Who were the Whigs in Victorian England? Which party won the presidential election of 1856? Who were some active Anti-Federalists? Who supported internal improvements during the presidential election of 1860? Who was considered the leader of the Federalists?
What were the first two political parties formed in the U.S.? Who was the first Democratic Republican president? Who was the first Democratic president? Who made up the majority of the early Whig party? Which party won the presidential election of 1856?
Who won the presidential election of 1872? Who ran in the presidential election of 1872? Who won the popular vote in the presidential election of 1856? Who was elected president of the United States in 1852? Who won the US presidential election of 1868? Who lost the presidential election o...
The Democrats and Liberal Republicans united behind Grant's opponent in the presidential election of 1872, but Grant was handily re-elected. Grant's new Peace Policy for Native Americans had both successes and failures. Grant's administration successfully resolved the Alabama claims and the Virginius...
women from political parties major and minor have sought the presidency through the years, some even before women had the right to vote in elections. Here's a list of all the female presidential candidates (through the 2020 election), arranged chronologically by their first campaign for the ...
Woodhull failed to score any electoral votes on Election Day, and there’s no record of how she fared in the popular vote. Even if she had won, she would have been barred from taking up residence in the White House, because she was a year shy of the requirement that presidents be at...
He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill (1982). Married and bisexual, he was one of the first prominent men in Britain known to have contracted HIV and died of AIDS, although he hid the facts of his illness. Bruce Chatwin and his notebooks: ...
She went on to redefine the parameters for female actors in Hollywood with her choice of complex, challenging roles that defied gender stereotypes. Among her most acclaimed performances were those in Of Human Bondage (1934) and Dangerous (1935), the latter of which won her the first of two ...
But when an American woman named Janet Jagan ran for president of Guyana, she actually won. Janet Jagan was a trained nurse from Chicago. In 1943, when she was twenty-three, she went to Guyana to work in the dental(牙科) office of Dr. Cheddi Jagan. Janet Jagan immediately became ...
Though Hughes was widely viewed as the favorite in the race against incumbent Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, Wilson won a narrow victory. After Warren G. Harding won the 1920 presidential election, Hughes accepted Harding's offer to serve as Secretary of State. Serving under Harding and ...