ... |
| William Jennings Bryan | ... l with him. Overall, God in the Christian Bible, is essentially omnipotent. | said this is roughly the view espoused by Matthew Harrison Brady, a charac ... |
| Justice Sandra Day O'Connor | ... ote an opinion concurring in the judgment, which Justice Harry Blackmun and | joined in full, and Justice John Paul Stevens joined in part. Justice Blac ... |
| Wilfrid Laurier | ... , both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their deaths | ;dying while still in the post; and Charles Tupper, Louis St. Laurent, and ... |
| Ralph Nader | ... rebel" corporate businessman with his trendy dress style and casual banter. | 's book, Unsafe at Any Speed, published in 1965, criticized a number of De ... |
| Calvin Coolidge | ... date in Presidential elections. The last Republican to carry the county was | in 1924. In the last five Presidential elections the Democratic candidate ... |
| Justice Anthony Kennedy | ... livered the opinion of the court, in which Chief Justice William Rehnquist, | , Justice David Souter, and Justice Clarence Thomas joined. Justice Byron ... |
| Lucien Bouchard | ... om the federal Progressive Conservative Party and Liberal Party. BQ founder | was a cabinet minister in the federal Progressive Conservative government ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alberto Gonzales | ... the future acting attorney general, to take office upon the resignation of | , effective September 17, 2007 |
| Barack Obama | ... publican John McCain. McCain won 69% of the vote and 55,187 votes. Democrat | won 30% of the vote and 23,726 votes. Other candidates won 648 votes and 1 ... |
| Ted Kennedy | ... ot to do so would amount to a tax increase. Working with Democratic Senator | , McCain was a strong proponent of comprehensive immigration reform, which ... |
| Mitch | Landrieu was the last white mayor of New Orleans until his son, | , was elected mayor of New Orleans in 2010 |
| John Pettit | ... uring the debate over the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1853, for example, Senator | of Indiana argued that "all men are created equal", rather than a "self-ev ... |
| Charles Tupper | ... ment until their deaths; Wilfrid Laurier dying while still in the post; and | , Louis St. Laurent, and John Turner, each before they returned to private ... |
| Robert Menzies | ... sion under Joseph Lyons and into the early stages of the World War II under | |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... served as American Consul in Sweden during the administration of President | , to be State Immigration Commissioner. On March 23, 1870 the Legislature ... |
| Gerard Butler | ... ival hunters, mutants and pirates along the way. It has been announced that | is in negotiations to star in the film while Antoine Fuqua in talks to dir ... |
| Brian Mulroney | ... as a cabinet minister in the federal Progressive Conservative government of | . The BQ seeks to create the conditions necessary for the political secess ... |
| Mahdi Abdul Hadi | ... nternational Affairs (PASSIA) was founded in Jerusalem in March 1987 by Dr. | and a group of Palestinian academics and intellectuals. PASSIA is not affi ... |
| Joseph P. Heflin | Former Crosby County administrative County Judge | represented District 85 in the Texas House of Representatives from 2007-20 ... |
| Washington Irving | ... Hollow, New York is the resting place of numerous famous figures, including | , whose story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set in the adjacent Old Dut ... |
| Bob Dole | ... who also happened to be the wife of long-time colleague and former Senator | of Kansas. Dole held the seat for a single term, losing her 2008 re-electi ... |
| Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf | ... r terms that run concurrently. The current President and Vice President are | and Ueli Maurer, respectively |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... in an early day motion (no. 351 of 1978–79), put down on March 22, 1979, by | |
| Dean Rusk | ... er the Liberty attack ended. In a message sent from U.S. Secretary of State | to U.S. Ambassador Walworth Barbour, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Rusk asked for " ... |
| Pierre Trudeau | Guests came from all walks of life, including politicians like | and Indira Gandhi, crusaders like Malcolm X, sports figures like Gordie Ho ... |
| Justice Clarence Thomas | ... stice William Rehnquist, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice David Souter, and | joined. Justice Byron White wrote an opinion concurring in the judgment, w ... |
| Paul Clement | On August 27, 2007, President Bush named Solicitor General | as the future acting attorney general, to take office upon the resignation ... |
| Caroline Kennedy | ... 25, 2008, where a video tribute to him was played. Introduced by his niece, | , the senator said, "It is so wonderful to be here. Nothing – nothing – is ... |
| Tim Healy | ... tate planned to place the new representative of the Crown, Governor-General | in a new, smaller residence, but because of death threats from the anti-tr ... |
| Gough Whitlam | ... ld. Margaret Dovey, the future wife of the former Australian prime minister | , finished sixth in the 200 yards breaststroke |
| Montgomery Blair | ... e her birth and subsequent adoption. This would make her a granddaughter of | , Postmaster General under President Abraham Lincoln, and a great-granddau ... |
| Arthur Goldberg | ... nd British were supporting Israel in the conflict, United States Ambassador | announced that the U.S. forces were hundreds of miles from the conflict. A ... |
| Isaac Butt | ... sts at their salon included Sheridan le Fanu, Charles Lever, George Petrie, | , William Rowan Hamilton and Samuel Ferguson |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... population was 359 at the 2000 census. The name is derived indirectly from | |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... uch remained a prominent government adviser during this time, and supported | 's domestic and foreign policy initiatives after his election |
| Isaac Isaacs | ... ay ceremony, Gough Whitlam was awarded a prize by the Governor-General, Sir | |
| Earl Warren | Johnson created a panel headed by Chief Justice | , known as the Warren Commission, to investigate Kennedy's assassination. ... |
| Janet Reno | ... orted the Brady bill and was in office in the beginnings of the Waco siege. | , President Clinton's nominee for attorney general, was confirmed on March ... |
| Rick Lazio | ... is represented by Steve Israel. A Democrat, Israel won the seat vacated by | in 2000 when he made his unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate. The third d ... |
| Rehnquist | ... regulation. It was thus seen as a (narrow) victory for federalism when the | Court reined in federal regulatory power in United States v. Lopez (1995) ... |
| Justice Antonin Scalia | | delivered the opinion of the court, in which Chief Justice William Rehnqui ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... iver. Chilled pawpaw fruit was a favorite dessert of George Washington, and | planted it at his home in Virginia, Monticello. The Lewis and Clark Expedi ... |
| Jarosław Kaczyński | ... ng President, Marshal of the Sejm and a Civic Platform politician, defeated | by 53% to 47% |
| Chris Dodd | ... ttee's expansive plan resulted in a poor public reception. Kennedy's friend | had taken over his role on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Commi ... |
| Michael Riegels | ... ices industry. Former president of the BVI's Financial Services Commission, | , recites the anecdote that the industry commenced on an unknown date in t ... |
| William Mac Thornberry | Republican U.S. Representative | is a Hall County native. So was Republican Daniel I.J. Thornton, a rancher ... |
| John Quincy Adams | ... y") lead to the founding of the Democratic Party. The other faction, led by | and Henry Clay, formed a new party known as the National Republicans; it e ... |
| Gough Whitlam | ... t Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG). He had asked | for this appointment shortly after becoming Governor-General in 1974, but ... |
| Nelson Mandela | EDMs tabled on serious topics have included one demanding the release of | when he was incarcerated in apartheid South Africa, and one calling for a ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... ions. According to Joe R. Reeder, Under Secretary of the Army from 1993–97, | has used body doubles |
| Stuart M. Gerson | Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ Civil Division | was acting attorney general from January 20, 1993 to March 12, 1993. Gerso ... |
| Barack Obama | ... Republican John McCain received 2797 votes here (about 70%), while Democrat | received 1137 (about 28%) |
| Barack Obama | Although | got only 38.45% of Hamilton County's vote during the 2008 election, it is ... |
| Lawrence Lessig | ... ontier Foundation and Creative Commons with free information champions like | were devising numerous licenses that offered different flavours of copyrig ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... Democrat presidential candidate has been able to get for this county since | in 1936 (who himself had also lost the county) |
| Mike Easley | ... %. On that same day, it voted by 53% to 45% to re-elect Democratic Governor | against local Republican Patrick J. Ballantine |
| James George Frazer | ... t in early records such as the Egyptian pyramid texts and the Indian Vedas. | asserted that magical observations are the result of an internal dysfuncti ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Ruckelshaus | ... ichardson resigned rather than carry out the order. Deputy Attorney General | considered the order "fundamentally wrong" and also resigned, making Bork ... |
| Deval Patrick | ... fore his death, Kennedy had written to Democratic Governor of Massachusetts | and the Massachusetts legislature to change state law to allow an appointe ... |
| Chris Christie | ... ma, who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican | received 70% of the vote, defeating Democrat Jon Corzine, who received aro ... |
| William Jennings Bryan | ... diana's choice for president. He was suggested as a compromise nominee, but | and his delegates endorsed Woodrow Wilson over Champ Clark, securing the n ... |
| 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 ... |
| Newton N. Minow | ... eech was a speech given by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman | to the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters on May 9, 19 ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | The | administration proposed the New Deal to combat the depression. ACLU leader ... |
| U.S. President Abraham Lincoln | ... Carter was promoted to the brevet rank of brigadier general and assigned by | to engage cavalry based in Kentucky against Confederate held railroad line ... |
| Daniel O'Connell | Jack Lynch has been described as "the most popular Irish politician since | ." This praise did not come from Lynch's allies or even his own party, but ... |
| Champ Clark | ... , but William Jennings Bryan and his delegates endorsed Woodrow Wilson over | , securing the nomination for Wilson. Indiana's delegates lobbied to have ... |
| 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 ... |
| Brendan Sullivan Jr | ... d that Stevens had hired "Washington's most powerful and expensive lawyer", | ., in response to the investigation. In 2006, during wiretapped conversati ... |
| D. Todd Christofferson | ... Taft Benson '26, and Thomas S. Monson '74), six apostles (Neil L. Andersen, | '69, David A. Bednar '76, Jeffrey R. Holland '65 & '66, Dallin H. Oaks '54 ... |
| Richard M. Daley | In 1994, Mayor | announced plans to close the airport and build a park in its place on Nort ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | The Declaration's relationship to slavery was taken up in 1854 by | , a little-known former Congressman who idolized the Founding Fathers. Lin ... |
| Thomas F. Ellis | ... nited States Senate in 1972. His Republican primary campaign was managed by | , who would later be instrumental in Ronald Reagan's 1976 campaign and als ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... d spread across America and the South by figures such as George Washington, | , and Robert E. Lee. Their homes in Virginia represent the birthplace of A ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... her a granddaughter of Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General under President | , and a great-granddaughter of Francis Preston Blair, a journalist and adv ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gerald Ford | President | 's mother Dorothy Ayer Gardner Ford and maternal grandfather Levi Addison ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... he funeral service were President Obama and former Presidents Jimmy Carter, | and George W. Bush (also representing his father, former President George ... |
| John Kerry | ... n the 2004 presidential elections, the county supported George W. Bush over | by 56% to 44%. On that same day, it voted by 53% to 45% to re-elect Democr ... |
| Rudy Giuliani | ... ch notables as former President Bill Clinton and former New York City Mayor | |
| Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 61% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 37%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
| Bruce Babbitt | Also in 1994, United States Secretary of the Interior | first proposed the removal of several Pacific Northwest dams because of th ... |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah | ... lf-rule. The Government swiftly arrested him for sedition. He asked a young | to represent him. But a special jury convicted him and the Parsi judge D. ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... n was under French control as Louisiana. In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase by | brought the area under United States control. In 1830, Congress passed the ... |
| Elliot Richardson | ... is Oval Office conversations. Nixon initially ordered U.S. Attorney General | , to fire Cox. Richardson resigned rather than carry out the order. Deputy ... |
| Dame Sian Elias | ... urt, and is appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister. The incumbent is | . All other superior court judges are appointed by the Governor-General on ... |
| Clarence Thomas | ... ious Supreme Court nomination in United States history has been the one for | . When the Thomas hearings began in September 1991, Kennedy pressed Thomas ... |
| 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 ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... r with Carl Schurz, the American Turners were supportive of the election of | as president of the United States. They provided the bodyguard at his inau ... |
| David Wu | ... ile at Harvard he shared an apartment with future United States Congressman | |
| Richard Nixon | Tanaka's foreign policy mirrored that of | , and his most notable achievement was the normalization of Japan's relati ... |
| Paul Robeson | ... skill Riots of 1949, involving the Civil Rights Congress benefit concert of | , specifically occurred in the neighboring suburb Van Cortlandtville |
| Stephen Breyer | In a 2009 public "conversation" with Justice | , Breyer questioned Scalia regarding this approach, indicating that those ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... inst the passage of the Clarity Act, the attempt by Canadian Prime Minister | (himself a Quebecer who represented a strongly nationalist riding) and Sté ... |
| John Kerry | ... Gore an 11-percent victory in the county in 2000. 2004 Democratic candidate | won by a much smaller margin of one percent, in 2008 Democratic candidate ... |
| Keith Ellison | ... ict, represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by Minneapolis lawyer | , a Democrat. The city is split between two state legislative districts: 4 ... |
| Michael Dukakis | ... en, the Vice Presidential running mate of Democratic presidential candidate | , and also a Senator from Texas, took advantage of "Lyndon's law," and was ... |
| Carl Schurz | Together with | , the American Turners were supportive of the election of Abraham Lincoln ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... rnor of New York, and then fourth Vice President of the United States under | and James Madison; and Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary o ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... after Lyndon Johnson has also appointed staff to this position. Initially, | and Jimmy Carter tried to operate without a Chief of Staff but both eventu ... |
| Anita Hill | ... tion appeared headed for success. But when the sexual harassment charges by | broke the following month, and the nomination battle dominated public disc ... |
| William Jennings Bryan | ... Bryan College, a four-year Christian liberal arts school named in honor of | , who died in Dayton five days after the Scopes Trial ended. Dayton City S ... |
| John Calvin | ... ginal sin was popular among Protestant reformers, such as Martin Luther and | , and also, within Roman Catholicism, in the Jansenist movement, but this ... |
| John Kerry | ... stitutionally guaranteed rights. In the 2004 presidential election, Senator | won a substantial majority of the votes in Travis County. Of Austin's six ... |
| William Rehnquist | ... U.S. Supreme Court Justices have taught at Tulane, including Chief Justice | . Tulane has also hosted several prominent artists, most notably Mark Roth ... |
| Cals | ... ell and without elections it was replaced by the KVP-ARP-PvdA cabinet under | , which itself also fell the next year. In the following 1967 elections th ... |
| Jay Rabinowitz | ... e essay later became a Harvard Law Review article whose scholarship Justice | of the Alaska Supreme Court praised 45 years later, telling the Anchorage ... |
| Birch Bayh | ... e proposal which had been sponsored as Senate Joint Resolution 1 by Senator | |
| Barack Obama | ... y won by a much smaller margin of one percent, in 2008 Democratic candidate | won by a slightly larger 4.4 percent margin, 52%-47% |
| Eric Cantor | Spotsylvania residents are represented by either | (R-7th District) or Rob Wittman (R-1st District) in the House of Represent ... |
| France Prešeren | ... published with some changes in 1848, is a poem by the Slovene Romantic poet | , considered the national poet of Slovenes. On 27 September 1989, it becam ... |
| Francisco José Urrutia | ... 30, with 14 candidates receiving a majority on the first ballot and a 15th, | , receiving a majority on the second. The full court was Urrutia, Mineichi ... |
| Jim Webb | ... ent U.S. Senators from the Commonwealth of Virginia are Mark Warner (D) and | (D) |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... on of soft ice cream. A chemical research team in Britain (of which a young | was a member) discovered a method of doubling the amount of air in ice cre ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | In 1803, President | issued the following instructions to Meriwether Lewis: "The object of your ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... egislation which was finally enacted during the administration of President | that created the Tennessee Valley Authority. Norris was later an important ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... Freeport in 1858. There the four-year-old Marshall met Stephen Douglas and | and sat on the lap of whichever candidate was not speaking. He later refer ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... ng his opponent's term. Dole was defeated, as pundits had long expected, by | in the 1996 election. Clinton won in a 379-159 Electoral College landslide ... |
| Tobias Beecher | ... s, Keller, Stanislofsky). In contrast to the dangerous criminals, character | gives a look at a usually law-abiding man who made one fatal drunk-driving ... |
| Barack Obama | ... oted for Republican John McCain in the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | won 33,435 votes (71 percent) of the ballots in Webb County. McCain was a ... |
| Joe Biden | ... Donna Shalala, former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | ;, Vice President of the United States; 7-time NBA All Star, pro basketbal ... |
| William Howard Taft | ... ess and government. Rejecting the adversarial stance of Theodore Roosevelt, | , and Woodrow Wilson, he sought to make the Commerce Department a powerful ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... dy of Superman. Bell also claims to be the first cartoonist to have spotted | 's mad left eye, as well as the fact that Tony Blair shares this unusual f ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... resident of the United States under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison; and | , first United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Washington |
| Owain Glyndŵr | One famous Welsh longbow victory was on 22 June 1402 when | fought a battle against the English at Bryn Glas. He strategically placed ... |
| John T. Croxton | On March 30, 1865, Wilson detached Gen. | 's Brigade to destroy all Confederate property at Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Aft ... |
| John C. Brown | ... t made the Nashville newspapers' front pages when former Tennessee Governor | died of a hemorrhage at one of the hotels. The papers emphasized that due ... |
| John Dingell | During debate in the House of Representatives, Rep. | (Democrat of Michigan) argued that the bill would result in banks becoming ... |
| Lenin's | ... support one another. Althusser elaborates on these concepts by reference to | analysis of the Russian Revolution of 1917 |
| 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 ... |
| Antonin Scalia | ... ing Henry Kissinger, football coach Dick Vermeil, and Supreme Court Justice | |
| 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 ... |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Scalia enjoys a warm relationship with fellow Justice | , a liberal, with the two attending the opera together, and even appearing ... |
| 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 ... |
| John C. Calhoun | ... vided Republican Party and became the first vice president re-elected since | in 1828, and Wilson and Marshall became the first president and vice presi ... |
| Charles Evans Hughes | ... so creating the Independence Party. He was defeated for the governorship by | |
| Lech Kaczyński | ... r of the PO, was beaten 54% to 46% in the second round by the PiS candidate | |
| Bill Clinton | The incumbent, | , had no serious primary opposition. Dole promised a 15% across-the-board ... |
| Philip Phillips | ... 850s. By 1853, there were fifty Jewish families living in Mobile, including | , an attorney who was elected to the Alabama State Legislature and then to ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... companies to be sued in American courts if, in dealings with the regime of | , they acquired assets formerly owned by Americans |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt's | ... consciousness fostered at Grinnell during these years became evident during | presidency, when Grinnell graduates Harry Hopkins '12, Chester Davis '11, ... |
| David Kilgour | ... erceived attempt to win the vote of a single independent MP, former Liberal | . Kilgour nevertheless would vote against the government |
| Roman Hruska | ... of Arkansas and Sam Ervin of North Carolina along with Republican Senators | of Nebraska, Hiram Fong of Hawaii and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, al ... |
| John Kerry | ... cured a combined 1 percent of the ballots. Obama fared better than Democrat | had done in 2004. Latinos in Texas gave Obama 63 percent of their ballots, ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... red a Soviet mural of Lenin and images of Reagan and then-UK Prime Minister | . The sleeve notes, attributed to ZTT's Paul Morley, dispassionately repor ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... cember 1996. Bishop Belo capitalised upon this honour through meetings with | of the United States and Nelson Mandela of South Africa. In 1995, he also ... |
| Mahinda Rajapaksa | ... lving a long-running dispute on the length of President Kumaratunga's term. | was nominated the SLFP candidate and former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremes ... |
| William J. Brennan, Jr. | ... iews in order to attract five votes for a majority (unlike the late Justice | who would accept less than he wanted in order to gain a partial victory). ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... dustrialization combines aspects of Infant Industry protection, promoted by | and Friedrich List, and which defined the trade policy of the United State ... |
| Soia Mentschikoff | ... ars in the United States, including Karl N. Llewellyn, William A. Schnader, | , and |
| Joe Lieberman | ... ed Bush and the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. He and then-Democratic Senator | wrote the legislation that created the 9/11 Commission, while he and Democ ... |
| William Weld | ... nvestigation, and had Kennedy losing a hypothetical Senate race to Governor | by 25 points |
| Rick Lazio | ... olk County had long been a Republican bastion in New York. U.S. Congressman | , who opposed Hillary Clinton in the 2000 Senate race, was from Suffolk Co ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ntion, and behavioral and social sciences research. In July 2009, President | nominated Dr. Francis S. Collins, M.D., PhD, to be the Director of the NIH ... |
| Joe Biden | ... e committee member, Democratic Delaware Senator (and future Vice President) | , later stated that he regretted not having opposed Scalia "because he was ... |
| Jim Jeffords | ... remaining from the previous year's campaign. Later, when Republican Senator | became an Independent, throwing control of the Senate to the Democrats, Mc ... |
| Thomas Jefferson Rusk | ... ed by an act of the Texas legislature on April 11, 1846. It was named after | , signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. By 1850, Rusk reportedl ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... e its rightful owners. His labor theory of value influenced the thinking of | , who in turn shaped the way many nineteenth-century American homesteaders ... |
| James H. Morrison | Former U.S. Representative | , who held Louisiana's 6th congressional district seat from 1943 to 1967, ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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, ... |
| Louie Gohmert | ... e of Representatives by Leo Berman (R) of Tyler. Its U.S. representative is | (R), and the Texas Senate by Senator Kevin Eltife (R) |
| 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 ... |
| William R. Travers | ... ga Race Course, which opened the following year. Founded by John Hunter and | , the thoroughbred track is the oldest continuously-operating sporting eve ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... d in the murder. The CIA has allegedly made several attempts to assassinate | , many of the schemes involving poisoning his cigars. In the late 1950s, K ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... h as Mamie, their grandchildren, General Montgomery, George Washington, and | . Wendy Beckett stated that Eisenhower's work, "simple and earnest, rather ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... in 1995, when Bouchard garnered an invitation to meet visiting US President | by virtue of being Opposition Leader, Reform leader Preston Manning was al ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... voters gave George H. W. Bush a victory here in 1992, the county voted for | in 1996 and continued the trend by giving Al Gore an 11-percent victory in ... |
| John Bell | ... pported by plurality the Constitutional Union Party candidate, U.S. Senator | of Tennessee, who pledged merely to support the Constitution of the United ... |
| John Calvin | Reformers Martin Luther and | equated original sin with concupiscence, affirming that it persisted even ... |
| Obama | ... e governor of Alabama did not request military assistance nor did President | authorize their deployment. Subsequent investigation found that the Posse ... |
| Edmund Reggie | ... her of two, and the daughter of an old Kennedy family ally, Louisiana judge | . They began dating and by September were in a serious relationship. In a ... |
| 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 ... |
| Mahinda Rajapaksa | | | |Freedom Part |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... ar, and the country became an enormous market for Hohner's goods. President | carried a harmonica in his pocket, and harmonicas provided solace to soldi ... |
| Lisa Murkowski | ... ived 335 votes (43.7%) compared with 211 votes each (27.5%) for Republicans | and Joe Miller. Statewide, McAdams came in third with only 23% of the vote |
| Dmitry Medvedev | In November 2008, Russian president | announced government support for the construction of the Sakhalin Tunnel, ... |
| Willis Smith | In 1950, Helms played a critical role as campaign publicity director for | in the U.S. Senate campaign against a prominent liberal Frank Porter Graha ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... pon this honour through meetings with Bill Clinton of the United States and | of South Africa. In 1995, he also won the John Humphrey Freedom Award from ... |
| William Jennings Bryan | ... Democratic presidential nomination in 1904, but found that his support for | in previous years was not reciprocated. The conservative wing of the party ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... U.S. House of Representatives. The Republican Party abolished slavery under | , defeated the Slave Power, and gave blacks the vote during Reconstruction ... |
| Robert Lansing | On October 5, Secretary of State | was the first official to propose that Marshall forcibly assume the presid ... |
| William Jennings Bryan | ... tion and journalists from around the world. The trial participants included | in the role of prosecutor and Clarence Darrow as John T. Scopes' defense c ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... ques Rousseau in 18th century France, among others. His writings influenced | , who then incorporated Rousseau's reference to "inalienable rights" into ... |
| Rick Romley | ... about the Church's own investigations into charges. In the BBC documentary, | , a district attorney who initiated an investigation of the Catholic Dioce ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... e White House since a 1996 meeting between Premier David Saul and President | |
| Margaret Thatcher | Finchley was from 1959 to 1992 the Parliamentary constituency of | , British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. Finchley is now covered by the ... |
| Bob Dole | ... ntt's 1,173,875 (45.9 percent). Helms supported his former Senate colleague | for president, while Gantt endorsed Bill Clinton. Although Helms is genera ... |
| Sean Parnell | ... election, Democrat Ethan Berkowitz received 419 votes (54.8%) to Republican | 's 321 votes (42.0%). In the 2010 Senate election, Democrat Scott McAdams ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... f Rights, which was then included in a new constitution. Another Virginian, | , drew upon Mason's work in drafting the national Declaration of Independe ... |
| William A. Blakley | ... percent) to Republican John Tower's 927,653 (41.1 percent). Fellow Democrat | was appointed to replace Johnson as Senator, but Blakley lost a special el ... |
| John Edwards | ... , military, science, academia, business, arts, and athletics, among others. | , former U.S. Senator and two time presidential candidate, James B. Hunt J ... |
| Edwin Meese | ... e a nominee to fill Rehnquist's seat as associate justice. Attorney General | , who advised Reagan on the choice, only seriously considered Bork and Sca ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sarah T. Hughes | ... thrown into relief later that year when Kennedy appointed Johnson's friend | to a federal judgeship; whereas Johnson had tried and failed to garner the ... |
| David William Thomas | In the 1920s, | edited a weekly newspaper in Hammond prior to moving to Minden, the seat o ... |
| Ferdinand Marcos | ... Commission was created to administer the emerging metropolis when President | issued Presidential Decree No. 824. Marcos appointed his wife Imelda Marco ... |
