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Wheeler, William Almon (1819-1887), served as vice president of the United States from 1877 to 1881 under President Rutherford B. Hayes. He also served as a Republican from New York in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1861 to 1863 and from 1869 to 1877. As a congressman, he devised the Wheeler Adjustment in 1874 to settle a disputed election in Louisiana.
Garfield, James Abram (1831-1881), was the last president to be born in a log cabin. Nobody knows what kind of president he would have been because… More>>
Washington, Treaty of, was signed on May 8, 1871, by the United States and Britain in Washington, D.C. It led to the settlement of several disputes… More>>
Black codes were state laws regulating the activities of blacks in the Southern United States after the American Civil War. When slavery was… More>>
Mansfield, Arabella Babb (1846-1911), was the first woman admitted to the practice of law in the United States. She did not work as a lawyer but… More>>
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