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Frazier B. Baker was an African-American teacher who was appointed as postmaster of Lake City, South Carolina, in 1897 under the William McKinley administration. He and his infant daughter Julia Baker died at his house after being fatally shot during a white mob attack on February 22, 1898. The mob set the house on fire to force the family out.
The Commission on Federal Election Reform was a private, bipartisan organization founded in 2004 by former US President Jimmy Carter and James A. Baker, III, a top official under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, to overcome the flaws brought to light by the electoral uncertainty in Florida in the 2000 United States presidential election and in Ohio in the 2004 election [broken ...
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950 (U Pennsylvania Press, 1995) Starr, Paul. The Social Transformation of American Medicine (Basic Books, 1982). very wide ranging history of American medicine. Teller, Michael . The Tuberculosis Movement : A Public Health Campaign in the Progressive Era (1988)
The keynote address was delivered by Tennessee Senator Howard Baker. Other notable speakers included Minnesota Representative Al Quie, retired Lieutenant Colonel and former Vietnam prisoner of war Raymond Schrump, former Democratic Texas Governor John Connally, Providence, Rhode Island mayor Vincent Cianci and Michigan Senator Robert P. Griffin ...
Charlie Baker on Aug. 26 signed the long-awaited legislation changing how Haverhill elects City Council and School Committee members to a mostly ward-based system. The change in representation ...
Howard Henry Baker Jr. (November 15, 1925 – June 26, 2014) was an American politician, diplomat and photographer who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1967 to 1985. During his tenure, he rose to the rank of Senate Minority Leader and then Senate Majority Leader .
Brent Ward, U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah (1981–1988) [67] [68] Matthew Waxman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs (2004–2005) (endorsed Kamala Harris) [45] Philip D. Zelikow, Counselor of the United States Department of State (2005–2007) (endorsed Kamala Harris) [45]
America stood in stark contrast with Europe, where the middle classes, peasants and industrial workers had to mobilize to demand suffrage. Late in the century, Americans did create farmer and labor movements, but most were nonpartisan, and those that fielded candidates rarely lasted more than an election or two.