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Franklin Pierce(1853-1857)  The youngest man up to his time to be elected president, Pierce was in office from 1853 ... He took over management of the Democratic campaigns in New Hampshire with ... At age 48, Pierce, now nicknamed "Young Hickory of the Granite Hills," ... He negotiated a tariff reciprocity treaty with England, which gained rights for...
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Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia  Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of ... Lincoln in 1863 at the age of 54. 16th President of the United States. In office ... Largely self-educated, he became a lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader, ... Reentering politics in 1854, he became a leader in building the new...
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John Quincy Adams - Wikipedia  John Quincy Adams was an American statesman who served as the sixth President of the ... However he was stymied time and again by a Congress controlled by his ... During Adams' lifetime, technological innovations and new means of .... When the elder Adams became president, he appointed his son in 1797 as Minister...
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Franklin Pierce - Wikipedia  Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804  October 8, 1869) was the 14th President of the United States (185357). ... Pierce took part in the MexicanAmerican War as a brigadier general in the Army. Seen by Democrats as a .... At the age of 27, he was a star of the New Hampshire Democratic Party. Though attaining early...
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Franklin Pierce (1804 - 1869) - Genealogy - Geni  Jul 28, 2015 ... Occupation: 14th President of the US (1853-1857); US Sen. from ... Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the USA in The New York Herald - New York, New York - Oct .. .... Franklin Pierce became President at a time of apparent tranquility. ... being the youngest president to take office to that point (although he...
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The 2 U.S. presidents who died at the youngest ages, 82 years apart ...  ... Franklin, Alexander Hamilton & George Washington Debuting November 18, 1985, the caption in its first box was "So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!
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Theodore Roosevelt's Inagural Site--Presidents: A Discover Our ...  On September 14, 1901, Theodore Roosevelt took the oath of office as the 26th and youngest president of the United States in the library of Ansley Wilcox's fine house in Buffalo. Only 42 years old, he succeeded President William McKinley, who had succumbed to an assassin's bullet earlier that day.
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Speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far Being Teddy ...  Theodore Roosevelt,(1858  1919),was the youngest US president in history, at just ... He liked to quote a favorite African proverb, "Speak softly and carry a big...
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A Biography of Edmund Randolph 1753-1813 < Biographies ...  Edmund attended the College of William and Mary and continued his education ... and also attended the convention that adopted Virginia's first state constitution in 1776. He was the convention's youngest member at age 23. ... Under President Washington, Edmund Randolph became Attorney General of the United States.
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Theodore Roosevelt - Lone Star College  Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest man to become president, the ... (There was a daughter born to this first marriage, Alice, who was very energetic and high spirited like her father.) ... Said T.R. firmly: I can do one of two things, I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice, I cannot possibly do both..
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Franklin Pierce - Wikipedia  Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804  October 8, 1869) was the 14th President of the United .... In late 1832, the Democratic Party convention nominated Pierce for one of ... who welcomed President Jackson to the state on his visit in mid-1833. ... Benjamin (April 13, 1841  January 6, 1853) died at the age of 11 in a train...
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William Henry Harrison - Wikipedia  William Henry Harrison, Sr. (February 9, 1773  April 4, 1841) was the ninth President of the United States (1841), an American military officer and politician, and the last president born as a British subject. He was also the first president to die in office. He was 68 years, 23 days old when inaugurated, the oldest president to take ... He originally gained national fame for leading U.S. forces against American...
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James Polk - U.S. Governor, U.S. Representative, U.S. President ...  Apr 2, 2014 ... James Polk was born in 1795 in North Carolina, and went on to become the 11th and youngest (at the time) president of the United States (18451849).
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The 43 Presidents of the United States of America  College, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Religion, Roman Catholic ... John F. Kennedy was the thirty-fifth President of the United States. When President Kennedy took office, he was the youngest President and rode in a car with ... The first live television press conference took place on January 25, 1961.
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Frances Folsom Cleveland - Pinterest  At 21, she was the youngest first lady ever, as 49-year-old Cleveland .... Frances Folsom Cleveland married Grover Cleveland a year after he took office. ... Colorful Richard Nixon Ribbon.social ...... My uncle had season tickets at RFK. ...... President Theodore, President Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, 30 14, 21 15, 3 7,...
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e-WV | The Executive Branch  May 9, 2013 ... Cecil Underwood was elected to his second term, 40 years after his first. Underwood was elected the state's 25th governor in 1956 at the age of 34, the youngest in state history, and then became the oldest governor at age 74. ... Glen B. Gainer III, was elected in 1992 and again in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008,...
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The 2 U.S. presidents who died at the youngest ages, 82 years apart ...  The 2 U.S. presidents who died at the youngest ages, 82 years apart Kennedy ... Class of 1762 founded a univ. that opened in 1825, one year before his death Tom .... Kwan After his 1955 death, his papers were given to Jerusalem's Hebrew Univ. & his violin was left to his grandson Einstein The title of this novella that won...
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The Thirteenth US President - Millard Fillmore - Sheppard Software  Millard Fillmore, the thirteenth President of the United States (1850-53), was born into a ... farm and working in the shop of a clothier, attending school only sporadically. ... His political career began in his mid-twenties when he became active in the ... 1850, Millard Fillmore became the second Vice President in US history to...
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Lincoln's New Salem 1830-1837 - Lincoln Home National Historic ...  In 1831, Abraham Lincoln was a young man of 22 when he and a couple of ... In mid-April, he neared New Salem, Illinois, a small village founded two years earlier ... of the incident, and awarded him with the offer of a clerk position in his store.
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United States presidential election of 1960 - Britannica.com  American presidential election held on November 8, 1960, in which ... Kennedy thus became the first Roman Catholic and the youngest person ever elected president. ... Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York, who had indicated late in 1959 that he ... the League of Nationswas the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and...
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The Life of Theodore Roosevelt - Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural ...  He was the second child of Theodore and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt. .... Only six months after McKinley's March, 1901 inauguration, the President was ... At the age of 42, Roosevelt was the youngest man to ever become President. At that ... He succeeded in convincing Congress that stronger supervision and control of big...