| George Mason | ... ention declared Virginia's independence from the British Empire and adopted | 's Virginia Declaration of Rights, which was then included in a new consti ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | The FBI, under written directive from Attorney General | , began telephone tapping King in the fall of 1963. Concerned that allegat ... |
| Manuel L. Quezon | In 1941 with the onset of World War II, President | created the City of Greater Manila as an emergency measure, merging the ci ... |
| Director of Public Prosecutions | If the | (DPP) felt that a certain video might be in breach of the Act, then a pros ... |
| Clive Anderson | Stiles took part in the regular practice of mocking host | on the UK series, though he did so with less frequency than others. By con ... |
| Deputy Attorney General | ... chardson, to fire Cox. Richardson resigned rather than carry out the order. | William Ruckelshaus considered the order "fundamentally wrong" and also re ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... ed his former Senate colleague Bob Dole for president, while Gantt endorsed | . Although Helms is generally credited with being the most successful Repu ... |
| William Rehnquist | ... of his intent to retire. Reagan first decided to nominate Associate Justice | to become Chief Justice. This choice meant that Reagan would also have to ... |
| Strom Thurmond | ... with Republican Senators Roman Hruska of Nebraska, Hiram Fong of Hawaii and | of South Carolina, all argued that although the present system had potenti ... |
| Ruy Barbosa | ... ea of Spain, Dionisio Anzilotti of Italy, Bernard Loder of the Netherlands, | of Brazil, Yorozu Oda of Japan, Charles Andre Weiss of France, Antonio Sán ... |
| Ferdinand Eberstadt | ... wer plant in the community. Local opposition quickly defeated the plan with | donating his estate to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and became Targe ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | On December 8, 1863, President | issued a proclamation offering a pardon to any person who had supported or ... |
| 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 ... |
| Paul Martin | ... rre renounced separatism and rejoined the Liberals during the leadership of | |
| Yona Yahav | ... unicipalities. In Haifa, where former Green candidate (presently of Kadima) | was re-elected to a second mayoral term, the Greens hold four seats, while ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ess, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and | on economic matters and became a philanthropist |
| A. David Mazzone | ... and Caroline. They became engaged in March 1992, and were married by Judge | on July 3, 1992, in a civil ceremony at Kennedy's home in McLean, Virginia ... |
| Bob Rae | Former premier of Ontario | has stated that the Charter "functions as a symbol for all Canadians" in p ... |
| 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 ... |
| Frank McKenna | ... efugee claimants, and defence, and he appointed seasoned Liberal politician | as Canada's ambassador to Washington |
| Nathaniel P. Banks | The Union forces led by General | who occupied Opelousas found what the historian John D. Winters describes ... |
| Robert Bork | ... tration officials put Scalia on a short list with fellow D.C. Circuit Judge | , to be considered if a justice left the Court. In 1986, Chief Justice War ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | On the orders of allied leaders | , Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower, records were destroyed and t ... |
| Clifford Durr | ... ed into the case; because Colvin was pregnant and unmarried, E.D. Nixon and | decided to wait for a better case to pursue. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Par ... |
| Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | received 50.2% of the vote here (507 ballots cast), ahead of Republican Jo ... |
| Michael Riegels | Former president of the BVI's Financial Services Commission, | , recites the anecdote that the offshore finance industry commenced on an ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... y Show with Jon Stewart. Dole was, for a short time, a commentator opposite | on CBS's 60 Minutes. Dole guest-starred as himself on NBC's Brooke Shields ... |
| Jean Lapierre | ... an independent, since the Bloc had not been registered as a federal party. | renounced separatism and rejoined the Liberals during the leadership of Pa ... |
| Peter Milliken | ... Chuck Cadman, caused a tie during a May 2005 confidence vote, meaning that | , Speaker of the House needed to cast the deciding vote. He voted with the ... |
| General Benjamin F. Butler | Although | bought 12 and Admiral David Dixon Porter bought one, it wasn't until 1866 ... |
| Richard L. Thornburgh | | (1977) and Eric Holder (2001) served as acting attorney general in their c ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... mbitions left, Kennedy formed a good relationship with Democratic President | upon the latter taking office in 1993, despite his having initially backed ... |
| Patrick Henry | ... ouse of Burgesses, opposition to taxation without representation was led by | and Richard Henry Lee, among others. Virginians began to coordinate their ... |
| J.L. Chestnut | ... Amelia, and Bruce Boynton, Rev. L.L. Anderson of Tabernacle Baptist Church, | (Selma's first Black attorney), SCLC Citizenship School teacher Marie Fost ... |
| Lovro Toman | ... ne students that studied in Graz and Vienna. Together with Matija Majar and | , he was among the authors who elaborated the political demand for a Unite ... |
| Barack Obama | ... candidates. Austin also hosted one of the last presidential debates between | and Hillary Clinton during their heated race for the Democratic nomination ... |
| John Calvin | ... f Christianae religionis institutio (Institutes of the Christian Religion – | 's great exposition of Calvinist doctrine) was published at Basel in March ... |
| Barack Obama | ... d Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) was signed into law by President | on March 23, 2010. Along with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation ... |
| Paul Robeson | Among the residents and guests were | , D.C. municipal court judge Robert Terrell and his wife Dr. Mary Church T ... |
| Manuel L. Quezon | During the Philippine Commonwealth era, President | , the first president of the Commonwealth, renamed the Philippine Army to ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... nshevik leaders. On 20 December 1917 the Cheka was created by the decree of | . These were the beginnings of the Bolshevik's consolidation of power over ... |
| Svend Robinson | ... t these have been controversial and of minor legal consequence. In 1999, MP | brought forward a failed proposal before the Canadian House of Commons tha ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... she hears a soft voice speaking to her in greeting; it is a lone passerby, | . He tells her that he is the last man on that road. Frightened, Lavinia b ... |
| 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 ... |
| Vinson | ... ice, he was acting Chief Justice on two occasions: from Stone's death until | took office on June 24, 1946; and from Vinson's death on September 8, 1953 ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... Clark camped at that mouth of the Kalama River, under orders from President | . Over the following days, they would reached the present sites of Kelso a ... |
| Barack Obama | ... th Star Borough. In the 2008 presidential election, the Ester precinct gave | 379 votes (50.9% of the total) compared with 320 votes (43.0%) for John Mc ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... the nominal command of William S. Hamilton, a militia colonel and a son of | . Hamilton would prove to be an unfortunate choice to lead the force; hist ... |
| Rudy Giuliani | ... aq has undercut the influence of this doctrine within the Republican Party. | , mayor of New York at the time of the September 11 terrorist attacks, and ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... exports in at the same low tariffs as goods from most other countries. Both | and George W. Bush asserted that free trade would gradually open China to ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ed. Honorary membership was once bestowed in special circumstances, as with | and Dwight D. Eisenhower, but this practice was officially discontinued in ... |
| Louis Marshall | ... crosse teams. In 1911, under the leadership of Syracuse University trustee, | , the New York State College of Forestry was re-established in close assoc ... |
| Calonne | ... ge of pamphlets and memoirs attacking his successor as minister of finance, | . Yet in 1788 the country had been struck by both economic and financial c ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... had joined the FBI and in the 1960s had contracted to the CIA to eliminate | using Mafia bosses Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante. In late 1971, the P ... |
| Bud Day | ... e Presidential candidate James Stockdale and decorated U.S. Air Force pilot | were held as prisoners at the Hanoi Hilton, as was future Senator and 2008 ... |
| Barack Obama | In 2009, Frank Stella was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President | |
| Mitterrand | Giscard was defeated in the 1981 presidential election by | . At the time, Chirac ran against Giscard in the first round of runoff vot ... |
| Rubén Blades | ... rtney, Tony Bennett, Lucinda Williams, Kid Rock, Lee Konitz, Brian Eno, and | |
| Vladimir Ilyich Lenin | ... some respect. Lenin's Mausoleum, for example, contains the embalmed body of | , the founder of the Soviet Union. Nearby to the south is the elaborate br ... |
| Francis Bacon | ... o the Origin of the Money Pit, Penn Leary believed that English philosopher | used the pit to hide documents proving him to be the author of William Sha ... |
| Rex E. Lee | ... osition of Solicitor General of the United States, but the position went to | , to Scalia's great disappointment. Scalia was offered a seat on the Chica ... |
| Joe Lieberman | ... enate despite Dukakis' loss to George H. W. Bush. The same went for Senator | of Connecticut in 2000 after Al Gore lost to George W. Bush. In 2008, Jose ... |
| Louis Marshall | ... at Syracuse University, under the leadership of Syracuse University Trustee | , with the active support of Syracuse University Chancellor Day. Its found ... |
| William O. Douglas | ... States, which involved an alleged threat against President Lyndon Johnson, | noted, "The Alien and Sedition Laws constituted one of our sorriest chapte ... |
| Anita Alvarez | ... s for the benefit of those with Down Syndrome. Cook county state's attorney | lives in River Forest. Several great inventors resided in River Forest inc ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stephen Breyer | ... , Kennedy's strong recommendation of his former Judiciary Committee staffer | played a role in Clinton appointing Breyer to the U.S. Supreme Court |
| Bill Clinton | ... ummit at Camp David of July 2000 took place between United States President | , Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Palestinian Authority Chairman Ya ... |
| Arthur Garfield Hays | ... on. But part of the ACLU supported Ford's right to free speech. ACLU leader | proposed a compromise (supporting the auto workers union, yet also endorsi ... |
| William Hughes | ... ing his employment at the Bulletin, Low became famous for a 1916 cartoon of | , then the Prime Minister of Australia, entitled The Imperial Conference. ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | Vice President | denounced the Sedition Act as invalid and a violation of the constitution |
| Robert G. Ingersoll | | , political leader and orator, born in Dresden |
| William Howard Taft | On June 22, 1919, former President | visited Paxton while on his way to Champaign. After disembarking from a lo ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... d in formation of the Clinton health care plan, which was run by First Lady | and others. It failed badly and damaged the prospects for such legislation ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... mers and plantation owners, including U.S. Presidents George Washington and | , cut and stored ice in the winter for use in the summer. Frederic Tudor o ... |
| Hunt Downer | ... blican businessman Gordon Dove of Houma. Dove's seat was previously held by | , a former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives |
| Manuel Rodríguez Orellana | ... of Representatives of Puerto Rico. She also worked as a legal counselor for | while he served as Senator of Puerto Rico |
| Jefferson | The Democratic Party is often called "the party of | ," while the modern Republican Party is often called "the party of Lincoln ... |
| Sydney Kentridge | ... igh Court of Justice found the Privy Council's decision to be unlawful. Sir | , QC described the treatment of the Chagossians as "outrageous, unlawful a ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... his trip he also met Comte de Volney. He also met presidents John Adams and | . He and Jefferson discussed the need to introduce American agriculture to ... |
| E. Grey Lewis | ... Penn Law), Henry Martyn Hoyt, Jr. (Solicitor General of the United States), | (General Counsel of the U.S. Navy), Bernard Wolfman (Fessenden Professor o ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... lson's second term and James Callaghan. The project was finally revealed by | 's then defence minister Francis Pym. The reasons for revelation were both ... |
| British Chancellor of the Exchequer | ... U.S. subprime mortgage market – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In October, the | referred to Keynes as he announced plans for substantial fiscal stimulus t ... |
| Clarence Darrow | ... participants included William Jennings Bryan in the role of prosecutor and | as John T. Scopes' defense counsel |
| Garfield Barwick | ... . He conferred (against Whitlam's advice) with High Court Chief Justice Sir | , who agreed that he had the power to dismiss Whitlam |
| William Weld | ... elms engage in a protracted, high-profile battle to block the nomination of | , Republican Governor of Massachusetts, as Ambassador to Mexico: refusing ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President | signed into law an act of Congress on 25 May 1933 providing for the Bachel ... |
| Robert Ingersoll | ... els and Spence, who named the community Ingersoll, in honor of the agnostic | . A post office was established in 1881, and by 1884 the town had an estim ... |
| John Abbott | | (1821–1893) was Prime Minister of Canada, 1891–1892 |
| Bill Clinton | ... ide in Fayette County, GA. Their two children are now in college. President | appointed Lee Haney Chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitnes ... |
| Grover Cleveland | The village was named after President | |
| Richard Nixon | ... hoose his successor, Eisenhower endorsed his own Vice-President, Republican | against Democrat John F. Kennedy. He told friends, "I will do almost anyth ... |
| Barack Obama | ... e Peoria Journal Star by Deanna Bellandi of the Associated Press, President | , who worked and lived in Chicago, Illinois, will visit Atkinson during a ... |
| Brian Mulroney | ... te may delay or impede legislation put forward by the Cabinet, such as when | 's bill creating the Goods and Services Tax (GST) came before the upper ch ... |
| John C. Calhoun | ... 98, and distrustful of the nationalizing program promoted by Henry Clay and | |
| Pierre Trudeau | ... vernor General of Canada Roland Michener at the direction of Prime Minister | , having been requested by the Premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa, and the ... |
| Henryk Woliński | ... on and Propaganda Office set up the Section for Jewish Affairs, directed by | . This section collected data about the situation of the Jewish population ... |
| Monroe | ... l became the first president and vice president team to be re-elected since | and Tompkins in 1820 |
| Harold Washington | ... vote with Byrne and allowing the relatively unknown legislator Congressman | to become Chicago's first black mayor |
| Diana DeGette | ... .S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and United States Representative | |
| Thurgood Marshall | In 1967, Johnson nominated civil rights attorney | to be the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court |
| Thomas McKean | ... was 5,631 at the 2010 census. It was the birthplace of U.S. Founding Father | |
| Roland Michener | ... he War Measures Act in Canada's history, done by Governor General of Canada | at the direction of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, having been requested b ... |
| William O. Douglas | ... reme Court justices Frank Murphy and Wiley Rutledge, leaving Hugo Black and | as the only remaining civil libertarians on the Court |
| William O. Douglas | ... urring opinions by Justice Arthur Goldberg, Justice Hugo Black, and Justice | |
| Ken Salazar | ... Cheney, and their two daughters, as well as U.S. Secretary of the Interior | , and United States Representative Diana DeGette |
| Rex E. Lee | ... of Agriculture to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ezra Taft Benson '26 and | '60, who was United States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan ... |
| Ben Stein | ... Bueller's Day Off includes a scene where former Richard Nixon speech writer | , in the role of a high school teacher, leads a class discussion about the ... |
| Richard Nixon | The 1986 comedy film Ferris Bueller's Day Off includes a scene where former | speech writer Ben Stein, in the role of a high school teacher, leads a cla ... |
| John A. Macdonald | ... 854 Cartier was appointed to cabinet. From 1857 to 1862 he served alongside | as co-premier of the united province. Cartier was a loyal friend of Macdon ... |
| Barack Obama | ... Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush all won the county twice. In 2008 Democrat | won Klickitat County over Republican by only 21 votes or percentage wise 4 ... |
| Bartholomew Gosnold | ... rial. A grave site thought by researchers to contain the remains of Captain | may instead contain those of Baron De La Warr |
| Robert Bourassa | ... me Minister Pierre Trudeau, having been requested by the Premier of Quebec, | , and the Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau |
| Alexander J. Dallas | William Jones served as acting secretary between the resignation of | and appointment of William H. Crawford |
| Harry Reid | ... e unless Stevens resigned first. Late on November 1, Senate Majority Leader | confirmed that he would schedule a vote on Stevens's expulsion, saying tha ... |
| James W. Grimes | ... in the Civil War, a medal for individual valor was proposed by Iowa Senator | to Winfield Scott, the Commanding General of the United States Army. Scott ... |
| Ted Kennedy | ... randfather Joe Kennedy to father John Kennedy and uncles Robert Kennedy and | , to the House of Atreus, and Caroline and her brother John Kennedy Jr.'s ... |
| Henry Clay | ... rinciples of 1798, and distrustful of the nationalizing program promoted by | and John C. Calhoun |
| Strom Thurmond | ... look into gold-backed currency. After the presidential election, Helms and | sponsored a Senate amendment to a Department of Justice appropriations bil ... |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | ... series postage stamp issued by the United States Postal Service. Along with | he was one of only two Associate Justices to do so until the later inclusi ... |
| Washington Irving | ... ted as meeting with the accused and having sexual intercourse with them. In | 's story "The Devil and Tom Walker" set in 1727, Irving tells how Tom asks ... |
| James Monroe | ... tter in this category in competition between multiple candidates (incumbent | was the only candidate in 1820 and thus took every vote). The Republicans ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... county with 49.15% of the vote. Richard Nixon (1960, 1972), Ronald Reagan, | , and George W. Bush all won the county twice. In 2008 Democrat Barack Oba ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... ong doing while placing some blame for the scandal on former Prime Minister | for lack of oversight, although it acknowledged that Chrétien had no knowl ... |
| Tom C. Clark | ... ced on December 14, 1964, the opinion of the court was delivered by Justice | , with concurring opinions by Justice Arthur Goldberg, Justice Hugo Black, ... |
| Hershel Friday | President Richard Nixon first considered nominating | to fill the vacant seat, but changed his mind after the American Bar Assoc ... |
| Frank Murphy | ... pport of cold war legislation was the 1949 deaths of Supreme Court justices | and Wiley Rutledge, leaving Hugo Black and William O. Douglas as the only ... |
| Richard Bellingham | ... nglish law. The Massachusetts Body of Liberties was formally adopted during | 's governorship in 1641. Some of the laws enacted in Massachusetts were ci ... |
| Patrick Hastings | ... Warner Bros. She later recalled the opening statement of the barrister, Sir | , who represented Warner Bros. Hastings urged the court to "come to the co ... |
| Ruy Barbosa | ... t, along with three deputies, since Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven, | and Chung-Hai Wang were unable to attend, the latter being at the Washingt ... |
| Jean Charest | ... ngs and keep Quebec in Confederation. However, after a commission headed by | recommended some changes to the Accord, Bouchard left the Progressive Cons ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... to which the United States should strive. This view was notably promoted by | , who considered the Declaration to be the foundation of his political phi ... |
| William H. Seward | Even before Fort Sumter, U.S. Secretary of State | issued formal instructions to the American minister to Great Britain: Make ... |
| François Mitterrand | In 1985, President | commissioned a statue of Dreyfus by sculptor Louis Mitelberg. It was to be ... |
| Guy Gavriel Kay | ... for publication in 1977; his assistant for part of this work was the young | , who would later become a noted fantasy author. Christopher Tolkien had t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Benito Juárez | ... ken reeds." The "de Juárez" was added to the official name in 1885 to honor | , the former president of Mexico. The seal for the city shows broken reeds ... |
| 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 ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and | becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979. Bot ... |
| Paul Hodes | ... , was caught posing as a "concerned" supporter of Bass's opponent, Democrat | , on several liberal New Hampshire blogs, using the pseudonyms "IndieNH" o ... |
| Joan Laporta | ... arp rise being attributed to the influence of Ronaldinho and then-president | 's media strategy that focused on Spanish and English online media |
| Peter MacKay | ... adian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party (under its new leader | ) announced that they would merge to form a new party, called the Conserva ... |
| Robert Menzies | | defeated Hughes for the UAP leadership and became Prime Minister on 26 Apr ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... censed, McCain ran ads accusing Bush of lying and comparing the governor to | , which Bush said was "about as low a blow as you can give in a Republican ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | On February 18, 1861, | , on the way to his inauguration, bowed from a coach platform. and on Apri ... |
| 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 ... |
| Sargent Shriver | ... nod, again without success. McGovern instead chose Kennedy's brother-in-law | |
| Arthur Goldberg | ... was delivered by Justice Tom C. Clark, with concurring opinions by Justice | , Justice Hugo Black, and Justice William O. Douglas |
| Birch E. Bayh II | ... aides, were killed. Kennedy was pulled from the wreckage by fellow Senator | and spent months in a hospital recovering from a severe back injury, a pun ... |
| Harry Reid | ... any that produces The Rush Limbaugh Show and Glenn Beck Program) by Senator | and forty other Democratic senators, complaining about comments made by co ... |
| Frederic Whitehurst | ... o weeks. Jones presented 25 witnesses over a one-week period, including Dr. | . Although Whitehurst described the FBI's sloppy investigation of the bomb ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rudy Giuliani | ... ssing methods and background checks on all those arrested. Republican Mayor | hired Bill Bratton as his police commissioner who adopted the strategy mor ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | Madeira was a favorite of | , and it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence. George Washing ... |
| Arthur Meighen | ... bills in the case of Joe Clark and Pierre Trudeau or supply in the case of | |
| Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh | ... ersy continued to dog the National Coalition when the President of Ireland, | , resigned in 1976 after being called a "thundering disgrace" by the Minis ... |
| David Lange | ... II. New Zealanders of German descent include the late former Prime Minister | . The vast majority of Germans in New Zealand settled in the North Island, ... |
| Grover Cleveland | ... s Episcopal Church, where U.S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, James Garfield, | , and Benjamin Harrison have all attended services. Because of this, it is ... |
| Eugenio Espejo | Famous authors from the late colonial and early republic period include: | a printer and main author of the first newspaper in Ecuadorian colonial ti ... |
| Felix Frankfurter | ... il the later inclusions of Thurgood Marshall, Joseph Story, Louis Brandeis, | , and William J. Brennan, Jr. See, and Cover. In 1987, Congress passed a l ... |
| Cyril Wecht | ... the coroner labeled the death "reserved," Smith hired forensic pathologist | to perform a second autopsy |
| Carol Browner | ... the Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, and selected | for the new post. Browner is a former administrator of the U.S. Environmen ... |
| Reuven Rivlin | To prevent a diplomatic incident, and over the objections of Knesset member | (Likud), who raised the matter in the Knesset, changes were made in the pl ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... gia, Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate against the incumbent President | , the Republican candidate. Ford was saddled with a slow economy and paid ... |
| James Baker | ... m public remarks by President George H. W. Bush and U.S. Secretary of State | that the economic sanctions would only be lifted when Saddam Hussein was r ... |
| R. Eugene Pincham | ... a second term, his first full, four-year term, with 70.7% of the vote over | |
| James Wilson | ... of the British Commonwealth, by 1774 American writers such as Samuel Adams, | , and Thomas Jefferson were arguing that Parliament was the legislature of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... States presidential election of 1976 followed the resignation of President | in the wake of the Watergate scandal. It favored the relatively unknown fo ... |
| John Quincy Adams | ... the election was thrown to the House of Representatives, Henry Clay backed | to deny the presidency to Andrew Jackson, a longtime political rival |
| Grover Cleveland | After the two terms of Democrat | , the election of William McKinley in 1896 is widely seen as a resurgence ... |
| Kenesaw Mountain Landis | ... ation of the sport of baseball led the team owners to appoint Federal judge | to be the first Commissioner of Baseball. His first act as commissioner wa ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... ord that was named after a newspaper published by the Russian revolutionary | |
| Paul Robeson | ... tinued to steer a moderate course through the Cold War. When leftist singer | was denied a passport in 1950, even though he was not a communist and not ... |
| Bernard Landry | ... uchard retired from politics in 2001, and was replaced as Quebec premier by | . He stated that his relative failure to revive the sovereignist flame was ... |
| 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 ... |
| Calvin Coolidge | Upon the death of President Warren G. Harding in 1923, | was sworn in as President by his father, John Calvin Coolidge, Sr., a Verm ... |
| William O. Bradley | ... ation for the christening of the Kentucky, the Navy asked Kentucky Governor | to select a member of his family to perform the ceremony. Bradley chose hi ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... he had seen. The area was so notorious that it even caught the attention of | , who visited the area before his Cooper Union Address in 1860. The predom ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... nd it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence. George Washington, | , Benjamin Franklin and John Adams are also said to have appreciated the q ... |
| Clark Clifford | The | Report consists of a review of "all available information on the subject" ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... 987 general election, in the hope of ousting the Conservative government of | |
| John Slidell | ... them low marks for their poor diplomacy. James M. Mason went to London and | traveled to Paris. They were unofficially interviewed, but neither secured ... |
| Minister of Justice of Canada | ... damages to any person unjustly arrested. On February 3, 1971, John Turner, | , reported that 497 persons had been arrested under the War Measures Act, ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... in his undescribed cause. (Some of SEN's dialogue is taken from speeches by | . |
| state Attorney General | ... ced a Democratic Party primary challenge from Edward J. McCormack, Jr., the | . Kennedy's slogan was "He can do more for Massachusetts", the same one Jo ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... lano's departure the irony that his final issue was handed in the week that | was forced out of office |
| Thurgood Marshall | ... s one of only two Associate Justices to do so until the later inclusions of | , Joseph Story, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, and William J. Brennan, ... |
| F. W. de Klerk | ... uth Africa's four Nobel Peace Prize winners – Albert Luthuli, Desmond Tutu, | and Nelson Mandela. Since 1994, the city has struggled with problems such ... |
| Gough Whitlam | ... hteenth Governor-General of Australia. He dismissed the Labor government of | on 11 November 1975, marking the climax of the most significant constituti ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... included a two-part program on Nikita Khrushchev, the St. Lawrence Seaway, | in Cuba, and unemployment problems in distressed areas |
| Herman Willem Daendels | ... ench conscripts with little proper leadership. The previous Dutch governor, | , had built a well-defended fortification at Meester Cornelis (now Jatineg ... |
| Jon Kyl | In September 2006, working with Arizona Senator | , Frist was a major Senate supporter of H.R. 4411 — the Unlawful Internet ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... accounts of the Holocaust to the mostly disbelieving Winston Churchill and | . Before leaving, Karski was visited by two leaders of the Jewish undergro ... |
| Clarissa Dickson Wright | Philosopher A.J. Ayer was born and grew up in the area, as did Chef | , and the former Wrights' home is now home to supermodel Kate Moss. Actor ... |
| Francis Bacon | ... as favoring free republics over monarchies . Machiavelli in turn influenced | , Marchamont Needham , Harrington , John Milton , David Hume , and many ot ... |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah | In 1906, | joined the Indian National Congress, which was the largest Indian politica ... |
| Christian Wulff | ... 's communist eastern part—also attended the commemoration. German President | added, "It has been shown once again: Freedom is invincible at the end. No ... |
| Gray Davis | On October 7, 2003, the recall election resulted in Governor | being removed from office with 55.4% of the Yes vote in favor of a recall. ... |
