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Andrew Jackson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845), one of the founders of the Democratic Party, was the seventh Presidentb> of the United States, serving from 1829 to 1837.
Jackson's defeat burnished his political credentials, however, since many voters believed the man of the people had been robbed by the corrupt aristocrats of the East.
The would-be assassin, who claimed Jackson had prevented him from taking his rightful claim to the British throne, was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to an asylum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson



17. Presidentb> Grant (1869). Adams, Henry. 1918. The Education of Henry Adams

Therefore no one, and Henry Adams less than most, felt hope that any Presidentb> chosen from the ranks of politics or politicians would raise the character of government; and by instinct if not by reason, all the world united on Grant.
Grant, who acted as his patroness, he said nothing, even when far gone, that was offensive about either, but he held that no one except himself and Rawlins understood the General.
Grant fretted and irritated him, like the Terebratula, as a defiance of first principles.

http://www.bartleby.com/159/17.html



Welcome to The American Presidency

Grant's approaches to the north of Vicksburg were also ineffective and resulted in the abortive "Bayou Expeditions" in the spring of 1863.
Grant's attempts to protect the army of occupation in the South deflected him from Johnson and toward the Radical Republicans and their more rigorous Reconstruction policies.
Grant did well in this top command; he was able to see the big picture of the war as well as its parts and skillfully coordinate the movements of the many armies of the Union.

http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0124750-0&templatename=/article/articl...



American Presidentb>

Grant's experience in office helped succeeding Presidents realize that appointments should be made based on competence and not favoritism.
Grant was given a job that no one else would take; he was to make a disciplined fighting unit out of a rebellious Illinois volunteer regiment that no one had been able to tame.
Grant was deeply haunted by the failures of his early life, and he was loyal out of all proportion to anyone who had ever been nice to him.

http://www.americanpresident.org/history/ulyssessgrant



Ulysses Simpson Grant Arkansas Encyclopedia of Arkansas Arkansas History State of Arkansas

When Pope Pius IX kidnapped the six year old Jewish child Edgardo Mortara on account of the claim that a housekeeper had secretly baptized him, presidentb> Grant sent the Pope a humanitarian plea to return the poor child to his heart-broken parents.
His willingness to fight and ability to win impressed Presidentb> Lincoln who appointed him Lieutenant-General on March 2, 1864, and on the 17th he assumed command of all of the armies of the
Although there is no evidence that Grant himself profited from corruption among his subordinates, he did not take a firm stance against malefactors and failed to react strongly even after their guilt was established.

http://www.anythingarkansas.com/arkapedia/pedia/Ulysses_S._Grant/



Thomas Jefferson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jefferson believed, furthermore, it was this Creator that endowed humanity with a number of inalienable rights, such as "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".
Jefferson was the first presidentb> to be buried in a grave as opposed to a crypt as both Washington and Adams were.
Jefferson served in the Virginia House of Burgesses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson (4818 words)



Presidentb> Ulysses S. Grant - He's not a Lost Cause anymore. By Chris Suellentrop

Grant's military genius has been fully recognized at least since the Fletcher Pratt and Bruce Catton works of the 1950s, and most likely the decades-earlier assessments of J.F.C. Fuller and Liddell Hart.
Grant and Adams are important figures despite, rather than because of their presidencies.
Presidentb> Grant has no need for McCullough, though.

