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• Directory:John Quincy Adams
  ...ed, Jr.]] (11th)<br>[[Horace Mann]] (8th)<br>12th district abolished after Adams | spouse =[[Louisa Adams|Louisa Catherine Johnson]]
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• Directory:James Monroe
  | successor=[[John Quincy Adams]] | birth_place=[[Westmoreland County, Virginia]]
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• Directory:John Adams
  {{Infobox_President | name=John Adams | spouse=[[Abigail Adams|Abigail Smith Adams]]
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• Directory:Martin Van Buren
  ...ublican Party]], and was surrogate of [[Columbia County, New York|Columbia County]] from 1808 until 1813, when he was removed. In 1812, he became a member of ...men). However, Representative [[Stephen Van Rensselaer]] swung New York to Adams and thereby the 1824 Presidency. He recognized early the potential of [[And
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• Directory:Rhode Island
  ...won from the soil. Moreover, livestock from the Narragansett county (South County), especially the famous Narragansett pacers, figured largely in the early c * Rhode Island has no county government. It is divided into 39 municipalities each having its own form o
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• Directory:Andrew Jackson
  | predecessor= [[John Quincy Adams]] ...s own weakness, to get Spain to cede Florida to the United States in the [[Adams-Onís Treaty]]. Jackson was subsequently named military governor, serving
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• Directory:Alabama
  ...forcing the various tribes off their lands. Washington, the first Alabama county, was created in 1800 from Mississippi Territory. The area below the 31st pa * Blount County was created on February 7, 1818 and is older than the state.
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• Directory:James K. Polk
  ...rch 4]], [[1845]] to [[March 4]], [[1849]]. Polk was born in [[Mecklenburg County, North Carolina]], but mostly lived in and represented the state of [[Tenne ...er (Tennessee)|Duck River]] in what is now [[Maury County, Tennessee|Maury County]], Middle Tennessee. The family grew prosperous, with Samuel Polk becoming
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• Directory:John Tyler
  | birth_place=[[Charles City County, Virginia]] ...ed to the [[bar (law)|bar]] in 1809 and commenced practice in Charles City County. He served as a captain of a volunteer military company in 1813 and became
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• Directory:Millard Fillmore
  ...[[bar (law)|bar]] in [[1823]] and began his law practice in [[Aurora, Erie County, New York|East Aurora]]. In [[1834]], he formed a law partnership, Fillmore ...blic Affairs, University of Virginia}}</ref> Utah now contains a city and county named after Millard Fillmore.
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• Directory:James Buchanan
  ...was born in a [[log cabin]] at Cove Gap, near [[Mercersburg]], [[Franklin County, Pennsylvania]], on [[April 23]], [[1791]], to James Buchanan and Elizabeth ...ts [[Jeremiah S. Black]], [[Edwin M. Stanton]], [[Joseph Holt]] and [[John Adams Dix|John A. Dix]]. These conservative Democrats strongly believed in Americ
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• Directory:William McKinley
  ...ntil he died. Most of his siblings lived within [[Stark County, Ohio|Stark County]]. His parents, William and Nancy (Allison) McKinley, were of [[Scots-Irish ...7. He practiced law in Canton, and served as prosecuting attorney of Stark County from 1869 to 1871. He first became active in the Republican party when he m
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• Directory:James Madison
  ...ners and the prosperous owners of a [[tobacco]] [[plantation]] in [[Orange County, Virginia]], where Madison spent most of his childhood years. He was raised ...ns, and a river were named after James Madison. These are a few: [[Madison County, Ohio]];<ref>{{cite web
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• Directory:George Washington
  | vicepresident=[[John Adams]] | successor=[[John Adams]]
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• Directory:Warren G. Harding
  ...y moved to [[Caledonia, Ohio]] in neighboring [[Marion County, Ohio|Marion County]], when Harding's father acquired ''The Argus'', a local weekly newspaper t ...de the ''[[Marion Daily Star]]'' one of the most popular newspapers in the county, the battle took a toll on his health. In 1889, when Harding was 24, he suf
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• Directory:Thomas Jefferson
  | predecessor=[[John Adams]] | president2=John Adams
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• Directory:Ulysses S. Grant
  ...3, they moved to the village of [[Georgetown, Ohio|Georgetown]] in [[Brown County, Ohio]]. ...a prominent Democrat in St. Louis (a fact that lost Grant the good job of county engineer in 1859). In 1856 he voted for Democrat [[James Buchanan]] for pre
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• Casualties of the September 11, 2001 attacks: plane passengers
  ** Carol Bouchard, 43, Warwick, R.I., Kent County Hospital emergency room secretary ** [[Christian Adams]], 37, Biebelsheim, Germany, foreign sales manager, German Wine Fund
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• Directory:America's Got Talent
  | [[Yolanda Adams]] * [[Julienne Irwin]] - 14-year old singer from [[Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland]], Fourth place
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• Directory:Jimmy Carter
  ...ruption led by Joe Hurst, the sheriff of [[Quitman County, Georgia|Quitman County]]; system abuses included votes from deceased persons and tallies filled wi ...States Secretary of Transportation|Transportation]]||align="left"|[[Brock Adams]]||align="left"|1977&ndash;1979
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