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| | <b>Presidentb> Encyclopedia Article @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research) |
 | | Though the <b>presidentb> is to be chosen solely by a unanimous decision by the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the entire body of the church votes to sustain the <b>Presidentb> in this calling. |  | | Under the French Third and the Fourth Republics, the "<b>Presidentb> of the Council" (of ministers) was the head of government, with the <b>Presidentb> of the Republic a largely symbolic figurehead. |  | | The prime minister of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1937 was titled <b>Presidentb> of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State. |
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| | Philippine <b>presidentb> - encyclopedia article about Philippine <b>presidentb>. |
 | | According to the current constitution (1987), the <b>Presidentb> must be at least 40 years of age, a Filipino citizen by birth, and is a resident of the Philippines for the past 10 years prior to election. |  | | The <b>presidentb> heads the Executive branch of the government, which includes the Cabinet, and is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. |  | | It was then that "<b>Presidentb> of the Republic of the Philippines" was adopted and indeed, specified in the 1973 Constitution of the Philippines. |
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| | Vice <b>Presidentb> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Vice Presidents are often elected jointly with the <b>presidentb> as his or her running mate, elected separately, or appointed independently after the <b>presidentb>'s election. |  | | In Germany, the de facto vice <b>presidentb> is the <b>Presidentb> of the Bundesrat (upper house) and in France it is the speaker of the Senate. |  | | In politics, a vice <b>presidentb> is a politician whose primary function is to replace the <b>presidentb> on the event of his or her death or resignation. |
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| | Jimmy Carter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In 1994 Carter went to North Korea at the behest of <b>Presidentb> Clinton during a period of rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula that were caused by North Korea's expulsion of investigators from the International Atomic Energy Agency and that country's threat to begin processing spent nuclear fuel. |  | | <b>Presidentb> Carter initially departed from the long-held policy of containment toward the Soviet Union, as first articulated in the Truman Doctrine and held to by all subsequent American presidents, both Republican and Democrat. |  | | Carter continued his predecessors' policies of imposing sanctions on Rhodesia, and, after Bishop Abel Muzorewa was elected Prime Minister, protested that the Marxists Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo were excluded from the elections. |
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| | <b>Presidentb> - Encyclopedia Dramatica |
 | | The World Boxing Association is also in the charge of a <b>presidentb>. |  | | The marble that rolls the farthest is the one with the name of the next <b>presidentb> on it. |  | | To select a <b>presidentb>, everyone who lives in the country must inscribe the name of the person they would most like to be their <b>presidentb> on a small glass marble which they then throw into a huge bucket. |
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| | Benjamin Harrison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Harrison was elected <b>Presidentb> of the United States in 1888. |  | | Harrison was also known as the "centennial <b>presidentb>" because his inauguration was the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of George Washington. |  | | A grandson of <b>Presidentb> William Henry Harrison, Benjamin was born on Tuesday August 20, 1833 in North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio to John Scott Harrison (later a U.S. Congressman from Ohio) and Elizabeth Ramsey Irwin. |
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| | Vice <b>Presidentb> of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Vice <b>Presidentb> of the United States is the second-highest executive official of the United States government. |  | | There is a strong convention within the U.S. Senate that the Vice <b>Presidentb> not use his position as <b>Presidentb> of the Senate to influence the passage of legislation or act in a partisan manner, except in the case of breaking tie votes. |  | | John Adams, the first Vice <b>Presidentb>, described it as "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." Even 150 years later, 32nd Vice <b>Presidentb> John Nance Garner famously described the office as "not worth a pitcher of warm piss" (at the time reported with the bowdlerization "spit"). |
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| | George W. Bush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Bush is the only U.S. <b>Presidentb> to be the father of twins. |  | | Bush is a member of a prominent political family: his father, George H. Bush, served as U.S. <b>Presidentb> for four years and as Vice <b>Presidentb> for eight, his brother Jeb Bush is the current Governor of Florida, and his grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a Republican United States Senator from Connecticut. |  | | Bush, a Republican, was elected 46th Governor of Texas in 1994 and was re-elected in 1998. |
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| | State <b>Presidentb> of South Africa - definition of State <b>Presidentb> of South Africa in Encyclopedia |
 | | Following constitutional reforms in 1984, the office of State <b>Presidentb> became an executive post, as in the United States, and the office of Prime Minister of South Africa was abolished. |  | | From 1961 to 1994, South Africa's head of state was called the State <b>Presidentb> or Staatspresident in Afrikaans. |  | | Like Paul Kruger, and presidents of the Boer republics the State <b>Presidentb> wore a sash with the Republic's coat of arms, and performed mainly ceremonial duties. |