| Washington Irving | Tarrytown was described in 1820 by the writer | in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". Irving began his story, "In the bosom of ... |
| 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 ... |
| Richard Whitehead Young | ... right activist Susa Young Gates, NFL Hall of Fame athlete Steve Young, and | , U.S. Army Brigadier General and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Cour ... |
| John Marshall | ... d while a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress. Chief Justice | was also known to appreciate Madeira, as well as his cohorts on the U.S. S ... |
| Jack Lynch | The President of Ireland, Patrick Hillery, and the Taoiseach, | , attended a memorial service for Mountbatten in St. Patrick's Cathedral i ... |
| Conley sisters | ... 's SBK-Pictures has been planning to bring the story of the Native American | to the big screen in Whispers Like Thunder, with Kingsley playing the role ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... in 1995, when Bouchard garnered an invitation to meet visiting US President | by virtue of being Opposition Leader, Manning was also granted a meeting w ... |
| Pierre Trudeau | ... of financial legislation, such as budget bills in the case of Joe Clark and | or supply in the case of Arthur Meighen |
| Louis Brandeis | ... ces to do so until the later inclusions of Thurgood Marshall, Joseph Story, | , Felix Frankfurter, and William J. Brennan, Jr. See, and Cover. In 1987, ... |
| Howard K. Stern | On September 28, 2006, Smith and | exchanged vows and rings in an informal commitment ceremony aboard the cat ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... , Kentucky, Kansas City, and dozens of other cities. Presidential candidate | was on his way to Indianapolis for a campaign rally when he was informed o ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | An admirer of Martin Luther King, Jr., she campaigned for | and Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 U.S. elections. She studied political scie ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... he 2010 census, the city population was 268. The city was named in honor of | , first Secretary of the Treasury |
| 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%. ... |
| 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 ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... om the United States on April 17, 1861, after the Battle of Fort Sumter and | 's call for volunteers. On April 24, Virginia joined the Confederate State ... |
| Barack Obama | ... er, the Washington Democratic caucus awarded two-thirds of its delegates to | and one-third to Clinton. After Clinton's June 7 concession, Murray switch ... |
| John Calvin | ... thousand French Protestants fled the country during this time, most notably | , who settled in Geneva |
| 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 ... |
| Julius Meier | ... seph in the 1930 Oregon Republican Party primary, and later his law partner | , were understood to demonstrate strong public support for public ownershi ... |
| 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 |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... scape, shortly before running into the First of the Fallen, in the guise of | . There then follows a small break where he meets the spirit of a dead fri ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... ection; by finishing in second place, Democratic-Republican Party candidate | , the Federalists' opponent, became the Vice President. This resulted in t ... |
| Howard K. Stern | Anna Nicole Smith and | were reportedly staying in the Bahamas to avoid paternity testing of her d ... |
| 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" ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... lectoral victory on the 36th ballot, but only after Federalist Party leader | —who disfavored Burr's personal character more than Jefferson's policies—h ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... rate strong public support for public ownership of dams. In 1933, President | signed a bill that enabled the construction of the Bonneville and Grand Co ... |
| Alan K. Simpson | ... 1988, which had been sponsored by Representative Norman Mineta and Senator | – the two had met while Mineta was interned at a camp in Wyoming – which p ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... ng for someone besides Adams (a carefully organized scheme originating with | ) less out of opposition to him than to prevent Adams from matching Washin ... |
| Constantin Mille | ... cques Hadamard, and Lucien Herr, librarian of the École Normale Supérieure. | , a Romanian socialist writer and émigré in Paris, described the anti-Drey ... |
| George Nethercutt | Murray faced another Republican Representative, | , whom she defeated 55 percent to 43 percent |
| President Lincoln | In April 1864, at Bancroft's request, | wrote out what would become the fourth of five known manuscripts of the Ge ... |
| William Howard Taft | ... party ticket of the Progressive Party and challenged his previous successor | . The party controlled the presidency throughout the 1920s, running on a p ... |
| Pierre Trudeau | ... aken by the events of Quebec's October Crisis, especially by Prime Minister | 's imposition of the War Measures Act requested by then Quebec Premier Rob ... |
| William O. Douglas | ... liam J. Brennan, Arthur Joseph Goldberg, Thurgood Marshall, Potter Stewart, | , Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Chief Justice William Howard Taft, Chief Jus ... |
| Calvin Coolidge | ... United States presidential election of 1924 was won by incumbent President | , the Republican candidate |
| Rudy Giuliani | In 2000, at the Inner Circle press dinner, mayor | spoofed John Travolta by dancing to "Disco Inferno" by The Trammps. Giulia ... |
| Kevin Andrews | In 2011, Liberal Shadow Cabinet frontbencher | published a critique of the Greens policy agenda for Quadrant Magazine in ... |
| Calvin Coolidge | ... lakes at the base of the mountains. After congressional approval, President | signed the executive order establishing the Grand Teton National Park on F ... |
| George Suckling | ... d, it was almost impossible to constitute the organs of government. In 1778 | arrived in the Territory to take up his position as Chief Justice of the T ... |
| John Gomery | ... ury and into the 21st, analysts such as Jeffrey Simpson, Donald Savoie, and | argued that both parliament and the Cabinet had become eclipsed by prime m ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... a diplomatic row with the United States administration after accusing, with | , the US of not listening to global environmental concerns. Martin rejecte ... |
| John B. Anderson | ... d losing moderates' votes, particularly due to the independent candidacy of | , and the Reagan camp was split: eventually designating George H. W. Bush ... |
| Jean Charest | ... Quebec election which was won by the federalist Quebec Liberal Party led by | . However, things changed during the winter of 2003. The federalist Chares ... |
| United States Attorney | ... ratic-Republicans since the election of 1800. The caucus then picked former | Jared Ingersoll of Pennsylvania as his running mate |
| Jean Chrétien | ... in Quebec in support of Canadian unity. As well, the Liberal government of | passed party financing legislation that resulted in the Bloc receiving mil ... |
| Svend Robinson | ... becoming the first elected official in the United States to do so. In 1988, | was the first Canadian Member of Parliament to come out. Governor of New J ... |
| Bella Abzug | Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Betty Ford, Shirley Chisholm, | , Robin Morgan, Kate Millet, Elizabeth Holtzman, amongst many others, led ... |
| Rudy Giuliani | ... , with service to New York JFK, where passengers were welcomed by the mayor | |
| Strom Thurmond | ... wide margin. On August 2, 2006, the New York Times said, "In 1994, Senator | of South Carolina was said to have engaged in excessive touching of his th ... |
| Washington Irving | ... loration believed that Earth was flat entered the popular imagination after | 's publication of A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbu ... |
| Elizabeth Hanford Dole | ... inet. Dole is married to former U.S. cabinet member and former U.S. Senator | of North Carolina. Bob Dole is currently a member of the advisory council ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... ntly Italian, it was settled by a large migration of Cuban refugees fleeing | 's regime, making Union City for many years the city with the largest Cuba ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... e the expansion of slavery it chose its name to echo the Jefferson's party. | and other members sought to combine Jefferson's ideals of liberty and equa ... |
| Syama Prasad Mookerjee | The Bharatiya Jana Sangh was founded by Dr | in 1951 to espouse the nationalist cause. The party opposed the appeasemen ... |
| Barack Obama | President | established a new position in the White House, the Assistant to the Presid ... |
| Roosevelt | Democratic President | and especially his Secretary of State Cordell Hull were critical of the Ne ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... privilege. He otherwise left most political activity to his Vice President, | . He was a moderate conservative who continued New Deal agencies, expanded ... |
| Chris Christie | In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Republican | carried the county with 60%. Incumbent Democrat Jon Corzine received 31%, ... |
| John R. Bolton | ... onfirmation fight over Bush's pick for US ambassador to the United Nations, | . Twice Frist failed to garner the 60 votes to break cloture, getting fewe ... |
| Marcus H. MacWillie | ... federate Arizona Territory on February 14, 1862 north to the 34th parallel. | served in both Confederate Congresses as Arizona’s delegate. In 1862 the C ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... d in 1924, as a member of a naval unit, he attended the funeral ceremony of | . That same year he joined the Bolshevik Party |
| Elizabeth Holtzman | ... edan, Betty Ford, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, Robin Morgan, Kate Millet, | , amongst many others, led the movement for women's equality |
| Paul Robeson | ... arships. In 1939 he was in the chorus of a short-lived musical that starred | . Blues singer Josh White was also a cast member, and later invited Rustin ... |
| Wong Yan Lung | The current Secretary for Justice is the Honourable | SC |
| 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 ... |
| Thurgood Marshall | ... hers are Harry Andrew Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Arthur Joseph Goldberg, | , Potter Stewart, William O. Douglas, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Chief Ju ... |
| John Kerry | ... , with 59.22% of the 1920 vote. In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat | received 82.1% of the vote in Manhattan and Republican George W. Bush rece ... |
| David Wilkins | ... stening to global environmental concerns. Martin rejected the US Ambassador | ' rebuke and stated that he was standing up for Canada's interests over so ... |
| Otto Kerner | ... Commission to study the problem of urban riots, headed by Illinois Governor | |
| Eric Holder | On behalf of U.S. Attorney General | , Paul O'Brien submitted a "Motion of The United States To Set Aside The V ... |
| 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 ... |
| Louis-Joseph Papineau | Early in his career, Cartier was inspired by | . Through this connection, Cartier became a member of the Société des Fils ... |
| Clarence Thomas | ... of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, including Robert Bork and | |
| Barack Obama | ... icies undertaken in response to the crisis by Presidents George W. Bush and | of the United States, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom, P ... |
| George Wallace | ... opular votes than Humphrey, equating to less than 1% of the national total. | received the remaining 46 electoral votes with only 13.5% of the popular v ... |
| William Rehnquist | ... t, Chief Justice Earl Warren,Chief Justice Warren Burger, and Chief Justice | . Justice Black is buried to the right of the main cemetery entrance, and ... |
| Ernest O. Thompson | Texas Railroad Commissioner | , who also served as a mayor of Amarillo and became an expert on petroleum ... |
| Oscar Zeta Acosta | ... nt writers include Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Raul Salinas, | , John Rechy, Ana Castillo, Denise Chávez, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Dagoberto ... |
| Richard M. Johnson | ... med 13 December 1834 from Lafayette County and was named for Vice President | |
| Sir Garfield Barwick | ... November, Kerr consulted the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, | . Kerr asked Barwick to advise him on whether he had the constitutional po ... |
| Michael Dukakis | ... Presidential elections Klickitat is something of a "swing county." In 1988 | narrowly won the county with 49.15% of the vote. Richard Nixon (1960, 1972 ... |
| Richard Nixon | President | first considered nominating Hershel Friday to fill the vacant seat, but ch ... |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | ... of England and France", participating judges were Justices Samuel Alito and | . The outcome was originally to be determined by an audience vote, however ... |
| Ralph Lawrence Carr | During World War II, Colorado governor | was the only elected official to publicly apologize for the internment of ... |
| Brock Adams | ... a series of articles by The Seattle Times alleging that incumbent Democrat | had sexually assaulted a number of women. When Adams dropped out of the el ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... ief of Staff and former United States Secretary of Commerce under President | ; John P. Daley, a commissioner on the Cook County Board of Commissioners ... |
| John Sarbanes | ... d Maryland's 7th congressional district, which are represented by Democrats | and Elijah Cummings respectively |
| 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 ... |
| Samuel Alito | ... lgamated Kingdom of England and France", participating judges were Justices | and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The outcome was originally to be determined by an ... |
| Richard Nixon | File:1970s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: US President | doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office after the W ... |
| James Carville | ... hko, who was a Visiting Artist from 1956–1957. Currently on the faculty are | , Nick Spitzer, and Melissa Harris-Perry. Several football alumni play in ... |
| James Weldon Johnson | ... ncement of Colored People (NAACP). NAACP leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois and | were frequent guests in the Rustin home. With these influences in his earl ... |
| Jared Ingersoll | ... the election of 1800. The caucus then picked former United States Attorney | of Pennsylvania as his running mate |
| Hans Frank | ... December 16, 1941, at a meeting of the officials of the General Government, | referred to Hitler's speech as he described the coming annihilation of the ... |
| Pierre de Fermat | ... le happened with the study of prime numbers until the 17th century. In 1640 | stated (without proof) Fermat's little theorem (later proved by Leibniz an ... |
| Bryan A. Garner | ... g guidance for citing electronic works. Other changes included a chapter by | on American English grammar and usage, and a revised treatment of mathemat ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... of the internment. The movement's first success was in 1976, when President | proclaimed that the internment was "wrong," and a "national mistake" which ... |
| Rodney K. Smith | ... a system), John Frederick Zeller III (President of Bucknell University) and | (President of Southern Virginia University), Robert Butkin (Dean of the Un ... |
| Elijah Cummings | ... ongressional district, which are represented by Democrats John Sarbanes and | respectively |
| 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 ... |
| Shaun Micallef | In the Australian satirical news television show Newstopia, | 's impersonation of Gielgud acts as the African correspondent |
| Cherie Blair | ... appointed Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University, taking over from | , and installed in 2008 |
| 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 ... |
| William Howard Taft | ... tter Stewart, William O. Douglas, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Chief Justice | , Chief Justice Earl Warren,Chief Justice Warren Burger, and Chief Justice ... |
| Samuel Alito | ... ner v. United States, Scalia joined the majority opinion written by Justice | —all except one paragraph of the opinion, in which Justice Alito cited leg ... |
| Paul Mees | ... th any parishioners or children."The Australian transport planning academic | wrote, "...Kiesle had already been reported to the police, convicted and s ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... for years. In one of the most famous moments marking the end of apartheid, | made his first public speech in decades on 11 February 1990 from the balco ... |
| Calvin Coolidge | ... Republican has won the presidential election in Manhattan since 1924, when | won a plurality of the New York County vote over Democrat John W. Davis, 4 ... |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | ... hur Joseph Goldberg, Thurgood Marshall, Potter Stewart, William O. Douglas, | , Chief Justice William Howard Taft, Chief Justice Earl Warren,Chief Justi ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... ersuade and/or compel a prime minister to resign his post, as happened with | ; the Senate may delay or impede legislation put forward by the Cabinet, s ... |
| Ralph Nader | ... the Warren and Burger Courts, which shaped the law in the 1960s and 1970s. | has stated that Scalia's claim to an originalist philosophy is inconsisten ... |
| Howard K. Stern | ... drugs in Smith's system, including the chloral hydrate, were prescribed to | , not Smith. Additionally, two of the prescriptions were written for Alex ... |
| Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, | easily won in Indianapolis by earning 64% of all Marion County votes while ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... er is also the only secretary to be dismissed from the post. Hazel O'Leary, | 's first Secretary of Energy, was first female and African-American holder ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... t Morris declined this office; thus the first Secretary of the Treasury was | , who was appointed at Morris's suggestion. Morris had held a similar posi ... |
| Anita Hill | ... -wave in the early 1990s which addressed sexual harassment (inspired by the | –Clarence Thomas Senate Judiciary Committee hearings of 1991). The results ... |
| Kathleen Kennedy Townsend | ... for Republican Bob Ehrlich in the 2002 gubernatorial election over Democrat | . The last time that Howard County voted for a Republican candidate for Pr ... |
| Robert Bourassa | ... udeau's imposition of the War Measures Act requested by then Quebec Premier | |
| Thomas E. Dewey | ... epresented in all states. From the 1940s to the 1970s under such leaders as | , Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nelson Rockefeller, and Richard Nixon, they usuall ... |
| Queen's Counsel | ... introduced to Constance Lloyd in 1881, daughter of Horace Lloyd, a wealthy | . She happened to be visiting Dublin in 1884, when Wilde was lecturing at ... |
| Ujjal Dosanjh | ... ans, including blowing up Air India flights." Canadian Member of Parliament | , a moderate Sikh, stated that he and others who spoke out against Sikh ex ... |
| 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, ... |
| Caroline Kennedy | In a column assessing | 's candidacy for the US Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Clinton in ea ... |
| Brian Mulroney | ... th the "Yes" side during the 1980 Quebec referendum on sovereignty. In 1984 | , Bouchard's close friend from his law school days at Université Laval, be ... |
| Calvin Coolidge | Warren G. Harding, | and Herbert Hoover were resoundingly elected in 1920, 1924, and 1928 respe ... |
| Willis C. Hawley | ... ot was a Republican from Utah and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. | , a Republican from Oregon, was chairman of the House Ways and Means Commi ... |
| James A. McClure | ... churches, and its counterpart was defeated in the House. Senators Helms and | blocked Ted Kennedy's comprehensive criminal code that did not relax feder ... |
| Frank Porter Graham | Despite initial skepticism from university President | , on March 27, 1931, legislation was passed to group UNC with the State Co ... |
| Earl Warren | ... liver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Chief Justice William Howard Taft, Chief Justice | ,Chief Justice Warren Burger, and Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Justice ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... rred during the 91st Congress. The presidential election of 1968 ended with | receiving 301 electoral votes to Hubert Humphrey's 191. Yet, Nixon had onl ... |
| George W. Joseph | ... ong the Columbia. But the overwhelming victories of gubernatorial candidate | in the 1930 Oregon Republican Party primary, and later his law partner Jul ... |
| Eugene V. Rostow | In an article on anti-CND groups, Steve Dorril reported that in 1982 | , Director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, became concerned ... |
| Kenneth Ulman | ... unty Council and a County Executive. The current Howard County Executive is | , who was initially elected in 2006. Parts of Howard County are located in ... |
| John David Stokes Newell, Sr. | ... . Joseph, and Waterproof. Newellton was founded by the planter and attorney | , who named it for his father Edward D. Newell, a North Carolina native. A ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thaddeus Stevens | On May 8, 1866, during a debate on the Fourteenth Amendment, | , the leader of the Republicans in the House of Representatives, delivered ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... Luxembourg; Hormel eventually received a recess appointment from President | , bypassing a Senate vote. Frist also helped block the 1996 nomination of ... |
| James A. Garfield | ... at is at Pomeroy, the county's only city. It was named after U.S. President | |
| Franklin K. Lane | ... government to improve the situation. In response, Secretary of the Interior | challenged him to lobby for creating a new agency, the National Park Servi ... |
| Dean Rusk | ... e are intelligence and military officials who dispute Israel's explanation. | , U.S. Secretary of State at the time of the incident, wrote: I was never ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... ty played a major part in the 50th D-Day anniversary with then US President | visiting the cit |
| Jim McClure | ... epublican (and then-Majority) leader, running against Bob Dole, Dick Lugar, | and Pete Domenici. As Republican whip, Stevens was theoretically the favor ... |
| Mary McAleese | ... by Sinn Féin and DUP politicians. The President of the Republic of Ireland, | , described the decommissioning as "a very positive milestone on the journ ... |
| George Sharswood | ... Delaware Supreme Court), Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix, Jr., Horace Stern and | (Chief Justices of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court), and Deborah Tobias Por ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Bolton | The party, through former U.N. Ambassador | , has advocated reforms in the United Nations to halt corruption such as t ... |
| Lawrence Langner | ... roduce. Hammerstein and Rodgers met weekly in 1943 with Theresa Helburn and | of the Theatre Guild, producers of the blockbuster musical, who together f ... |
| Mitch Landrieu | ... s the father of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu and of current New Orleans Mayor | |
| Tom C. Clark | Former Supreme Court Justice | , who represented the US Department of Justice in the "relocation," writes ... |
| Stephen Breyer | In 1993 and 1994, McCain voted to confirm President Clinton's nominees | and Ruth Bader Ginsburg whom he considered to be qualified for the U.S. Su ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... t Britain resolved that lingering issue and the British departed the forts. | saw the nearby British imperial presence as a threat to republicanism in t ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... the 1850s, first bringing Pinkerton into contact with George McClellan and | |
| Henry Archer | ... specifically designed to perforate postage stamps was invented in London by | , an Irish landowner and railroad man from Dublin, Ireland. The 1850 . was ... |
| Birch Bayh | Image:Birch bayh.jpg|Senator | of Indian |
| Clarence Thomas | ... early 1990s which addressed sexual harassment (inspired by the Anita Hill– | Senate Judiciary Committee hearings of 1991). The results of the movement ... |
| Benito Juárez | ... certain national holidays, such as Natalicio de Benito Juárez (birthdate of | ) and Día de la Revolución, which are meant to be dry nationally. The same ... |
| Barack Obama | ... 1999, the United States Senate rejected ratification of the CTBT. President | stated during his 2008 election campaign that "As president, I will reach ... |
| James Henry Hammond | ... sion Convention. U.S. Senator James Chesnut, Jr. resigned, and U.S. Senator | followed |
| Bryan A. Garner | ... tal agencies that administer a jurisdiction's prisons and parole system" in | , editor, Black's Law Dictionary, 9th ed., West Group, 2009, ISBN 0-314-19 ... |
| Charles Pelham Villiers | ... rs 1830–41 decided not to repeal the Corn Laws. However the Liberal Whig MP | proposed motions for repeal in the House of Commons annually from 1837 to ... |
| Jim Cramer | Commentator | has expressed concern about short selling and started a petition calling f ... |
| Abe Fortas | ... 8 minority Republican filibuster of Lyndon Johnson's chief justice nominee, | . Also, in 1998 Frist participated in the Republican filibuster to stall t ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... cs could be studied in a laboratory as it were, the social milieu. In 1787, | wrote: "...The science of politics like most other sciences has received g ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | In his first Inaugural Address, | tried to contain the expansion of the Confederacy. To quiet the rising cal ... |
| John Calvin | ... 16th-century schism within Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther, | and other early Protestants. It was sparked by the 1517 posting of Luther' ... |
| Jeff Blue | ... other band to sing in. After nearly quitting his musical career altogether, | , the vice president of A&R at Zomba Music in Los Angeles, offered Benning ... |
| Laura Lederer | ... rry, Melissa Farley, Julie Bindel, Sheila Jeffreys, Catharine MacKinnon and | ; the has also condemned prostitution as "an intolerable form of male viol ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... ial or religious divisions. Other examples of left-wing nationalism include | 's 26th of July Movement that launched the Cuban Revolution ousting the Am ... |
| Robert Bork | ... onfirm nominees of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, including | and Clarence Thomas |
| Strom Thurmond | ... irginia, and the third-longest serving senator of all time, behind Byrd and | of South Carolina (he was passed later in 2009 by Daniel Inouye) |
| Lisa Murkowski | ... spectrum spoke highly of the man many Alaskans knew as "Uncle Ted." Senator | said of Stevens: "His entire life was dedicated to public service—from his ... |
| Barack Obama | ... .In 2008 racist and threatening graffiti directed at (then) President-elect | prompted an investigation from the United States Secret Service. Students ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... d 10 percent, depending on the value of the item. Secretary of the Treasury | was anxious to establish the tariff as a regular source of government reve ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lajos Kossuth | ... dited the journal of the opposition, Ellenor, at Leipzig, and in March 1848 | made him editor of his paper, Kossuth Hirlapja. In 1850 he fell ill with a ... |
| Joseph Lazarow | Atlantic City, New Jersey Mayor | was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records for a July 1977 publi ... |
| Willis C. Hawley | ... moot Tariff, was an act, sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative | , and signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 2 ... |
| Ferdinand Marcos | President | , who acted also as national defense secretary (from 1965–1967 and 1971–19 ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... nister James Callaghan made his government's papers on Trident available to | 's new incoming Conservative Party government, which took the decision to ... |
| Alan García | ... tion for an Asian American in the U.S. On June 14, 2011, Peruvian president | apologized for his country's internment of Japanese immigrants during Worl ... |
| Ernst Kaltenbrunner | ... many which would eventually occur in 1938. The early Austrian SS was led by | and Arthur Seyss-Inquart and was technically under the command of the SS i ... |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | ... 94, McCain voted to confirm President Clinton's nominees Stephen Breyer and | whom he considered to be qualified for the U.S. Supreme Court. He would la ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... y as a reliable "bogeyman" to mention in fundraising letters, on a par with | and similar to Democratic and liberal appeals mentioning Newt Gingrich. Th ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | Prime Minister, | , 1979–1990, was Conservative MP for Finchley from 1959 to 1992, although ... |
| Shannon Miller | ... anded on one foot. The US women's gymnastics team won its first gold medal. | of the United States won the gold medal on the balance beam event, the fir ... |
| Paul Robeson | ... notable American production may be Margaret Webster's 1943 staging starring | as Othello and Jose Ferrer as Iago. This production was the first ever in ... |
| President Clinton | ... Employment, and in 2000 received the National Medal of Technology from then | for inventions that have advanced medical care worldwide. In April 2002, K ... |
| Michael Howard | On 3 May 2005, Bremner dressed up as | and walked along the campaign trail in the marginal seat of Wellingborough ... |
| Bill Graham | ... mentary leader of his party on February 1, and the Liberal caucus appointed | , MP for Toronto Centre and outgoing Defence Minister, as his interim succ ... |
| Robert Borden | ... nada, a custom that continued until the First World War, around the time of | 's premiership. While contemporary sources will still speak of early prime ... |
| Arthur Seyss-Inquart | ... lly occur in 1938. The early Austrian SS was led by Ernst Kaltenbrunner and | and was technically under the command of the SS in Germany, but often acte ... |
| Barack Obama | ... t in orientation. In the 2008 presidential contest, the successful Democrat | of Illinois, won Tensas Parish, 1,646 (54.1 percent) to 1,367 (45.0) for t ... |
| John, Jr. | ... paquiddick incident, and four airplane crashes (Joe, Jr., Kathleen, Ted and | ; all but Ted's were fatal) |
| James George Frazer | ... the Gunpowder Plot—or the colonial and agrarian mythos of Joseph Conrad and | , which, at least for reasons of textual history, echo in The Waste Land. ... |
| Daniel O'Connell | ... e United Kingdom. The change was forced by the landslide by-election win of | , an Irish Catholic proponent of emancipation, who was elected despite not ... |
| Bill Clinton | One of former President | 's great-grandfathers is buried here |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... passed by the U.S. Congress 1806–1808, during the second term of President | . Britain and France were engaged in a major war; the U.S. wanted to remai ... |
| Jim Flaherty | Federal finance minister | appointed retired judge James Farley, who had presided over Air Canada's 2 ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... million to the William J. Clinton Foundation in support of former President | ’s climate change initiative |
