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Light-Bulb Lyndon, [148] because he hated wasting electricity, and would often storm around the White House shutting off unnecessary lights. Richard Nixon Tricky Dick , [ 149 ] from a Democratic Party ad leading up to the 1950 U.S. Senate election in California saying "Look at 'Tricky Dick' Nixon's Republican Record".
A timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945)encompasses the innovative advancements of the United States within a historical context, dating from the Progressive Erato the end of World War II, which have been achieved by inventors who are either native-born or naturalized citizens of the United States.
Philip Haas took this daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams in 1843. First president to be the son of another president. [p] [64] First president whose father lived to see him become president. [q] [58] First president to have a foreign-born spouse. [65] First president to have a son marry at the White House. [r] [61]
16. Richard Nixon: Cottage Cheese with Ketchup. Richard Nixon was president from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. His favorite food was cottage cheese with ketchup, and wherever you may stand ...
The 1824 United States presidential election was the tenth quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Tuesday, October 26 to Thursday, December 2, 1824. Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and William Crawford were the primary contenders for the presidency. The result of the election was inconclusive, as no candidate won a ...
For other uses, see John Quincy Adams (disambiguation) and JQA (disambiguation). John Quincy Adams (/ ˈkwɪnzi / ⓘ; [ a ] July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was the sixth president of the United States, serving from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States secretary of state from 1817 to 1825.
Politician. lawyer. Signature. John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain.
A follow-on work by Dick French, Return to the Lost Adams Diggings: The Paul A. Hale Story [12] published in 2014 uses historical, artifactual, geographical, and geological data to demonstrate the viability of the location in the new book as the locality of the Lost Adams Diggings. The new book demonstrates the presence of significant gold ...