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| nationality = [[United States|American]] ...Party|Anti-Masonic]], [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]], [[Know-Nothing|American]]

...International Maritime Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1945 with the American delegation, and was elected president of the same conference in 1946, when ...of the site several times, though he continued to support ABM development. American Indian rights activists then protested Jackson's plan to give Fort Lawton t

...hird of the total community). English retaliation effectively ended Native American resistance, except for a final uprising of the Confederacy in 1644. However ...ewcomers from Pennsylvania—German Lutherans, English Quakers, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, and a lesser number of Welsh Baptists.

| nationality=American (US) ...with Britain. He is even more famous for leading the successful [[Mexican–American War]]. He lowered the [[tariff]] and established a treasury system that la

...rty]]. As Southern states declared their secession in the lead-up to the [[American Civil War]], he held that [[secession]] was illegal, but that going to war ...ary Dix ordered Treasury agents in New Orleans, "If any man pulls down the American flag, shoot him on the spot".

| nationality=American ...He was a polarizing figure who dominated [[Politics of the United States|American politics]] in the 1820s and 1830s. His political ambition combined with th

...ogressiveness, and liberalism, has been a highly controversial position in American [[Foreign policy in the United States|foreign policy]], serving as a model ...in political philosophy and history. He was active in the undergraduate [[American Whig-Cliosophic Society|discussion club]], and organized a separate Liberal

...ounty, New York|Erie County]].<ref>Graff, 15; Nevins, 46</ref> With the [[American Civil War]] raging, Congress passed the [[Conscription Act of 1863]], requi ...conversely, was reviled throughout the South for his actions during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]; Thurman was generally well-liked, but was growing ol