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Major General Arthur St. Clair (March 23, 1737 [O.S. 1736] – August 31, 1818) was a Scottish-American soldier and politician. Born in Thurso, Scotland, he served in the British Army during the French and Indian War before settling in Pennsylvania , where he held local office.
Near the end of his presidency, Johnson rejoined the Democratic Party. [42] ^ Chester A. Arthur succeeded to the presidency upon the death of James A. Garfield. [47] ^ Theodore Roosevelt succeeded to the presidency upon the death of William McKinley. [52] ^ Calvin Coolidge succeeded to the presidency upon the death of Warren G. Harding.
History Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the National Governors Association's 2020 winter meeting. In 1907, the Inland Waterways Commission thought it necessary to ask the Conference of Governors to provide both state and national views relating to practical questions dealing with natural resources utilization and management in the Progressive Era.
Former hospital President and CEO Thomas Cecconi, speaking for an article published in 2016 in the Massillon Independent, said Mercy performed the nation's first cardiac catheterization in a ...
President Roosevelt defeated Republican Wendell Willkie in the 1940 presidential election.. The two-term tradition had been an unwritten rule (until the ratification of the 22nd Amendment after Roosevelt's presidency) since George Washington declined to run for a third term in 1796.
In March 1955, the conference had 20 members and met in Washington, D.C. to discuss the Middle East. The 1955 conference was the first public forum that enabled the American government to hear the opinions of the largest representative body of American Jews after World War II. At the forum, the Conference of Presidents declared its goals as ...
The Conference of Governors was held in the White House May 13–15, 1908 under the sponsorship of President Theodore Roosevelt. Gifford Pinchot, at that time Chief Forester of the U.S., was the primary mover of the conference, and a progressive conservationist, who strongly believed in the scientific and efficient management of natural ...
Philip Randolph—the president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, president of the Negro American Labor Council, and vice president of the AFL–CIO—was a key instigator in 1941. With Bayard Rustin , Randolph called for 100,000 black workers to march on Washington, [5] in protest of discriminatory hiring during World War II by U.S ...