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• Directory:Texas
  | Name = Texas | Fullname = State of Texas
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• Directory:James K. Polk
  ...n]]. Van Buren's term was a period of heated political rivalry between the Democrats and the [[United States Whig Party|Whigs]], with the latter often subjectin ...uch is this in terms of %?: by about 2,500 votes-->. Though he revitalized Democrats in Tennessee, his victory could not put a stop to the political decline of
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• Directory:John Tyler
  ...]. His most famous achievement was the [[annexation]] of the [[Republic of Texas]] in 1845. Tyler was the first president born after the adoption of the [[U ...the gravitational swing of the Whigs to identify with "the North" and the Democrats as the party of "the South," led the way to the sectional party politics of
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• Directory:Millard Fillmore
  In Congress, he opposed the entrance of [[Texas]] as a [[Slave state|slave territory]]. He came in second place in the bid ...unite the party by pointing out the differences between the Whigs and the Democrats (by proposing tariff reforms that negatively reflected on the [[Democratic
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• Directory:Martin Van Buren
  ...prime architect of the first nationwide political party: the [[Jacksonian Democrats]]. In Van Buren's own words: "Without strong national political organizatio ...to seek a diplomatic solution. Also, in August of 1837, Van Buren denied Texas's formal request to join the United States. "Van Buren gave a higher prior
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• Directory:Lyndon B. Johnson
  ...t of United States Senators from Texas|United States Senator]]<br/> from [[Texas]] ...= Member of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] from [[Texas]]'s [[Texas's 10th congressional district|10th]] District
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• Directory:James Buchanan
  The Democrats nominated Buchanan in [[U.S. presidential election, 1856|1856]] largely bec ...he government suddenly faced a shortfall of revenue, partly because of the Democrats' successful push to lower the [[tariff]]. Buchanan's administration, at the
  32 KB (4,599 words) - 20:15, 5 March 2009
• Directory:Grover Cleveland
  ...lism]].<ref>Jeffers, 8–12; Nevins, 4–5</ref> As a leader of the [[Bourbon Democrats]], he opposed [[imperialism]], taxes, [[subsidy|subsidies]] and inflationar ...tion to [[free silver]] alienated the [[Agrarianism|agrarian]] wing of the Democrats.<ref name=tugwell>Tugwell, 220–249</ref> Furthermore, critics complained
  73 KB (10,507 words) - 17:35, 1 April 2008
• Directory:George H. W. Bush
  ...nal Delegations from Texas|United States House of Representatives]] from [[Texas's 7th congressional district]] ...esentatives]] for the [[Texas's 7th congressional district|7th district of Texas]] (1967&ndash;1971), the [[United States Ambassador to the United Nations]]
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• Directory:Franklin Pierce
  The Whigs' platform was almost indistinguishable from that of the Democrats, reducing the campaign to a contest between the personalities of the two ca The Democrats' slogan was "We Polked you in 1844; we shall Pierce you in 1852!" (a refere
  34 KB (4,964 words) - 19:56, 5 March 2009
• Directory:Dwight D. Eisenhower
  |birth_place=[[Denison, Texas]], [[United States]] ...essed [[August 7]], [[2007]]</ref> He was the first U.S. President born in Texas. Eisenhower was the third of seven sons born to [[David Jacob Eisenhower]]
  59 KB (8,361 words) - 17:11, 1 April 2008
• Directory:John F. Kennedy
  | death_place = [[Dallas, Texas]] ...ssassinated]] on [[November 22]], [[1963]], in [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]], [[Texas]]. [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] was charged with the crime, but was murdered two d
  83 KB (12,132 words) - 21:54, 5 March 2009
• Directory:Franklin D. Roosevelt
  ...te Democratic Party. Roosevelt soon became a popular figure among New York Democrats. Reelected for a second term [[November 5]], [[1912]], he resigned from the ...[[Joseph P. Kennedy]], and California leader [[William G. McAdoo]]. When [[Texas]] leader [[John Nance Garner]] switched to FDR, he was given the vice presi
  114 KB (16,381 words) - 17:13, 1 April 2008
• Directory:Richard Nixon
  ...ications reported that Nixon had kept a "[[slush fund]]" for personal use. Democrats and leading Republicans pressured Eisenhower to remove Nixon from the ticke ...the invention of the televised debate. There were charges of vote fraud in Texas and Illinois, and Nixon supporters challenged the results in both states as
  73 KB (10,732 words) - 15:31, 22 April 2008
• Directory:Andrew Jackson
  ...candidate."<ref>{{Citation | last=Rutland | first=Robert Allen | title=The Democrats: From Jefferson to Clinton | pages=48-49 | year=1995 | publisher=University ...durability.<ref>{{Citation | last=Rutland | first=Robert Allen | title=The Democrats: From Jefferson to Clinton | pages=55-56 | year=1995 | publisher=University
  58 KB (8,338 words) - 20:50, 5 March 2009
• Directory:Herbert Hoover
  ...named [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. However, Hoover rejected the call of the Democrats, confessing that he could not run for a party whose only member in his boyh ...registered Republican before the war, but was briefly willing to join the Democrats in 1920; he had already bolted the party once in 1912 to support [[Theodore
  74 KB (10,794 words) - 17:28, 1 April 2008
• Directory:William Howard Taft
  ...reciprocity and arbitration treaties. In 1910, he convinced congressional Democrats to support a reciprocity treaty with [[Canada]], but the [[Liberal Party (C ...tu.edu''].</ref> and high schools in [[San Antonio, Texas|San Antonio]], [[Texas]], [[Woodland Hills, California|Woodland Hills]], [[California]], [[Chicago
  47 KB (6,832 words) - 01:38, 11 December 2009
• Directory:Woodrow Wilson
  ...ndependent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?issueID=22&articleID=261 "Gold Democrats and the Decline of Classical Liberalism, 1896-1900,"]Independent Review 4 ( During the New Jersey election of 1910, the Democrats took control of the state house and Wilson was elected governor. The state
  78 KB (11,614 words) - 16:36, 1 April 2008
• Directory:Abraham Lincoln
  ...e for "military glory" and challenged the President's claims regarding the Texas boundary and offered [[Spot Resolutions]], demanding to know on what "spot" ...to Congress. While no one in Washington paid any attention to Lincoln, the Democrats orchestrated angry outbursts from across his district, where the war was po
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• Directory:Harry S. Truman
  ...ties in Congress and two Democratic presidents, [[voter fatigue]] with the Democrats delivered a new Republican majority in the 1946 midterm elections, with the ...r employment]] practices. This provoked a storm of criticism from Southern Democrats in the run up to the national nominating convention, but Truman refused to
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