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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Nathaniel Prentice Banks, Nancy Pelosi, James Blaine, Schuyler Colfax, Henry Clay, Howell Cobb, Dennis Hastert, Carl Albert, Jonathan Dayton, Frederick Muhlenberg, Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., Thomas Brackett Reed, John W. Taylor. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Nathaniel Prentice (or Prentiss) Banks (30 janvier 1816 - 1 septembre 1894), était un homme politique américain et un soldat. Il fut Gouverneur du Massachusetts, Speaker de la Chambre des Représentants du Congrès des États-Unis et général de l'Union durant la Guerre de Sécession. Nathaniel P. Banks est né le 30 janvier 1816 à Waltham dans le Massachusetts. Très tôt, il dut travailler dans l'industrie textile. Il exerça ensuite plusieurs métiers tels que mécanicien, éditeur d'hebdomadaires et employé. Il étudia ensuite le droit et fut admis au barreau du Comté de Suffolk en 1839. Il s'établit à Boston et pratiqua le droit dans cette ville où il se fit vite connaître grâce à ses talents d'orateur. En 1847, il épousa Mary Theodosia Palmer. Nathaniel Prentice Banks Nathaniel Banks commença sa carrière politique dans les rangs du Parti Démocrate comme élu à la Chambre des Représentants du Massachusetts. Il en fut le président en 1851 et 1852. En 1853, il fut élu à la Chambre des Représentants du Congrès des États-Unis. Il s'était déjà démarqué quelque peu du Parti Démocrate en rejoignant les rangs des Free-Soilers, une dissidence du Parti Démocrate opposée à l'expansion de l'esclavage dans les Territoires. En 1854, il se rapproche de l'American Party (Know Nothing), un parti nationaliste anti-papiste. Il est élu président de la Chambre des Représentants du Congrès des États-Unis au 133 tour de scrutin soutenu en cela par son parti et par le Parti...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Schuyler Colfax, James Whitcomb, Alvin Peterson Hovey, Edward Ralph May, Paris C. Dunning, David Wallace, Robert Dale Owen. Excerpt:Alvin P. Hovey Alvin Peterson Hovey (September 6, 1821 November 23, 1891) was a Union general during the American Civil War , an Indiana Supreme Court justice, congressman , and the 21st Governor of Indiana . During the war he played an important role in several battles and uncovered a secret plot for an uprising in Indiana. As governor, he launched several legal challenges to the Indiana General Assembly 's removal of his powers, but was mostly unsuccessful. He successfully advocated election reform before he died in office. Early life Family and background Alvin Peterson Hovey was born in Mount Vernon, Indiana on September 6, 1821 to Abiel and Francis Hovey. His mother died while he was a young boy, and his father died when he was fifteen leaving him orphaned. His youth was spent in poverty, and after being sent to an orphanage following his father's death, he received a basic education before being turned out at age eighteen. Hovey wanted to become a lawyer, and went work as a bricklayer by day, and studied law at night in the office of John Pitcher, a Mount Vernon attorney in 1840. After over three years of study in the office, he was admitted to bar in 1843 and opened his own law office. Hovey was propelled into the state spotlight in 1849 when he was appointed to oversee the estate of the deceased William McClure. McClure was a wealthy idealist who was one of the co-founder of the failed utopian settlement of New Harmony, Indiana . In his will, he ordered that his estate be sold and the proceeds be used to fund the construction of libraries. His two siblings had already seized much of his estate, sold it, and made off with the funds. Posey f... ... Read more

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Chapters: Alexander Hamilton, Dewitt Clinton, Rufus King, Philip Schuyler, William Cooper, James Watson, John Sloss Hobart, Nicholas Fish, Solomon Van Rensselaer, William Campbell, Jonas Platt, Killian K. Van Rensselaer, Charles Z. Platt, Nathaniel W. Howell, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler, Elisha I. Winter, John Evert Van Alen, Alexander Boyd. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 94. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 July 12, 1804) was the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher. Aide-de-camp to General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War, he was a leader of nationalist forces calling for a new Constitution; he was one of America's first Constitutional lawyers, and wrote most of the Federalist Papers, a primary source for Constitutional interpretation. He was the financial expert of Washington's administration; the Federalist Party formed to support his policies. Born and raised in the Caribbean, Hamilton attended King's College (now Columbia University) in New York. At the start of the American Revolutionary War, he organized an artillery company and was chosen as its captain. Hamilton became the senior aide-de-camp and confidant to General George Washington, the American commander-in-chief. After the war, Hamilton was elected to the Continental Congress from New York, but he resigned to practice law and found the Bank of New York. He served in the New York Legislature, and he was the only New Yorker who signed the U.S. Constitution. He wrote about half the Federalist Papers, which secured its ratification by New York; they are still the most important unofficial interpretation of the Constitution. In the new government under President Washington he became Secretary...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=40597 ... Read more