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The following is a chronological list of political catchphrases throughout the history of the United States government. This is not necessarily a list of historical quotes, but phrases that have been commonly referenced or repeated within various political contexts.
Every Man a King – slogan of Louisiana Governor and United States Senator Huey Long as part of the broader wealth redistribution program Share Our Wealth; also the title of a 1935 song cowritten by Long and Castro Carazo; Fifty-Four Forty or Fight – slogan used during the 19th-century Oregon boundary dispute
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:19th-century African-American politicians and Category:19th-century Native American politicians and Category:19th-century American women politicians The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
Robert Barnwell Rhett (born Robert Barnwell Smith; December 21, 1800 – September 14, 1876) was an American politician who served as a deputy from South Carolina to the Provisional Confederate States Congress from 1861 to 1862, a member of the US House of Representatives from South Carolina from 1837 to 1849, and US Senator from South Carolina from 1850 to 1852.
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Reynolds, Jack. "The Rules of the Game." in The Oxford Handbook of American Political History (2020): 178+. Rhodes, James Ford (1920). History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Roosevelt-Taft Administration (8 vols.). Richter, Hedwig. "Transnational Reform and Democracy: Election Reforms in New York City and Berlin Around ...
United States Bartlett's Familiar Quotations , often simply called Bartlett's , is an American reference work that is the longest-lived and most widely distributed collection of quotations . The book was first issued in 1855 and is currently in its 19th edition, published in 2022.
The term Know-Nothing Riot has been used to refer to a number of political uprisings of the Know Nothing Party in the United States of the mid-19th century. These anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic protests culminated into riots in Philadelphia in 1844; St. Louis in 1854, Cincinnati and Louisville in 1855; Baltimore in 1856; Washington, D.C., and New York City in 1857; and New Orleans in 1858.