| 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 ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... Douglas of Illinois ran poorly in Louisiana, and the Republican candidate, | , was not listed on the state ballot |
| Bert Evatt | ... overnment's defeat in 1949, and since 1951 had been under the leadership of | , whom Whitlam greatly admired. In 1954, the ALP seemed likely to return t ... |
| Lech Kaczyński | ... d in Poland. It was strongly opposed by the Polish government and president | . Current Polish prime minister Donald Tusk restricted his comments to a r ... |
| 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 ... |
| Clement Vallandigham | ... sed it to arrest former Ohio congressman and candidate for governor of Ohio | , a prominent leader in the copperhead peace movement, and try him in a mi ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... as Llosa was initially a supporter of the Cuban revolutionary government of | . He studied Marxism in depth as a university student and was later persua ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... informal control of Revolutionary Armed Forces chief General Raúl Castro ( | 's brother), and large numbers of army officers were moved into the Minist ... |
| Scott Ferris | ... s from Comanche County include: US Senator Thomas Gore, US Representatives: | , L. M. Gensman, Toby Morris, and Elmer Thomas. Other politicians include ... |
| Louis Brandeis | ... ed. Advocates of this approach sometimes cite a quotation from a dissent by | in New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... n politics who participated in the Enlightenment were Benjamin Franklin and | |
| 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 ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... e continues to have many legions of loyal fans, including ex-Prime Minister | . The Thick Of It is a similar BBC television series that has been called ... |
| Roger Gregory | ... hen Helms's own judicial choices were threatened with blocking did attorney | of Richmond, Virginia get confirmed. Helms also tried to block the nominat ... |
| Thurgood Marshall | ... ry responsibility for Supreme Court cases (often led by lead NAACP attorney | ), with the ACLU focusing on police misconduct, and supporting the NAACP w ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... closing credits for the special were airing, word came in that U.S. Senator | of New York had just been shot. ABC simply showed a wide shot of the chaot ... |
| Simon Mario Reuel Tolkien | ... They have two children, Adam Reuel Tolkien and Rachel Clare Reuel Tolkien. | , his son by his first marriage, to Faith Faulconbridge, is a barrister an ... |
| George Wallace | ... -known candidates, such as Senator Henry M. Jackson of Washington, Governor | of Alabama, and California Governor Jerry Brown, as the favorites for the ... |
| John F. Kennedy, Jr. | ... o 2001, the company also published the magazine George which was founded by | |
| W. M. Hughes | ... parents as Peter and Louisa. His funeral was attended by the Prime Minister | and the Premier of New South Wales Jack Lang (who was the husband of Lawso ... |
| Thomas W. Ross | ... ected by the North Carolina General Assembly for four-year terms. President | heads the system |
| L. M. Gensman | ... e County include: US Senator Thomas Gore, US Representatives: Scott Ferris, | , Toby Morris, and Elmer Thomas. Other politicians include Democratic Stat ... |
| Fisher Ames | ... in major cities to broadcast its statements and editorialize its policies. | , a leading Federalist, used the term "Jacobin" to link members of Jeffers ... |
| Joan Biskupic | ... ervened: "Maybe we should go through counsel." According to his biographer, | , Scalia "ridiculed" the majority in his dissent for being so ready to cas ... |
| 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 |
| Toby Morris | ... e: US Senator Thomas Gore, US Representatives: Scott Ferris, L. M. Gensman, | , and Elmer Thomas. Other politicians include Democratic State Senator Ran ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... oss-border co-operation were discussed with the new British Prime Minister, | . These discussions led Síle de Valera, a backbench TD, to directly challe ... |
| 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 ... |
| William Hooper | ... ution was later ratified by North Carolina at a convention in Fayetteville. | , a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was buried in the Presbyter ... |
| Catharine MacKinnon | ... tion include Kathleen Barry, Melissa Farley, Julie Bindel, Sheila Jeffreys, | and Laura Lederer; the has also condemned prostitution as "an intolerable ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... l basis by the regulators that had regulated those activities prior to GLB. | , as well as economists Brad DeLong and Tyler Cowen have all argued that t ... |
| John Diefenbaker | ... ing re-appointed as premier (Mackenzie King twice); Alexander Mackenzie and | , both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their death ... |
| John A. Macdonald | ... ice, began negotiations with the United States. In 1873, Prime Minister Sir | , anxious to thwart American expansionism and facing the distraction of th ... |
| Richard M. Johnson | ... , "[I]f a majority of the number of Senators shall vote for either the said | or Francis Granger, he shall be declared by the presiding officer of the S ... |
| Phillip Stephen King | ... since 1985 by two Republicans, Richard F. "Ric" Williamson (1952–2007) and | . Originally a Democrat, Williamson switched parties and served until 1999 ... |
| Barack Obama | ... taking some steps to allow limited economic exchanges with Cuba, President | recently reaffirmed the policy, stating that without improved human rights ... |
| Billy Hughes | ... ts (who had formed the All for Australia League), and former Prime Minister | ' Australian Party (a group of former Nationalists who had been expelled f ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... ife (e.g., President John Wilkes Booth being assassinated by an actor named | ), and Earth Prime, which was ostensibly the "real world" and used to expl ... |
| Tapping Reeve | ... uring 1821–1823 at Litchfield Law School (the law school conducted by Judge | in Litchfield, Connecticut), and in 1823, was admitted to the bar in Norfo ... |
| 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 ... |
| Clarence Thomas | ... se of Dickerson v. United States, but was in a minority of two with Justice | . Calling the Miranda decision a "milestone of judicial overreaching", Sca ... |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... rs may have been more directly deist. These include James Madison, possibly | , Ethan Allen |
| Louis Brandeis | ... States v. Lopez, which she followed with a federalist reference to Justice | 's dissenting opinion in |
| 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. |
| 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 ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... ep South cotton states passed secession ordinances by February 1861 (before | took office as president), while secession efforts failed in the other eig ... |
| 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 |
| Clive Anderson Talks Back | On 17 December 1993, Cook appeared on | as four characters – biscuit tester and alien abductee Norman House, footb ... |
| Gough Whitlam | ... 1, initiated several forms of government support for film and the arts. The | government continued to support Australian film and state governments also ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | On the election of | 's government, Lawson was appointed to the position of Financial Secretary ... |
| Patrick Pearse | ... olly out of any such rash action, the IRB leaders, including Tom Clarke and | , met with Connolly to see if an agreement could be reached. During the me ... |
| Strom Thurmond | ... years. His colleague Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI) referred to Stevens as "The | of the Arctic Circle. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ft considered himself a "New Deal Democrat", and was an ardent supporter of | . His political views can be considered as "moderately socialist. |
| Gough Whitlam | ... ration and the National Film and Television Training School. Prime Minister | continued to support Australian film. The South Australian Film Corporatio ... |
| William H. Seward | ... ing of all of Canada to the United States. When American Secretary of State | negotiated the Alaska Purchase in 1867, he intended it as the first step i ... |
| Iuliu Maniu | ... ania, Moldavia and Wallachia merged to become the National Peasants' Party. | (1873–1953) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, ... |
| James Hunter III | ... raduated from Penn Law, e.g., Arlin Adams, Max Rosenn, Dolores Sloviter and | (judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Phyllis Kravit ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... backlash from Southern whites against Johnson's Democratic Party. Moreover, | politically counterattacked with the Southern Strategy where it would "sec ... |
| Pat Meehan | United States Representative | of the Seventh Congressional District of Pennsylvania is a resident of Dre ... |
| Brian Mulroney | ... ement and Victor Li. The Cerberus bid would have seen former Prime Minister | installed as chairman, being recruited by Cerberus' international advisory ... |
| John Calvin | Later writers, such as Martin Luther (1483-1546), | (1509-1564), and Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638) reacted in different ways ag ... |
| George Hartzog | ... unique natural features to making parks accessible to the public. Director | began the process with the creation of the National Lakeshores and then Na ... |
| John C. Calhoun | Calhoun County was established on October 19, 1829 and named after | , who was at the time Vice President under Andrew Jackson, making it one o ... |
| Barack Obama | ... win a majority in the county was Barry Goldwater in 1964. In 2008, Democrat | won 81% of the county's vote |
| Barack Obama | ... 008. On October 28, Colbert turned his attention back to Canton, Ohio after | made a campaign stop there, forcing Colbert to find it "crappy" |
| Benito Juárez | ... the constitutions of Geneva, Portugal and Colombia. He had also pleaded for | to spare the recently captured emperor Maximilian I of Mexico but to no av ... |
| Van der Rest, Leon | ... amme, Jean Claude - Van den Bergh, Frans - Vandenbroucke, Frank (cyclist) - | - van Rysselberghe, Théo - van Eyck, Jan - Van Genechten Packaging - Van H ... |
| 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 ... |
| Paul Laxalt | ... litically easier for Carter, causing them to be replaced by the soft-spoken | |
| Kay Hagan | ... ted States Congress by U.S. Senator Richard Burr (Republican), U.S. Senator | (Democrat) and U.S. Representative G.K. Butterfield (Democrat) |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... hen congress voted on independence. Adams persuaded the committee to select | to compose the original draft of the document, which congress would edit t ... |
| 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 |
| Governor Steve Beshear | ... oup". In 2010, Judd signed the Animal Legal Defense Fund's petition to urge | to protect Kentucky's homeless animals through tough enforcement of the st ... |
| Richard Nixon | In 1959, following the Kitchen Debate between United States Vice President | and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, the designers of the kitchen, includ ... |
| 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 ... |
| Steve Chabot | ... dment included the Republicans for Environmental Protection. Representative | , an Ohio Republican who sponsored the amendment, said "I am not opposed t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Clarence Darrow | ... his biggest stage success as the crusading lawyer, Henry Drummond (based on | ), in Inherit the Wind, winning a |
| Barack Obama | ... ounties throughout Missouri, Texas County strongly favored John McCain over | in 2008 |
| Richard Nixon | Following Republican | 's victory in November, Kennedy was widely assumed to be the front-runner ... |
| Bill Clinton | On July 12, 1994, U.S. President | spoke at the Gate about peace in post–Cold War Europe |
| George Wallace | Image:George C Wallace (Alaba Governor).png|Governor | of Alabam |
| John Cornyn | At the Federal level, the two U.S. Senators from Texas are Republicans | and Kay Bailey Hutchison; Waxahachie is part of Texas' US Congressional 6t ... |
| Brian Mulroney | ... icians such as Ronald Reagan in the U.S., Margaret Thatcher in Britain, and | in Canada, the Western welfare state was attacked from within. Monetarists ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alexander J. Dallas | ... hin Dallas Township. The township had been formed in 1817 and was named for | , who was the 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury and the father o ... |
| José de Alencar | ... ional identity, using the ideal of the heroic Indian. Some examples include | , who wrote "Iracema" and "O Guarani", and Gonçalves Dias, renowned by the ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... cases considered significant to the history of religious freedom. In 1779, | wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, enacted in 1786 by the V ... |
| Robert Stanfield | ... and subsequently by a number of prominent leaders, including René Lévesque, | , and Tommy Douglas, who believed the actions to be excessive and the prec ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... e Roadless Initiative passed on 5 January 2001, during the last days of the | Administration, and the initiative prevented the construction of new roads ... |
| John Kerry | ... ent of Protestants voted for Bush, along with 52% of Catholics (even though | was Catholic). Since 1980, large majorities of evangelicals have voted Rep ... |
| Jack Fields | ... ame Octavia Fields Memorial Library from Octavia Fields, the grandmother of | , a former Congress member. The current branch opened on June 27, 2001 |
| William J. Brennan, Jr. | ... of Thurgood Marshall, Joseph Story, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, and | See, and Cover. In 1987, Congress passed a law sponsored by Ben Erdreich, ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... e of conservative neoliberal politicians such as Ronald Reagan in the U.S., | in Britain, and Brian Mulroney in Canada, the Western welfare state was at ... |
| Jere Wood | Population | , a Republican, has served as mayor of Roswell since 1997 |
| Stanley Reed | ... represented on the Court. The three final candidates were Solicitor General | , Sherman Minton, and Hugo Black. Roosevelt said Reed "had no fire," and M ... |
| William Wirt | ... ral Assembly and named for U.S. Attorney General and presidential candidate | . The county is serviced by one high school, Wirt County High School |
| Taylor W. O'Hearn | In 1962, Tensas Parish, with only whites registered, gave the Republican | , later a state representative from Shreveport, 48.2 percent of the vote i ... |
| Gerald R. Ford, Jr. | ... mains the only one of its kind in the country. On April 23, 1975, President | , spoke at Tulane University's Fogelman Arena at the invitation of Congres ... |
| 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 ... |
| Stephen Breyer | ... it invalidated a Nebraska statute outlawing partial-birth abortion. Justice | wrote for the Court that the law was unconstitutional as it did not allow ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... George W. Bush carried Texas County by two-to-one margins in 2000 and 2004. | was the last Democratic presidential nominee to carry Texas County in 1992 ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... soil. Several groups developed competing proposals, and in 1933, President | authorized the Columbia Basin Project. The Grand Coulee Dam was the projec ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... artwork of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe". In 1993, when then-president | wanted to appoint 'out' lesbian Roberta Achtenberg to assistant secretary ... |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | ... alled into the White House to express his discontent over the nomination of | to the Supreme Court; the opposition hinged over the issue of O'Connor's p ... |
| Alfred Mombert | ... died of hunger and diseases. Among the deportees from Heidelberg, the poet | (1872–1942) left the camp in April 1941 thanks to the Swiss poet Hans Rein ... |
| 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 ... |
| Philip Doddridge | ... 5 from parts of Harrison, Tyler, Ritchie, and Lewis Counties, and named for | (1773–1832), a distinguished of Western Virginia, who spent the greater pa ... |
| Barack Obama | In the final days before the 2008 election, Costner campaigned for | , visiting various places in Colorado—a state in which he has a home. In h ... |
| John Calvin | ... as the sacramental union. The Reformed churches, following the teachings of | , believe in an immaterial, spiritual (or "pneumatic") presence of Christ ... |
| Ayelet Waldman | ... married on 2 January 2011. The wedding took place in the parlour of writers | and Michael Chabon |
| Sean Parnell | ... ing Vice-President Joe Biden, former Governor Sarah Palin, current Governor | and three other former governors, 11 senators, 9 former senators, and 2 co ... |
| Sir Francis Bacon | The Baconian method is the investigative method developed by | . The method was put forward in Bacon's book Novum Organum (1620), or 'New ... |
| 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 ... |
| Howard K. Stern | ... er daughter's birth and her son's death, Smith's longtime personal attorney | said that he and Smith had been in a secret relationship for "a very long ... |
| Reg Withers | ... overnment legislation; the Coalition senators, led by Senate Liberal leader | , sought to block government legislation only when the obstruction would a ... |
| Kay Hagan | ... se Helms. However, she lost her seat in 2008, a heavily Democratic year, to | |
| Sargent Shriver | ... people. I was exposed to the idea of being a public servant and Eunice and | became my heroes." Eunice Kennedy Shriver was sister of John F. Kennedy, a ... |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | ... . Reproductive Health Services, but was not successful in doing so. Justice | authored the decision of the Court, allowing the abortion regulations at i ... |
| Francis Bacon | ... de his famous proof of uniform acceleration in freefall using mathematics . | , especially in his Novum Organum, argued for a new experimental based app ... |
| Rufus King | ... President in Congress over William Crawford in 1816 and defeated Federalist | in the general election |
| Washington Irving | ... the United States, romantic Gothic literature made an early appearance with | 's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) and Rip Van Winkle (1819), followed ... |
| Bella Abzug | ... three out of four students being female. In 2006, Hunter became home to the | Leadership Institute, which will run training programs for young women to ... |
| Michael Farris | ... ure while interrogating heretics. Later authors, such as Brian Moynahan and | , cite Foxe when repeating these allegations. More himself denied these al ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... and mines and anti-armor weapons, but were especially heavy after President | ordered US forces into Cambodia on May 1, 1970 in which, among other caval ... |
| George M. Dallas | ... , who was the 6th United States Secretary of the Treasury and the father of | , the vice president of James Polk. The local government describes the bor ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... s. While George W. Bush carried Madison County both times in 2000 and 2004, | also carried the county both times in 1992 and 1996. Like many rural count ... |
| Jean Drapeau | ... ested by the Premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa, and the Mayor of Montreal, | |
| 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 ... |
| Barack Obama | On 4 May 2009, United States President | declared his intentions to curb the use of financial centres by multinatio ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... homa City area to be released from their duties for their safety. President | learned about the bombing around 9:30 am CST while he was meeting with Tur ... |
| Barack Obama | Other well-known government figures, such as Senior Advisor to President | David Axelrod, former Director of Central Intelligence James Woolsey and f ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... s "I Have a Dream" speech electrified the crowd. It is regarded, along with | 's Gettysburg Address and Franklin D. Roosevelt's Infamy Speech, as one of ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom United States President | admitted to having had an "improper relationship" while she worked at the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Alger Hiss | ... th included in the broadcast an interview with Nixon's longstanding nemesis | , a convicted Cold War perjurer. Howard K. Smith: News and Comment aired i ... |
| Patrick Henry | ... ing the peace" by preaching without licenses from the Anglican Church. Both | and the young attorney James Madison defended Baptist preachers prior to t ... |
| C. Rajagopalachari | ... ence of new generation of Indians from within the Congress Party, including | , Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel, Subhash Chandra Bose and others- wh ... |
| Daniel O'Connell | ... e". This was in fact a quote made about him by Irish Nationalist politician | |
| 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 ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... eluctantly obeyed this order, the third such in his brief career. President | pressured Burnside to take aggressive action and on November 14 approved h ... |
| Elizabeth Dole | Dole has been married to Former Senator | , née Hanford, of North Carolina since 1975. Mrs. Dole ran unsuccessfully ... |
| Robert Borden | ... norific titles to Canadians; the last prime minister to be knighted was Sir | , who was premier at the time the Nickle Resolution was debated in the Hou ... |
| Frank Keating | At 9:45 am CST, Governor | declared a state of emergency and ordered all non-essential workers in the ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... foiled an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland, while guarding | on his way to his inauguration. His agents often worked undercover as Conf ... |
| Sargent Shriver | Image:Sargent Shriver 1962.jpg|Former Ambassador to France | of Marylan |
| Edward Joseph O'Hare | Edward Henry "Butch" O'Hare was born in St. Louis, Missouri to | and Selma O'Hare. Butch had two sisters, Patricia and Marilyn. When their ... |
| Gough Whitlam | Perkin's editorship coincided with | 's reforms of the Australian Labor Party, and The Age became a key support ... |
| David E. Finley, Jr. | In 1947, a meeting convened by | culminated in the creation of the National Council for Historic Sites and ... |
| Gough Whitlam | ... was due to retire as Governor-General in July 1974, and the Prime Minister, | , needed to find a suitable replacement. His first choice, Ken Myer, decli ... |
| William H. Cabell | ... of 2010, the population was 96,319. It was organized in 1809 and named for | , the Governor of Virginia from 1805 to 1808. Its county seat is Huntingto ... |
| Billy Snedden | From the start of the Whitlam government, the Opposition, led by | (who replaced McMahon as Liberal leader in December 1972) sought to use co ... |
| William Henry Gist | Secessionists were active politically. Governor | of South Carolina corresponded secretly with other Deep South governors, a ... |
| James Stephen | ... in the slave trade to the French colonies, was suggested by maritime lawyer | . It was a shrewd move since the majority of British ships were now flying ... |
| Strom Thurmond | ... he previous year. Shortly afterwards, Senator Trent Lott made comments at a | birthday celebration in which he said that if Thurmond's presidential bid ... |
| Byron White | The case was then appealed to the Supreme Court. Supreme Court Justice | wrote the decision for the majority. The Supreme Court held that for the p ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... ributions toward world education, morality, and acts of charity". President | spoke these words at the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony |
| Nicole Fontaine | In April 2001, the president of the European Parliament | (who called Massoud the "pole of liberty in Afghanistan") invited Massoud ... |
| Earl Warren | ... Supreme Court in history and has been influential on justices as diverse as | , William Rehnquist, and Antonin Scalia |
| 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 ... |
| Peyton Randolph | ... e second President of the Continental Congress from October 22, 1774, until | was able to resume his duties briefly beginning on May 10, 1775 |
| Pridi Banomyong | ... to reflect its tradition associated with the French education system where | , Thammasat's founding father was educated |
| Barack Obama | ... 44%. In the 2008 presidential election, Republican John McCain and Democrat | tied, with each receiving 49% of the vote This gives Andover a Cook PVI of ... |
| Francis Bacon | ... e and a lover of hers, took Fuentes' statement literally and suggested that | wrote Shakespeare's plays and Don Quixote, both claims which are considere ... |
| John Lyng | He was appointed Minister of Trade in the short-lived but notable | cabinet from August to September 1963, following the Kings Bay Affair that ... |
| Antonin Scalia | ... n influential on justices as diverse as Earl Warren, William Rehnquist, and | |
| Bill Clinton | ... er Liberal Cabinet headed by Paul Martin (as well as many Americans such as | and Barack Obama), made a policy distinction between conflicts in Afghanis ... |
| John Quincy Adams | ... ted debate in Congress, Massachusetts Representative (and former President) | successfully argued to restore the lost funds with interest. Though Congre ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... etanyahu opposed the idea of Palestinian statehood. In 1998, U.S. President | persuaded the two leaders to meet. The resulting Wye River Memorandum deta ... |
| Paul Martin | ... invasion of Iraq. Many Canadians, and the former Liberal Cabinet headed by | (as well as many Americans such as Bill Clinton and Barack Obama), made a ... |
| David K. Watson | ... m antitrust authorities leading to a lawsuit filed by Ohio Attorney General | |
| Manuel Belgrano | On August of 1812, Argentine General | leaded the Jujuy Exodus, a massive forced displacement of people from the ... |
| Louie Gohmert | ... 's 1st congressional district, which is currently represented by Republican | |
| Carl E. Stewart | ... ted States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Ballard v. Burton, Judge | writing for the Court held that an Alford guilty plea is a "variation of a ... |
| 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 |
| Congressman Mike McIntyre | New Hanover County is represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by | (D) and in the North Carolina Senate by Sen. Thom Goolsby (R)Of its three ... |
| John Calvin | ... inal differences—first between Luther and Zwingli, later between Luther and | —consequently resulting in the establishment of different and rival Protes ... |
| Charles Lyell | ... es from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past", and | memorably rephrased in the 1830s as "the present is the key to the past". ... |
| Trent Lott | ... 1994 gift of $2.5 million to the RNC. In July 1997, Senate Majority leader | and House Speaker Newt Gingrich slipped a last-minute provision into a hot ... |
| Thomas McKean | ... , abstained. Delaware cast no vote because the delegation was split between | (who voted yes) and George Read (who voted no). The remaining nine delegat ... |
| Ernst Kaltenbrunner | ... enberg. Heydrich was assassinated in 1942. His positions were taken over by | in January 1943, following a few short months of Heinrich Himmler personal ... |
| Barack Obama | ... uerto Rico's head of state is the President of the United States, currently | . The governor and legislators are elected by popular vote every four year ... |
| John Cornyn | At the Federal level, the two U.S. Senators from Texas are Republicans | and Kay Bailey Hutchison; Nacogdoches is part of Texas's 1st congressional ... |
| Michael Chertoff | ... na, Senator Joseph Lieberman claimed that emergency workers under DHS chief | "ran around like Keystone Kops, uncertain about what they were supposed to ... |
| Michael Newdow | ... in Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, a claim brought by atheist | alleging the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance (including the words " ... |
| Richard Nixon | The scandal eventually led to the resignation of | , the President of the United States, on August 9, 1974, the only resignat ... |
| Arlen Specter | ... by running a small creamery. Among his father's customers was the father of | who ran a junkyard in the town and used Dole's scales to weigh junk. Spect ... |
| John Fiske | ... ames said most philosophers have an "antipathy to chance." His contemporary | described the absurd decisions that would be made if chance were real |
| Alfred Deakin | ... y, George Higinbotham and George Turner, and other leading liberals such as | and Charles Pearson furthered their careers as The Age journalists. Syme w ... |
| 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 |
| Gerald Ford | ... cal community called for Nixon's resignation or impeachment. Vice President | said, "While it may be easy to delete characterization from the printed pa ... |
| Thomas E. Dewey | Luciano's reign was relatively short-lived. Special prosecutor | , a future Republican presidential candidate (later Luciano himself affirm ... |
| 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 ... |
| Wayne M. Collins | Civil rights attorney | successfully challenged most of these renunciations as invalid, owing to t ... |
| 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 ... |
| Muhammad Iqbal | ... ct of Muslims in politics. In his presidential address of 29 December 1930, | called for "the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State ... |
| Kenesaw Mountain Landis | ... Medwick had to be removed from the game for his own safety by Commissioner | after being pelted with fruit and garbage from angry fans in the large tem ... |
| Theodore Olson | ... Passenger Barbara Olson called her husband, United States Solicitor General | , and reported that the plane had been hijacked and that the assailants ha ... |
| Fred M. Vinson | ... lize with other government officials, recalling that the late Chief Justice | played poker with President Harry Truman and that Justice Byron White went ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... deral transfer payments by the federal Liberal government of Prime Minister | and concommitant repeal of the Canada Assistance Plan bill of rights which ... |
| François Mitterrand | ... s. Before 1996, the same request was turned down several times including by | , the former Socialist President |
| Bill Clinton | ... eorge W. Bush carried Ripley County by two-to-one margins in 2000 and 2004, | won the county both times in 1992 and 1996. Like most of the rural countie ... |
| Sir John More | ... orn in Milk Street in London on 7 February 1478, Thomas More was the son of | , a successful lawyer, and his wife Agnes (née Graunger). More was educate ... |
| Robert Stanfield | ... set by this incident was dangerous. Federal Progressive Conservative leader | initially supported Trudeau's actions, but later regretted doing so. The s ... |
| Zebulon Baird Vance | In the 1890 Census, Vance County was more than 63 percent African American. | was a Governor of North Carolina (1862–1865, 1877–1879) and United States ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... attractive in the wake of the Watergate scandal, which had led to President | 's resignation. Ford, although personally unconnected with Watergate, was ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... . Many of the buildings represent architecture from the 1800s including the | -designed Courthouse building |
