Our Presidents

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1910 - 55 pages

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Page 16 - All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory!
Page 5 - European powers to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...
Page 13 - He was one of the founders and the first president of the Ethnological Society of America : and from 1843 to his death he was president of the New York Historical Society.
Page 11 - He then spent a short time in recuperating his health and then proceeded to Nashville, Tennessee, where he took up the study of law in the office of Felix Grundy. After the completion of his law studies he was admitted to the bar and removed to Columbia, Maury county, Tennessee, and started in the active practice of his profession. Mr. Polk was a Jeffersonian ' ' Republican " and in 1823 he was elected to the legislature of Tennessee. He was a strict constructionist...
Page 15 - In 1833 he was elected to the United States Senate, where he also served ten years.
Page 18 - War ( 1846—1848), a conflict that he privately deplored as an unjust war to extend slavery. Promoted on Sept. 20, 1845, to full 2d lieutenant, he took part in the battles of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, and Monterrey. Grant's commanding general in all these engagements was "Old Rough and Ready,
Page 1 - ... Constitution. THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT. — North Carolina did not adopt the Constitution until November 13, 1789. Little Rhode Island sulked until Massachusetts and Connecticut proposed to parcel her between them, when she came to terms and adopted the Constitution, May 29, 1790. It was decided to transfer the seat of government to Philadelphia until 1800, when it was to be permanently fixed upon the eastern bank of the Potomac. The third session of the first Congress, therefore, was held in Philadelphia,...
Page 12 - After peace.was declared, he resigned his commission and retired to his farm near Louisville. In 1816, he was reinstated in the army with his original rank...

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