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2065593 (4818 words)



World Almanac for Kids

They are dismayed by Jackson’s addiction to violent confrontation in foreign policy, as in 1835, when he brought the country to the brink of war with France over that nation’s delay in paying its debt to the U.S. Jacksonians called their political opponents aristocrats, themselves the party of the people.
Many of Jackson’s supporters, however, did not know where he stood on the issues of the day, either because of his silence or his lack of clarity.
Jackson and his wife were unaware, however, at the time of their marriage that her divorce from her first husband had not yet been technically completed, and his political enemies thereafter referred to the couple as adulterers.

http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/presidents/jackson_andrew.html (4818 words)



Paul (Stephanus Johannes Paulus) Kruger

In 1880 the Transvalers, under the leadership of Kruger, M.W. Pretorius and Piet Joubert, rebelled against the British authorities.
Paul Kruger was known as the ‘father of the Afrikaner nation’ and his firm belief in the destiny of the Afrikaner, his strong faith and his obedience to his God characterized his life.
Kruger’s government needed the revenue from the mines and didn’t have any legitimate reason to remove these foreigners, but to grant them full political rights would negate everything he had fought for.

http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/people/kruger-p.htm (724 words)



Anglo Boer War Museum

Meanwhile Presidentb> Steyn brought pressure to bear on Kruger, persuading him to be accommodating, and through his mediation a conference was held between Milner and Kruger in Bloemfontein at the end of May 1899.
Kruger was in an unenviable position because the followers of Pretorius and Schoeman had an element of right on their side; moreover, the old government had decided to submit to the new conditions.
Kruger was the commandant of Rustenburg from 1854 and took an active part in punitive expeditions against various rebellious black chiefs, e.g.

http://www.anglo-boer.co.za/kruger.html (3317 words)



Presidentb> George Washington: Medical History

Alternate index terms: Medical history of Presidentb> Washington.
Some 80 ounces of blood were removed in 12 hours [ 15 ] (this is.63 gallons, or about 35% of all the blood in his body).
While the revolutionary army was camped at Morristown, New Jersey in spring 1779, Washington developed a severe attack of quinsy (an abscess of the tonsils).

http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/g01.htm (3317 words)



A Brief Biography of Andrew Jackson by Hal Morris

In 1816, Madison was elected Presidentb> by an electoral vote of 183-34 with 4 abstentions.
Jackson came into office believing that the bank, in its current form, was a menace and that something had to be done about it.
When the conspiracy was revealed, Jackson defended Burr in court, but condemned Wilkinson, whom he blamed for the illicit aspects of the scheme.

http://www.earlyrepublic.net/jksn-bio.htm (3317 words)



Welcome to The American Presidency

Presidentb> Washington acted with Congress to establish the first great executive departments and to lay the foundations of the modern federal judiciary.
Washington, a delegate of Virginia, served as its presidentb>.
The Constitution designated the presidentb> as the only official charged with the duty of enforcing all the federal laws.

http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0410800-00&templatename=/article/artic... (3317 words)



Paul Kruger

As word spread that presidentb> Kruger of the Transvaal regarded Jews as equal human beings, they flocked to the new country in their thousands from the repression in Poland and the Russian countires.
Krugers proposal to establish the "Sabie Gouverments Wildtuin" which would ultimately become the Kruger National Park of today, was met by strong opposition from some of the Volksraad members who did not share his own remarkable vision.
Kruger soon found himself running for his very life in front of a group of highly angry elephants, when all of a sudden he saw a lion lying asleep in the grass before him.

http://abw.netfirms.com/paul_kruger.htm (6045 words)



Bill Clinton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In addition, Clinton launched military strikes on Iraq several times to punish violations of UN sanctions and an attempt to have former Presidentb> George H. Bush assassinated.
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe, III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd Presidentb> of the United States from 1993 to 2001, and the 2nd to be impeached.
As the first Baby Boomer presidentb>, Clinton was seen during his presidency and during his candidacy as a change from the presidents of the World War II Generation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton (6282 words)



Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lincoln was also the presidentb> who declared Thanksgiving as a national holiday, established the U.S. Department of Agriculture (though not as a Cabinet-level department), revived national banking and banks, and admitted West Virginia and Nevada as states.
McClellan's delay irritated Lincoln, as did McClellan's insistence that no troops were needed to defend Washington, D.C. Lincoln insisted on holding some of McClellan's troops to defend the capital, a decision McClellan blamed for the ultimate failure of his Peninsula Campaign.
Lincoln is most famous for his role in ending slavery in the United States with the enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation as a pragmatic war measure which would set the stage for the complete abolition of the institution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln (6676 words)



