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  • pioneer, soldier, and statesman. He was the seventh governor of Kentucky ... Born in South Carolina, Adair enlisted in the state militia and served ...
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  • | title2=Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ... | title3=Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ...
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  • John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth President ... his party's platform and vetoed several of their proposals. As a result ...
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  • 23, 1955) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He ... Hull was born in a log cabin in Olympus, which is now part of Pickett ...
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  • usually referred to as Davy Crockett and by the popular title "King of ... approach and his fearlessness, made him one of the most popular personalities ...
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  • The Copperheads were a faction of Democrats in the North (see also ... Debate continues about whether the Civil War and all its bloodshed ...
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  • Polk served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ... His time as U.S. president is most notable for the largest expansion ...
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  • who served as the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023. Before being elected ...
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  • The Deep South is a descriptive category of cultural and geographic ... The Deep South is a belt stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to west ...
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  • poet, and playwright. She was known as the "Conscience of the American ... #039;s first female playwright. She was also the first woman to publish an ...
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  • William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was ... He supported the Spanish-American War, the purpose of which was to ...
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  • | order=19th President of Liberia | term_start=January 3, 1944 ... 29, 1895 – July 23, 1971) was President of Liberia for more than 26 years ...
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  • The Three-fifths Compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 ... In the United States Constitution, the Three-fifths Compromise is ...
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  • The United States Electoral College is a term used to describe the 538 ... Presidential electors who meet every four years to cast the official ...
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  • The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal ... Each of the 435 members of the House of Representatives represents ...
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  • Building or "Castle" on the National Mall serves as the ... The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest educational ...
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  • The United States House of Representatives is the larger of the two ... The House meets in the south wing of the United States Capitol. The ...
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  • diplomat, congressman, and sixth president of the United States. The son ... As secretary of state in the administration of James Monroe, Adams ...
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  • Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953), of the Taft ... Taft was the grandson of Attorney General and Secretary of War Alphonso ...
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  • The American Colonization Society was founded in Liberia 1816 by Robert ... representative and speaker of the United States House of Representatives Henry ...
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