| Charlie Rose | ... have done so, and was a leading voice for a balanced budget amendment. With | , he proposed a bill that would limit tobacco price supports, but would al ... |
| 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 ... |
| Douglas Wilder | ... after goals such as the repeal of Jim Crow laws had been achieved. In 1989, | became the first African American elected as governor in the United States |
| Chris Christie | ... ma, who received around 40%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican | received 58.5% of the vote, defeating Democrat Jon Corzine, who received a ... |
| Dan Lungren | ... Cook PVIs of R +7 and D +14 respectively and are represented by Republican | and Democrat Doris Matsui respectively |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... built a legacy bringing to Westminster College world leaders: Lech Wałęsa, | , Harry S Truman, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald W. Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Mikh ... |
| John Marshall | ... ns v. Virginia, , was a United States Supreme Court decision most noted for | and the Court's assertion of its power to review state supreme court decis ... |
| Luis Fortuño | ... ial branches. The executive branch is headed by the Governor, currently Mr. | , who is also the head of government. The legislative branch consists of a ... |
| George Smathers | ... ey Biscayne millionaire Bebe Rebozo, Miami native and United States Senator | and then former U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon, who had promised to lea ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... to him by his forefathers. Meanwhile, underground political parties led by | (Michael Bryant), Joseph Stalin (James Hazeldine), and Leon Trotsky (Brian ... |
| Bob Dole | ... k control of the Senate in 1995, succeeding as Majority Leader in 1996 when | resigned from the Senate to focus on his presidential campaign. As majorit ... |
| Richard Rush | ... t issue in 1835, President Andrew Jackson informed Congress of the bequest. | was appointed as agent of the government to go to England and pursue the b ... |
| Chris Christie | ... k Obama of Illinois and Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. In 2009, Republicans | and Bob McDonnell were elected to the governorships of New Jersey and Virg ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... xisting Idaho Territory by Act of Congress and signed into law by President | on May 26, 1864. At this time Deer Lodge County (today Deer Lodge, Granite ... |
| Hugh Scott | ... from people's minds with a wave of the hand." The Senate Republican Leader | said the transcripts revealed a "deplorable, disgusting, shabby, and immor ... |
| Anton R. Valukas | The Valukas Report by bankruptcy court examiner, | , issued on 11 March 2010, charged that Lehman Brothers engaged in a pract ... |
| Washington Irving | ... to an 1808 short story describing a spread of "fire-cakes and dough-nuts." | 's reference to "doughnuts" in 1809 in his History of New York is more com ... |
| Wilfrid Laurier | ... on of a museum of Canadian history. The federal prime minister at the time, | , suggested, however, that a preservation of the plains themselves would b ... |
| Byron White | ... ce Fred M. Vinson played poker with President Harry Truman and that Justice | went skiing with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Scalia stated that he ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ection, Republican John McCain received 59% of the vote, defeating Democrat | , who received around 40%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican ... |
| Earl Warren | In 1953 Vinson died and was replaced by | . While all members of the Court were New Deal liberals, Black was part of ... |
| Joan Laporta | ... t era, the club bounced back with the combination of a new young president, | , and a young new manager, former Dutch player Frank Rijkaard. On the fiel ... |
| Patrick Henry | | gave his famous "Liberty or Death" speech at the courthouse two days befor ... |
| Edzo Toxopeus | ... 1963, Oud left politics, and was succeeded by the minister of Home Affairs | . With the lead of Toxopeus VVD lost three seats in the 1963 elections, bu ... |
| Abdalá Bucaram | ... D) party won the presidency in 1988, running in the runoff election against | (brother in law of Jaime Roldos and founder of the Ecuadorian Roldosist Pa ... |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah | ... " consisting of Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan. | , the founder of Pakistan, espoused the two-nation theory and led the Musl ... |
| Henry Hyde | ... eings, thereby taking it out of the hands of the federal courts, along with | and Romano Mazzoli. More successfully, Helms passed an amendment banning f ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... had a major role in the Senate trial following the impeachment of President | . After the House narrowly voted to impeach Clinton, Lott proceeded with t ... |
| Ted Stevens | Slashdotters typically like to mock United States Senator | ' 2006 description of the Internet as a "series of tubes" or Microsoft CEO ... |
| Ken Ludwig | In Moon Over Buffalo, the stage play by | , the lead character, George, hoping to be cast by Frank Capra as the Scar ... |
| John Calvin | ... re of intellectual influence from the Continent, including the teachings of | that became known as Calvinism. This, in turn, revolutionised the Christia ... |
| Alyson Huber | ... rg respectively, and in the 10th Assembly District, represented by Democrat | |
| Getúlio Vargas | The ideology of | 's Estado Novo contaminated the scene of the samba. With Aquarela do Brasi ... |
| Ohio Attorney General | ... ttracted attention from antitrust authorities leading to a lawsuit filed by | David K. Watson |
| John Ehrlichman | ... ased on Richard Helms) in Washington: Behind Closed Doors, an adaptation of | 's roman a clef The Company, in turn based on the Watergate scandal |
| Dan Lungren | ... e Cook PVIs of R +7 and D +14 respectively and is represented by Republican | and Democrat Doris Matsui respectively |
| Victoria Kennedy | ... er final remarks on the House floor before the final vote. Kennedy's widow, | , attended the signing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... nsisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, | of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connec ... |
| John Kerry | ... ublican president George W. Bush received 24,369 (56.31%) votes to Democrat | 's 18,355 (42.41%) |
| Arthur Goldberg | ... eral wing of the Court, together with Warren, Douglas, William Brennan, and | . They said the Court had a role beyond that of Congress. Yet while he oft ... |
| Barack Obama | ... t of the rural counties in Missouri, Ripley County favored John McCain over | in 2008 |
| G. Gordon Liddy | In January 1972, | , general counsel to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (C ... |
| Barbara Olson | ... hijackers set the flight's autopilot heading for Washington, D.C. Passenger | called her husband, United States Solicitor General Theodore Olson, and re ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... arty" in the mid-1850s as homage to the values of republicanism promoted by | 's Republican party. The idea for the name came from an editorial by the p ... |
| Peyton Randolph | ... s elected as the President of Continental Congress, when previous president | was forced to return to Virginia to take his position as Speaker of the Vi ... |
| QC | Louis Stephen St. Laurent, PC, CC, | (Saint-Laurent or St-Laurent in French, baptized Louis-Étienne St-Laurent) ... |
| Earle I. Mack | ... le Mack School of Law was renamed on May 1, 2008 in honor of Drexel alumnus | . Serving only graduate students, the law school offers Juris Doctor degre ... |
| Morris Hillquit | ... his book, and he was released upon his own recognizance after his attorney, | , promised to make him available at the Federal Building the next day. His ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... the Senate, Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974. His successor, | , then issued a pardon to Nixon |
| Jean Drapeau | ... quest of the Premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa, and the Mayor of Montreal, | . The provisions took effect at 4:00 a.m., and soon, hundreds of suspected ... |
| William Henry Moody | ... rns out as an all-ears U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt (Attorney General | : "They say a billionaire from Scotland has seized a military installation ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... Canadian prime minister "Jean Poutine". The then-prime minister's name was | , and he had not endorsed Bush — it is standard practice for the Canadian ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... osted the Sharm El-Sheikh "Summit of the Peacemakers" attended by President | and other world leaders |
| Lord Goldsmith | Before the invasion, the then UK Attorney General | , advised that the war would be in breach of international law for six rea ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... the inspectors were not kicked out by Saddam Hussein, but were withdrawn by | |
| Charles Lyell | ... as (though not his thoughts on evolution) by John Playfair in 1802 and then | in the 1830s popularised the concept of an infinitely repeating cycle, tho ... |
| 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 ... |
| Debra Opri | In a separate CNN interview, | , another Brown family attorney, revealed to Larry King that Brown wanted ... |
| Robert Bourassa | ... ral to invoke the War Measures Act at the request of the Premier of Quebec, | , and the Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau. The provisions took effect at 4 ... |
| Catharine MacKinnon | ... censorship. Anti-pornography feminist activists such as Andrea Dworkin and | made alliances with the religious right. This critique was adopted and mad ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Eugene Rostow | ... omination of Robert T. Grey for nine months, and thus causing the firing of | |
| Strom Thurmond | ... he previous most senior Republican senator and former President Pro Tempore | retired |
| George Mason | ... ne 1776: his own draft of the preamble of the Constitution of Virginia, and | 's draft of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. Ideas and phrases from bot ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... cultural minorities were taken up by the Jewish , but fiercely denounced by | . Joseph Stalin devoted a whole chapter to criticising Cultural National A ... |
| Francis Scott Key | ... ed for the failed British assault on Baltimore, which was the influence for | 's writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner". Many slaves escaped to the Briti ... |
| Owain Glyndŵr | ... ith) had been (together with his two brothers Rhys and Gwilym) stalwarts of | 's uprising of 1400. When that uprising ebbed away Maredudd lost most of h ... |
| Wayne M. Collins | ... can internees were eventually, through the efforts of civil rights attorney | , offered "parole" relocation to the labor-starved farming community in . ... |
| President Roosevelt | In December 1943, | decided that Eisenhower—not Marshall—would be Supreme Allied Commander in ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Bork | ... the Justice Department willing to fire Cox ended with the Solicitor General | . Though Bork believed Nixon's order to be valid and appropriate, he consi ... |
| Patrick Henry | ... good and safe navigation" of the Roanoke River between Brookneal and Salem. | , the first Governor of Virginia after statehood, was an early advocate of ... |
| Richard Nixon | During the September 16, 1968 episode, | , running for president, appeared for a few seconds with a disbelieving vo ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... cond longest-lived president after John Adams; both were since surpassed by | and Ronald Reagan. He had outlived by 20 years his wife, Lou Henry Hoover, ... |
| Sean Duffy | ... nd Judd Winick have since married, as have their roommate Rachel Campos and | of the Boston cast. In the season, Trishelle Cannatella and Steven Hill co ... |
| Daniel Inouye | Since 1987, Hawaii's Senator | , a World War II veteran, has introduced a measure to return Memorial Day ... |
| Kenesaw Mountain Landis | ... interested in his services. But those efforts (and others) were opposed by | , baseball's powerful commissioner and a staunch segregationist. Bill Veec ... |
| John Edwards | In 2004, the Democratic ticket of John F. Kerry and | carried Tensas Parish, 1,460 to 1,453 for President George W. Bush and Ric ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... but that it was part of some elaborate and dangerous intrigue instigated by | . |
| Gordon C. Strachan | ... n as the "Watergate Seven": Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Charles Colson, | , Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson, for conspiring to hinder the Water ... |
| 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 ... |
| Dr H.V. Evatt | ... al, being called to the New South Wales bar in 1938. At Fort Street, he met | who later became a judge of the High Court of Australia, and became a prot ... |
| Charles Morgan, Jr. | ... erving Southern issues. Much of the ACLU's progress in the South was due to | , the charismatic leader of the Atlanta office. He was responsible for des ... |
| 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 ... |
| Rudy Giuliani | ... . This method was first introduced and made popular by New York City Mayor, | , in the early 1990s |
| George Whatley | ... s may have preceded him in the invention; however, a correspondence between | and John Fenno, editor of The Gazette of the United States, suggested that ... |
| Joseph Pulitzer | ... acquired The New York Journal and engaged in a bitter circulation war with | 's New York World which led to the creation of yellow journalism—sensation ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... of those guilty of "Plastic Paddyism" (or, in his words, "Dermot-itis") are | , Daniel Day-Lewis, and Shane MacGowan. Scottish-Australian songwriter Eri ... |
| Charles Colson | ... who became known as the "Watergate Seven": Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, | , Gordon C. Strachan, Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson, for conspiring ... |
| Minister of Justice | ... these recommendations, King recruited St. Laurent to his wartime cabinet as | , Lapointe's old post, on December 9. St. Laurent agreed to go to Ottawa o ... |
| Lenin | ... h, as seen in contemporary documents (for example, in the first editions of | 's complete works). In Russian, however, "переворот" has a similar meaning ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... deral gun regulations came as a response to the murders of John F. Kennedy, | , and Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Frank Navin | ... ame-ending single, scoring Cochrane to seal a 4–3 victory. After team owner | died that year, plumbing fixture manufacturer Walter Briggs, Sr. took cont ... |
| Alfred Deakin | ... eral Protectionists joined Labour. With a majority of seats, the CLP led by | ousted Labour from office, with Fisher failing to persuade the Governor-Ge ... |
| 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 ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... Party's presidential nomination in 1976 was between two serious candidates: | , the leader of the GOP's moderate wing and the incumbent President, from ... |
| John Kerry | ... ection George W. Bush won 52% of the vote, compared to 44% statewide, while | won 46% of the vote, compared to 56% statewide. In the 2006 state governor ... |
| Charles Lyell | ... evolutionary play is performed. Darwin studied evolution in the context of | 's geology, but our present understanding of Earth history includes some c ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... hat he had a 66% disapproval rating, a record only matched decades later by | , and surpassed by George W. Bush |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... 1817), and who had handled the Louisiana Purchase as Secretary of State for | . At the time that Madison County was organized, the land south of Saline ... |
| Thomas Rivera Schatz | ... .6% of the electorate.) However, the new government led by Luis Fortuño and | (from the New Progressive Party) discarded the alternative of unicameralis ... |
| Gerald Ford | Image:Gerald Ford.jpg|President | of Michiga |
| Bill Clinton | ... has been cited as the favorite film of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and | |
| Kenneth Parkinson | ... hrlichman, Mitchell, Charles Colson, Gordon C. Strachan, Robert Mardian and | , for conspiring to hinder the Watergate investigation. The grand jury sec ... |
| Elihu B. Frost | ... February 1899. Isaac Leopold Rice became the company's first President with | acting as vice president and chief financial officer |
| Barack Obama | Also circulating is the Chesterfield Observer, a county-wide newspaper. | stopped at John Tyler Community College in Chester on August 21, 2008, whe ... |
| William Howard Taft | ... ho did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, | and Herbert Hoover. |
| 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 ... |
| Abe Fortas | ... on to uphold the state constitutional provision, his colleagues Douglas and | dissented. According to Douglas, Georgia tradition would guarantee a Maddo ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... the 1979 elections resulted in the victory of its Conservative Party under | in 1979. Industrialized countries, except Japan, experienced an economic r ... |
| Robin Ibbs | ... hough cuts had been made, transformation had not happened. In February 1988 | , recruited from ICI in July 1983 to run the Efficiency Unit (now in No. 1 ... |
| Jean Chrétien | By 1964, TCA had grown to become Canada's national airline, and in 1964 | submitted a private member's bill to change the name of the airline from T ... |
| Samuel D. Ingham | The county was named for | , the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Andrew Jackson, makin ... |
| Director of Public Prosecutions | No prosecution may be instituted, except by or with the consent of the | , for an offence of kidnapping if it was committed against a child under t ... |
| Rudy Giuliani | ... tial election was highly sought; despite being good friends with candidates | and Senator John McCain, Schwarzenegger remained neutral throughout 2007 a ... |
| G. K. Butterfield | ... olina's 1st Congressional District and is currently represented by Democrat | |
| Frank Brennan | ... ream Christian thinking than Cardinal Pell". Jesuit human rights lawyer Fr. | responded in an essay by saying that that while some Greens might be anti- ... |
| Lani Guinier | ... ed their carriers at other institutions, e.g. Bruce Ackerman (now at Yale), | (now at Harvard), Michael H. Schill (now at Chicago), and Myron T. Steele ... |
| Jim Jeffords | ... Later in 2001, he became Senate Minority Leader again after Vermont senator | became an independent and caucused with the Democrats, allowing them to re ... |
| Deval Patrick | Starting with Governor | 's tax initiative program, Melrose has become a popular place to shoot fil ... |
| Arlen Specter | ... his visit with fellow Republicans Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Sen. | of Pennsylvania, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, was especially p ... |
| Luis Fortuño | ... er turnout was 22.6% of the electorate.) However, the new government led by | and Thomas Rivera Schatz (from the New Progressive Party) discarded the al ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... ier Field. Numerous dignitaries attended, including United States President | , Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl and President of Bolivia Gonzalo Sánch ... |
| Ralph Nader | He made a donation to | 's 2008 presidential campaign. On January 30, 2009, Kilmer was chosen to b ... |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah | ... pt Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's policy of nonviolence and civil resistance, | 's constitutional struggle for the rights of minorities in India, and seve ... |
| Robert Mardian | ... Seven": Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Charles Colson, Gordon C. Strachan, | and Kenneth Parkinson, for conspiring to hinder the Watergate investigatio ... |
| Kay Hagan | ... dsboro is represented in the Senate by Republican Richard Burr and Democrat | |
| Paul Robeson | ... baseball winter meetings in 1943, noted African American athlete and actor | campaigned for integration of the sport. After World War II ended, several ... |
| John Kerry | ... cratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, and later campaigned for nominee | |
| David Vitter | ... on, Tensas Parish gave a plurality to the Republican candidate, Congressman | of St. Tammany Parish. Vitter polled 1,145 votes (41 percent) compared to ... |
| Gordon Liddy | ... character Nick Fury added. Moore and Gibbons saw The Comedian as "a kind of | character, only a much bigger, tougher guy". Richard Reynolds described Th ... |
| Felix Frankfurter | ... until just before the outbreak of war. In late 1933 Keynes was persuaded by | to address President Roosevelt directly, which he did by letters and face ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... from "Oggie" to "Ozzie," in honour of Peter Osgood, the soccer player. When | came to power in Britain in 1979 a variation of the chant ("Maggie Maggie ... |
| Ferdinand Marcos | ... e case in many African states; Idi Amin in Uganda, Adolf Hitler in Germany, | in Philippines, for example |
| Lee Kuan Yew | On May 18, 2010, Bilbao was awarded by the government of Singapore with the | World City Prize, at the World Cities Summit 2010. It is considered the Pr ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... his era, de Haviland was also notable as a staunch liberal, campaigning for | and Harry Truman. In 1946, determined to protect liberalism from infiltrat ... |
| Barack Obama | ... r Democrat John Kerry. Bush won 49.79% to Kerry's 48.47%. In 2008, Democrat | narrowly defeated John McCain, 49.51% to 48.50%. In the 2012 Maine Republi ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | | came to office in 1979 believing in free markets as a better social system ... |
| 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 ... |
| Strom Thurmond | Trent Lott spoke on December 5, 2002 at the 100th birthday party of Sen. | of South Carolina, a long time conservative leader. Thurmond had run for P ... |
| Alben W. Barkley | Image:AlbenBarkley.jpg|Vice President | of Kentuck |
| Thomas Jefferson | In 1803 President | obtained from France the Louisiana Purchase for fifteen million dollars (e ... |
| David A. Embury | The Old Fashioned is one of six basic drinks listed in | 's The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks |
| George Drew | ... o victory in the election against the Progressive Conservative Party led by | . The Liberals won 190 seats—the most in Canadian history at the time, and ... |
| Alan Dershowitz | ... at Camp David came from the Palestinian side, none from the Israeli side." | , an Israel advocate and a law professor at Harvard University, said that ... |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | ... on May 1, 2006. The justices unanimously decided in favor of Smith; Justice | wrote the majority opinion. The decision did not give Smith a portion of h ... |
| 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 ... |
| Adolphe-Basile Routhier | ... setting of a French Canadian patriotic poem composed by poet and judge Sir | . The lyrics were originally in French and translated into English in 1906 |
| Thomas Rivera Schatz | ... body, elected by a majority of both chambers. The current heads are Senator | and Representative Jennifer Gonzalez, respectively |
| Lionel Murphy | In February 1973, the Attorney General, Senator | , led a police raid on the Melbourne office of the Australian Security Int ... |
| William Orlando Butler | ... tates. Formed in 1848 from part of Barry Township, it is named for war hero | |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... ins". By the time the later series were made the Conservative government of | was in power, and fewer political observations were made against governmen ... |
| Minoru Yasui | ... which overturned the convictions of Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi and | on all charges related to their refusal to submit to exclusion and internm ... |
| Theodore Olson | ... that overturned California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage — as attorney | . The production was held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre and broadcast on Y ... |
| Richard Kleindienst | ... . On March 28 on Nixon's orders, aide John Ehrlichman told Attorney General | that nobody in the White House had prior knowledge of the burglary. On Apr ... |
| 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 ... |
| Oveta Culp Hobby | ... . Humphrey with whom he developed his closest relationships, and one woman, | . Eisenhower's cabinet, consisting of several corporate executives and one ... |
| Deval Patrick | ... HB 1598. Massachusetts joined the compact on August 4, 2010, when Governor | signed that state's bill into law. Additionally, the District of Columbia, ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... choice of a new flag was part of the negotiation process set in motion when | was released from prison in 1990. When a nationwide public competition was ... |
| Walter Nelles | ... community education. Founded in 1920 by Crystal Eastman, Roger Baldwin and | , the ACLU has over 500,000 members and has an annual budget over $100 mil ... |
| Alan Dershowitz | ... presentatives of Fascist Italy, offering to cooperate against the British." | wrote in his book The Case for Israel that unlike the Haganah, the policy ... |
| John Kerry | ... d area overall, narrowly voting for Republican George W. Bush over Democrat | in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat Barack Obama over Republican J ... |
| John Heath | ... iam and Mary was the P.D.A. Society (publicly known as "Please Don't Ask"). | , chief organizer of Phi Beta Kappa, according to tradition earlier sought ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... or succession of Republican presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, | , Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. The Republican Part ... |
| Kenesaw Mountain Landis | ... -conspirators were subsequently made permanently ineligible for baseball by | , Major League Baseball's new commissioner, recently hired to restore the ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... ext of the sponsorship scandal that came to light soon after Prime Minister | left office, Bédard asserted that she had been forced to resign from her m ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ry 2010, China promised $4.2 million for the quake-hit island. US President | pledged $1.15 billion in assistance. nations promised more than 400 millio ... |
| Sir Garfield Barwick | ... period his political views became more conservative. He became a friend of | , the Liberal Attorney-General who became Chief Justice of the High Court ... |
| James Dalrymple | ... of philosophy at the University of Glasgow in 1646, aged 19, a follower of | . In later life he was well known as an evangelical Christian |
| George M. Humphrey | ... eir recommendations without exception; they included John Foster Dulles and | with whom he developed his closest relationships, and one woman, Oveta Cul ... |
| John Ehrlichman | On April 30, Nixon asked for the resignation of H. R. Haldeman and | , two of his most influential aides, both of whom were indicted, convicted ... |
| Crystal Eastman | ... s through litigation, lobbying, and community education. Founded in 1920 by | , Roger Baldwin and Walter Nelles, the ACLU has over 500,000 members and h ... |
| John Ehrlichman | ... security matters. Dean would later testify he was ordered by top Nixon aide | to "" a briefcase full of surveillance equipment and other evidence found ... |
| William O'Connell Bradley | ... t News, Virginia, sponsored by Miss Christine Bradley, daughter of Governor | of Kentucky, and commissioned on 15 May 1900, Captain Colby M. Chester in ... |
| White House Counsel | ... whom were indicted, convicted and ultimately sentenced to prison. He fired | John Dean, who went on to testify before the Senate and became the key wit ... |
| Miguel de la Madrid | Mexican presidents | , in the early 80s and Carlos Salinas de Gortari in the late 80s, started ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... riendship treaty. Negotiated by Thomas Barclay and signed by John Adams and | in 1786, it has been in continuous effect since its ratification by Congre ... |
| 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 ... |
| Robert Bork | ... Greek philosophy, leaving it doomed to fall into moral and political decay. | 's Slouching Toward Gommorah and Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American ... |
| Barack Obama | ... . Bush over Democrat John Kerry in 2004, but moderately voting for Democrat | over Republican John McCain in 2008 |
| 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 ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... ander loose in the hilly terrain. There is also a full-size reproduction of | 's log cabin and a totem pole in the park |
| Günther Beckstein | ... n that it pushed through the state parliament, incumbent Minister-President | and Chairman of the CSU, Erwin Huber, announced their resignations. Horst ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... to gain statehood for Nevada before the next presidential election so that | would have enough votes to win. They rushed to send the entire state const ... |
| Michael Dukakis | ... criticism, modern politicians as diverse as John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, | , and Sarah Palin, have all made reference to Winthrop's writings in their ... |
| Silvia Cartwright | ... 006: the Sovereign Queen Elizabeth II of New Zealand, Governor-General Dame | , Prime Minister Helen Clark, Speaker of the New Zealand House of Represen ... |
| Barack Obama | ... 08 after coming back from early reversals, but lost to Democratic candidate | in the general election. He subsequently adopted more orthodox conservativ ... |
| Chrétien | ... press their suspicions of this alliance in detail, accusing the Trudeau and | governments of funding litigious groups. For example, these governments us ... |
| Francis Bacon | ... onopolists by Parliament for the abuse of prices led to the scapegoating of | by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, leading to Bacon's impeachment ... |
| Gray Davis | ... d on October 7, 2003, in a special recall election to replace then-Governor | . Schwarzenegger was sworn in on November 17, 2003, to serve the remainder ... |
| Elliot Richardson | On the same day, Nixon appointed a new Attorney General, | , and gave him authority to designate a special counsel for the Watergate ... |
| state attorneys general | ... atory investigation under New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and other | . At issue was the practice of insurance companies' payments to brokers (k ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | The Black Hawk War is now often remembered as the conflict that gave young | his brief military service. Other notable American participants included W ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... e 27 April elections, the nation's first fully inclusive elections, and for | 's 10 May inauguration. Although the flag had mixed reception, the interim ... |
| Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat | received 54.6% of the vote here (3,418 ballots received), outpolling Repub ... |
| Bernard Landry | ... and the amalgamation of Quebec's larger cities undertaken by his successor | . Other aspects of his legacy include the creation of a low-cost, universa ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas E. Dewey | The moderate Eastern Republicans were led by New York Governor | , the party's presidential nominee in 1944 and 1948. The moderates tended ... |
