Search results

• February 18
  ...guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic Party national convention. Five were convicted of violating the Anti-Riot Act of 1968. (Those convict
  12 KB (1,478 words) - 14:56, 19 February 2013
• Directory:Sarah Palin
  410 bytes (49 words) - 19:26, 5 October 2012
• Directory:Barack Obama
  411 bytes (49 words) - 18:12, 22 September 2010
• Directory:Article Heaven/List of U.S. presidential faux-pas, gaffes, and unfortunate incidents
  ...mocratic National Convention]] the party released dozens of doves into the convention hall. The action backfired spectacularly when some of the doves died in the ...te Trivia: Gaffes, Zingers, More |date=[[October 12]], [[2004]] |publisher=National Geographic |url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1008_041008
  18 KB (2,796 words) - 16:38, 16 December 2009
• Directory:Scoop Jackson
  Political party Democratic ...e from 1941 until his death. Jackson was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 and 1976.
  22 KB (3,237 words) - 22:02, 18 February 2007
• Directory:Martin Van Buren
  ...United States)|Democratic-Republican]], [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]], and [[Free Soil Party|Free Soil]] ...Jackson]]. He was a key organizer of the [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic Party]], a dominant figure in the [[Second Party System]], and the first pr
  36 KB (5,405 words) - 20:34, 5 March 2009
• Directory:John Tyler
  | party=[[United States Whig Party|Whig]], [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] ...as the tenth (1841-1845) [[President of the United States]]. A long-time [[Democratic-Republican Party (United States)|Democrat-Republican]], he was elected [[Vi
  31 KB (4,515 words) - 20:19, 5 March 2009
• Directory:James Monroe
  | party=[[United States Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]] ...youthful politician, he joined the [[anti-Federalist]]s in the [[Virginia Convention]] which ratified the Constitution, and in 1790, was elected [[United States
  25 KB (3,525 words) - 20:55, 5 March 2009
• Directory:Franklin Pierce
  | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] ...ark horse]] candidate on the 49th ballot at the [[1852 Democratic National Convention]]. In the [[U.S. presidential election, 1852|presidential election]], Pierc
  34 KB (4,964 words) - 19:56, 5 March 2009
• Directory:James K. Polk
  | party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] ...d represented the state of [[Tennessee]]. A [[History of the United States Democratic Party|Democrat]], Polk served as [[Speaker of the United States House of Re
  42 KB (6,289 words) - 20:08, 5 March 2009
• Directory:James Madison
  | party=[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]] ...gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000043 http://teachingamericanhistory.org/convention/delegates/madison.html http://etcweb.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/madi
  47 KB (6,849 words) - 21:00, 5 March 2009
• Directory:Maine
  ...religious freedom and popular control of government. The president of the convention was William King, a prominent Bath merchant and shipbuilder who subsequentl ...Maine Law" remained in effect, in one form or another, until the repeal of National Prohibition in 1934. Abolitionist societies were active throughout the stat
  22 KB (3,482 words) - 19:16, 17 January 2013
• Directory:Ghana
  | <div align="right">National holiday:</div> ...ena ADJEI]; New Patriotic Party or NPP [Peter MAC-MANU]; People's National Convention or PNC [Alhaji Amed RAMADAN]; Reform Party [Kyeretwie OPUKU]; United Renais
  26 KB (3,390 words) - 16:03, 6 March 2008
• Directory:John McCain
  ...ign='justify'>John mccain - issues & ideas - 2008 presidential candidate - national offers complete voting record along with a brief biography, roles in congr ...new mexico for mccain republican presidential candidate sen john mccain s national campaign general co-chair was being paid by a swiss bank to lobby congress
  18 KB (2,513 words) - 15:22, 23 August 2008
• Directory:Finland
  | bgcolor="#ffffff" | long boundary with Russia; Helsinki is northernmost national capital on European continent; population concentrated on small southwester | <div align="right">National holiday:</div>
  26 KB (3,403 words) - 20:41, 30 January 2008
• Directory:Venezuela
  ...d undermining regional stability. Current concerns include: a weakening of democratic institutions, political polarization, a politicized military, drug-related | <div align="right">National holiday:</div>
  29 KB (3,849 words) - 18:15, 6 November 2008
• Directory:Nebraska
  ...ebraska's most famous son, William Jennings Bryan, headed the Populist and Democratic tickets in the presidential election of 1896. Populists held the governorsh * The world's largest hand-planted forest is Halsey National Forrest near Thedford, Nebraska
  11 KB (1,716 words) - 19:18, 17 January 2013
• Directory:Andrew Jackson
  ...ted States)|Democratic-Republican]] and [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] ...f people shaped the modern [[History of the United States Democratic Party|Democratic Party]].<ref>[[Sean Wilentz|Wilentz, Sean]]. ''Andrew Jackson'' (2005), p.
  58 KB (8,338 words) - 20:50, 5 March 2009
• Directory:Lyndon B. Johnson
  |party=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] ...was a major leader of the [[History of the United States Democratic Party|Democratic Party]] and as President was responsible for designing the [[Great Society]
  71 KB (10,356 words) - 21:00, 13 March 2009
• Directory:Millard Fillmore
  ...er, he revised New York's banking system, making it a model for the future National Banking System. At the Whig national convention in 1848, the nomination of Gen. [[Zachary Taylor]] for president angered th
  29 KB (4,138 words) - 20:03, 5 March 2009

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)