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  ...le, which included altering the value of pi. (The bill died in the Indiana Senate.) ...is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, [[Directory:Georgia|Georgia]], never to be recovered
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• Directory:Martin Van Buren
  | order6= [[United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary]] ..., when he was removed. In 1812, he became a member of the [[New York State Senate]]. In 1817, Martin Van Buren created the first political machine encompassi
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• Directory:Benjamin Harrison
  ..., and commanded a [[Brigade]] at [[Battle of Resaca|Resaca]], [[Cassville, Georgia|Cassville]], [[Battle of New Hope Church|New Hope Church]], Lost Mountain, ...|47th Congress]]) and [[United States Senate Committee on Territories|U.S. Senate Committee on Territories]] ([[Forty-eighth United States Congress|48th]] an
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• Directory:Franklin Pierce
  ...Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] and [[United States Senate|Senate]]. Later, Pierce took part in the [[Mexican-American War]] and became a [[b ...[[February 28]], [[1842]], when he resigned. He was chairman of the [[U.S. Senate Committee on Pensions]] during the [[Twenty-sixth United States Congress|26
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• Directory:Andrew Jackson
  ...resentatives|U.S. Representative]]. In 1797 he was elected [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] as a [[Democratic-Republican Party (United States)|Democrati ...the "[[Red Stick]]" [[Creek people|Creek]] Indians of northern Alabama and Georgia to attack white settlements. 400 settlers were killed in the [[Fort Mims Ma
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• Directory:Lyndon B. Johnson
  |order4=9th [[Party leaders of the United States Senate|United States Senate Minority Leader]] ...5=10th [[Assistant party leaders of the United States Senate|United States Senate Majority Whip]]
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• Directory:John Quincy Adams
  ...[June 8]], [[1808]], when he broke with the Federalists, resigned from his Senate seat in June 1808, and became a Republican. Adams served as minister to [[R ...|Secretary of the Treasury]] [[William H. Crawford]], [[Tennessee]] [[U.S. Senate|Senator]] [[Andrew Jackson]] and [[John C. Calhoun]]. After Crawford suffer
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• Directory:Tennessee
  ...ituation improved after Brownlow left (1869) the governorship for the U.S. Senate, to which the state also returned (1875) Andrew Johnson in vindication of h ...otball game to Georgia Tech on October 7, 1916 by a score of 222 to 0. The Georgia Tech coach was George Heisman for whom the Heisman Trophy is named.
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• Directory:Jimmy Carter
  | order2 = 76th [[List of Governors of Georgia|Governor of Georgia]] | order3 = Member of the [[Georgia State Senate]]
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• Directory:United States of America
  ...lifornia, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia*, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine ...anuary 2001) <br />''cabinet:'' Cabinet appointed by the president with Senate approval <br />''elections:'' president and vice president elected on th
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• Directory:Woodrow Wilson
  ...9. Wilson spent the majority of his childhood, up to age 14, in [[Augusta, Georgia]], where his father was minister of the First Presbyterian Church. Wilson d ...n Axson Wilson|Ellen Louise Axson]], the daughter of a minister from Rome, Georgia. They had three daughters: [[Margaret Woodrow Wilson]] (1886-1944), [[Jess
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• Directory:John F. Kennedy
  ...c Party (United States)|Democrat]], and in the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] from 1953 until 1961. Kennedy defeated then [[Vice President of the Unite ...y's boat, the ''PT-109'', was taking part in a nighttime patrol near [[New Georgia]] in the [[Solomon Islands]]. It was rammed by the [[Japanese destroyer Ama
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• Directory:Franklin D. Roosevelt
  | death_place=[[Warm Springs, Georgia|Warm Springs]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] ...second term [[November 5]], [[1912]], he resigned from the New York State Senate on [[March 17]], [[1913]].<ref name="navyreward">{{cite web |url=http://www
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• Directory:Abraham Lincoln
  ...0). Illinois Democrat [[Stephen A. Douglas]], the most powerful man in the Senate, proposed [[popular sovereignty]] as the solution to the slavery impasse, a ...itted Kansas as a [[slave state]]. Accepting the Republican nomination for Senate in 1858, Lincoln delivered his famous speech: "'A house divided against its
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• Directory:Gerald Ford
  ...dress by President Gerald R. Ford, May 23, 2001 |publisher = United States Senate |accessdate = 2006-12-30}}</ref> Johnson said of Ford at the time, "That Ge ...es Constitution|25th Amendment]] had been implemented. The [[United States Senate]] voted 92 to 3 to confirm Ford on [[November 27]]. Only three Senators, al
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• Directory:Dwight D. Eisenhower
  Kansas [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Joseph L. Bristow]] recommended Dwight for an appointment to th ...ntry]] until 1918 at various camps in [[Texas]] and [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]. During [[World War I]], Eisenhower became the #3 leader of the new tank
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• Directory:Ulysses S. Grant
  ...to a head-long retreat, opening the way for the Union to invade [[Atlanta, Georgia]], and the heart of the Confederacy. Grant reportedly said afterward, "Damn ...l]] in the [[Shenandoah Valley]]; Sherman to invade [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], defeat [[Joseph E. Johnston]], and capture [[Atlanta]]; [[George Crook]]
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• Directory:George Washington
  ...nd Hamilton, however, mobilized public opinion and won ratification by the Senate by emphasizing Washington's support. The British agreed to depart their for ...[[Province of Carolina|the Carolinas]] and [[Georgia (U.S. state)#History|Georgia]] are named in honor of British monarchs). [[The George Washington Universi
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• Directory:Thomas Jefferson
  ...e wrote a manual of [[parliamentary procedure]], but otherwise avoided the Senate. ...he request of delegates from [[South Carolina]] and [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]].
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• User:Badmachine/wikipedia-en-2013-05-13
  15:06 < mareklug> ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The Minnesota Senate voted Monday to make gay marriage legal, the last legislative step before G ...does a letter get to Chicago from Cincinnati in 2 days and a package from Georgia must take 6?
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