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Calvin Coolidge - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com  ... the 30th U.S. president, led the nation through most of the Roaring Twenties, a decade ... He took office on August 3, 1923, following the sudden death of President .... who had served as secretary of commerce under both Harding and Coolidge, ... the prosperity of the 1920s, he recognized that he bore some responsibility...
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Herbert Hoover: Domestic AffairsMiller Center  Herbert Hoover took office in 1929 with a display of optimism and the ... James Davis, Secretary of Commerce Robert Lamont, and Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Hyde. ... He directed the Department of the Interior to improve conditions for Native ... and reinforcing causes of the nation's most severe economic crisis: structural...
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Herbert Hoover - Wikipedia  Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874  October 20, 1964) was an American politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A Republican, as Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s he introduced ... Hoover is the most recent cabinet secretary to be elected President of the United States, as...
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Herbert Hoover: Life Before the PresidencyMiller Center  ... of history to the nation's most pressing contemporary governance challenges. more  .... For the first nine years of his life, he lived in the small town of West Branch, Iowa, ... In 1917, after the United States entered the war, President Woodrow Wilson ... Under Hoover's leadership, the Department of Commerce became as...
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Ronald Reagan: Life Before the PresidencyMiller Center  He told the story so often in his presidential campaigns that reporters ... Four years later, after a period that Reagan described as the unhappiest of his life, he began ... Reagan joined the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) in 1937, became a member of the union's board in 1941 and its president in 1947 and continued to serve on...
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His 310 Flashcards | Quizlet  [1] He was elected the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony the year before ... This was built on the theory of Mercantilism, because it helped Britain to gain more goods ..... a war hero beloved by the lower American classes, ran in 1824 (lost b/c ...... William Green was president (1925-1952), but after 1940 the dominant...
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Lyndon B. Johnson: Life Before the PresidencyMiller Center  In 1927, he refocused his energies on a teaching career and was accepted to ... Johnson, with the support of future Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, won ... Critics began calling him "Landslide Lyndon," and the new senator found their ... The Democrats needed a running mate who would appeal to those that JFK made...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's Presidency - FDR Presidential Library ...  How many times was FDR elected President of the United States ? ... 1941), Henry Agard Wallace of Iowa (January 20, 1941 - January 20, 1945), and Harry S. Truman ... FDR's Cabinet Officers were as follows: ... Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, 1933-1938. Harry L. Hopkins, 1938-1940. Jesse H. Jones, 1940-1945
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Lou Hoover Biography :: National First Ladies' Library  She spoke the language more easily than her husband and often translated ... to 1928, when her husband served as Commerce Secretary to President Warren ... Just five years after creating the Girl Scouts, Low met Lou Hoover and, struck by the ... in drafting Nancy Goes Scouting, a book for young adults in the late 1920's.
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Famous and Powerful of 1923 : snopes.com  Nov 20, 2014 ... Essay details the sad fates of rich and powerful men from 1923. ... Albert Fall - The Secretary of Interior in President Harding's cabinet. ... What became of him? ... men from several diverse industries to Chicago all at the same time. .... By the 1920s he was one of America's richest citizens: in 1924 he earned...
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Herbert Hoover - U.S. President - Biography.com  Apr 2, 2014 ... From there he moved into the post of U.S. secretary of commerce and spearheaded the ... Herbert Hoover was born on August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa, and was the first president born west of the Mississippi River.
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Warren G. Harding - Wikipedia  Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865  August 2, 1923) was the 29th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1921 until his death in 1923. At the time of his death, he was one of the most popular presidents, but the subsequent exposure of scandals that took place under ... Harding was born November 2, 1865, in Blooming Grove, Ohio.
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Harry S. Truman: Campaigns and ElectionsMiller Center  In January 1948, Truman's former secretary of commerce (and vice president during ... Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas turned down the vice presidential ... did energize his fellow Democrats, putting the Republicans on the defensive and ... While he appeared "presidential" during the campaign, Dewey's bland...
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Calvin Coolidge - U.S. Vice President, U.S. President - Biography.com  Jun 17, 2016 ... Coolidge served as president during the 'Roaring Twenties' boom, directly ... Synopsis; Early Life and Career; Vice Presidency and Presidency; Policies .... U.S. Governor, Journalist, Diplomat, Supreme Court Justice, U.S....
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OOLAC - #Taft_administration_cabinet_members  Taft_administration_cabinet_members - Charles Nagel, George W. Wickersham, ... He was Secretary of Commerce and Labor during President William Howard Taft's ... He was the last person to serve in the post before it was separated to two...
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Presidents Harding, Hoover, Hayes # Quiz # Question - YouTube  Jun 29, 2016 ... 23, 1921 President Harding pardoned this Socialist so that he could ... appointed this man Secretary of Commerce, 8 years later he was the...
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Warren G. Harding - Government Official, U.S. Representative, U.S. ...  Aug 13, 2015 ... Warren G. Harding was elected the 29th U.S. president on his birthday, and served from 1921 to 1923. ... for city bosses who, in turn, helped him advance in Ohio politics. In 1903, he became lieutenant governor; and served in that position for ... In 1920, political insider and friend Harry Daugherty began to...
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William Taft: Life Before the PresidencyMiller Center  President Chester A. Arthur appointed Taft's father to serve as minister (the title of ... Taft became close to Theodore Roosevelt, then a civil service commissioner. ... Taft accepted Roosevelt's offer because he believed that as secretary of war he ... years as secretary of war (1904-1908), Taft became Roosevelt's chief agent,...
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William Taft: Life Before the PresidencyMiller Center  Taft's father, Alphonso Taft, was a lawyer and served as secretary of war and then ... President Chester A. Arthur appointed Taft's father to serve as minister (the title of .... During his four years as secretary of war (1904-1908), Taft became ... He supervised the construction of the Panama Canal, made several voyages around...
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A Time of Scandal: Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the ...  In the early 1920s, with the nation still recovering from World War I, President Warren G. ... He appointed his friend, decorated veteran Colonel Charles R. Forbes, .... of President Warren Harding and his Veterans' Bureau chief, Charles Forbes, .... for an examination of Charles Forbes, the first head of the Veterans Bureau.