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| | <b>Presidentb> of South Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | From 1961 to 1994, the head of state was called the State <b>Presidentb>, or Staatspresident in Afrikaans. |  | | Along with Mbeki, the last State <b>Presidentb>, F.W De Klerk also served as Deputy <b>Presidentb>, in his capacity as the leader of the National Party which was the second-largest party in the new Parliament. |  | | The <b>Presidentb> of South Africa is the head of state and head of government under South Africa's Constitution. |
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| | Encyclopedia: <b>Presidentb> Taft |
 | | Throughout his presidency, Taft contended with dissent from more liberal members of the Republican party, many of whom continued to follow the lead of former <b>Presidentb> Roosevelt. |  | | In 1900, <b>Presidentb> William McKinley appointed Taft chair of a commission to organize a civilian government in the Philippines which had been ceded to the United States at the close of the Spanish-American War. |  | | A prominent Republican, Taft's father served as secretary of war under <b>Presidentb> Ulysses S. Grant. |
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| | William Henry Harrison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | His vice <b>presidentb> was John Tyler, and their campaign was marked by exaggeration of both Harrison's military exploits and of his connections to the common man. Their campaign slogans of "Log Cabins and Hard Cider" and "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" are among the most famous in American politics. |  | | Harrison was born into a prominent political family at the Berkeley Plantation in Virginia, the third son of Benjamin Harrison V and Elizabeth Basset. |  | | Harrison resigned from the Army in 1798 to become Secretary of the Northwest Territory, and acted as governor when Governor Arthur St. Clair was absent. |
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| | Andrew Jackson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845), one of the founders of the Democratic Party, was the seventh <b>Presidentb> of the United States, serving from 1829 to 1837. |  | | A bust of Andrew Jackson at the Plaza Ferdinand VII in Pensacola, Florida, where Jackson was sworn in as territorial governor. |  | | Although Jackson sympathized with the Southern interpretation of the tariff debate, he was also a strong supporter of federalism (in the sense of supporting a strong union with considerable powers for the central government) and attempted to face Calhoun down over the issue, which developed into a bitter rivalry between the two men. |
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| | Lord <b>Presidentb> of the Council - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Office of Lord <b>Presidentb> of the Council is a British cabinet position, the holder of which acts as presiding officer of the Privy Council. |  | | The Lord <b>Presidentb> is the fourth of the Great Officers of State, ranking beneath the Lord High Treasurer and above the Lord Privy Seal. |  | | In the 19th century, the Lord <b>Presidentb> was generally the cabinet member responsible for the educational system amongst their other duties, a role still played by the Privy Council at this time, although this role was gradually scaled back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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| | Liberal Party of the Philippines |
 | | A lawyer, Speaker of the House of Representative, Senate <b>Presidentb>, last <b>Presidentb> of the Commonwealth and first <b>Presidentb> of the Republic. |  | | He was the running mate of <b>Presidentb> Macapagal in the 1965 election. |  | | He would give way to <b>Presidentb> Macapagal in the 1961 Presidential election in return he would be elected Party <b>Presidentb> and be the standard bearer of the Party in the 1965 election. |
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| | American <b>Presidentb> |
 | | Subsequently, Franklin Pierce served in the Mexican-American War, and in something of a surprise was elected <b>Presidentb> in 1852. |  | | Franklin Pierce, the 14th <b>Presidentb> of the United States, came to office during a period of growing tension between the North and South. |  | | Jane Pierce was her husband's opposite; she was painfully shy, deeply religious, often in bad health, and a strong advocate of the temperance movement. |
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| | IPL POTUS -- Franklin Pierce |
 | | Pierce was the only <b>Presidentb> to have no turnover in his cabinet. |  | | Pierce was the only elected <b>Presidentb> who sought but did not win his party's nomination for a second term. |  | | Pierce was arrested while in office for running over an old woman with his horse, but his case was dropped due to insufficient evidence in 1853. |
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| | <b>Presidentb> of the Philippines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The <b>presidentb> serves a term of six years and may no longer run for re-election, unless he/she becomes <b>presidentb> through constitutional succession and have served for no more than 4 years as <b>presidentb>. |  | | According to the current constitution ( 1987), the <b>Presidentb> must be at least 40 years of age, a Filipino citizen by birth, and is a resident of the Philippines for the past 10 years prior to election. |  | | Manuel L. Quezon is considered to be the first <b>presidentb> (and the first to win an election — Aguinaldo was appointed) by the United States and in international diplomatic and political circles. |
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| | <b>Presidentb> - definition of <b>Presidentb> in Encyclopedia |
 | | Theodore Roosevelt, <b>Presidentb> of the United States of America (1901-1909) |  | | The prime minister of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1937 was titled <b>Presidentb> of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State. |  | | The <b>Presidentb> is a member of the Federal Council elected by the Swiss Federal Assembly (the Swiss Parliament) for a year; and the <b>Presidentb> is merely primus inter pares (first among equals). |
