Millard Fillmore was born January 7th, 1800 in Summerhill, New York to Nathaniel Fillmore and Phoebe Millard Fillmore. Millard Fillmore’s father worked as a farmer and his mother did not have a job.Millard had eight siblings. Their names were Olive Armstrong, Cyrus, Almon Hopkins, Calvin Turner, Julia, Darius Ingraham , Charles De Witt, and Phoebe Maria . Millard Fillmore attended a one-room school. He was raised in the frontier life and worked on his father’s farm till he became an apprentice to a cloth dresser at age 15. While he was an apprentice, he studied law. Later on, he became a lawyer.He was finally brought into the house of representatives in the year of 1832. He stayed a representative for eight years before he became the vice president for Zachary Taylor. During the time he met a lady named Abigail powers. They became married on February 5th, 1826. Abigail was the first president’s wife to keep a job after marriage.…
Manuela Madrigal Professor Lipkin U.S History Since 1865 28 April 2016 Bill Clinton Bill Clinton was born August 19th, 1946 in Arkansas. His name before he changed was William Jefferson, until he changed it legally when he was fifteen years old. He attended couple of universities such as Georgetown, Oxford, and Yale. He graduated from Yale in 1973 where he obtained his law degree.…
For five years, Stephanopoulos worked for Bill Clinton; because of his position, he was allowed unprecedented access to the all the activity around the President. Stephanopoulos joined Clinton as a communications director at the tail end of the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign and assisted him in his rise to being President of the United States. After securing Clinton as President,…
Bill Clinton was born on August 19, 1946. He is a politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States. He previously was the Governor of Arkansas and State's Attorney General, though not at the same time period. He is a member of the Democratic Party.…
Born on July 4, 1872 in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, John Calvin Coolidge Jr. was the offspring of a successful farmer and small business man. Serving in the Vermont Senate and House of Representatives, his father, John Coolidge, later swore him in after the death of President Harding. At the age of twelve, he lost his mother. And, around several years later, his sister met the same fate. With little ambition other than to follow in his father’s footsteps, he managed to attend Amherst College in Massachusetts. In 1895, he graduated with good grades and a reputation for his wits and public speaking abilities. Once college had ended, Calvin Coolidge apprenticed at a law firm in Northampton. He passed the bar in 1897 and then opened a law office and…
The acts that President Bill Clinton bestowed upon Monica Lewinsky were immoral. Monica Lewinsky was hired to work was an intern at the White House during Clinton's first term. During this time she had allegory formed a relationship with him, which was later proved true after a 21-day senate trail. In 1991 Paula Corbin Jones, a former Arkansas state worker claimed President Clinton had confronted her sexually when he was serving as governor of Arkansas. She later filed a sexual harassment lawsuit on the president; which was followed by a…
President Clinton was charged for perjury, obstruction of justice, manipulation of witnesses and abuse of power, and also for engaging in a sexual relationship between the president and Monica Lewinsky. On December 19, 1998 President Clinton was impeach. On February 12, 1999 the Senate voted to remove President Clinton from the presidency. As big surprise for all Americans, President Clinton was released from all charges that he was accused. The senate voted and the results were " 45 Democrats and 10 Republicans voted" not guilty, Rejecting the first charge of perjury, "and under the obstruction of justice charge, the prosecutor's office required a two-thirds majority to convict, but did not achieve even a simple majority. Senate divided…
Both women had different college career paths. Hillary first attracted national attention in 1969 for her remarks as the first student commencement speaker at Wellesley College. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1969 with departmental honors in political science. She embarked on a career in law after receiving her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Yale Law School in 1973. Michelle challenged the teaching methodology for French because she felt that it should be more conversational. “She attended Princeton University, graduating cum laude in 1985, and went on to earn a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1988” (Bio.True Story, 2013). She majored in sociology, minored in African American studies, and earned her (J.D.) degree from Harvard Law School in 1988 where she took part in demonstrations demanding more minority students and professors.…
People will always remember Bill Clinton, for what reason, however, might be different. Some might remember him as a wonderful president who helped our country pull through the millennium unscathed. He protected our environment, promoted education, strengthened our economy, dropped the crime rate, dropped our nation's poverty levels and had some victories with international policies. At the same time we have health care that is falling apart, some problems with the military and a scandalous affair. Considering this one has to wonder what his legacy will be. A respected leader who learned as he went and made many valuable reforms? Or a president who didn't hold to his promises, and lied to the country? President Clinton has done many things during his presidency. Some were good some were bad. He made some mistakes and bad choices, but in the whole, he helped our country excel and flourish.…
Unexpectedly, Al graduated with bachelors degree in government achieving high honors in June 1969. During his time in college, the Vietnam war had be happening, after graduating Al lost his protection from the draft. His father Al Gore Sr. was a strong opposer to the conflict. His parents did not wish for him to enter the military, but at the same time his father was running for reelection as a senator of Tennessee, and the War was a major topic in the election. Thinking that the best way to end the war is to keep his father in power, Al Gore enlisted in the US army, and became a military journalist. After his time in the army, Al was reporter at the Tennessean(daily newspaper in Nashville, Tennessee), at the same time he studied both philosophy(study of existence/meaning of life) and phenomenology(study of consciousness) at Vanderbilt…
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Richard Nixon; the name alone brings to mind terrible words along the lines of scandal and failure. Nixon was the 37th president of the United States. He was also the first and last president to resign from office. However, the scandals leading to Nixon’s resignation definitely overshadowed his humble beginnings and the accomplishments he made as president during the notorious decades of the Cold War.…
After graduating high school, Bush was accepted into Yale University in 1964 where he received a bachelor’s degree in history. He became president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and let his grades take a back seat to Yale’s social life. “He became a member of Yale’s secretive Skull and Bones society, an invitation-only club whose membership contains some of America’s most powerful and elite family members.”2 Bush enlisted in the Texas Air National Guard just two weeks before he graduated from Yale. He was accepted and commissioned as a second lieutenant and then earned his fighter pilot certification in June of 1970.3 After Bush completed his active duty with the Texas Air National Guard, he was accepted into Harvard Business School, where he…
II. Bill Clinton became one of the most famous presidents, but not for reasons of loyalty or due diligence but for a sex scandal that rocked the white house.…
The eldest child of George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush, George Walker Bush, was born on July 6, 1946. His family had been involved in business and politics since in 1950s. The family moved to Midland, Texas and this is where George W. Bush’s father made his fortune in oil business in 1948. In 1961, they moved again to Houston and George W. Bush entered Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He played all kind of sports, baseball, basketball, and football. He had a reputation for being an occasional troublemaker. His family connections helped him to enter Yale University in 1964. He was a popular student and became a president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. George W. Bush became a member of Yale’s secretive Skull and Bones society. It is a invitation-only club whose membership contains some of America's most powerful and elite family members.…