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Barack Obama

Barack Obama (1961– ) is the forty-fourth president of the United States. Before becoming the first African American elected to the nation’s highest office, Obama attended Columbia University and earned a law degree from Harvard. He also worked as a community organizer in Chicago for several years and in 1997 became a member of the Illinois senate. He was elected to the US Senate in 2004, and that same year his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention lifted Obama into the national spotlight. In 2007 he announced his candidacy...

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Joe Biden

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Madeleine Albright

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Nancy Pelosi

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Ross Perot

Ross Perot (1930– ) is a wealthy Texas businessman who ran as an independent candidate against Democrat Bill Clinton and Republican incumbent George H. W. Bush in the presidential election of 1992. Perot spent about $65 million of his own money on his campaign and appealed to Americans disenchanted with party politics. He built his candidacy around fiscal reform and the elimination of the deficit. In the election, Perot won almost 19 percent of the popular vote.

John S. Mosby to Sam Chapman, July 25, 1897 (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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John Mosby on the Silver Issue, 1895

In the late nineteenth century, Democrats and Republicans fought over whether the gold...

Ronald Reagan to Harold Ward, May 26, 1962. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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Ronald Reagan on economics and political parties, 1962

In May 1962, Ronald...

Charles Sumner, [One man power versus Congress], c. October 2, 1866 (Gilder Lehr

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Charles Sumner on Reconstruction and the South, 1866

By 1865 there were sharp differences of...

Color Voters Read, broadside, 1894. (GLC09000)

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Campaigning for the African American vote in Georgia, 1894

In the gubernatorial and local elections of 1894, the Democrats and the newly formed...

William Jennings Bryan to I. J. Dunn, January 4, 1895 (GLC07189)

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William Jennings Bryan and the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, 1895

In 1895, Williams Jennings Bryan wrote to I. J. Dunn, an Omaha lawyer and president of the Jackson Club, to...