| Archibald Cox | ... of the regular Justice Department hierarchy. In May 1973, Richardson named | to the position |
| Pierre Trudeau | ... re winning a by-election a few weeks later. Similarly, John Turner replaced | as leader of the Liberal Party in 1984 and subsequently was appointed prim ... |
| 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 ... |
| Caspar Weinberger | ... ates, were rejected. Helms also, unsuccessfully, opposed the nominations of | , Donald Regan, and Frank Carlucci. However, he did score a notable coup t ... |
| McAleese | ... to the President of Ireland by name (e.g., "President Robinson," "President | ," etc.). This compromise was agreed to by the governments of both states. ... |
| Benito Juárez | This day commemorates President | 's birthday on March 21, 1806. Juárez is popularly regarded as an exemplar ... |
| 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 |
| Percy Sutton | ... ewel of Inner City Broadcasting Corporation. A co-founder of Inner City was | , a former Manhattan borough president and long one of the city's most pow ... |
| James B. Hunt Jr. | John Edwards, former U.S. Senator and two time presidential candidate, | , 4-term Governor of North Carolina and Robert Gibbs, Former White House P ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... in which the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (bolshevik) headed by | toppled the Kerensky government in what they believed to be the first blow ... |
| Brian Mulroney | ... Western Canadian discontent with the Progressive Conservative government of | . Led by its founder Preston Manning, the Reform Party rapidly gained mome ... |
| assistant attorney general | ... ord administrations, first at minor administrative agencies, and then as an | . He spent most of the Carter years teaching at the University of Chicago, ... |
| James Wilson | ... officially traces its origins to a series of lectures delivered in 1790 by | , a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and United Sta ... |
| Gerald Ford | In 1982, along with his friend | , he co-founded the annual AEI World Forum |
| Jubal Early | ... ense of exhausted men and animals, without gaining much military advantage. | referred to it as "the greatest horse stealing expedition" that only "anno ... |
| Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf | He is the father of | , member of the cantonal government of Graubünden (Grisons), who was herse ... |
| Joseph Rosenfield | ... enerous financial aid programs. Under the stewardship of Warren Buffett and | , the college has adopted an opportunistic and innovative strategy in mana ... |
| Billy Hughes | ... n for three sitting days. Three days later Labor Caucus unanimously elected | leader of the Federal Parliamentary Party. A Wide Bay by-election was held ... |
| Bobby DeLaughter | ... reach a verdict, De La Beckwith was brought to trial based on new evidence. | took on the job as the prosecutor. During the trial, the body of Evers was ... |
| U.S. Attorney | ... Clasby's law firm for six months when Bob McNeally, a Democrat appointed as | for Fairbanks during the Truman administration, informed U.S. District Jud ... |
| Nicholas White | ... onged of Cecil's surviving personal correspondences is with an Irish judge, | , lasting from 1566 until 1590; it is contained in the State Papers Irelan ... |
| Rubén Blades | ... ny Orchestra. In the concert, they played their hits as well as covers from | , Danny Rivera, Silvio Rodríguez, and Puerto Rican Salsa superstars El Gra ... |
| Trent Lott | ... tate fairs and performed at several social and political events for Senator | |
| Getúlio Vargas | ... quarela do Brasil, by Ary Barroso, followed by Carmen Miranda (supported by | government and the US Good Neighbor policy), which led samba to the United ... |
| Lord Finlay | ... s Andre Weiss of France, Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven of Cuba and | of the United Kingdom were elected by a majority vote of both the Council ... |
| Martin O'Malley | ... of Columbia have joined the compact. The first was Maryland, when Governor | signed the bill into law on April 10, 2007. New Jersey joined on January 1 ... |
| Earl Warren | ... t of Ohio, the longtime leader of the GOP's conservative wing; and Governor | of California, who appealed to Western delegates and independent voters |
| Abraham Lincoln | Following President | 's assassination in April 1865, there were a variety of events of commemor ... |
| John Turner | ... rom the hallway" before winning a by-election a few weeks later. Similarly, | replaced Pierre Trudeau as leader of the Liberal Party in 1984 and subsequ ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... of customary international law. At the conference, United States President | and Secretary of State Cordell Hull declared the Good Neighbor Policy, whi ... |
| Ohio Attorney General | After further investigation of New Rome's history of misconduct, the | , on the recommendation of the Ohio State Auditor, concluded that it shoul ... |
| Heinz Nawratil | The German lawyer | has published a study of the expulsions Schwarzbuch der Vertreibung (Black ... |
| Tony Garza | ... ged them were upset residents from the area. The U.S. ambassador to Mexico, | , however, claimed the men may have been local police. Reporters Without B ... |
| Barack Obama | In July 2008 | , then the Democratic presidential candidate, said: "If somebody was sendi ... |
| Nelson Mandela | This name was also given to | prior to his arrest and long incarceration for his anti-apartheid activiti ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ith the others being Samuel Tilden, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and | |
| Richard Nixon | ... at the Chinese had manipulated him. This attack backfired when US President | announced that he would visit China the following year. His National Secur ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nixon | ... irm, he became a law school professor. In the early 1970s, he served in the | and Ford administrations, first at minor administrative agencies, and then ... |
| Franklin | ... he last living member of the Coolidge administration. He also outlived both | and Eleanor Roosevelt who died in 1945 and 1962, respectively. By the time ... |
| G. Gordon Liddy | ... rector Jeb Magruder and finance director Maurice Stans to give the money to | |
| Joe Lieberman | ... , although such incidents have become less frequent over the years. Senator | has made this observation: "It is not the kind of anger that is a loss of ... |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | ... of prosperity and a determination to defeat the Axis powers. Prime Minister | and President Franklin D. Roosevelt were determined not to repeat the mist ... |
| Grover Cleveland | ... supportive of the annexation of Hawaiʻi, was voted out of the White House. | , an anti-imperialist, assumed the presidency and right away worked to sto ... |
| Lord Finlay | ... ice-President on 12 September 1928 to succeed Weiss, while a second death ( | ) left the Court increasingly understaffed. Replacements for Moore and Fin ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... t the Axis powers. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and President | were determined not to repeat the mistakes of their predecessors. They met ... |
| John Kerry | ... e 19th century. Twentieth century descendants include Massachusetts Senator | and educator Charles William Eliot. The towns of Winthrop, Massachusetts a ... |
| 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 Kerry | ... House of Representatives. The current U.S. senators from Massachusetts are | (D) and Scott P. Brown (R) |
| Neal Katyal | In May 2011, U.S. Solicitor General | , after a year of investigation, found Charles Fahy intentionally withheld ... |
| Margaret Wilson | ... e Minister Helen Clark, Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives | and Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias |
| Percy Foreman | ... he recanted this confession three days later. On the advice of his attorney | , Ray pleaded guilty to avoid a trial conviction and thus the possibility ... |
| Sam Houston | Initially, the new capital thrived. But Lamar's political enemy, | , used two Mexican army incursions to San Antonio as an excuse to move the ... |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | ... n expected to seek election to the Commons as soon as possible. For example | , after losing his seat in the same general election that his party won, b ... |
| William Ruckelshaus | ... xon demanded the resignations of Attorney General Richardson and his deputy | for refusing to fire the special prosecutor. Nixon's search for someone in ... |
| Curt Anderson | ... mbers of the team now coach lacrosse in local high schools. Tony Fulton and | were elected to the Maryland House of Delegates. Dr. Miles Harrison and Co ... |
| Ford | ... came a law school professor. In the early 1970s, he served in the Nixon and | administrations, first at minor administrative agencies, and then as an as ... |
| John Ingram | ... aced no primary opponent, the Democrats nominated Commissioner of Insurance | , who came from behind in the first round of the primary to win in the run ... |
| Barack Obama | ... of the campaign, Sheen stated in a BBC Two interview that he was supporting | |
| Sian Elias | ... New Zealand House of Representatives Margaret Wilson and Chief Justice Dame | |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ecame the first naval aviator to receive the Medal of Honor. With President | looking on, O'Hare's wife Rita placed the Medal around his neck. After rec ... |
| Brian Mulroney | Canada's | ran on a similar platform to Reagan, and also favored closer trade ties wi ... |
| Michael Dukakis | ... n, when Republican candidate George H. W. Bush accused Democratic candidate | (a member of the ACLU) of being a "card carrying member of the ACLU" |
| Gerald Ford | ... oup at the behest of Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and U.S. President | and the group became the Group of Seven (G7). The European Union is repres ... |
| John Kerry | Dunst supported Democratic candidate | in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. Four years later, she supported De ... |
| Hart Pomerantz | ... n Spears, Hugh Wedlock Jr., Coslough Johnson (Arte Johnson's twin brother), | , Barry Took, Digby Wolfe, |
| Ernest Pollock | ... t was a good one, from politicians, practising lawyers and academics alike. | , the former Attorney General for England and Wales said "May we not as la ... |
| 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 |
| John Sparrow David Thompson | ... succeeded prime ministers who died in office (John A. Macdonald in 1891 and | in 1894), a convention that has since evolved toward the appointment of an ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... of a secret Latin motto. William and Mary alumnus and third U.S. President | was perhaps the most famous member of the F.H.C.; other notable members of ... |
| Fidel Castro | With | assuming control of Cuba in 1959, Cruz and her husband, Pedro Knight, refu ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... isenhower administration also planned the Bay of Pigs Invasion to overthrow | in Cuba, which John F. Kennedy was left to carry out. |
| United States Attorney | ... er people were indicted in the scandal. The case is being prosecuted by the | from El Paso, Texas, but the case will be tried starting October 3, 2011 b ... |
| 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 ... |
| Nicolas Sarkozy | ... chy-era identity documents. During the 2007 presidential election, however, | was polled on the issue and stated that he favoured the collection of data ... |
| Anthony Romero | The ACLU is led by an executive officer and a president ( | and Susan Herman, respectively, in 2011). The executive officer acts as ch ... |
| Franklin Roosevelt | ... lics to supporting repeal led by liberal politicians such as La Guardia and | . She, and they, emphasized that repeal would generate enormous sums of mu ... |
| George Mitchell | ... joined fellow former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, and | to found the Bipartisan Policy Center, a non-profit think tank that works ... |
| Paul Robeson | ... oire in concert halls around the United States, often sharing the bill with | |
| 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 ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... vision for a "Medal of Honor", was signed into law (12Stat329) by President | on December 21, 1861. The medal was "to be bestowed upon such petty office ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... East by reducing "people's tension". In a letter to presidential candidate | , Hagelin accepted Clinton's offer to debate "any serious candidate" and i ... |
| Stefano Infessura | The chronicler | 's republican and anti-papal temper makes his diary a far from neutral tho ... |
| Sir Robert Menzies | ... on in Canberra to form the Liberal Party of Australia, delegates, including | , met for a second conference in Albury at Mate's Department Store between ... |
| John A. Macdonald | ... Freeway (Hwy 401) is named after Cartier and fellow Father of Confederation | , as are Ottawa's Macdonald-Cartier International Airport and the Macdonal ... |
| John Dean | ... b Stuart Magruder, Attorney General John Mitchell, and Presidential Counsel | , that involved extensive illegal activities against the Democratic Party. ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... na Leon and Robert Harris while in hospital, and was visited at the time by | |
| John A. Macdonald | ... rnment Leader in the Senate, succeeded prime ministers who died in office ( | in 1891 and John Sparrow David Thompson in 1894), a convention that has si ... |
| Earl Warren | ... ut included a small number of German and Italian enemy aliens. By February, | , the Attorney General of California, had begun his efforts to persuade th ... |
| Barack Obama | ... e 2004 U.S. presidential election. Four years later, she supported Democrat | in the 2008 presidential election. Dunst revealed that she supported Obama ... |
| Jim Hunt | ... al gasoline tax by 5-cents per gallon: mirroring his opposition to Governor | 's 3-cent increase in the North Carolina gasoline tax, but alienating the ... |
| Strom Thurmond | ... atic. He became Senate Majority Leader, then fell from power after praising | 's 1948 segregationist Dixiecrat presidential bid |
| 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 ... |
| Ted, Jr. | ... had three children together: Kara (February 27, 1960 – September 16, 2011), | (born September 26, 1961), and Patrick J. (born July 14, 1967). By the mid ... |
| Barack Obama | ... aska Governor Sarah Palin for Vice President. They were defeated by Senator | of Illinois and Senator Joe Biden of Delaware. In 2009, Republicans Chris ... |
| Felix Frankfurter | ... process clause. His chief rival on the issue (and on many other issues) was | , who advocated a substantive view of due process based on "natural law" - ... |
| 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 ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | Hopkins was a prominent abolitionist who supported | during the American Civil War. After his death, reports said his convictio ... |
| Jorge Vargas | ... ts of Manila, Quezon City, San Juan del Monte, Caloocan, etc. and appointed | as mayor. Existing mayors of the included cities and municipalities served ... |
| Martin Lipton | The poison pill was invented by mergers and acquisitions lawyer | of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in 1982, as a response to tender-based h ... |
| John Slidell | ... the Continent, and French Emperor Napoleon III assured Confederate diplomat | that he would make “direct proposition” to England for joint recognition. ... |
| Nicolas Sarkozy | The head of state is President | of France as represented by Préfet (Prefect) Albert Dupuy (since 10 Januar ... |
| 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 ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... members of the Danbury Baptist Association wrote a letter to then president | expressing their concern that as Baptists they may not be able to express ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... rétien was wary to appearing too close to the president, personally, he and | were known to be golfing partners. Their governments had many small trade ... |
| John Ehrlichman | ... on Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms in the 1977 adaptation of | 's Watergate novel The Company, and portrayed Henry Ford in the 1987 Ford: ... |
| Gideon Welles | ... d other seamanlike qualities during the present war." Secretary of the Navy | directed the Philadelphia Mint to design the new decoration. Shortly after ... |
| 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 ... |
| Brian Mulroney | ... y became the Alliance caucus (with a few exceptions). Former Prime Minister | called the party "Reform in pantyhose", and some opponents referred to the ... |
| Joe Biden | ... esident. They were defeated by Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and Senator | of Delaware. In 2009, Republicans Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell were el ... |
| 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 ... |
| Samuel Romilly | ... incidents of sadness. His father and his wife died young. His beloved uncle | committed suicide in Roget's presence. Roget struggled with depression for ... |
| George Sharswood | ... began offering a full-time program in law in 1850, under the leadership of | , an innovator in legal education. Under Sharswood's leadership, Penn Law ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... te ghost stories, one of which became the basis for the novel Frankenstein. | rented a little "chalet" at the French bank, near Geneva. Actor Charlie Ch ... |
| Barack Obama | ... rs voted for Republican John McCain, while 38.63 percent voted for Democrat | and 3.22 percent of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wro ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | The administration of President | subjected Mellon to intense investigation of his personal income tax retur ... |
| Barack Obama | ... to obtain a majority of the popular vote in a presidential election, until | won about 53% of the vote 32 years later. Carter is one of five Democrats ... |
| Assistant Attorney General | ... functioning of the federal bureaucracy. In mid-1974, Nixon nominated him as | for the Office of Legal Counsel. After Nixon's resignation, the nomination ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bob Dole | ... enate Majority Leader in 1996, upon the resignation of presidential nominee | of Kansas |
| Álvaro Uribe | The government of Colombian President | has resisted criticism of aerial spraying of coca and poppy and has seen m ... |
| David Wilkins | ... for his victory in February 2006, Harper rebuked U.S. ambassador to Canada | for criticizing the Conservatives' plans to assert Canada's sovereignty ov ... |
| David Sherman Boardman | ... was overwhelmed by the powerful British raiders and was forced to retreat. | (1786–1864) was a prominent early lawyer and judge in this and neighboring ... |
| John Kerry | ... Republican George W. Bush received 69% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 30%. In the 2008 presidential electio |
| William Howard Taft | ... er a fire burned much of the town, the name was changed to Taft in honor of | |
| Brendan Sullivan | ... n October 2, 2008, denied the mistrial petition of Stevens's chief counsel, | , due to allegations of withholding evidence by prosecutors. Thus, the lat ... |
| Paul Robeson | # | , singer and actor (former resident) |
| Bill Clinton | ... ber 1995 and March 1997, she had nine sexual encounters with then-President | that, according to her testimony, involved fellatio and other sexual acts ... |
| Barack Obama | ... size in the 2008 and 2012 elections. 2008 Republican presidential candidate | visited the town twice during his campaign and again while President Augus ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... nee in the presidential election of 1996, but he lost to incumbent Democrat | . Dole is currently special counsel at the Washington, D.C. office of law ... |
| Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander | ... years before Goodrich was named Dean, the law school graduated with a J.D. | (in 1927), the first African-American woman to ever receive a Ph.D. in the ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... the 1968 New Hampshire primary, he ended his bid for reelection. Republican | was elected to succeed him. Historians argue that his presidency marked th ... |
| U.S. Attorney | ... g the summer of 1949, Stevens was a research assistant in the office of the | for the Southern District of California, now the Central District of Calif ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... pelessly liberal ("a card-carrying member of the ACLU"). In 1996, President | seized upon opponent Bob Dole's promise to take America back to a simpler ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Kerry | ... Republican George W. Bush received 68% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 31%. In the 2008 presidential electio |
| Barack Obama | ... d the Selma to Montgomery marches. In 2008, the county voted to establish a | Day, a legal holiday, every second Monday of November |
| 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 ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... year, Streisand's concert fundraising events helped propel former President | into the spotlight and into office. Streisand later introduced Clinton at ... |
| Roger Wicker | ... resigned from the Senate and became a Washington-based lobbyist. Republican | won the 2008 special election to replace him |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... ity to Barry Goldwater. The last Democratic candidate to win the county was | in 1936. Although shifting Democratic in the last 12 years John McCain rec ... |
| William Cohen | ... good terms. McCain and Hensley were married on May 17, 1980, with Senators | and Gary Hart attending as groomsmen. McCain's children did not attend, an ... |
| Christopher Cox | ... ost in late December 2008, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman | said that the decision to impose a three-week ban on short selling of fina ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... Dole represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996, was | 's Vice Presidential running mate in the 1976 presidential election, and w ... |
| Jean Chrétien | Although | was wary to appearing too close to the president, personally, he and Bill ... |
| Wilfrid Laurier | ... rter of the Liberal Party of Canada and was particularly enamoured with Sir | . When Laurier led the Liberals to victory in the 1896 election, 14-year-o ... |
| Scott Brown | ... r, former United Nations Under-Secretary General and former Indian Minister | ;, Republican United States Senator from Massachusetts; Bill Richardson, D ... |
| Strom Thurmond | ... cember 20, 2002, after significant controversy following comments regarding | 's presidential candidacy, Lott resigned as Senate Minority Leader. In Dec ... |
| Martha Field | ... ity of Pennsylvania, in economics). The first woman to join the faculty was | in 1969, now a professor at Harvard Law School, while the first black woma ... |
| George Gavan Duffy | ... tment of Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, Robert Barton, Eamonn Duggan and | as envoys plenipotentiary for the peace conference in England. Of the five ... |
| William Jennings Bryan | ... nown and many celebrities stayed there including Bobby Jones, Babe Ruth and | |
| Michael Dukakis | ... ticularly the conservative media. Similarly, George H.W. Bush characterized | as weak on crime (the Willie Horton ad) and hopelessly liberal ("a card-ca ... |
| L. Patrick Gray | ... med Felt planted the leaks to obtain the FBI director's job (the leaks hurt | , Nixon's friend who had recently been chosen for the director's position ... |
| 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 ... |
| Felix Frankfurter | ... of the Court. The most prominent opponents of Black's theory were Justices | and John Marshall Harlan II. Frankfurter and Harlan argued that the Fourte ... |
| Thomas McKean | ... the colonial assembly, and on June 18 a new Conference of Committees under | authorized Pennsylvania's delegates to declare independence. On June 15, t ... |
| John Calvin | ... r and condemnation of the Reformation by the Pope, the work and writings of | were influential in establishing a loose consensus among various groups in ... |
| Carl Levin | ... that resolved the U.S. debt ceiling crisis. In November, McCain and Senator | were leaders in efforts to codify in the National Defense Authorization Ac ... |
| Calvin Coolidge | ... ates Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and | , he promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubri ... |
| Arthur Meighen | ... he was offered a position in the Cabinet of the Conservative Prime Minister | in 1926 and was offered a seat as a justice in the Supreme Court of Canada |
| Barack Obama | , Republican John McCain received 64% of the vote here, defeating Democrat | , who received 33%. This gives Fredon Township a Cook PVI of R+19 |
| Kenny Hulshof | ... Governor Governor Jay Nixon solidly defeated Republican U.S. Representative | with 58.40 percent of the total statewide vote. Nixon performed extremely ... |
| Joan Biskupic | ... eventy, Scalia characterizes his victories as "[d]amn few". His biographer, | , speculates that Scalia, given good health, may remain on the Court for a ... |
| John Marshall | ... Missouri Valley College. Marshall was named after the statesman and jurist | (1755–1835) |
| Barack Obama | In the 2008 presidential election, | and Joe Biden won 54% of the vote in the city, and John McCain and Sarah P ... |
| John Kerry | In the 2004 US presidential campaign, Howard Dean defined | as a "flip-flopper," which was widely reported and repeated by the media, ... |
| Joe Biden | In the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama and | won 54% of the vote in the city, and John McCain and Sarah Palin 46% |
| Aryeh Neier | ... ield of civil liberties. Administratively, the ACLU responded by appointing | to take over from Pemberton as Executive Director in 1970. Neier embarked ... |
| Eli Dayan | "Deputy Foreign Minister, | offered compensation to the victims families in 1995, but explained that I ... |
| Charles Maitland, 3rd Earl of Lauderdale | ... is buried at North Berwick, where a United Free Church was named after him. | held the Bass for James VII for a brief period after the Scottish parliame ... |
| the first Justice Harlan's | ... "waving the bloody shirt of Brown", and indicated that he would have joined | solitary dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 case that Brown overruled |
| Kostas Karamanlis | Tufts alumni in the government sector include | , former Prime Minister of Greece; Shashi Tharoor, former United Nations U ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... obel Peace Prize winners – Albert Luthuli, Desmond Tutu, F. W. de Klerk and | . Since 1994, the city has struggled with problems such as HIV/AIDS, tuber ... |
| William Howard Taft | ... ent of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents (along with | ) to have been elected without previous electoral experience or high milit ... |
| Alfred-Maurice de Zayas | ... eration of Expellees staunchly defending the higher figure. The writings of | and Rudolph Rummel continue to remain influential in the English speaking ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... counties, its voters often favor Republican and conservative issues. While | did manage to narrowly carry the county both times in 1992 and 1996, Georg ... |
| Spottswood Robinson | ... School Board of Prince Edward County. This case, filed by Richmond natives | and Oliver Hill, was decided in 1954 with Brown v. Board of Education, whi ... |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | ... hat St-Laurent finally agreed to enter politics when Liberal Prime Minister | appealed to his sense of duty in late 1941 |
| Richard M. Johnson | ... governed by Cedar County officials. It was named for the US Vice President | |
| Ujjal Dosanjh | ... ch of his term in office, Harcourt and his newly-appointed Attorney-General | succeeded in regaining substantial public support by taking a hard line ag ... |
| Abe Fortas | ... s (while at school). The term enclave originated with Supreme Court justice | 's use of the phrase "schools may not be enclaves of totalitarianism" in t ... |
| Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau | The first scientists to suggest disinfecting water with chlorine were | (in France) and William Cumberland Cruikshank (in England), both around th ... |
| Byron White | ... orker otherwise qualified for food stamps prior to going on strike. Justice | said that the government must maintain neutrality in labor dispute and not ... |
| 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 ... |
| Harry Reid | On August 9, 2011, Senate Majority Leader | appointed Murray to co-chair the United States Congress Joint Select Commi ... |
| 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 ... |
| Laura Ingraham | ... ional figures such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, | , Michael Reagan, Howie Carr, and Michael Savage, as well as many local co ... |
| Brian Mulroney | Relations between | and Ronald Reagan were famously close. This relationship resulted in negot ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... on County was formed on January 21, 1839. It was named for the US President | |
| Richard Mentor Johnson | It is named for | , the ninth vice president of the United States |
| Louis-Joseph Papineau | ... e populations of British colonists. After the Lower Canada Rebellion led by | in 1837, and the Upper Canada Rebellion led by William Lyon Mackenzie, Lor ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... ter the final episode of his season aired), he was lauded by then-President | . Zamora’s friend and roommate during the show, Judd Winick, went on to be ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... continued to hold him in high regard as a moral teacher (see, for example, | 's famous Jefferson Bible and Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the ... |
| John Kerry | ... . In 2004, Republican President George W. Bush won the county over Democrat | 59% to 37%. In 2008, however, Democrat Barack Obama won Salt Lake County b ... |
| military commissions | ... m Ahmed Hamdan, supposed driver to Osama bin Laden, who was challenging the | at Guantanamo Bay. A group of retired military officers that supported Ham ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... ,000,000 copies in his day, and was even read by a young and impressionable | . The degradations of a slave existence and the courage to survive under t ... |
| Barack Obama | ... an John Warner. Virginia, which has 13 electoral votes, was won by Democrat | in 2008, after being won by Republican candidates in the previous ten pres ... |
| 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 ... |
| David M. Smolin | ... married to Dina Graser, a communications lawyer in Toronto. His brother is | |
| Wells Spicer | Wyatt and Holliday were arrested and brought before Justice of the Peace | . Morgan and Virgil were still recovering at home. All four were required ... |
| Sonia Sotomayor | ... ative effect. McCain also voted against Obama's Supreme Court nomination of | – saying that while undeniably qualified, "I do not believe that she share ... |
| John Kerry | In the 2004 presidential election | won 52% of the vote, whereas George W. Bush won 46% of the vote. In the 20 ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | In 1989, U.S. Ambassador Charles Price and British Prime Minister | dedicated a bronze statue of Eisenhower in Grosvenor Square, London. The s ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President | authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066, issued February 19, 1 ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... e labor unions and the New Deal's deficit spending. He broke with President | in early 1937 over the issue of enlarging the Supreme Court, and helped de ... |
