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 50C14.txt
140, related to establishment of United States War Ballot Commission and was repealed by act Apr. 19, 1946, ch.
147, authorized appropriations for purposes of this chapter and was repealed by act Apr. 19, 1946, ch.
146, related to validity of ballots and was repealed by act Apr. 19, 1946, ch.
uscode.house.gov /download/pls/50C14.txt

  
 Francis Michael Forde
Elected to the House of Representatives for Capricornia, Queensland, general elections 1922-43.
He continued as Minister for the Army until he lost his seat in the 1946 elections, probably because impatient servicemen blamed him for delays in demobilisation.
Leader of the Australian delegations to New Zealand, 1944, and to the United Nations Conference, San Francisco, April 1945.
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 Norfolk Island - Bloodless Genocide
The States Parties to the present Covenant, including those having responsibility for the administration of Non-Self-Governing and Trust Territories, shall promote the realization of the right of self-determination, and shall respect that right, in conformity with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations."
The final Act reads that residents of Norfolk Island who are Australian citizens and wish to vote in Australian Federal elections may enrol in the electorate with which they have an affinity (community interest), or, if they feel no affinity for a particular electorate, may enrol in the electorate of Canberra.
Simmons stated that the referendum was irrelevant, and proceeded to put his Bill before the House of Representatives, where it passed.
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 Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page
Elected to the House of Representatives for Cowper, New South Wales, in general elections 1919, 1922, 1925, 1928, 1929 (unopposed), 1931, 1934, 1937, 1940, 1943, 1946,1949, 1951, 1954, 1955 (unopposed), 1958.
Leader of Australian delegation to the United Kingdom and the United States to examine banking, electricity, and road and rail transport, from 1924 to 1929.
Visited Canada and the United States to study the problems of health administration, from 21 July 1951 to 26 September 1951.
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 Encyclopedia: New Jersey
Jump to: navigation, search George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States and a former Governor of the State of Texas.
New Jersey was a crucial swing state in the elections of 1960, 1968, and 1992.
New Jersey is a politically competitive state; the Governorship has alternated between the parties since the election of Richard J. Hughes in 1961; the legislature has also switched hands, and one house was evenly divided from 1999–2001.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/New-Jersey   (9972 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Corrine-Brown
Corrine Brown (born November 11, 1946), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the 3rd District of Florida.
On the first day of early voting for the 2004 General Election, Brown, with several supporters, stood on the steps of the enterance of the Duval County Supervisor of Elections headquarters, an early voting site, and began passing out a "psuedo-ballot," directing people to vote for only Democratic candidates and Florida amendments that should pass.
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of 1952 (better known as the McCarran-Walter Act) was a law passed by the United States Congress restricting immigration into the United States.
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 MSN Encarta - Richard Nixon
In 1946 Nixon was persuaded by California Republicans to be their candidate to challenge the popular Democratic Congressman Jerry Voorhis for his seat in the United States House of Representatives.
He was elected president of the United States in 1968 in one of the closest presidential elections in the nation’s history and in 1972 was reelected in a landslide victory.
Nixon, Richard Milhous (1913-1994), 37th president of the United States (1969-1974), and the only president to have resigned from office.
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 MSN Encarta - Richard Nixon
In 1946 Nixon was persuaded by California Republicans to be their candidate to challenge the popular Democratic Congressman Jerry Voorhis for his seat in the United States House of Representatives.
He was elected president of the United States in 1968 in one of the closest presidential elections in the nation’s history and in 1972 was reelected in a landslide victory.
Richard Nixon (1913-1994), 37th president of the United States (1969-1974), and the only president to have resigned from office.
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 MSN Encarta - George Bush
Bush, George W(alker), born in 1946, 43rd president of the United States (2001- ), who took office after one of the closest and most disputed elections in U.S. history and launched a war against terrorism after a devastating terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.
Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the first child of George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush.
When he took office, Bush, son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush, became the first son to follow his father into the White House since John Quincy Adams followed John Adams in the early 19th century.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761581479/George_Bush.html   (987 words)

  
 Corrine Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Corrine Brown (born November 11, 1946), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the 3rd District of Florida, in the North-Central part of the state.
On the first day of early voting for the 2004 General Election, Brown, with several supporters, stood on the steps of the enterance of the Duval County Supervisor of Elections headquarters, an early voting site, and began passing out a "psuedo-ballot," directing people to vote for only Democratic candidates and Florida amendments that should pass.
She served in the Florida House of Representatives for 10 years before entering government at the national level, and she is currently a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
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 Publications of D. Brady
Brady, D. "The Electoral Origins of Divided Government - Competition in United-States House Elections, 1946-1988 - Jacobson,Gc." American Political Science Review 87 (1): 189-194.
Brady, D. "Middle-East Materials in United-Kingdom and Irish Libraries, a Directory - a Melcom Guide to Libraries and Other Institutions in Britain and Ireland with Islamic and Middle-Eastern Books and Materials - Netton,Ir." Journal of Semitic Studies 29 (2): 340-341.
Brady, D. "Nadh Provides Electrons for Mixed-Function Oxidases Important in Sterol Demethylation but Is Inhibitory to Overall Demethylation - Inhibition Occurs at the Sterol Decarboxylase Step." Federation Proceedings 40 (6): 1622-1622.
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 William McKinley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States.
McKinley appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States:
In 1890, he authored the McKinley Tariff, which hurt his party in the off-year elections of 1890, in which he lost his seat.
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 Terry Baum
As of July 2004, she is running for the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Green Party, against House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat.
Terry Baum (born 1946) is a playwright who lives in San Francisco.
On April 12, Baum and three supporters held a sit-in at the city elections office and were arrested on unspecified charges.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/terry_baum   (1308 words)