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| | James K. Polk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | <b>Presidentb> Polk is also notable for his support for the concept of Manifest Destiny—the idea that it was the United States' divine mission to expand westward—and for his affirmation of the Monroe Doctrine—the doctrine, first propounded by <b>Presidentb> James Monroe in 1823, that the Americas should be free from European colonization or other interference. |  | | A Democrat, Polk served as Speaker of the House (1835–1839) and Governor of Tennessee (1839–1841) prior to becoming <b>presidentb>. |  | | Polk set four clearly defined goals for his administration: the re-establishment of the independent treasury, the reduction of tariffs, the settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute, and the acquisition of California from Mexico. |
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| | <b>Presidentb> of Russia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
 | | The <b>Presidentb> is the head of state and his main task is to preserve and protect the rights and liberties of the Russian people, which are granted under the (The act of forming something) Constitution of Russia. |  | | The <b>Presidentb> also has a special copy of the Russian Constitution that is used during the inauguration. |  | | In performing my duties as the <b>Presidentb> of the Russian Federation, I pledge to respect and protect the rights and liberties of every citizen; to observe and protect the Constitution of the Russian Federation; to protect the sovereignty and independence, security and integrity of the state and to serve the people faithfully. |
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| | IPL POTUS -- Gerald Rudolph Ford |
 | | Ford was one of the members of the Warren Commission appointed to study the assassination of <b>Presidentb> |  | | Ford was the first <b>presidentb> to visit Japan. |  | | Ford was the only <b>presidentb> whose two assassination attempts against him were made by women. |
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| | World Almanac for Kids |
 | | Taft became one of the great chief justices in the history of the Supreme Court. |  | | Taft was not a successful <b>presidentb>, both because he faced a difficult situation and because he lacked political gifts. |  | | Taft moved rapidly up through appointive offices, as assistant district attorney and internal revenue collector in Cincinnati in the early 1880s, later as a state judge, then as solicitor general of the U.S. (1890–92) and judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals (1892–1900). |
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| | Definition of Franklin Pierce |
 | | Pierce was elected <b>Presidentb> of the United States on the Democratic ticket and served from |  | | He was a member of the New Hampshire State constitutional convention in 1850 and served as its <b>presidentb>. |  | | The United States might have to acquire additional possessions for the sake of its own security, he pointed out, and would not be deterred by "any timid forebodings of evil." He chose to affirm, rather then swear, the "Presidential Oath," being the first <b>presidentb> to do so. |
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| | George Washington Arkansas Encyclopedia of Arkansas Arkansas History State of Arkansas |
 | | Washington held the first Cabinet meeting of any US <b>Presidentb> on February 25, 1793. |  | | Washington State in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. is also named for him, the only state named for a <b>presidentb>. |  | | George Washington was arguably one of the few American Presidents who was not a Christian. |
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| | Grover Cleveland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Cleveland chose to not run again for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1896, but was disappointed when his party nominated William Jennings Bryan on a Silver Platform. |  | | He was the only Democrat elected to the presidency in the era of Republican political domination between the American Civil War and the election of Woodrow Wilson in 1912. |  | | Cleveland was born in Caldwell, New Jersey to the Rev. Richard Cleveland and Anne Neal. |
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| | Vladimir Putin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Putin was appointed Chairman (predsedatel', or prime minister) of the Government of the Russian Federation by <b>Presidentb> Boris Yeltsin in August 1999, making him Russia's fifth prime minister in less than eighteen months. |  | | Putin graduated from the International Department of the Law Faculty of the Leningrad State University in 1975 and was recruited into the KGB. |  | | Putin supported lifting of the sanctions in due course, arguing that the UN commission first be given a chance to complete its work on the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. |
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| | <b>Presidentb>-elect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In the United States, the members of the U.S. Electoral College are elected in November once every four years, and the Electoral College in turn elects the <b>Presidentb> of the United States in December, and finally the <b>Presidentb>-elect assumes office in January. |  | | At exactly 12:00 noon, on January 20 following an election year, the Term of Office of the <b>Presidentb> expires by Constitutional mandate, and the <b>Presidentb>-elect becomes the <b>Presidentb> of the United States. |  | | For example, the "Secretary-designate" or the "Vice <b>Presidentb>-designate." This title is occasionally used for Prime Ministers as well, to reflect the fact that they are not usually directly elected, but instead formally appointed by the head of state according to the rules of the parliamentary system. |
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