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Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott (1786–1866), “Old Fuss and Feathers,” was the associate of every president from Jefferson to Lincoln. Scott entered the military in 1809 and distinguished himself during the War of 1812 at the battles of Chippewa and Lundy’s Lane. He went on to serve in the Black Hawk War and the campaign against the Seminole and Creole Indians. After mediating an Anglo-American dispute over the Canadian border in 1838, Scott was appointed general-in-chief of the US Army in 1841. Due to his successes in the Mexican-American War (1846–1848),...
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) won the presidency in 1877 on the Republican ticket after an embattled election. Charges of voting fraud and disputed electoral votes led to the Compromise of 1877 in which the Democrats accepted Hayes’s presidency and Hayes removed federal troops from the South. Hayes’s first year in office was marked by the Great Railway Strike of 1877, when he called in federal troops to help suppress rioters in strike regions. The next year Hayes vetoed the Bland-Allison Act, which restored coinage of the silver dollar....
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Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) was born in Virginia but grew up in Augusta, Georgia, where his father was an official of the Southern Presbyterian church. After briefly practicing as a lawyer (he only had two clients, one of whom was his mother), he attended graduate school at Johns Hopkins and taught history and political science at Bryn Mawr, Wesleyan, and Princeton, his alma mater. As Princeton’s president, he developed a reputation as a reformer for trying to eliminate the school’s elitist system of teaching...
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James K. Polk
James K. Polk (1795–1849), the eleventh president, led the United States during the Mexican-American War. Polk began his career as a lawyer before being elected to the Tennessee legislature in 1823. In Tennessee Polk became a close associate of Andrew Jackson, and he went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1825 to 1839, and then as governor of Tennessee from 1839 to 1841. In 1844, Polk improbably beat out Martin Van Buren, James Buchanan, and Lewis Cass for the Democratic nomination for president. He won the election over...
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Joseph Pulitzer
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Mary Elizabeth Lease
Mary Elizabeth Lease (1853–1933) was a Populist Party organizer and orator. Lease became recognized in the early 1890s as a Populist Party speaker in Kansas and served as a delegate to the party’s national convention in 1892, where she seconded the presidential nomination of James B. Weaver. She toured with Weaver’s campaign in the West and with other Populist speakers in the South, reportedly urging farmers to “Raise less corn and more hell!” Lease vehemently opposed the Populist Party’s connection to the Democratic Party, and after the...
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William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925) was a Democratic politician from Nebraska whose support for free silver, income tax, and other reforms won him the support of the Populist Party. Bryan was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1890, and in 1896 he was nominated for president after delivering his “Cross of Gold” speech at the Democratic convention. Though he had the backing of the Democratic Party, the Populist Party, and free silver Republicans, Bryan lost the election by a large margin to William McKinley. Bryan ran and lost...
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Strom Thurmond
James Strom Thurmond (1902–2003) was an influential South Carolina politician and one of the longest serving senators in American history. Thurmond was elected as the Democratic governor of South Carolina in 1946, but he split from the Democratic Party in 1948 over its support for civil rights. A conservative segregationist, Thurmond organized the States’ Rights Democratic Party—or Dixiecrats—and earned thirty-nine electoral votes as the Dixiecrat presidential nominee. He was elected to the Senate in 1954. In 1964 he broke from the...