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• Directory:James Buchanan
  ...oceedings against [[James H. Peck]], judge of the [[United States District Court for the District of Missouri]]. Buchanan served as [[United States Ambassad ...sed the nomination) by President Polk to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court (the seat was filled by [[Robert Cooper Grier]]).
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• Directory:Franklin Pierce
  ...d when several of his diplomats issued the [[Ostend Manifesto]]. Historian David Potter concludes that the Ostend Manifesto and the [[Kansas-Nebraska Act]] ...1828 he was elected to the [[lower house]] of the [[New Hampshire General Court]], the [[New Hampshire House of Representatives]]. He served in the State
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• Directory:Andrew Johnson
  | succeeded3=[[David T. Patterson]] | succeeded4=[[David M. Key]]
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• Directory:John Quincy Adams
  ...U.S. commission for the [[Treaty of Ghent]] in 1814, and minister to the [[Court of St. James's]] ([[United Kingdom]]) from 1815 until 1817.[[Image:Louisa A |Justice=[[William Wirt (Attorney General)|William Wirt]]
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• Directory:James K. Polk
  ...y told that Andrew Jackson had encouraged their romance when they began to court.<ref>[http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/sp11.html Sarah Childre ...a result for Polk's support of westward expansion.<ref>Brinkley, Alan and Davis Dyer, (ed). ''The American Presidency.'' Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. IS
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• Directory:William McKinley
  [[Image:Ful-McK-Cle.jpg|thumb|left|[[Chief Justice of the United States|Chief Justice]] [[Melville Fuller]] administering the oath to McKinley as [[President of McKinley hoped to make American producers supreme in world markets, and so his administration had a push for those foreign ma
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• Directory:Andrew Jackson
  ...ithin a year. In 1798, he was appointed a judge of the [[Tennessee Supreme Court]], serving until 1804.<ref>{{citation |title=JACKSON, Andrew, (1767 - 1845) ...d, but Jackson spared chief [[William Weatherford]]. [[Sam Houston]] and [[David Crockett]] served under Jackson at this time. After the victory, Jackson im
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• Directory:Grover Cleveland
  | lieutenant3= [[David B. Hill]] | successor3= David B. Hill
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• Directory:John Adams
  ...urth-generation descendant of Henry Adams, who immigrated from [[Barton St David]], [[Somerset|Somerset, England]], to [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] in about ...n them. His report of the 1761 argument of [[James Otis]] in the superior court of Massachusetts as to the legality of [[Writ of Assistance|Writs of Assist
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• Directory:Josip Broz Tito
  *Marshal of Yugoslavia, serving as the supreme commander of the Yugoslav military, the Yugoslav People's Army. ...Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide:] The Holocaust and Historical by David B. MacDonald. (p168)
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• Directory:Herbert Hoover
  ...oth floatation process]] to treat these tailings and recover the zinc.<ref>David Burner (1984) ''Herbert Hoover: a Public Life'', New York: Atheneum, p.24-4 ...dministration itself). After the end of the war, Hoover, a member of the [[Supreme Economic Council]] and head of the [[American Relief Administration]], orga
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• Directory:Abraham Lincoln
  ...case, and the decision by the [[Supreme Court of Illinois|Illinois Supreme Court]] was eventually cited by several other courts throughout the United States ...amages, claiming the bridge was a hazard to navigation. Lincoln argued in court for the railroad and won, removing a costly impediment to western expansion
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• Directory:Virginia
  ...) with both tidewater and western support. Later, another Virginian, Chief Justice John Marshall, later gave the document much of its strength. The Old Domini ...nt, but not a few Virginians such as Winfield Scott, George H. Thomas, and David G. Farragut remained loyal to the Union. Most Virginians who lived west of
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• Directory:Lyndon B. Johnson
  However, the state Democratic convention upheld Johnson. Stevenson went to court, but — with timely help from his friend [[Abe Fortas]] — Johnson prevai ...pecial panel called the [[Warren Commission]]. This panel, headed by Chief Justice [[Earl Warren]], conducted hearings about the assassination and concluded t
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• Directory:Harry S. Truman
  ...="mcculloughbook">{{cite book |last= McCullough |first= David |authorlink= David McCullough |title= Truman |year= 1992 |publisher = Simon and Schuster|locat ...ky"> {{cite book |last= Oshinsky|first= David M.|editor= Alan Brinkley and Davis Dyer|title= The American Presidency |chapter= Harry Truman|year= 2004|publi
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• Directory:Woodrow Wilson
  ...882. He passed the Georgia Bar. On [[October 19]],[[1882]] he appeared in court before Judge [[George Hillyer]] to take his examination for the bar, which ...of age in the decades after the [[American Civil War]], when Congress was supreme&mdash;
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• Directory:Josip Broz Tito and Wikipedia
  ...tity Politics in the Age of Genocide:] The Holocaust and Historical ''by'' David B. MacDonald. (p168) COMMUNIST REPRESSION AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN SLOVENIA
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• Directory:Ulysses S. Grant
  ...States of America|Confederate]] opponent [[Robert E. Lee]] at [[Appomattox Court House]]. Grant has been described by [[J.F.C. Fuller]] as "the greatest ge ...on duty as a pay officer and offered him the choice between resignation or court-martial.<ref>According to Smith, pp. 87-88, and Lewis, pp. 328-32, two of G
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• Directory:John F. Kennedy
  ...July working with his father, recently appointed U.S. Ambassador to the [[Court of St. James]] by President Roosevelt, at the [[Embassy of the United State ...his first term as a congressman, Kennedy had been diagnosed by Sir Daniel Davis at The [[London]] Clinic with [[Addison's disease]], a rare endocrine disor
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• Titoism and Totalitarianism
  ...result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Transitional justice in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union] by Lavinia Stan. Chapter 9. ...every Communist system extinct or surviving at one point or another had a supreme leader who was both extraordinarily powerful and surrounded by a bizarre cu
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