Chechnya Timeline

In March, the presidentb> of the separatist government of Chechnya, Aslan Maskhadov, is killed by Russian troops.
In September elections, Akhmad Kadyrov, the de facto Chechen presidentb> installed three years earlier by Russia, officially becomes presidentb>.
On Aug.29, another Russian-supported leader, Alu Alkhanov, is elected presidentb> of Chechnya with 73.5% of the vote.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/chechnyatime1.html (698 words)



American Presidentb>

Before becoming the nation's third Presidentb>, Jefferson served as delegate to the Virginia House of Delegates, where he drafted legislation that abolished primogeniture, the law that made the eldest son the sole inheritor of his father's property.
This document is a brilliant assertion of fundamental human rights and also serves as America's most succinct statement of its philosophy of government.
Jefferson preferred to live a simple lifestyle during his time in office, often greeting his dinner guests in old homespun clothes and a pair of worn bedroom slippers.

http://www.americanpresident.org/history/thomasjefferson (1310 words)



George Washington

Washington was reelected presidentb> in 1792, and the following year the most divisive crisis arising out of the personal and political conflicts within his cabinet occurred--over the issue of American neutrality during the war between England and France.
George Washington was commander in chief of the Continental army during the American Revolution and first presidentb> of the United States (1789-97).
Washington, whose policy of neutrality angered the pro-French Jeffersonians, was horrified by the excesses of the French Revolution and enraged by the tactics of Edmond Genet, the French minister in the United States, which amounted to foreign interference in American politics.

http://sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/gwash.html (1310 words)



Richard Harding Davis, With Both Armies: Chapter III.

But the greater part of what the Presidentb> said was a repetition of what I have written the injustice of the English, the fact that his people fought only to protect their liberty, and the unfairness of the odds against them.
Presidentb> Kruger nodded solemnly, muttering his approval, and was about to make a speech of thanks in return when Mr.
In the meantime Presidentb> Kruger's interest in the mysterious box had increased greatly, and he came forward and bent over his two secretaries with his hands on his knees, peering down at the lock with absolute lack of self-consciousness.

http://www.pinetreeweb.com/davis-chapter-06.htm (2798 words)



News of Ulysses Grant's Death

Grant said that recently the General had written a note embodying his wishes in regard to the subject of removal from here.
Grant sat by the General the other members of the family kept either in the other parts of the room or on the porch, almost within whispering call.
Grant's request, an order was sent for "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" for the General.

http://starship.python.net/crew/manus/Presidents/usg/usgobit.html (2798 words)



Charles Van Onselen The Modernization of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek: F. E. T. Krause, J. C. Smuts, and the Struggle for the Johannesburg Public Prosecutor's Office, 1898–1899 Law and History Review, 21.3 The History Cooperative

These supposedly crippling inadequacies—evident in the early 1880s—are seen as becoming ever more pronounced after the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886 when the presidentb> and his administration were overwhelmed by an industrial revolution—the social, political, and economic demands of which they were incapable of addressing.
The presidentb>'s problems were exacerbated by the fact that there was no simple divide between appointments made prior to 1895—when the continental Dutch tradition dominated those posts in his administration requiring legal expertise—and those made after the Raid, when he leaned more heavily on those who had passed through the Inns of Court.
When Kruger took took office for the fourth time, in 1898, the changing economic needs of primary industry and the growing political demands of an immigrant urban proletariat, which had been opportunistically adopted by Milner, were already paramount.

http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lhr/21.3/onselen.html (13448 words)



Tennessee history, preservation and educational artifacts

Andrew Jackson was also the last elected Presidentb> that stood in violation of the 12th Amendment to the Constitution of not being native born.
The inauguration party of Presidentb> Jackson was one of the wildest D.C. had ever seen.
While it is often cited that he was born near Waxhaw, SC, researchers have recently come to believe that he was actually born on an immigrant ship from Ireland a few years earlier.

