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The Cabinet of the United States, which is the principal advisory body to the President of the United States, has had 47 Jewish American members altogether. Of that number, 27 different Jewish American individuals held a total of 27 permanent cabinet posts, having served as the heads of the federal executive departments; 20 different Jewish Americans have held 21 cabinet-level positions, which ...
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The idea that Judaeo-Christian ethics underpin American politics, law and morals has been part of the "American civil religion" since the 1940s. In recent years, the phrase has been associated with American conservatism , but the concept—though not always the exact phrase—has frequently featured in the rhetoric of leaders across the ...
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California's first and only Jewish governor Idaho: Moses Alexander [1] Democratic: January 4, 1915: January 6, 1919: Idaho's first and only Jewish governor Utah: Simon Bamberger [1] Democratic: January 1, 1917: January 1, 1921: Utah's first and only Jewish governor New Mexico: Arthur Seligman [1] Democratic: January 1, 1931: September 25, 1933
Some Jews owned slaves or traded them. Most southern Jews supported slavery, and few Northern Jews were abolitionists, seeking peace and remaining silent on the subject of slavery. America's largest Jewish community, New York's Jews, were "overwhelmingly pro-southern, pro-slavery, and anti-Lincoln in the early years of the war".
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In United States politics, the trends of Jews have changed political positions multiple times.Many early American German-Jewish immigrants to the United States tended to be politically conservative, but the wave of Eastern European Jews, starting in the early 1880s, were generally more liberal or left-wing, and eventually became the political majority. [1]