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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:Kathy O'Connell/Robin Williams
  ...'''. After graduating from high school in 1970, Williams tried majoring in political science at a small California college before deciding to study drama at ano ...sentimental films''', the drama What Dreams May Come and the comedy Patch Adams, in 1998, and the following year he starred in Jakob the Liar, an earnest b
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• Directory:James Monroe
  | successor=[[John Quincy Adams]] | successor2=[[John Quincy Adams]]
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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
  ...term or less. He also was one of the central figures in developing modern political organizations. As [[Andrew Jackson]]'s Secretary of State and then Vice Pre ...Jacksonian Democrats]]. In Van Buren's own words: "Without strong national political organizations, there would be nothing to moderate the prejudices between fr
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• Directory:James Buchanan
  ...d of ten children (two of whom did not survive past infancy). The Buchanan family claims direct descent from King [[James I of Scotland]]. In 1802, he moved ==Political career==
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• Directory:James K. Polk
  ...k becoming one of the leading planters of the area. When James was 11, his family moved to [[Nashville, Tennessee]]. ==Political career==
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• Directory:Andrew Jackson
  | predecessor= [[John Quincy Adams]] ...tics of the United States|American politics]] in the 1820s and 1830s. His political ambition combined with the masses of people shaped the modern [[History of
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• Directory:James Madison
  ...o known as the "Father of the Bill of Rights".<ref>Wood, 2006b.</ref> As a political theorist, Madison's most distinctive belief was that the new republic neede ...on of a Founding Father: The Reading List for John Witherspoon's Course in Political
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• Directory:Warren G. Harding
  His political leanings were [[American conservatives|conservative]], which enabled him to ...school north of [[Mount Gilead, Ohio]]. When Harding was a teenager, the family moved to [[Caledonia, Ohio]] in neighboring [[Marion County, Ohio|Marion Co
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  '''In the book : ''The Education of Henry Adams, by Adams''''' ...''' '' , at least of the GREATER, not the PERFECT, good; and that in every political institution, a power to advance the public happiness involves a discretion
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• Directory:George Washington
  | vicepresident=[[John Adams]] | successor=[[John Adams]]
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• Directory:William McKinley
  ....cgi?op=PED&db=:3242853&id=I1812 RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: McKinley Family].</ref> He graduated from Poland Academy and attended [[Allegheny College]] ==Legal and early political career==
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• Directory:Thomas Jefferson
  | predecessor=[[John Adams]] | president2=John Adams
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• Directory:John Tyler
  ...by opponents. Further, Tyler quickly found himself at odds with his former political supporters. Harrison had been expected to adhere closely to [[United States ...a if it so pleased him. Such is the spirit of toleration inculcated by our political institutions… The Hebrew persecuted and down trodden in other regions tak
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• Directory:George H. W. Bush
  ...008-03-29|publisher=Presidential Avenue}}</ref> on June 12, 1924. The Bush family moved from Milton to [[Greenwich, Connecticut]] shortly after his birth. ...ompany until 1964, and later chairman until 1966, but his ambitions turned political.<ref name="ea"/> By that time, Bush had become a [[millionaire]].<ref name
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• Directory:Ulysses S. Grant
  ...Although Grant was personally honest, he not only tolerated financial and political corruption among top aides but also protected them once exposed. ==Family and friends==
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• Directory:Jimmy Carter
  Jimmy Carter descended from a family that had lived in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] for several generations. He then took over and expanded his family business in Plains. There he was involved in a farming accident that left h
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• Directory:Herbert Hoover
  ==Family background and early life== ..., and other ephemeral materials related to the war and the revolutions and political movements that had followed it. The collection was later renamed the Hoover
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• Directory:Gerald Ford
  ...rand Rapids, Dorothy King married [[Gerald Rudolff Ford]], a salesman in a family-owned paint and varnish company, who later became president of the firm.<re ...y wonderful. So I couldn't have written a better prescription for a superb family upbringing."<ref name="AP"> {{cite web |url = http://www.americanpresident.
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