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2. Resolute desk - Wikipedia

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   32.5 in (83 cm) Width. 72 in (180 cm) Depth. 48 in (120 cm) The Resolute desk, also known as the Hayes desk, is a nineteenth-century partners desk used by several presidents of the United States in the White House as the Oval Office desk, including the five most recent presidents. The desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford ...

3. Desk - Wikipedia

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   Desk; c. 1765; mahogany, chestnut and tulip poplar; 87.3 x 92.7 x 52.1 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) A desk or bureau is a piece of furniture with a flat table-style work surface used in a school, office, home or the like for academic, professional or domestic activities such as reading, writing, or using equipment such as a computer.

4. List of Oval Office desks - Wikipedia

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   90 by 53.5 inches (229 by 136 cm) [ 4 ] This desk was created in 1903 for then President Theodore Roosevelt. It was first used in the Oval Office by William Howard Taft and remained there until the West Wing fire in 1929. It remained in storage until 1945 when Harry S. Truman placed it in the modern Oval Office.

5. Rare copy of US Constitution that went missing for centuries ...

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   And the people will get a chance to bid for this copy of the U.S. Constitution — the only of its type thought to be in private hands — at a sale by Brunk Auctions on Sept. 28 in Asheville ...

6. What to know about Kamala Harris’ California prosecutor career

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   From public prosecutor to California's 'top cop' After earning her law degree at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, in 1989, Harris joined the Alameda County district ...

7. C&O desk - Wikipedia

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   It is the shortest-serving Oval Office desk to date, having been used for one four-year term. Built around 1920, the C&O desk is one of four desks built for the owners of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) by Rorimer-Brooks. Following a series of railway mergers, Clement Conger convinced Hays T. Watkins of the Chessie System to loan the desk ...