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- 2571: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... life marked by poverty. Ralph's mother, Ruth, was left as a widow having to take care of five sons. However, Ralph's life seemed to carry on smoothly. He would end up attending Harvard College and persue a job of teaching full time. While teaching as a junior pastor of Boston's Second Church, his life gained more meaning when he married Ellen Louisa Tucker. Journal entries and love letters ...
- 2572: John F. Kennedy
- ... desegregation. Executive orders barred segregation or descrimination in the armed forces Reserves, in the training of civil defense workers, in the off-base treatment of military personnel, in Federally aided libraries and in the summer college training institutes of the National Science Foundation and National Defense Education Act. "The Olive Branch" (Sorensen 509). John Kennedy's approach to foreign affairs was very different from his approach to domestic problems, this was ...
- 2573: Richard Nixon
- ... running mate. Vice-president Humphrey, his Democratic opponent, was placed under stress by Nixon from the unsuccessful war in Vietnam's effects. Nearly thirty-two million votes gave him a clear majority in the electoral college. The most important issue Nixon faced when he became president was the Vietnam war. The conflict between North Vietnam and South Vietnam began in 1959, and in 1964 there were reports that North Vietnam had ...
- 2574: Michael Jordan
- ... North Carolina and as a freshman he scored the winning shot in the 1982 NCAA championship game . In 1984 Jordan led the U.S. basketball team to victory in the Olympics . After that he left college to play for the Chicago Bulls . Jordan was successful as a professional from his first season , Leading the NBA in the 1984-85 season in points scored . He also was named rookie of the year ...
- 2575: Martin Luther King
- ... the hierarchy of social classes dominated the country. His influence onto black students was incredible. They felt the courage to revolt against segregation. For example, on February 1, 1960, there was a group of black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina, who sat down in a lunch room for whites. This tactic became popular and was being used everywhere. As a result, King suggested that they create a permanent organization. The ...
- 2576: Andrew Jackson
- ... be denied votes since he stood so firmly on the issue of slavery. Defending slavery caused him to finish with the most popular votes overall, but did not get enough votes to win the electoral college. Upon which case, the irony of this election started. It so happened that Henry Clay wound up as the last of the candidates to have a chance at the presidency, and since Jackson, Adams, and ...
- 2577: John Marshall: The Great Chief Justice
- ... poetry. At the age of fourteen, he was sent away to school, and a year later he returned home to be tutored by a Scottish pastor who lived with the Marshall family. As a young college student, John Marshall was particularly impressed by the lectures of professor George Wythe. Wythe was a lawyer, judge, and a signer of the constitution. Other students of professor Wythe were Thomas Jefferson, John Breckinridge, and ...
- 2578: John Adams
- ... Ferling, 1992). Adams was a well educated, seasoned patriot, and experienced diplomat. He was the runner-up in the election in which George Washington was selected the first United States President. According to the electoral-college system of that time, the second candidate with the most electoral votes became the Vice President (Smelser & Gundersen, 1975). As president, Washington appointed, among others, two influential political leaders to his original cabinet; Thomas Jefferson ...
- 2579: JFK: His Life and Legacy
- ... was during this time period in which Kennedy met and fell in love with Jacqueline Bouvier. "Jackie",as she was known, came from a wealthy Catholic background as prestigious as the Kennedys. She attended Vassar College and the Sorbonne in Paris, France. She spoke French, Italian, and Spanish fluently. They were wed on September 12,1953, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Newport, Rhode Island. All seemed well, yet after ...
- 2580: George Washington
- ... in the still-wild Shenandoah. In the expedition, he began to appreciate the uses and value of land, an appreciation that grew the following year with his appointment as Culpeper County surveyor, certified by the College of William and Mary. Lawrence, suffering from a lung complaint took a Barbados voyage in search of health in a warmer climate
.and george accompanied him. The younger brother contracted smallpox and returned to Virginia ...
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