Category: Biography

  • Russia

    Russia in the United States Czar (in Politics) Related to political science, the following is a definition of Czar in the U.S. practice of politics: An unofficial title used to refer to high-ranking executive branch appointments. Czars are usually given responsibility for a specific policy […]

  • Russia

    Russia in the United States Czar (in Politics) Related to political science, the following is a definition of Czar in the U.S. practice of politics: An unofficial title used to refer to high-ranking executive branch appointments. Czars are usually given responsibility for a specific policy […]

  • John Adams Dix

    John Adams Dix in the United States John Adams Dix (1798-1879), American soldier and political leader, was born at Boscawen, New Hampshire, on the 24th of July 1798. He studied at Phillips Exeter Academy in 1810-1811 and at the College of Montreal in 1811-1812, and as a boy took part in the […]

  • John Adams Dix

    John Adams Dix in the United States John Adams Dix (1798-1879), American soldier and political leader, was born at Boscawen, New Hampshire, on the 24th of July 1798. He studied at Phillips Exeter Academy in 1810-1811 and at the College of Montreal in 1811-1812, and as a boy took part in the […]

  • Samuel Gridley Howe

    Samuel Gridley Howe in the United States Samuel Gridley Howe in the U.S. Legal History Summary Founder of the nation’s first school for the blind.

  • Samuel Gridley Howe

    Samuel Gridley Howe in the United States Samuel Gridley Howe in the U.S. Legal History Summary Founder of the nation’s first school for the blind.

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson in the United States Life of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Note: for information on early life of thomas jefferson, see the entry thomas jefferson biography. In October 1789 he returned to America and the following year became Secretary of State in Washington’s Cabinet, in […]

  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson in the United States Life of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Note: for information on early life of thomas jefferson, see the entry thomas jefferson biography. In October 1789 he returned to America and the following year became Secretary of State in Washington’s Cabinet, in […]

  • Henry Clay

    Henry Clay in the United States Henry Clay in the U.S. Legal History Summary As Speaker of the House of Representatives, Senator, and unsuccessful candidate for the presidency, he was an advocate of the American System, which called for a protective tariff, a national bank, and federally […]

  • Henry Clay

    Henry Clay in the United States Henry Clay in the U.S. Legal History Summary As Speaker of the House of Representatives, Senator, and unsuccessful candidate for the presidency, he was an advocate of the American System, which called for a protective tariff, a national bank, and federally […]

  • Dorothea Dix

    Dorothea Dix in the United States Dorothea Dix in the U.S. Legal History Summary The leader of efforts to reform the treatment of the mentally ill.

  • Dorothea Dix

    Dorothea Dix in the United States Dorothea Dix in the U.S. Legal History Summary The leader of efforts to reform the treatment of the mentally ill.

  • Nikita Khrushchev

    Nikita Khrushchev in the United States Nikita Khrushchev in the U.S. Legal History Summary Personable Soviet premier during Eisenhower’s presidential term. Khrushchev condemned Stalin’s purges and welcomed a melting of the Cold War, although he crushed a 1956 democratic uprising in Hungary.

  • Nikita Khrushchev

    Nikita Khrushchev in the United States Nikita Khrushchev in the U.S. Legal History Summary Personable Soviet premier during Eisenhower’s presidential term. Khrushchev condemned Stalin’s purges and welcomed a melting of the Cold War, although he crushed a 1956 democratic uprising in Hungary.

  • Joe Biden

    Joe Biden in the United States Joe Biden was vicepresident of the United States under the Obama Administration. From the White House: Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., represented Delaware for 36 years in the U.S. Senate before becoming the 47th and current Vice President of the United States. […]