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He is known for his leading role among the Radical Republicans. [1] Had the 1868 impeachment of U.S. President Andrew Johnson led to a conviction in the Senate, as president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate, Wade would have become president for the remaining nine months of Johnson's term.
Rick Santorum's wife Karen, along with daughter Sarah Maria, at the Values Voter Summit in October 2011. Santorum met his future wife, Karen Garver (born 1960), while she was a neonatal nurse studying law at the University of Pittsburgh and he was recruiting summer interns for Kirkpatrick & Lockhart.
Thaddeus Stevens: Radical leader in the House from Pennsylvania [52] Charles Sumner: senator from Massachusetts, dominant Radical leader in the Senate and specialist in foreign affairs who broke with Grant in 1872 [53] Albion W. Tourgée: novelist [54] Lyman Trumbull: senator from Illinois with strongly anti-slavery sentiments, but otherwise ...
Trump, 78, who claimed a sweeping victory in the presidential election, will be sworn in as the country's top leader on Monday at noon ET at the west front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C ...
U.S. Senate Republicans elected Sen. John Thune of South Dakota to be the Majority Leader starting in January, opting for a seasoned Washington insider despite pressure by supporters of President ...
Sumner's birthplace on Irving Street, Beacon Hill, Boston Charles Sumner was born on Irving Street in Boston on January 6, 1811. His father, Charles Pinckney Sumner, was a Harvard-educated lawyer, abolitionist, and early proponent of racial integration of schools, who shocked 19th-century Boston by opposing anti-miscegenation laws. [3]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shows his commission certificate with his wife Cheryl Hines and U.S. President Donald Trump, on the day Kennedy is sworn in as secretary of Health and Human Service in ...
The first lady of the United States is the hostess of the White House.The position is traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, but, on occasion, the title has been applied to women who were not presidents' wives, such as when the president was a bachelor or widower, or when the wife of the president was unable to fulfill the duties of the first lady.