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• Directory:Zachary Taylor
  |State=[[John M. Clayton]] |State start=1849
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• Directory:North Dakota
  ...dmitted as the 39th state in [[Year Admitted:=1889]]. Acquired through the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and a border treaty with Great Britain (1818), the region b With the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 the northwestern half of North Dakota became part of the U
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• Directory:James Madison
  | alma_mater = [[Princeton University]] | order2=5th [[United States Secretary of State]]
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• Directory:Texas
  {{US state | Fullname = State of Texas
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• Directory:Jon Faddis
  ...]. At least on one occasion he returned to UC Berkeley to solo with the [[University of California Jazz Ensembles]] under the direction of Dr. [[David W. Tucker ...ovie ''[[Blues Brothers 2000]]''. In the film, he plays trumpet with [[The Louisiana Gator Boys]]. Faddis is also a noted educator for jazz and the trumpet.
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• The Yellow Rose of Texas (song)
  ...k of Texas Online| place = University of Texas at Austin| publisher =Texas State Historical Association| origyear =2010| year =2014| url =http://www.tshaonl ...performance to [[Gene Autry]] and Jimmy Long.<!-- Not "Jimmy D. Long", the Louisiana politician. --> [[Don George]] reworked the original version of the song,
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• Directory:Alabama
  ..., and the southern section was claimed by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase (1803). Montgomery is the capital and Birmingham the largest city. ...t up in 1817 with William W. Bibb as governor; two years later it became a state, and, in 1835, the last native lands were ceded.
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• Directory:West Virginia
  ...tory:United States of America|United States]]. It was admitted as the 35th state in [[Year Admitted:=1863]]. West Virginia was part of Virginia until the ar ...med it Mecklenburg; now called Shepherdstown, it is the oldest town in the state. Homes sprang up along the rivers, but the formidable Allegheny Plateau bar
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• Directory:Kentucky
  ...tory:United States of America|United States]]. It was admitted as the 15th state in [[Year Admitted:=1792|1792]]. Daniel Boone's Transylvania Company made t ...f Kentucky (its official designation) was admitted to the Union, the first state West of the Appalachians. Isaac Shelby was elected the first governor, and
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• Directory:George H. W. Bush
  |alma_mater=[[Yale University]] ...r Bush]]. He became involved in politics soon after graduating from [[Yale University]], serving as a member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] fo
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• Directory:Andrew Jackson
  ...ices Branch, State Library of North Carolina | url=http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/bio/public/jackson.htm}}</ref> The youngest of the Jacksons' three ...icuous for bravery and success. When British forces menaced [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans]], Jackson took command of the defenses, including militia from
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• Directory:Ulysses S. Grant
  ...duty) and assigned to command Company F, 4th Infantry, at [[Fort Humboldt State Historic Park|Fort Humboldt]], California. However, he still could not affo ...tral in the conflict and would attack troops from either side entering the state. By the first of August the Union army had forcibly removed Jackson and Mi
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• Directory:Thomas Jefferson
  | order3=1st [[United States Secretary of State]] ...m in the United States]]. Major events during his presidency include the [[Louisiana Purchase]] (1803) and the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]] (1804–1806).
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• Directory:Lyndon B. Johnson
  |alma_mater=[[Texas State University-San Marcos|Southwest Texas State Teachers' College]] ...[[Arkansas]] and [[Louisiana]]. Baines was also the president of [[Baylor University]], then in [[Independence, Texas|Independence]], in [[Washington County, Te
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• Directory:William McKinley
  ...for his old commander, Rutherford Hayes, then running for governor" in the state of Ohio.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ohiohistory.org/onlinedoc/ohgovernm ...ms at the [[Treaty of Paris (1898)|Treaty of Paris]] in July. Secretary of state [[John Hay]] called it a "splendid little war." The United States gained ow
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• Directory:Jimmy Carter
  | order3 = Member of the [[Georgia State Senate]] ...believed, Americans would want themselves to be judged.<ref>http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/55.htm</ref> The final year of his term was
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• Directory:Abraham Lincoln
  ...and accompanied by friends, he took goods from New Salem to [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orleans]] via flatboat on the Sangamon, [[Illinois River|Illinois]] and In 1834, he won election to the state legislature, and, after coming across the ''[[Commentaries on the Laws of E
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• Directory:Top Paying Google Adsense Keywords
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• Directory:John F. Kennedy
  ...with the encouragement and grooming of his father. Kennedy represented the state of [[Massachusetts]] in the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. H ...Hall|The Choate School]], an elite private [[university-preparatory school|university preparatory]] boarding school for boys in [[Wallingford, Connecticut]] for
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• Directory:James K. Polk
  | alma_mater=[[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] ...klenburg County, North Carolina]], but mostly lived in and represented the state of [[Tennessee]]. A [[History of the United States Democratic Party|Democra
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