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• Directory:Dwight D. Eisenhower
  ...s Witnesses].</ref> At his death in 1942, Eisenhower's father was given [[funeral]] rites as though he remained a Jehovah's Witness. Eisenhower's mother cont ...[[infantry]] until 1918 at various camps in [[Texas]] and [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]. During [[World War I]], Eisenhower became the #3 leader of the
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• Directory:Maryland
  [[Category:Society/Ethnicity/The_Americas]]'''Maryland''' is a state of the east-central [[Nation Located In::Directory:United States of America ...ryland became the 7th state to join the new country, with Annapolis as the state capital. In 1791, Washington D.C. was created from land donated by Maryland
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• Directory:George H. W. Bush
  ...ctoralCollege1988-Large.png|thumb|The 1988 presidential electoral votes by state]] ...television commercials portraying Dole as a tax raiser. Once the multiple-state primaries such as Super Tuesday began, Bush's organizational strength and f
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• Directory:Plot of Les Miserables
  ...ate. Valjean is unsure if he wouldn't prefer having been arrested. In this state of mind, he encounters a young boy and steals 40 sous from him, without rea ...he jail, makes a few final arrangements, including arranging for Fantine's funeral, and leaves town.
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• Directory:North Dakota
  ...f America|United States]] bordering on Canada. It was admitted as the 39th state in [[Year Admitted:=1889]]. Acquired through the Louisiana Purchase (1803) ...settled at Pembina. This was still the only farm settlement in the future state in 1851 when the Dakota Territory was organized. The territory included lan
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• Directory:Gerald Ford
  ...being admitted to the hospital four times in 2006, Ford [[Death and state funeral of Gerald Ford|died at his home]], aged 93, on [[December 26]], [[2006]]. ...braska_born_ford_left_state_as_infant/ |title = Nebraska - Born, Ford Left State As Infant |work = Associated Press |publisher = Boston.com |accessdate = 20
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• Directory:Richard Nixon
  ...mbers]], who alleged that Hiss, a high [[United States Department of State|State Department]] official, was a Soviet spy. Nixon discovered that Chambers had ...xon won in 1962, he would have the excuse that he was too busy running the state. If he lost, he could plead a desire not to campaign again so soon. In eith
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• Directory:Lyndon B. Johnson
  |alma_mater=[[Texas State University-San Marcos|Southwest Texas State Teachers' College]] ...n, James Polk Johnson, whose forebears had moved west from [[Georgia (U.S. State)|Georgia]]. In school, Johnson was an awkward, talkative youth and was elec
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• Directory:William Henry Harrison
  ...d as a candidate for [[governor of Ohio]] in 1820 but served in the [[Ohio State Senate]] from 1819 to 1821. In 1824, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, whe ...arrison Tomb State Memorial (North Bend, Ohio)|William Henry Harrison Tomb State Memorial]].
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• Directory:Warren G. Harding
  | office4=[[Ohio State Senate|Ohio State Senator]] ...er with a flair for [[public speaking]], Harding was elected to the [[Ohio State Senate]] in 1899. He served four years before being elected [[Lieutenant Go
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• Directory:William Howard Taft
  ...hilippines and the Panama Canal. For a while, Taft was Acting Secretary of State. When Roosevelt was away, Taft in effect was the Acting President. [[Image:ElectoralCollege1908-Large.png|left|thumb|Electoral votes by state, 1908.]]
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• Directory:Derek Jeter
  ...Central High School]], where he also played [[basketball]], earning an All-State honorable mention. After batting .557 as a [[Tenth grade|sophomore]], Jeter ...le-A Albany, and Class-A Tampa. He was also named the MVP of the [[Florida State League]].
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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 ...ople in that [[American conservatism|conservative]], mostly [[Protestant]] state were deeply suspicious of Kennedy's Catholicism. His victory in West Virgin
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• Directory:James Buchanan
  | order2 = 17th [[United States Secretary of State]] ...h U.S. President of the United States, often served as Acting Secretary of State during the [[Theodore Roosevelt]] administration.
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• Directory:Franklin Pierce
  ...] and became a [[brigadier general]]. His private law practice in his home state, [[New Hampshire]], was so successful that he was offered several important ...r who became a [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] soldier, a state militia general, and a two-time [[governor of New Hampshire]]. His mother w
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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:Herbert Hoover
  ...e to beating the popular [[Hiram Johnson]]. By failing to win in his home state, however, Hoover relegated himself to dark horse contender at the conventio ...ulated home construction.<ref>Hutchison, Janet. "Building for Babbitt: the State and the Suburban Home Ideal" Journal of Policy History 1997</ref>
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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: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 ...nt [[James Monroe]] in December 1817 to lead a campaign in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] against the [[Seminole (tribe)|Seminole]] and Creek Indians. Jac
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• Directory:Abraham Lincoln
  ...lowing year, when his father relocated the family to a [[Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site|new homestead]] in [[Coles County, Illinois]], twenty-two-yea In 1834, he won election to the state legislature, and, after coming across the ''[[Commentaries on the Laws of E
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