Something of Men I Have Known: With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective |
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... successful leadership . He was more than once presented by his State in Democratic national conventions for nomination to the Presidency . He was an excellent presiding officer , prompt , often aggressive , and was rarely vanquished in ...
... successful leadership . He was more than once presented by his State in Democratic national conventions for nomination to the Presidency . He was an excellent presiding officer , prompt , often aggressive , and was rarely vanquished in ...
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... successful and brilliant . The Congressional service of Mr. Watterson terminated with the session just mentioned . His speech , near its close , upon the bill creating an electoral commission to determine the Tilden - Hayes Presidential ...
... successful and brilliant . The Congressional service of Mr. Watterson terminated with the session just mentioned . His speech , near its close , upon the bill creating an electoral commission to determine the Tilden - Hayes Presidential ...
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... successful competitor being the Hon . Thomas F. Tipton . In politics , however , as in other things , " the whirligig of time brings in his revenges , " and I was in turn the successful competitor of my late opponent in his candidacy ...
... successful competitor being the Hon . Thomas F. Tipton . In politics , however , as in other things , " the whirligig of time brings in his revenges , " and I was in turn the successful competitor of my late opponent in his candidacy ...
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... successful revolution by a stable Government . Chief among the associates with whom he was daily in earnest , anxious counsel in the great assem- blage , were men whose names live with his in history . If Franklin , Wilson , Sherman ...
... successful revolution by a stable Government . Chief among the associates with whom he was daily in earnest , anxious counsel in the great assem- blage , were men whose names live with his in history . If Franklin , Wilson , Sherman ...
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... successful rival , and with a following that in personal devo- tion to its leader has scarcely known a parallel , he was at once the peerless front of a powerful opposition to the Jackson administration . Such were the existing ...
... successful rival , and with a following that in personal devo- tion to its leader has scarcely known a parallel , he was at once the peerless front of a powerful opposition to the Jackson administration . Such were the existing ...
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