http://www.vic.com/tnchron/class/Jackson.htm (13448 words)



HelpUsWeb.com

But the "just-re-elected Presidentb>" Lovett, who also began to behave as if he was the just newly-acquired proprietor of the CISS, did the unthinkable and the unbelievable, which became the core and the crux of this ongoing lawsuit.
And there Kruger made the big decision - he invited Ammons to be his Spanish-language translator when Kruger was preparing to serve another high- ranking position as the Presidentb> of the COPANDES - the Pan American Sports Organization of the Deaf.
After many days and weeks of my skillful and clandestine lobbying, left and right, the old-fashioned Kruger gave in and embraced to my idea.

http://www.deafsportlawsuit.com/lawsuit.htm (7933 words)



Presidentb> Abraham Lincoln: Health & Medical History

"He may be Presidentb> of the United States, but he has dirty fingernails." [26a]
Alternate index terms: Medical history of Presidentb> Lincoln, Medical history of Honest Abe, Medical history of Abe Lincoln.
Lincoln, famously, told them "Don't kneel to me. That is not right." Less famously, but equally telling of the status in which Lincoln was held, one black woman was later heard to tell her child that "a touch of Lincoln's garment would cure his pain" [4u].

http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/g16.htm (3317 words)



Presidentb> Andrew Jackson: Health & Medical History

Jackson considered going to Philadelphia to have it removed, but decided against it "because of the political motives which would have been imputed." [8] So, in January 1832,
Jackson's surgeon found that Dickinson's aim had been perfectly true, but he had judged the position of Jackson's heart by the set of his coat, and Jackson wore his coats loosely on account of the excessive slenderness of his figure.
During a September 1813 gunfight with the Benton brothers in downtown Nashville, the cause of which is a little cloudy, Jackson was shot by a slug and a ball.

http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/g07.htm (3317 words)



Shofar FTP Archives: imt/tgmwc/tgmwc-11/tgmwc-11-107.04

Presidentb>, I would like to stress that only the legal points of view prompt me to offer writings of contemporary historians as evidence in this trial.
I did not go there as the Chief of the Security Police or as Kruger's superior, but Kruger, like dozens of other people, reported on the food situation, the administrative system.
But Kruger was - as probably appears from the document - Secretary of State for the security system in the Government General.

http://www.vex.net/~nizkor/ftp.cgi/imt/ftp.py?imt/tgmwc/tgmwc-11/tgmwc-11-107.04 (1998 words)



Abraham Lincoln

Not-withstanding the violence of the death of the Presidentb>, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face.
Abraham Lincoln as Presidentb> of the United States.
The presidentb> is determined to have the electoral votes of the seceded States.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAlincoln.htm (10461 words)



Jefferson Davis

The message also condemned, as illegal and absurd, Presidentb> Lincoln's proclamation calling for troops, and that announcing a blockade of southern ports, and ended with the famous words, "All we ask is, to be let alone," followed by a promise to resist subjugation to the direst extremity.
Davis (1808-1889), presidentb> of the Confederate states (the South) during the...
Davis left the cabinet at the close of Presidentb> Pierce's term in 1857, and in the same year entered the senate again.

http://www.jeffersondavis.net (5215 words)



U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Thomas Jefferson, 2nd Vice Presidentb> (1797-1801)

He could serve as an assistant to the presidentb>; he could concentrate on his constitutional duties as the Senate's presiding officer; or he could become an active leader of the Republican party.
For his part, the vice presidentb> turned exclusively to his political role as leader of the Republicans and to his governmental duty as the Senate's presiding officer.
Federalists in high government posts were "timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty." A translated version of his strongly worded communication appeared in several European newspapers and in a May 1797 edition of the New York Minerva.

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_Thomas_Jefferson.htm (5262 words)

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