| Deborah Pryce | ... ty Foundation. In attendance were hundreds of citizens, U.S. Representative | , and many other political and civic leaders. In 2008, the opened a new $8 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Frank Keating | ... sident Dick Cheney, former president Clinton, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry, | , Governor of Oklahoma at the time of the bombing, and other political dig ... |
| Richard Nixon | A notable event of the 1952 campaign concerned a scandal that emerged when | , Eisenhower's running mate, was accused by several newspapers of receivin ... |
| Barack Obama | ... tchell County was the whitest county in the country, at 99.27%, to vote for | in the 2008 Presidential election. Obama garnered 56% of the vote, while J ... |
| Emanuel Rackman | ... such as Joseph Soloveitchik, Norman Lamm, Randalf Stolzman, Abraham Besdin, | , Eliezer Berkovits and others have written on this issue; many of their w ... |
| Howard Berman | ... ed lobbyist Michael S. Berman, brother of California Democratic Congressman | ,for "redistricting consulting" on her behalf. She paid Berman $20,000 for ... |
| 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 ... |
| Brad Henry | Vice President Dick Cheney, former president Clinton, Oklahoma Governor | , Frank Keating, Governor of Oklahoma at the time of the bombing, and othe ... |
| George Wallace | ... iot Act. The ACLU has supported conservative figures such as Rush Limbaugh, | , Henry Ford, and Oliver North; and it has supported liberal figures such ... |
| Fidel Castro | ... osition. While he initially supported the Cuban revolutionary government of | , Vargas Llosa later became disenchanted with the Cuban dictator and his a ... |
| Cem Kaner | | and Grady Booch have publicly stated that the document could be improved. ... |
| Arsenio Lacson | With | becoming the first elected mayor in 1952 (all mayors were appointed prior ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... nies included commencement speakers former Presidents George H. W. Bush and | , who commended the students for their desire to return to Tulane and serv ... |
| João Goulart | ... , democratically elected president Juan Bosch of the Dominican Republic and | of Brazil, maintaining US support for anti-communist, authoritarian Latin ... |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah | ... Empire and the British Empire. As a result of the Pakistan Movement led by | and India's struggle for independence, Pakistan was created in 1947 as an ... |
| Rex E. Lee | ... alem, now called the BYU Jerusalem Center. In 1989, Holland was replaced by | . Lee was responsible for the Benson Science Building and the Museum of Ar ... |
| David M. Smolin | ... Michael Smolin, an engineer, and Pauline Smolin, a playwright. His brother, | , became a professor in the Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabam ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... W. Bush had derided Reaganomics as "voodoo economics". Similarly, in 1976, | had severely criticized Reagan's proposal to turn back a large part of the ... |
| Kurt Waldheim | ... alition with the FPÖ under the leadership of Fred Sinowatz. In Spring 1986, | was elected president amid considerable national and international protest ... |
| Barack Obama | ... of the rural counties in Missouri, Franklin County favored John McCain over | in 2008 |
| Paul Robeson | ... ts leadership ranks, when it defended Neo-Nazis, when it declined to defend | , or when it opposed the passage of the National Labor Relations Act. Conv ... |
| Bartholomew Gosnold | ... inally settled by the Nauset tribe, who had a settlement known as Meeshawn. | named Cape Cod in Provincetown Harbor in 1602. In 1620, the Pilgrims signe ... |
| John E. Jones III | ... ents in a lawsuit against the school district. After a lengthy trial, Judge | ruled in favor of the parents in the decision, finding that intelligent de ... |
| Washington Irving | ... the poor and their children during the boom decades of the 1830s and 1840s, | 's essays on Christmas published in his Sketch Book (1820) describing the ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... Dole ran unsuccessfully for Vice President on a ticket headed by President | . Incumbent Vice President Nelson Rockefeller had withdrawn from considera ... |
| Franklin Roosevelt | President | moved the INS from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice in ... |
| William Jennings Bryan | Hearst's newspaper was the only major publication in the East to support | and Bimetallism in 1896. Subsequently, the price of the Journal (later New ... |
| John Calvin | ... vention of printing. The collection also includes works by Galileo, Luther, | , Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir Francis Bacon, Samuel Johnson ... |
| Ernest Lapointe | Following the death of his Quebec lieutenant, | , in November 1941, King was well aware of the need for the government to ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... ere located. On 7 July a government decree ordering the arrest and trial of | was published. He was forced to go underground, just as he had been under ... |
| Edward Carson | ... ss. A team of private detectives had directed Queensberry's lawyers, led by | QC, to the world of the Victorian underground. Wilde's association with bl ... |
| Bill Graham | ... epped down as parliamentary leader after the election, handing the reins to | for the interim. Martin stayed on as party leader until he resigned on Mar ... |
| Richard Nixon | | (1913-1994) was the 37th President of the United States |
| Amos T. Akerman | ... el Webster. Cabinet members of American presidents include Attorney General | , Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal, Secretary of Labor Robert Reich ... |
| Manley Ottmer Hudson | ... fters intended a purely advisory capacity for the Court, not a binding one. | (who sat as a judge) said that an advisory opinion "was what it purported ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | Then-U.S. Senator | (D-New York) carried Franklin County with 55.83 percent of the vote. Then- ... |
| Ted Kennedy | ... its political opponents in the United States, including Senators Helms and | , with the assistance of the CIA and National Security Council. Helms prop ... |
| John S. Mosby | One of the most forceful postbellum defenses of Stuart was by Col. | , who had served under him during the campaign and was fiercely loyal to t ... |
| Barack Obama | ... is one of the Democratic-leaning counties in Central Florida. It voted for | 59% to 40% in 2008. However, the county also voted for Republicans Richard ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... n Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation and features Morgan Freeman as | . Invictus earned Damon an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Ac ... |
| Bill Keating | ... assachusetts's 10th congressional district, and is currently represented by | . Following the death of Ted Kennedy, the state's senior (Class I) member ... |
| John Kerry | ... Barney Frank. The state's senior (Class II) Senator, re-elected in 2008, is | . The other Senator is Scott Brown, elected in 2010. Westport is patrolled ... |
| Barack Obama | ... 964, when Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas won his second term. In 2008, Democrat | came very close in heavy voting, when he won 48.6 percent of the vote comp ... |
| Scott Brown | ... in the United States Senate by senior Senator John Kerry and junior Senator | |
| 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 |
| Barack Obama | ... independently from US-led NATO forces. The administration of U.S. President | announced in 2009 that it would increase the number of Afghan troops and p ... |
| John Kerry | ... etts is currently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator | and junior Senator Scott Brow |
| Vladimir Lenin | In April of that year, | arrived in Russia from Switzerland, calling for "All power to the soviets. ... |
| Richard Nixon | Following Eisenhower's nomination, the convention chose young Senator | of California as Eisenhower's running mate; it was felt that Nixon's crede ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... árd prepared and Albert Einstein signed the famous letter warning President | of the probability that the Nazis were planning to build an atomic bomb. B ... |
| Jean Chrétien | On November 14, 2003, Martin succeeded | as leader of the Liberal Party and became prime minister on December 12, 2 ... |
| William O. Douglas | ... first of nine Roosevelt nominees to the Court, and outlasted all except for | . Black is widely regarded as one of the most influential in the 20th cent ... |
| Robert DeLaughter | ... pi Goldberg played Myrlie Evers. Evers was portrayed by James Pickens, Jr.. | wrote a first-person narrative article titled "Mississippi Justice" publis ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... idate in last 48 years. The last Democratic candidate to win the county was | in 1936. The Republican candidate has won by more than 13% in every Presid ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | When President | commissioned the building of the National Road from Baltimore to St. Louis ... |
| 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 ... |
| District Attorney's | ... y of the 1994 retrial of Beckwith, in which prosecutor DeLaughter of the US | office secured a conviction in federal court. Beckwith and DeLaughter were ... |
| Stuart Littlemore | ... Don Burke, Rex Hunt's fishing show, and The AFL Footy Show with Sam Newman. | , who at the time was hosting the media commentary show Media Watch, appea ... |
| 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 ... |
| Owain Glyndŵr | In 1404 | burned Cardiff and took Cardiff Castle. As the town was still very small, ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... al backers included Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister | and possibly the British novelist Jeffrey Archer. Somewhere between $3 mil ... |
| Pierre de Fermat | ... are of the form , with k an arbitrary natural number. They are named after | who conjectured that all such numbers F k are prime. This was based on the ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... e favored stimulus resulting in an expansion of the money supply. President | 's wage and price controls were abandoned. The federal oil reserves were c ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... es from 1937 to 1971. Black was nominated to the Supreme Court by President | and confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 63 to 13. (6 Democratic Senators ... |
| Pierre Trudeau | ... nada in 1982, the result of the efforts of the Government of Prime Minister | |
| Nicolas Sarkozy | In March 2011 media outlets reveled that French president | has started using a £10,000 armor-plated umbrella to protect him from atta ... |
| Bobby DeLaughter | ... ry 14, 2009, The New York Times noted in relation to an indictment of Judge | for taking bribes from Scruggs that federal prosecutors have said that Lot ... |
| John Kerry | ... sachusetts is currently represented in the United States Senate by Senators | and Scott Brown |
| Edmund Muskie | ... nly the Democrats don't go too far left," he had insisted. Johnson had felt | would be more likely to defeat Nixon; however, he declined an invitation t ... |
| Barack Obama | On October 25, 2010, the 44th President of the United States, | , visited Woonsocket, to showcase his administration's Small Business Admi ... |
| Thomas J. Walsh | ... day of Francis McDonnell’s disappearance, Richmond County District Attorney | announced his intention to seek an indictment against Fish for the boy’s m ... |
| Abe Fortas | ... held Johnson. Stevenson went to court, but—with timely help from his friend | —Johnson prevailed. Johnson was elected senator in November and went to Wa ... |
| John Calvin | ... t officially enforced, whereas individual voluntary fasting was encouraged. | went further in arguing that in general, instead of relying on designated ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... influences on the African Independence movements and his work was cited by | and other post-colonialist, world leaders. In the arts, James Earl Jones, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... d the Congressional don't ask, don't tell law, signed into law by President | in 1993, and in force until 2011, which forbade homosexuals serving in the ... |
| John Connally | ... h that anything he said was more likely to help McGovern. Johnson's protege | had served as President Nixon's Secretary of the Treasury and then stepped ... |
| Larry O'Brien | ... these theories suggests that the target of the break-in was the offices of | , the Chairman of the DNC. In 1968, O'Brien was appointed by Vice Presiden ... |
| Richard Nixon | After US President | made his famous 1972 visit to China, a wave of exchanges took place betwee ... |
| Ernest McFarland | ... 51, Johnson was chosen as Senate Majority Whip under a new Majority Leader, | of Arizona, and served from 1951 to 1953 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... rmers. The RFC had minimal impact at the time, but was adopted by President | and greatly expanded as part of his New Deal |
| Jim Webb | ... 2006, both parties have seen success. In the 2006 Senate election, Democrat | won on a populist platform over the Republican incumbent following a very ... |
| John Kerry | ... dominated by the Democratic Party in national elections. In 2004, Democrat | received over 70 percent of the vote, and Republican George W. Bush receiv ... |
| Scott Brown | ... urrently represented in the United States Senate by Senators John Kerry and | |
| Wilfrid Laurier | ... November, making him Canada's second French-Canadian Prime Minister, after | |
| Ben Nelson | ... rict Method in Nebraska, but those bills were vetoed by Democratic Governor | |
| Richard Nixon | ... iety. In 1972, at the peak of the Sino-Soviet split, Mao and Zhou Enlai met | in Beijing to establish relations with the United States. In the same year ... |
| Ashoke Kumar Sen | ... f India's best legal minds and also one of her colleagues in government, Mr | to defend her in court. It has been written that Mrs Gandhi was told she w ... |
| Crystal Eastman | ... ACLU was the National Civil Liberties Bureau (CLB). The CLB was founded by | and Roger Baldwin in 1917. Supporters of the CLB generally fell into one o ... |
| Joe Donnelly | ... part of Indiana's 2nd congressional district and in 2008 was represented by | in the United States Congress |
| Charles Curtis | ... American to have dined at the White House, with Theodore Roosevelt in 1901. | , the nation's first Native American Vice President, was from the Kaw trib ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ublican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin over the Democratic ticket of | and Joe Biden. In Canfield City, McCain/Palin received 2,470 votes (52.16% ... |
| 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 ... |
| John Dingell | ... Mason, Kicking Daisies and The Explorers Club will perform and Congressmen | and Edward Markey will speak |
| Happy Chandler | ... dent of the PCL, took on baseball commissioners Kenesaw Mountain Landis and | at first to get better equity from the major leagues, then to form a third ... |
| Stefano Infessura | ... ander VI, was the first pope who openly recognized his children by a lover. | writes that Cardinal Borgia falsely claimed Cesare to be the legitimate so ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... us personality quirks. Notable re-occurring figures included Prime Minister | (Abbott), who could barely speak a single sentence of English without comm ... |
| 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 ... |
| Willis Van Devanter | ... his first opportunity to appoint a Supreme Court Justice when conservative | retired. Roosevelt wanted the replacement to be a "thumping, evangelical N ... |
| Dan Lungren | ... art of California's 3rd congressional district, which is held by Republican | . In the State Assembly, Amador is part of the 10th district, which is hel ... |
| Arlen Specter | ... the more conservative Senator Phil Gramm of Texas and more moderate Senator | of Pennsylvania. However populist Pat Buchanan upset Dole in the early New ... |
| Mr Justice Wills | The final trial was presided over by | . On 25 May 1895 Wilde and Alfred Taylor were convicted of gross indecency ... |
| Dan Lungren | ... nal district, which has a Cook PVI of R +7 and is represented by Republican | . Locally Rancho Calaveras is represented by Calaveras County Supervisor D ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... , it refused to engage in a war on Iraq without UN approval. Prime Minister | said on October 10, 2002 that Canada would be part of any military coaliti ... |
| Mogens Glistrup | ... a large extent inspired by the Danish Progress Party, which was founded by | . Glistrup also spoke at the event, which gathered around 4,000 attendees |
| Bill Clinton | ... ssante and Antonio Banderas in the film The Mambo Kings. In 1994, President | awarded Cruz the National Medal of Arts. In 2001, she recorded a new album ... |
| John Edwards | ... eit exurban county. Although he withdrew from the race, former U.S. Senator | (D-North Carolina) still received 2.96 percent of the vote in Franklin Cou ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... by Kakadu National Park to encourage biodiversity. In 1937, U.S. President | initiated a nationwide fire prevention campaign, highlighting the role of ... |
| Alfred Lee Loomis | ... 30 km). It originally was known as "LRN" for Loomis Radio Navigation, after | , who invented the longer range system and played a crucial role in milita ... |
| Barack Obama | ... gton County generally leans Democratic but can be closely divided. In 2008, | won with 59.8% of the popular vote (141,544 total votes) to Republican Joh ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... Senator. Weicker was known as a liberal Republican. He broke with President | during Watergate and successfully ran for governor in 1990 as an independe ... |
| Kenesaw Mountain Landis | ... nce Pants Rowland, the President of the PCL, took on baseball commissioners | and Happy Chandler at first to get better equity from the major leagues, t ... |
| 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/ ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... o office. Since then, photos have shown that Presidents John F. Kennedy and | have also used The World Almanac as a resource |
| Richard Nixon | ... ident realized his position was actually closer to the Republican candidate | . Personal correspondences between the President and some in the Republica ... |
| Robert Borden | ... as introduced in the House of Commons, 1913, by Conservative Prime Minister | . The new closure rule was immediately tested by the government only a few ... |
| Bernice King | ... four children; Yolanda King, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott King, and | . King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Al ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... ver was also sometimes referred to as McAllister's Town in its early years. | spent the night of April 12, 1776 at the Sign of the Horse, an inn owned b ... |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Black was an ardent supporter of President | and the New Deal. In particular, he was an outspoken advocate of the Judic ... |
| Edward Bates | ... circulation nationwide approached 300,000. In 1860 he supported the ex-Whig | of Missouri for the Republican nomination for president, an action that we ... |
| Janet Reno | ... ers. McVeigh had indeed contemplated the assassinations of Attorney General | , Lon Horiuchi, and others in preference to attacking a building, and afte ... |
| Charles Lyell | ... ol of geological thought lost ground to uniformitarianism, as championed by | and others, which claimed that the geological features of the earth were b ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... ilkes Booth made his escape through Charles County after shooting President | . He was on his way to Virginia |
| Joseph Pulitzer | Publication was suspended in 1876, but in 1886 famed newspaper publisher | , who had purchased The New York World and quickly transformed it into one ... |
| John J. Parker | ... anted the races assimilated into white culture. Hoover attempted to appoint | to the Supreme Court in 1930 to replace Edward Sanford. The claimed that P ... |
| Richard B. Haldane | ... would later contribute to his death. He spent two months in the infirmary. | , the Liberal MP and reformer, visited him and had him transferred in Nove ... |
| 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 ... |
| Fred Phelps | ... with death, and AIDS has been portrayed by some small fringe sects such as | and Jerry Falwell as a punishment by God against homosexuals. In the 20th ... |
| Bill Clinton | A similar study of Asian Americans in 1998 resulted in President | presenting 21 new Medals of Honor in 2000, including 20 to Japanese Americ ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jay Rabinowitz | ... mes accompanied U.S. Marshals on raids. As recounted years later by Justice | , "U.S. marshals went in with Tommy guns and Ted led the charge, smoking a ... |
| Nicolas Sarkozy | ... independence has notably come under intense criticism since the election of | as French President. Sarkozy has sought to make the ECB more susceptible t ... |
| Ernest L. Wilkinson | ... den, Utah and rebuilt it to house some of the students. The next President, | , also oversaw a period of intense growth, as the school adopted an accele ... |
| Alan Isaacman | ... in several prominent court cases, and befriends a young, whip-smart lawyer, | (Edward Norton). In 1975, Flynt loses a smut-peddling court decision in Ci ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ed Rendell | ... e Vice-President of Comcast and former Chief of Staff to Philadelphia Mayor | , Scott Mead, former partner and managing director of Goldman Sachs, Peter ... |
| 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 ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... Supreme Court was in session, the important lawyers in Illinois, including | , gathered in Mt. Vernon to argue their cases. The lawyers gathered at the ... |
| Calvin | ... ntroversy with the orthodox, and defending mixed marriages of Lutherans and | ists; he also published a volume on natural law which emphasized natural r ... |
| Benjamin Civiletti | In November 1979, Attorney General | announced that INS raids would only take place at places of work, not at r ... |
| Alyson Huber | ... te Assembly, Amador is part of the 10th district, which is held by Democrat | . In the State Senate, Amador is part of the 1st district, which is held b ... |
| Stephen Breyer | | , a U.S. Supreme Court Justice since 1994, divides the history of administ ... |
| Carol Moseley Braun | In a widely publicized incident on July 22, 1993, | , the first black woman in the Senate and the only black Senator at the ti ... |
| Jim Doyle | ... t Congressman, Mark Green, of Green Bay, ran against the incumbent Governor | . Green lost by 8% statewide, making Doyle the first Democratic Governor t ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... nedy (in the miniseries Kennedy — The Presidential Years); Attorney General | in the television special The Missiles of October; White House Chief of St ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... confidence in action", to which incumbent president and Democratic nominee | responded, "We do not need to build a bridge to the past, we need to build ... |
| Michael Howard | During the 2005 general election, Conservative leader | visited the town. However, Sanders retained the seat with 40.8% of the vot ... |
| Lucien Bouchard | ... out "REFOOOOOOORM!", a screaming, bitchy Sheila Copps (Goy), the tyrannical | , the dopey and overly-image conscious Stockwell Day, the strutting, cluck ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... inister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair and President of the United States | , Russia formally joined the group in 1997, resulting in the Group of Eigh ... |
| Richard Blumenthal | ... ocrat Jim Himes in the Congressional Election in 2008. Joseph Lieberman and | are Connecticut's U.S. senators. The junior Blumenthal is a Democrat while ... |
| John Kerry | ... etts is currently represented in the United States Senate by senior Senator | and junior Senator Scott Brown |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | ... uch as releasing recent income tax forms, became expected. Presidents since | had recorded many of their conversations, but after Watergate, this practi ... |
| Nathaniel Pitcher | ... States. The population was 803 at the 2010 census. The town is named after | , a Lt. Governor of New York |
| 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 ... |
| Felipe González | ... to gain broaden the scope of Catalan autonomy during the last government of | (1993–1996) and the first of José María Aznar (1996–2000) |
| Coty | ... a short time in 1948. Pineau was designated as prime minister by president | after the February 1955 resignation of Pierre Mendès-France, but the Natio ... |
| Harold Stassen | ... ower won the New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Oregon primaries. | won his home state of Minnesota, and Warren won his home state of Californ ... |
| Francis Bacon | ... by Galileo, Luther, John Calvin, Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Descartes, Sir | , Samuel Johnson, Thomas Hobbes, Goethe, and others. In addition, the coll ... |
| Leonard Krog | ... rd chair Carole James, Oak Bay City Councillor Nils Jensen, and former MLAs | and Steve Orcherton and a few minor candidates. First ballot results had J ... |
| 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 ... |
| Scott Brown | ... in the United States Senate by senior Senator John Kerry and junior Senator | |
| Michael Dukakis | ... ial election: then-Vice President George H. W. Bush noted that his opponent | had described himself as a "card-carrying member of the ACLU" and used tha ... |
| 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 ... |
| Ted Kennedy | ... is John Kerry, who became the senior Senator following the death of Senator | on August 24, 2009. The junior Senator is Scott Brown, who won the special ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... premiere was hosted by Truman's daughter Margaret and attended by President | . The play then went on to a six-city tour, during which it was videotaped ... |
| Joe Ghiz | ... pitals; the then-governing Prince Edward Island Liberal Party under Premier | acquiesced and the ban was upheld. The Government of Prince Edward Island ... |
| Bartholomew Gosnold | ... abeth Islands, including Cuttyhunk, were discovered by Europeans in 1602 by | . He and his crew attempted to establish a trading post on Cuttyhunk so th ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... (based on the "Hibakusha" mix) included an introductory cut-up monologue by | taken from an ad from his 1960 US Presidential campaign ("No.. firm diplom ... |
| 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 ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... after the end of the American Civil War and the assassination of President | , its 120 pages of information touched on such events as the process of Re ... |
| John Kerry | ... ate. Al Gore carried the presidential vote in 2000 by only 5,700 votes, and | won Wisconsin in 2004 by 11,000 votes. However, in 2008, Barack Obama carr ... |
| Barack Obama | ... 2010, the 22 year old ban was lifted after having been signed by President | on October 30, 2009 |
| Richard Nixon | ... ay that the Kennedy campaign was desperate to win the 1960 election against | and Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., and needed Johnson on the ticket to help carry ... |
| Ed Rendell | ... its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator Rick Santorum and | received 50.6% of the vote against Lynn Swann |
| Pierre Trudeau | ... r have to approve constitutional amendments. Subsequently, Attorney General | appointed law professor Barry Strayer to research a potential bill of righ ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lucinda Creighton | ... or the party in the Dáil have strongly advocated liberal economic policies. | and Leo Varadkar in particular have been seen as strong advocates of a neo ... |
| Barack Obama | ... 2004. Cambria returned to the Democratic Presidential column in 2008, with | receiving 49.4% of the vote to 48.7% for John McCain. In 2011 the GOP won ... |
| Vikram Amar | ... ates the state from being penalized. In fact, legal scholars Akhil Amar and | point out that the original compromise of the Electoral College was largel ... |
| 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 ... |
| Obafemi Awolowo | ... onfederation of regions. The Northerners were at odds with the Aburi Accord | ;, the leader of the Western Region warned that if the Eastern Region sece ... |
| Chris Christie | ... ers, for a turnout of 73.3%. In the 2009 Gubernatorial Election, Republican | received 66.8% of the vote (11,564 cast), ahead of Democrat Jon Corzine, w ... |
| John Calvin | ... nox. It reformed its doctrines and government, drawing on the principles of | which Knox had been exposed to while living in Geneva, Switzerland. In 156 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... gnised experts, including Benjamin Barber (formerly an adviser to President | ), Jan Gustav Strandenaes (United Nations adviser on environmental issues) ... |
| Albert Pike | ... number of 19th century thinkers such as William Blake, Arthur Schopenhauer, | and Madame Blavatsky studied Gnostic thought extensively and were influenc ... |
| 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 ... |
| Peter Detkin | ... Rendell, Scott Mead, former partner and managing director of Goldman Sachs, | (co-founder of Intellectual Ventures, and former Vice-President and assist ... |
| Rick Santorum | ... . received 51% of its vote when he unseated incumbent Republican US Senator | and Ed Rendell received 50.6% of the vote against Lynn Swann |
| Barack Obama | In September 2010, President | informed Congress that the State of Emergency in effect since September 14 ... |
| John Kerry | ... ge W. Bush in 2000, but Bush carried it with 50.8% of the vote to 48.7% for | in 2004. Cambria returned to the Democratic Presidential column in 2008, w ... |
| Roh Moo-hyun | ... and South Korea have had many disputes. The former president of South Korea | rejected a conference with the Prime Minister of Japan following his visit ... |
| 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 ... |
| Lionel Chetwynd | ... t High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents, written, produced, and directed by | , Foreman's role in the creation and production of High Noon has over the ... |
| Barack Obama | ... , Wisconsin voted for the Democratic presidential nominee, Illinois Senator | . Obama captured 56% of the vote statewide, with the urban centers of Milw ... |
| Gerald Ford | ... n resigned under the pressure of the Watergate scandal and was succeeded by | . With the war growing incredibly unpopular at home, combined with a sever ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ty voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 34.61% voted for Democrat | and 4.06% of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a ... |
| Barack Obama | ... the county over Democrat John Kerry 59% to 37%. In 2008, however, Democrat | won Salt Lake County by an extremely narrow margin, 48.17% to 48.09, over ... |
| Pierre de Fermat | ... 7th century with the development of probability theory by Blaise Pascal and | . Probability theory arose from the study of games of chance. The method o ... |
| Paul Joseph James Martin | Martin was born in Windsor, Ontario. His father, | , a Franco-Ontarian of Irish and French descent, served thirty-three years ... |
