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James Buchanan (1791-1868) was the fifteenth president of the United States. His administration was dominated by fighting between pro-and antislavery forces. In 1860, at the close of his term in office, South Carolina became the first stat...
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James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) was an American Civil War general before becoming the twentieth president of the United States. He was assassinated after 6 months in office. James A. Garfield was born in the log cabin of American myth on ...
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The administration of James Knox Polk (1795-1849), eleventh president of the United States, saw America at war with Mexico. As a consequence, Polk added more territory to the United States than had any other president except Thomas Jeffers...
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James Madison (1751-1836), the fourth president of the United States, was one of the principal founders of America's republican form of government. James Madison lived all his life in the county of Orange, Va., on a 5,000-acre plantation t...
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James Monroe (1758-1831), fifth president of the United States, a founder of the Jeffersonian Republican party and a major agent in acquiring Louisiana and Florida, authored the celebrated American foreign policy statement, the Monroe Doct...
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In the fall of 1918, a small group of young men came together to discuss ways in order to eliminate the discrimination of their race. These Nisei, or second generation Japanese Americans, had witnessed their fathers being beaten, the windo...
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The first U.S. president to be elected from the deep South in 132 years, James Earl (Jimmy) Carter (born 1924) served one term (1977-1981). In 1980 he lost his bid for re-election to Republican candidate Ronald Reagan but went on to be a m...
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The second president of the United States, John Adams (1735-1826) played a major role in the colonial movement toward independence. He wrote the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 and served as a diplomatic representative of Congress in th...
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) served in both houses of Congress before becoming the thirty-fifth president of the United States. His assassination shocked the world. John F. Kennedy once summed up his time as "very dangerous, untidy....
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John Humphrey Noyes (1811-1886) was the founder of the Oneida Community, one of the notable experimental societies of his century. John Humphrey Noyes, born on Sept. 3, 1811, in Brattleboro, Vt., was raised in an individualistic family by ...
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John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) was the sixth president of the United States. A brilliant statesman and outstanding secretary of state, he played a major role in formulating the basic principles of American foreign policy. Born in Braintree ...
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John Tyler (1790-1862), tenth president of the United States, was the first vice president to succeed to the presidency. His administration was marked by great conflict over the Texas question. John Tyler was born on March 29, 1790, at Gre...
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