Franklin Pierce
franklin pierce
Fourteenth President of the United States
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US History
This is a survey course that provides students with an investigation of important political, economic, and social developments in American history from the pre-colonial time period to the present day. Students will be engaged in activities that call upon their skills as historians (i.e. recognizing cause and effect relationships, various forms of research, expository and persuasive writing, reading of primary and secondary sources, comparing and contrasting important ideas and events).
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Richard M. Nixon
president richard m. nixon 
thirty-seventh president of the united states
interesting facts
President Richard Nixon was the first President to resign from office.
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"Only in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is on the highest mountain"
biography
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Alton Brooks Parker
alton brooks parker
jurist
biography
Alton Brooks Parker graduated from Albany Law School in 1873 and entered practice at Kingston. From 1877 to 1885 he was surrogate of Ulster County. In 1884 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention and in the next year was chairman of the Democratic state committee. From 1885 to 1889 he was a justice of the state supreme court, a member of the court of appeals, serving until his resignation in 1904 to accept the Democratic nomination for the presidency.
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Rufus King
rufus king
united states senator
biography
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Walter Frederick Mondale
walter frederick mondale
fourty-second vice-president
biography
Walter Mondale was born on January 5, 1928, in Ceylon Minnesota, studying at Macalester College and the University of Minnesota Law School, privately practicing law from 1956 to 1960. He was appointed in 1960 to fill an unexpired term as Minnesota attorney general, to which he was twice subsequently elected.
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Willie P. Magnum
willie p. magnum
whig candidate
biography
At the elections of 1836, the South Carolina legislature, hostile to Hugh L. White because he had voted for the Force Bill in the nullification crisis, chose eleven electors who had voted for Willie P. Magnum of North Carolina.
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James Madison
president james madison 
fourth president of the united states
interesting facts
Madison is nicknamed "The Father of the Constitution".
biography
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William McKinley
president william mckinley
twenty-fifth president of the united states
interesting facts
The United States acquired the first oversees possesion under Wiliiam McKinley.
biography
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George Brinton McClellan
george brinton mcclellan
general
biography
George Brinton McClellan, born in Philadelphia, Dec. 3, 1826, after attending preparatory schools and the University of Pennsylvania, McClellan entered West Point in 1842, graduating second in his class in 1846. As a second lieutenant in the Engineer Corps, he immediately saw service in the Mexican war with General Winfield Scott. As such he was in the victorious campaign against Mexico City and was twice cited for brivets.
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Abraham Lincoln
president abraham lincoln 
sixteenth president of the united states
interesting facts
Abraham Lincoln made the short-lived Union Party when he ran for a second term as President.
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