| Lenin | The Russian armies were separated, defeated and pushed back, which forced | and the Soviet leadership to abandon for the time being their strategic ob ... |
| John Mitchell | ... ligence plan to CRP's Acting Chairman Jeb Stuart Magruder, Attorney General | , and Presidential Counsel John Dean, that involved extensive illegal acti ... |
| Laura Ingraham | ... iter Budd Schulberg, political analyst Dinesh D'Souza, radio talk show host | , commentator Mort Kondracke, and journalist James Panero. Norman Maclean, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Strom Thurmond | ... efore the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August, 1963, Senator | railed against Rustin as a "Communist, draft-dodger, and homosexual," and ... |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... ch of the Ohio. In his Notes on the State of Virginia published in 1781–82, | stated: "The Ohio is the most beautiful river on earth. Its current gentle ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... as found to be the fourth most recognisable after the Queen, Tony Blair and | |
| Drew Edmondson | ... unclear about the source of the bacteria, leading Oklahoma Attorney General | to accuse the state health department of having "botched" the investigatio ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... udents were given the results of student and national polls indicating that | was in the lead. Others were not exposed to the results of the polls. Seve ... |
| Richard Nixon | President | dispatched more bombers in Operation Linebacker to provide air support for ... |
| Dan Lungren | ... nal district, which has a Cook PVI of R +7 and is represented by Republican | |
| G. Gordon Liddy | # | (R) Special Investigations Group, convicted of burglary |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President | found Johnson to be a welcome ally and conduit for information, particular ... |
| Bill Keating | ... tts's 10th congressional district, and is currently represented by Democrat | . Massachusetts is currently represented in the United States Senate by se ... |
| Chuck Greenberg | ... nkie. Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers has a home in Westlake, as well as | , the brief and former owner of the Texas Rangers. Other residents include ... |
| Thomas McKean | ... the Declaration had been signed by Congress on July 4. But in 1796, signer | disputed that the Declaration had been signed on July 4, pointing out that ... |
| Mark Filip | Deputy Attorney General | was asked to assume the position of acting attorney general by then Presid ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... thiest families in the nation. His elder siblings included John F. Kennedy, | , and Eunice Kennedy Shriver. John asked to be the newborn's godfather, a ... |
| Daniel Inouye | ... ospital in Battle Creek, Michigan (where Dole met future fellow politicians | and Philip Hart). His right arm was paralyzed; Dole often carried a pen in ... |
| 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, ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... gle, he confirmed his membership of the Italian Communist Party. On reading | 's State and Revolution, he plunged into post-war political life, associat ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ifference of 552 votes. In 2008, Republican John McCain won 51% to Democrat | 's 46% and each of the three state row office winners carried Washington C ... |
| Barack Obama | ... Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and | all of Irish descent. Other famous visitors to the Áras an Uachtaráin have ... |
| Eleanor Holmes Norton | ... arshals, bus captains to direct traffic, and scheduled the podium speakers. | and Rachelle Horowitz were aides |
| 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 ... |
| Lawrence Lessig | ... see was later elected to the leadership position. In the book Free Culture, | argues that Lott's resignation would not have occurred had it not been for ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... sted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, | and Barack Obama all of Irish descent. Other famous visitors to the Áras a ... |
| Vance Hartke | From 1959 to 1963 | and Homer E. Capehart were the U.S. Senators for Indiana, both from Pike C ... |
| Eric Holder | ... Department while President Obama's nominee, then Attorney-General Designate | , awaited confirmation by the United States Senate. Holder was confirmed o ... |
| Nelson Mandela | ... smond Tutu and also visited Winnie Mandela, wife of imprisoned black leader | . Upon returning, Kennedy became a leader in the push for economic sanctio ... |
| João Goulart | ... ayers were visited in Rio de Janeiro by the Vice President of the Republic, | (a former juvenile player for the team), and went to the Catete Palace to ... |
| John Kerry | ... on 53% of the vote and Republican George W. Bush won 44%. In 2004, Democrat | received 50.14% of the vote and Bush received 49.57% a difference of 552 v ... |
| Jeremiah Sullivan | ... artery. However, the waterway eventually proved to be too sandy for trade. | , a judge of the Indiana Supreme Court, invented the name Indianapolis by ... |
| Francis Granger | ... the number of Senators shall vote for either the said Richard M. Johnson or | , he shall be declared by the presiding officer of the Senate constitution ... |
| Edwin M. Stanton | During the Civil War, Secretary of War | promised a Medal of Honor to every man in the 27th Maine Volunteer Infantr ... |
| John Connally | ... s), a few yards from the house in which he was born. Eulogies were given by | and the Rev. Billy Graham, the minister who officiated the burial rites. T ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... sement of Bush for president. (The Prime Minister of Canada at the time was | ). None of the interviewees noticed the insertion of "Poutine. |
| John Edwards | ... arlie Rose, where he debated Senator and future Vice-Presidential candidate | |
| Jim Hunt | ... lso speculation that Helms would run for the Governorship, being vacated by | . However, the President stood for re-election, and Helms ran once more fo ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... of the most Republican counties in Pennsylvania. This has a long history as | reportedly received 78.57% of the county's vote in the 1860 Presidential e ... |
| Walter Nelles | ... shed their private practices to work for the ACLU. Another group, including | and Walter Pollak felt that lawsuits, taken to the Supreme Court, were the ... |
| Fred Thompson | ... Pundits credited the third-place finisher, Tennessee's former U.S. Senator | , with drawing votes from Huckabee in South Carolina, thereby giving a nar ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... d to the creation of the modern National Park Service. Republican President | was responsible for establishing the Environmental Protection Agency in 19 ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... struction of a helipad) to accommodate the President. When Attorney General | advised his brother to sever his ties to Sinatra because of the entertaine ... |
| Barack Obama | ... This has made Loudoun more competitive. Nevertheless, after giving Senator | nearly 54% of its presidential vote in 2008, the county shifted back to th ... |
| John Ehrlichman | # | (R) Counsel to Nixon, convicted of perjury |
| 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 ... |
| Tony La Russa | ... ers come through San Diego. But there's an aura about him nobody else has." | , Henderson's manager in the late 1980s in Oakland, said, "He rises to the ... |
| Sean M. Berkowitz | ... utstanding record of extracurricular activities. Notable recipients include | , David Filo and Eric R. Palmer |
| the Viscount Bennett | ... in state in the Centre Block of Parliament Hill. Only Mackenzie Bowell and | were given private funerals, Bennett also being the only former Prime Mini ... |
| Franklin Roosevelt | ... or a Jewish state. However, it was not until January 1944 that US President | established the War Refugee Board, which achieved some success in saving E ... |
| Lord Prestongrange | ... the Appin Murder. David makes a statement to a lawyer, and goes on to meet | - the Lord Advocate - to press the case for James' innocence. However his ... |
| Herbert W. Kalmbach | # | (R) personal attorney to Nixon, convicted of illegal campaigning |
| Senator Orrin Hatch | ... federate flag, Helms ran into Moseley Braun in an elevator. Helms turned to | and said, "Watch me make her cry. I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to ... |
| Paul Eggers | ... of former Indiana 9th District U.S. Representative Baron Hill, Texas lawyer | , singer John Mellencamp, Miss America 2009 Katie Stam, retired profession ... |
| Roy Romanow | ... Ontario's justice minister Roy McMurtry and Saskatchewan's justice minister | . Pressure from provincial governments (which in Canada have jurisdiction ... |
| Arthur Garfield Hays | ... w to challenge the civil rights violations. One faction, including Baldwin, | and Norman Thomas, believed that direct, militant action was the best path ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... mocrat to win a majority in the county was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, although | and Barack Obama won pluralities in 1992 and 2008, respectively |
| Joe Lieberman | ... port to Republican Governor M. Jodi Rell, independent U.S. Senate candidate | and local Democratic House candidate Chris Murphy who defeated incumbent N ... |
| 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 ... |
| Barack Obama | ... r the nomination, McCain's focus shifted toward the general election, while | and Hillary Rodham Clinton fought a prolonged battle for the Democratic no ... |
| Geraldine Ferraro | ... presidential nominee Walter Mondale and defended vice presidential nominee | from criticism over being a pro-choice Catholic, but Reagan was re-elected ... |
| William Seward | ... newspaper, the Jeffersonian, which reached 15,000 circulation. Whig leader | found him "rather unmindful of social usages, yet singularly clear, origin ... |
| Park Benjamin, Jr. | ... he lawyer, writer, editor, encyclopedist and Naval Academy graduate (1867), | It was adopted by the Navy Department in 1898 due to the efforts of anothe ... |
| Trudeau | ... nto a panic. This led in a large part to the articulation of Prime Minister | 's "Third Option" policy of diversifying Canada's trade and downgrading th ... |
| Barack Obama | ... on. In the 2008 Presidential election, the town's voters supported Democrat | with 8,177 votes over Republican John McCain with 6,839 votes |
| Thomas Jefferson | ... Up until this time only the faces of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, | and Andrew Jackson were found on the face of US Postage. Sometimes mistake ... |
| Jim Garrison | ... Costner's roles include Lt. John J. Dunbar in the film Dances with Wolves, | in JFK, Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams, Robin Hood in , Crash Davis in Bu ... |
| Roy McMurtry | ... d by the federal Attorney General Jean Chrétien, Ontario's justice minister | and Saskatchewan's justice minister Roy Romanow. Pressure from provincial ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ajority in the county was Lyndon Johnson in 1964, although Bill Clinton and | won pluralities in 1992 and 2008, respectively |
| Daniel O'Connell | ... alist T. Ryle Dwyer has called him "the most popular Irish politician since | . |
| 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 | |
| Gomez Addams | ... d writer of several Marx Brothers films, inspired John Astin's portrayal of | on the 1960's TV Series The Addams Family with similarly thick mustache, e ... |
| Jim Webb | The state's senior member of the United States Senate is Democrat | , elected in 2006, who announced his intention to retire and not to run in ... |
| Bill Clinton | President | performed the song on saxophone during his appearance on The Arsenio Hall ... |
| Jean Lapierre | ... is home province, even though the majority of Canadians opposed the accord. | and his supporters, who were in favour of Martin, wore black armbands at t ... |
| Barbara Gordon | ... Caped Crusader's most famous foes. Fox and artist Carmine Infantino created | as a new version of in a story titled "The Million Dollar Debut of Batgirl ... |
| Francis Bacon | ... rimental histories" by philosophical reformists such as William Gilbert and | , drew a significant following in the years leading up to and following Ga ... |
| 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 ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... deal called the Kitchen Accord, negotiated by the federal Attorney General | , Ontario's justice minister Roy McMurtry and Saskatchewan's justice minis ... |
| Peter Sutherland | ... tics and Dr. Fitzgerald also said he believed his then Fine Gael colleague, | , who was chairman of AIB at the time, was unaware of the situation |
| Adolphe-Basile Routhier | The original French lyrics of "O Canada" were written by Sir | , to music composed by Calixa Lavallée, as a French Canadian patriotic son ... |
| 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 ... |
| Cameron Hodge | ... r discovering their alliance with former X-Factor ally turned mutant hater, | , and that Havok was one of the Magistrates since having his memory wiped ... |
| Mary McAleese | ... in 1990 Mary Robinson moved back to the older main building. Her successor, | lived in the 1911 wing |
| Georges Picot | ... nister of state education Agénor Bardoux, also a granddaughter of historian | and niece of diplomat François Georges-Picot, and also a great-great-great ... |
| Pierre Trudeau | ... dered by many to be Turner's ideological successor, as Jean Chrétien was to | |
| Barack Obama | ... rically Republican-leaning wealthy town of Wilton voted in the majority for | in the 2008 Presidential Election. Norwalk and Stamford, two larger, afflu ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... ecipients be upgraded to the Medal of Honor. On January 13, 1997, President | presented the medal to seven African American World War II veterans. With ... |
| Bibb Graves | ... ck, ten Republicans and six Democrats voted against Black. Alabama Governor | appointed his own wife, Dixie B. Graves, to fill Black's vacated seat |
| William Rehnquist | ... of congressional power under the Commerce Clause, such as in the opinion of | in United States v. Lopez. Many Republicans on the more libertarian wing w ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... orge V. American presidents hosted here include Presidents John F. Kennedy, | , Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all of Irish descent. Other ... |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | ... McCain's focus shifted toward the general election, while Barack Obama and | fought a prolonged battle for the Democratic nomination. McCain introduced ... |
| Edgar Lee Masters | ... rt Fulton, inventor of the steamboat. It was the home of famous poet/writer | in his early days; he wrote the famous Spoon River Anthology (1915). Fulto ... |
| Lord Camden | ... the colony. Kershaw suggested that the town be renamed Camden, in honor of | , the champion of colonial rights |
| Richard Nixon | ... financial hardship and instability in the country. The United States under | supported Pakistan, and mooted a UN resolution warning India against going ... |
| C.B. Forgotston | ... na, New Orleans attorney, political activist, and state government watchdog | relocated to Hammond in 2006. Lawson Swearingen, a former Democratic membe ... |
| Patrick Henry | ... commission which Captain Moore received was from the Governor of Virginia, | . He was directed to establish a military post and command the Illinois mi ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... around Frederick. It was the site of a Civil War speech given by President | , which he gave at what was then a train depot at the current intersection ... |
| Henry F. Schricker | ... ed after General Henry Knox. Knox was the home of two-time Indiana Governor | |
| John Turner | In 1984, the Liberal Party was defeated under the leadership of | , falling to just 40 seats. Many Liberals looked to replace Turner with a ... |
| William Rehnquist | ... nited States v. Nixon, the Court, which did not include the recused Justice | , ruled unanimously that claims of executive privilege over the tapes were ... |
| Garfield Barwick | ... ntatives, Whitlam called fellow MHRs Bill Bourke "this grizzling Quisling", | (who would, as High Court Chief Justice, play a role in Whitlam's downfall ... |
| John Diefenbaker | ... e factor in the Liberal government's defeat at the hands of the PCs, led by | , in the 1957 election. Because the Liberals were still mostly classically ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. | ... inland United States and abroad, including political leaders Rubén Berríos, | , Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, singers Danny Rivera and Ricky Martin, ac ... |
| El McMeen | ... BC 10 News in Philadelphia), Mark Haines (host on CNBC television network), | (guitarist), Norman Pearlstine (editor-in-chief of Time) and Lisa Scottoli ... |
| Dean Rusk | ... ed Kingdom (represented by Lord Home) and the United States (represented by | ), named the "Original Parties", at Moscow on August 5, 1963 and opened fo ... |
| Tim Russert | Network officials, concerned for the show's future, turned to | , the network's Washington bureau chief. He took over on December 8, 1991, ... |
| Margaret Thatcher | ... ign 1969–1997. The IRA also attempted to assassinate British Prime Minister | by bombing the Conservative Party Conference in a Brighton hotel. Loyalist ... |
| John Kerry | ... s Lake precinct plus a very small portion of the Vincent precinct. Democrat | received narrow margins in both precincts, and it is probable that Kerry w ... |
| John Kerry | ... sidential election, Beaux Arts Village cast 63.08% of its vote for Democrat | |
| Alexander Hamilton | ... se would also serve as the County Circuit Court. The county was named after | , the first secretary of the treasury |
| 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 ... |
| Abe Fortas | Black later clashed with fellow Justice | during the 1960s. In 1968, a Warren clerk called their feud "one of the mo ... |
| de la Madrid | ... PAN won important municipal victories in the state in 1983, which President | refused to officially recognize but was forced to let stand. PAN's growing ... |
| Richard Nixon | In 1972, United States President | announced the commencement of the so-called "War on Drugs." Later, Preside ... |
| Scott Brown | ... hn Kerry (re-elected in 2008); the junior (Class II) senate seat is held by | , the victor in the special Senate election on January 19, 2010 |
| Bill Clinton | ... ntly screened it in the White House, as did many other American presidents. | cited High Noon as his favorite film and screened it a record 17 times at ... |
| Francis Bacon | ... es outlining a philosophy of science which might as easily be attributed to | centuries later. The novel's Roger Bacon serves to motivate Costain's prot ... |
| Grover Cleveland | ... te: nine votes for Republican Benjamin Harrison and five votes for Democrat | . Once the Republican party regained control of the state legislature, the ... |
| Getúlio Vargas | ... arge tracts of land. The original architect of this expansion was President | , with the demand for rubber from the Allied forces in World War II provid ... |
| François Mitterrand | When | was elected President of France in 1981, he laid out an ambitious plan for ... |
| Chris Murphy | ... nt U.S. Senate candidate Joe Lieberman and local Democratic House candidate | who defeated incumbent Nancy Johnson. In the 2008 Presidential election, t ... |
| Robert F. Kennedy | ... Kennedy, Sr.; the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator | , both victims of assassination, and Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., killed in act ... |
| LeRoy Pope | ... land around the Big Spring in 1805. The area was subsequently purchased by | , who named the area Twickenham after the home village of his distant kins ... |
| Rudy Giuliani | ... 2007 began, McCain was in second place behind former Mayor of New York City | in as the year progressed |
| 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 ... |
| Frank Navin | ... was constructed on the site of Bennett Park and named Navin Field for owner | . In 1938 it was improved and named Briggs Stadium and renamed "Tiger Stad ... |
| Richard Nixon | ... ts of the Watergate scandal which lead to the resignation of U.S. president | |
| David Bradford | The Whiskey Rebellion culminated in Washington. The home of | , one of the rebellions leaders, is located in Washington and is a nationa ... |
| Richard Nixon | Starting in 1969 President | started the process of "Vietnamization", pulling out American forces and r ... |
| Mark Haines | ... -Fattah (co-anchor of weekday edition of WCAU NBC 10 News in Philadelphia), | (host on CNBC television network), El McMeen (guitarist), Norman Pearlstin ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... y killed him. (Watsuki makes a comparison to President of the United States | with Ōkubo in his notes. |
| Nelson Mandela | ... of privilege. Honorary freemen include Bob Geldof, King Harald V of Norway, | , Bobby Robson, Alan Shearer and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Hoppin ... |
| William F. Allen | ... t for New York State Comptroller but was defeated by the incumbent Democrat | |
| Richard Nixon | On November 25, 1969, President | unilaterally renounced the use of chemical weapons and renounced all metho ... |
| Michael Dukakis | ... , Kennedy supported the eventual Democratic nominee, Massachusetts Governor | , from the start of the campaign. In the fall, Dukakis fell to George H. W ... |
| Barack Obama | ... ut you have to go within the system to find what you want." Leary supported | in the 2008 presidential election |
| Fred M. Vinson | ... they would resign if Jackson were appointed Chief. Truman ultimately chose | for the position |
| Tony La Russa | ... th moved his Triple-A Tulsa Oilers to New Orleans to play in the Superdome. | was the starting shortstop for the team. After a single season, the team t ... |
| Arthur Seyss-Inquart | ... ntered Austria, who met celebrating crowds, in order to install Nazi puppet | as Chancellor. With a Nazi administration already in place and the country ... |
| Jean Chrétien | ... politician or celebrity's characteristics (i.e. Roger Abbott's portrayal of | as a twisted-mouthed man who ridiculously mispronounced English words with ... |
| John Kerry | ... in investigating Noriega's role in drugs trafficking, Helms teamed up with | to introduce an amendment to the Intelligence Authorization Act demanding ... |
| François Mitterrand | ... e announced his candidacy for the presidency. His two main challengers were | for the left and Jacques Chaban-Delmas, a former Gaullist prime minister. ... |
| Allan Rock | Several other potential leadership contenders, such as Brian Tobin and | , declined to enter the contest. John Manley's attacks on Martin's refusal ... |
| Felix Frankfurter | ... he ACLU were divided on the best tactics to use to promote civil liberties. | felt that legislation was the best long-term solution, because the Supreme ... |
| Richard Blumenthal | Connecticut's United States Senators are | (Democrat) and Joseph I. Lieberman (Connecticut for Lieberman, Independent ... |
| U.S. Attorney | ... r the Second Circuit are located in lower Manhattan's Foley Square, and the | and other federal offices and agencies maintain locations in that area |
| Dennis Vacco | ... eed to change its advertising after pressure from New York attorney general | ; Vacco complained about misleading claims that its spray-on glyphosate ba ... |
| Thomas E. Dewey | ... ers and many believed he was foregoing his only opportunity to be president | ;was considered the other probable winner, would presumably serve two term ... |
| Oliver Ellsworth | ... e federal constitutional convention of 1787, during which Roger Sherman and | helped to orchestrate what became known as the Connecticut Compromise, or ... |
| Paul Martin | ... ing reference questions to higher-level courts; for example, Prime Minister | 's government approached the Supreme Court with Charter questions as well ... |
| Orrin Hatch | ... dy continued his close working relationship with ranking Republican Senator | , and they were close allies on many health-related measures |
| William Jennings Bryan | ... dwagon, hoping to be associated with his success. Later, during the time of | 's 1900 presidential campaign, bandwagons had become standard in campaigns ... |
| John N. Mitchell | # | (R) Attorney General of the United States, convicted of perjury |
| Van Tran | ... trying to take away 'our' seat", referring to her Vietnamese-born opponent, | . Sanchez also described Tran as "anti-immigrant" |
| Rawlins Lowndes | ... South Carolina lawyer and Congressman whose father, South Carolina Governor | , had been a Revolutionary War leader |
| Pierre de Fermat | ... to modern mathematics did not follow even the practice of their time, e.g. | who was infamous for withholding his proofs, but nonetheless had a vast re ... |
| Robert H. Jackson | ... e mid-1940s, Justice Black became involved in a bitter dispute with Justice | as a result of Jewell Ridge Coal Corp. v. Local 6167, United Mine Workers ... |
| Gerard Butler | ... apted as a direct-to-video animated feature to be released that same month. | , who starred in 300, voices the Captain in the film. The film itself was ... |
| Barack Obama | ... nty was much more competitive than in recent years, as John McCain defeated | by only 7% (52-45%) |
| Clarence Darrow | ... aded John T. Scopes to defy Tennessee's anti-evolution law in a court test. | , a member of the ACLU National Committee, headed Scopes' legal team. The ... |
| Richard Scruggs | On November 29, 2007, The New York Times noted that Lott's brother-in-law, | , was indicted on charges of offering a $40,000 bribe to a Mississippi sta ... |
| Nikola Tomašić | ... Rauch appointed him a university professor in Zagreb in 1908. However, when | , his distant cousin and enemy, became ban in 1910, Šufflay had to leave t ... |
| David Frum | ... espread connotations of the disease with homosexuality would discredit him. | , a former speechwriter for U.S. President George W. Bush, speculated that ... |
| Dean Rusk | ... neral in which Texas Congressman J. J. Pickle and former Secretary of State | eulogized him at the Capitol. The final services took place on January 25. ... |
| Lionel Murphy | ... unt Stromlo Observatory in acknowledgement of Australian High Court Justice | 's interest in science and because of SNR N86's perceived resemblance to h ... |
| Alfred Deakin | ... leted a vast legislative programme which made him, along with Protectionist | , the founder of the statutory structure of the new nation. The Fisher gov ... |
| William Rehnquist | ... o the Supreme Court to fill the associate justice seat vacated when Justice | was elevated to Chief Justice. Whereas Rehnquist's confirmation was conten ... |
| Clinton | ... Chen Li-an and Lin Yang-kang. The aggressive tactic prompted U.S. President | to invoke the Taiwan Relations Act and dispatch two aircraft carrier battl ... |
| William Jennings Bryan | ... ACLU National Committee, headed Scopes' legal team. The prosecution, led by | , contended that the Bible should be interpreted literally in teaching cre ... |
| Van Tran | Sanchez was challenged by Republican nominee | and Independent candidate Ceci Iglesias. According to Roll Call, Sanchez c ... |
| Barack Obama | ... Rudd, gave an autographed copy of Keneally's biography Lincoln to President | as a state gift |
| David Levy Yulee | In 1851, | established a sugar plantation on the Homosassa River, close to the curren ... |
| William Keating | ... assachusetts's 10th congressional district, and is currently represented by | . The state's senior member of the United States Senate is John Kerry, who ... |
| Richard Kleindienst | # | (R) Attorney General, found guilty of "refusing to answer questions" given ... |
| Thomas E. Dewey | ... es went down, the ban was lifted. In 1936, LaGuardia had special prosecutor | , a future Republican presidential candidate, single out Lucky Luciano for ... |
| Charles Evans Hughes | ... milton County has been won by every Republican presidential candidate since | in 1916. In 1912, Democrat candidate Woodrow Wilson had carried the county ... |
| Robert Bork | ... gest battles in the Senate came with Reagan's July 1987 nomination of Judge | to the U.S. Supreme Court. Kennedy saw a possible Bork appointment as lead ... |
| Texas military hero | The county is named not after the familiar | but rather after Georgia governor John Houstoun (who used that spelling du ... |
| Ted Kennedy | ... trict, and is currently represented by Bill Keating. Following the death of | , the state's senior (Class I) member of the United States Senate is John ... |
| Mary McAleese | ... 9.3% of the vote. In 2004, Fine Gael supported the re-election of President | |
| Robert Menzies | ... red. In 1954, the ALP seemed likely to return to power. The Prime Minister, | , adroitly used the defection of a Soviet official to his advantage, and h ... |
| Abraham Lincoln | ... Attorney General (1829–1832) and most famously an early political enemy of | . The projectors of the town were Forquer and Daniel P. Cook. The latter w ... |
| Roosevelt | ... declared "the first international airport of the Americas" by US president | |
| Gerald Ford | ... both on the Federal and State level. Nixon was succeeded by Vice President | as President, who on September 8, 1974, issued a full and unconditional pa ... |
| Felix Frankfurter | ... ecedents were thus upheld. In 1939 Black was joined on the Supreme Court by | and William O. Douglas. Douglas voted alongside Black in several cases, es ... |
| Bill Clinton | ... ty came to also support environmentalism. For example, Democratic President | did not send the Kyoto Protocol to the U.S. Senate for ratification, as he ... |
| Jubal Early | ... at Gettysburg by proponents of the postbellum Lost Cause movement, such as | . This was fueled in part by opinions of less partisan writers, such as St ... |
| Mac Thornberry | Donley County is also the home of Republican U.S. Representative | |
| Henry Clay | ... apitol to Annapolis Junction in Maryland. That day the Whig Party nominated | at its national convention in Baltimore. News of the nomination was hand-c ... |
| Vladimir Lenin | ... m the grass roots up. Marx and Friedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, and later | , Leon Trotsky and Mao Zedong tried to draw major theoretical lessons (in ... |
| Reuben Webster Millsaps | The college was founded by a Confederate veteran, Major | in 1889-90 by the donation of the college's land and $50,000. Dr. William ... |
| Joe Lieberman | ... ozen other state newspapers, as well as from Independent Democratic Senator | . McCain decided not to campaign significantly in the January 3, 2008, Iow ... |
| Edgar Faure | ... ded to the Tax and Revenue Service, then joined the staff of Prime Minister | (1955–1956) |
| Bill Clinton | ... conservative William Kristol, Dole flatly rejected the health care plan of | , remarking, "There is no crisis in health care. |
| Joe Biden | ... abor and Public Welfare Committee. By now Kennedy had become what colleague | termed "the best strategist in the Senate," who always knew when best to m ... |
| Elliott Abrams | ... ubcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs hold hearings on Panama. Ignoring | 's request for a softer line towards Panama, Helms—a long-time Noriega cri ... |
| Gray Davis | ... all campaign, Sanchez was one of the first Democrats to break from Governor | and state that a Democrat should run to succeed Davis in case the recall m ... |
| John Breaux | On January 7, 2008 it was announced that Lott and former Senator | of Louisiana, a Democrat, opened their lobbying firm about a block from th ... |
| Ken Cuccinelli | ... and being served on the University of Virginia by Virginia Attorney General | , seeking a broad range of documents from Michael E. Mann, who was formerl ... |
| William O. Douglas | ... eld. In 1939 Black was joined on the Supreme Court by Felix Frankfurter and | . Douglas voted alongside Black in several cases, especially those involvi ... |