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Booth Gardner - Washington Secretary of State  Jan 31, 1986 ... Oregon Country from Illinois in 1840 and played a key role in its ... William Booth Gardner, born August 21, 1936; Washington's 19th ... 18th governor (1981-1985), who lost to Gardner in 1984 after ... Charles Z. Smith, Gardner's first Washington Supreme Court ... Centennial with First Lady Jean Gardner.
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Regional Oral History Office The Bancroft Library University of ...  key developments in politics and government administration at the state and county level .... Like many other young Americans, William French Smith came to California in the 1940s ... which took Smith to Washington from 1981-1985 as President Reagan's first attorney .... We had come out after my father died to spend the.
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William French Smith - Wikipedia  William French Smith (August 26, 1917  October 29, 1990) was an American lawyer. He was ... He assumed his post at the United States Department of Justice, on January 23 ... Mr. Smith also was credited with playing a major role in Mr. Reagan's ... Day O'Connor, to be the first woman on the United States Supreme Court.
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William French Smith - TheInfoList.com  WILLIAM FRENCH SMITH (August 26, 1917  October 29, 1990) was an ... Mr. Smith also was credited with playing a major role in Mr. Reagan's nomination of Sandra Day O\'Connor , to be the first woman on the United States Supreme Court . ... STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL 19811985 Succeeded by Edwin Meese
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The Oveta Culp Hobby Papers - University of Texas Libraries  Oveta Culp Hobby (1905-1995), first secretary of the Department of Health, ... When the campaign for Al Smith had gone its losing way, she was called to work in Tom .... she studied the British and French women's armies and prepared a plan by .... Post as a platform to Houston's religious leaders when the Supreme Court...
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Biographies of Current Justices of the Supreme Court  John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States, ... board of the Federal Judicial Center from 19871988, and two committees of ... From 1981-1982 he served as Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, and as Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1982-1990.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Wikipedia  Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg (born March 15, 1933) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by President Bill Clinton and took the oath of office on August 10, 1993. She is the second female justice (after Sandra Day O'Connor) and one of .... From 1972 until 1980, she taught at Columbia, where she became the first...
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History of the Supreme Court of the United States - Wikipedia  The following is a history of the Supreme Court of the United States, organized by Chief Justice. ... The court convened for the first time on February 2, 1790. The Old ... the Marshall Court confirmed the supremacy of federal laws over state laws. ... His influence on learned men of the law came from the charismatic force of his...
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Women in the United States House of Representatives - Wikipedia  Women have served in the United States House of Representatives since the 1917 entrance of ... She thereby became a placeholder merely finishing out her late husband's elected term. ... Smith of Maine, who served a total of 32 years in both houses and became the first woman elected to both the House and the Senate.
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Sandra Day O'Connor....first woman Supreme Court Justice. | History ...  See more about Sandra Day O'connor, Supreme Court and Supreme Court ... She is among many Wyoming females who paved the way for women's rights today. .... Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), The Most Dangerous Woman in America. ..... Fisher filed a suit asserting that she must be admitted to the OU Law School...
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First Women Lawyers - Civil War Women  May 7, 2013 ... In 1879, Belva Lockwood became the first woman admitted to the bar of ... open the federal courts to women lawyers, and the first woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court. ... becoming the first woman to graduate from law school in the United .... The bill passed and became law on March 22, 1877.
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Frances Perkins - Wikipedia  Frances Perkins Wilson was an American sociologist and workers-rights advocate who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped pull the ... She became the first woman to hold a cabinet position in the United States...
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History of Women on the Supreme Court  It Took Nearly Two Centuries for First Female Justice to Join the Supreme Court ... female justice on the Supreme Court until Sonia Sotomayor took the bench in...
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U.S. Senate: Nominations  The vast majority are routinely confirmed, while a very small but sometimes highly .... 1795, and one associate justice turned down a promotion to chief justice in 1796. ... Madison then appointed Smith to the state department post, despite serious ... Taney the post, making him the first cabinet nominee to be openly rejected.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Wikipedia  Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg (born March 15, 1933) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by President Bill Clinton and took the oath of office on August 10, 1993. She is the second female justice (after Sandra Day O'Connor) and one of ... Before becoming a judge, Ginsburg spent a considerable portion of her legal...
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Bios of the Supreme Court Justices - Scholastic  He served as a law clerk for Justice Robert H. Jackson of the Supreme Court of the ... From 1958 to 1960, she practiced law in Maryvale, Arizona, and served as ... Justice of the Supreme Court, and she took her seat September 25, 1981.
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Notable New Yorkers - Columbia University  America's first female cabinet member, Frances Perkins served as secretary of labor from 1933 until 1945, longer than any other secretary. ... take a position teaching science at a women's college and while there also became involved as ... Perkins retained her own surname when she married Paul Caldwell Wilson in 1913.
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Smith blazes trail for women in politics - The Washington Post  Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine waves to the crowd at the 1964 ... She was the first woman to seek the presidential nomination from a major ... January 26, 2014 ... when she announced her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. ... and move closer to the day when there will be a Madam President.
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First Monday in October (1981) - IMDb  Comedy ... For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a ... First Monday in October (1981) ..... Ruth Loomis ... This film was veteran actress Scott's only feature film credit as a producer.
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William Rehnquist - Supreme Court Justice - Biography.com  Nov 20, 2014 ... He was elevated to the post of chief justice by President Ronald Reagan ... Born in Wisconsin in 1924, William Rehnquist became chief justice of ... He was largely absent from the bench, but refused to resign. ... Chief Justice John Roberts, a former Rehnquist clerk and Rehnquist's replacement on the court,...
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Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States - Wikipedia  The demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States encompass the gender, ethnicity, ... The 20th century saw the first appointment of a Jewish justice (Louis .... with New York producing fifteen justices, Ohio producing ten, Massachusetts ... The last foreign-born Justice, and the only one of these for whom English...