  
 Democratic-Republican Party --  Encyclopædia Britannica
In the midterm elections of 1946, the Republicans won a majority in both House and Senate.
Unlike parties elsewhere in the world, the Democratic and Republican parties in the United States are very decentralized in structure and are marked by the absence of a rigid discipline and hierarchy.
In 1980, the Democratic Party was a house that was divided among the Kennedy and Carter camps.
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 Opposition's Kan hopes grass-roots image will lure voters
Kan was first elected to the legislative lower house in 1980 as a candidate from now defunct United Social Democratic Party (USDP), after losing three elections in which he stood as an independent candidate, a member of the dissolved United Social Citizen's Party and a USDP candidate.
Kan was born in 1946 in Yamaguchi Prefecture in western Japan as the second child and only son of a local businessman.
Kan also differs in that respect from the man he succeeded as DPJ president in December 2002, Yukio Hatoyama, the scion of a wealthy political dynasty often referred to as the Japanese Kennedys.
quickstart.clari.net /qs_se/webnews/wed/bt/Qjapan-vote-kan.ROhE_DN8.html   (584 words)

  
 Emily Taft Douglas: United States Representative, Illinois
Weary and frustrated by wartime controls and shortages and the strains of demobilization, voters in the midterm elections of 1946 ousted fifty-four House Democrats, among them Douglas who lost to William G. Stratton.
Douglas served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Her father is the late Lorado Taft, noted sculptor, and she is a distant cousin of the late President William Howard Taft.
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 Beriz Belkic - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Beriz Belkic
Belkic is married to a French teacher, and has a son living in the United States.
Following the elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belkic was elected as a parliament member in the Bosnia-Herzegovina House of Representatives.
Born on September 8, 1946, Belkic graduated from the faculty of economics with the University of Sarajevo, in his hometown.
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 politics_of_italy.html
National elections held on May 13, 2001 returned Berlusconi to power at the head of the five-party center-right "Freedom House" coalition, comprising the prime minister's own party, Forza Italia, the National Alliance, the Northern League, the Christian Democratic Center, and the United Christian Democrats.
Italy has been a democratic republic since June 2, 1946, when the monarchy was abolished by popular referendum (see Birth of the Italian Republic).
After Independence Wars, the "tricolore" (the way the flag is popularly called), was unofficially tolerated by Carlo Alberto, King of Sardinia and Piedmont, and then finally declared official flag in 1847.
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 MSN Encarta - George Bush
Bush, George W(alker), born in 1946, 43rd president of the United States (2001- ), who took office after one of the closest and most disputed elections in U.S. history and launched a war against terrorism after a devastating terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.
When he took office, Bush, son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush, became the first son to follow his father into the White House since John Quincy Adams followed John Adams in the early 19th century.
Bush, a Republican, was also the first presidential candidate since Benjamin Harrison in 1888 to win the electoral vote, and thus the presidency, while losing the nationwide popular vote.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761581479/George_Bush.html   (1455 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - George Bush
Bush, George W(alker), born in 1946, 43rd president of the United States (2001- ), who took office after one of the closest and most disputed elections in U.S. history and launched a war against terrorism after a devastating terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.
When he took office, Bush, son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush, became the first son to follow his father into the White House since John Quincy Adams followed John Adams in the early 19th century.
Bush was reelected in 2004, defeating Democratic opponent John F. Kerry by sweeping the South and winning the key battleground state of Ohio.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761581479/George_Bush.html   (1455 words)

  
 Jimmy Carter
Carter was not eligible for a second term as governor, so about halfway through his four-year term, he decided he would seek the presidency of the United States.
Carter was inaugurated on January 20, 1977, and after taking the oath of office, he and his family walked to the White House.
Carter achieved a narrow victory in the November, 1976 general elections by sweeping most of the South, winning 297 electoral votes to incumbent Gerald R. Ford’s 241 and 40.8 million popular votes to Ford’s 39.1 million.
www.cyrusgriffin.com /jamesecarter.net   (1385 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: 2000's
Massachusetts declares that same-sex couples must be allowed to marry in that state, and President George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and currently the 43rd President of the United States.
The Taoiseach is appointed by the President upon the nomination of Dáil Éireann (the lower house of parliament), and must, while he or...
Akayev was a non-political scientist and engineer until 1990, when he became President after elections in the Supreme Soviet.
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 Blacklist: A different look at the 1947 HUAC hearings
Producer (Salt of the Earth, 1954), Paul Jerrico was asked the inevitable question, “In the event of a war between Russian and America, would you support the United States?”.
As the elections of 1948 approached, the White House grew more and more unreasonable in imposing the loyalty oaths now being administered to all Federal employees.
In 1946, for the first time since the Hoover administration, the Republican Party had won control of Congress.
www.moderntimes.com /palace/blacklist.htm   (1385 words)

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