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- John Hancock (8787 bytes)
2: [[Image:JohnHancockSmall.jpeg|right|frame|Portrait of Hancock [[:Image:JohnHancockLarge....
3: [[Image:John Hancock Signature DOI.jpg|right|frame|Hancock's signature on the [[United States Dec...
8: ...of his uncle's business. Shortly after his return from England, his uncle died and he inherited the fo...
15: ..., lead, paper and tea. In [[1768]], upon arriving from England, his [[sloop]] ''Liberty'' was impounde...
17: ...o newspapers] and John Hancock pays the postage" (Fradin & McCurdy, 2002). - John Adams (18716 bytes)
22: ...neration descendant of Henry Adams, who emigrated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in...
24: ...1758]], he was admitted to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing ...
28: ...tead, his influence emerged through his work as a constitutional lawyer. Impetuous, intense and often vehement, ...
35: ...of a series of committees to study naval matters. From that time onward, Adams championed the establis...
37: ... "these colonies are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent states," acting as champion of ... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
18: ...nd an American [[statesman]], [[ambassador]] to [[France]], [[Political philosophy|political philosoph...
23: ...0]], [[1720]]–[[March 31]], [[1776]]), both from families who had settled in [[Virginia]] for se...
25: ...ch included Jefferson, [[John Adams]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Roger Sherman]], and [[Robert R. Livin...
27: ...[curriculum]] of which Jefferson also designed. [[Frank E. Grizzard]], Jr., a scholar at the Universit...
30: ...at the layers of occupation, and draw conclusions from them. - James Madison (15187 bytes)
18: ...ther of something|Father of the]] [[United States Constitution]]''.
21: ..., helping to draft their declaration of religious freedom and persuading [[Virginia]] to give their no...
23: ...ed some historians to call him the "Father of the Constitution." Madison called for a strong central government ...
25: ...d the definitive contemporary commentary on the [[Constitution]] of the U.S. Madison's arguments were powerfully...
31: ...ully proposed the first ten [[amendment]]s to the Constitution, known collectively as the [[United States Bill o... - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
22: ... the [[Continental Army]], and practiced law in [[Fredericksburg]], Virginia. His parents Spence Monro...
24: ...-[[1796]], he displayed strong sympathies for the French cause; later, with [[Robert R. Livingston]] a...
30: ... State. Only [[Henry Clay]]'s refusal kept Monroe from adding an outstanding Westerner. Both of these ...
34: ...iring Missouri as a slave state with [[Maine]], a free state, and barring slavery north and west of Mi...
36: ...e free from future European colonization and free from European interference in sovereign countries' a... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
18: ...e first president who had lived on the American [[frontier]], and thus the first not primarily associa...
22: ...trust and dislike of Eastern aristocrats stemming from his feeling that they were too inclined to favo...
24: ...began to prosper in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier law. He became a colonel in the state milit...
34: ...ackson's election represented a significant break from that past.
36: He was also the first President from a state west of the [[Appalachian Mountains]]. ... - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
1: [[Image:VPthomasrmarshall.JPG|frame|Thomas R. Marshall]]
2: ...ited States of America]] under [[Woodrow Wilson]] from [[1913]] to [[1921]].
5: ...s born in [[North Manchester, Indiana]], where he frequently spent time at the courthouse listening to...
7: ... nor in raising a convention to rewrite the state constitution.
15: ...er of Democratic party insiders wanted him dumped from the [[1916]] ticket. Wilson, after deliberatin... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
25: ...tate-rights Democrat, grew increasingly alienated from the Jacksonian Democrats, especially by Jackson...
29: ...the [[Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|25th Amendment]]), both the House and Senate pass...
58: ...g office, and the entire cabinet he had inherited from Harrison resigned in September. The one excepti...
63: ...itution, which extended Rhode Island's restricted franchise. Tyler was of the opinion that the 'lawles...
65: ...ill be the duty of this Government to enforce the Constitutional guarantee-- a guarantee given and adopted mutua... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
8: <tr><td>'''Succeeded by:'''</td><td>[[Franklin Pierce]]</td></tr>
20: ...dency in his own right. He was the last president from the [[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]].
26: ...d complement Taylor, a slave-holding military man from the south.
29: ...d give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution."
43: ...ritical number of northern Whigs in Congress away from their insistence upon the [[Wilmot Proviso]] &m... - James Buchanan (15634 bytes)
17: | [[Franklin Pierce]]
50: ...criticized for failing to prevent the [[country]] from [[sliding]] into [[schism]] and the [[American ...
53: ...uri]]. Buchanan served as Minister to [[Russia]] from [[1832]] to [[1834]].
55: ...nan then vowed to never marry. Buchanan was close friends with senator [[William Rufus King]], and for...
57: ...by the resignation of William Wilkins. He served from [[December 6]], [[1834]]; was reelected in [[18... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
42: ...t of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican Party|Republican...
44: ...y and Legal Status |<small><sup>1</sup></small>]] from the [[United States]], formed the [[Confederate...
53: ... Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods from New Salem to [[New Orleans, Louisiana|New Orlea...
59: ...n a company of the [[Illinois]] [[militia]] drawn from New Salem during the [[Black Hawk War]], writin...
61: ...s House of Representatives]], as a representative from [[Sangamon County, Illinois|Sangamon County]], ... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
32: ...ging that the "S" stood for Simpson. He graduated from West Point in [[1843]], ranking 21st in a class...
34: ...[August 22]], [[1848]]. They had four children: [[Frederick Dent Grant]], Ulysses S. (Buck) Grant, Jr....
39: ...pultepec]]. On [[July 31]], [[1854]], he resigned from the army. Seven years of civilian life followed...
48: ... attack until the enemy surrendered or was driven from the field. Such tactics often resulted in heavy...
50: ...in which the destruction of an enemy's economic infrastructure that supplied its armies was as importa... - Australia (39438 bytes)
12: government_type=[[Constitutional monarchy|Const. monarchy]]|
27: ...[[Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900|Constitution Act]]<br>- [[Statute of Westminster 1931|Statute ...
28: established_dates=From the [[United Kingdom|UK]]:<br>[[1 January]] [[1...
44: ...notes=<sup>1</sup>There are some minor variations from these three timezones, see [[Australian States ...
50: ...island]], [[Boigu Island]], is about 5 kilometres from Papua New Guinea. This has led to a complicated... - United States (58223 bytes)
35: ...Recognized<br><br>[[United States Constitution|'''Constitution''']]<br> - completed<br> - ratified<br>...
36: established_dates = From [[Great Britain]]<br> [[July 4]], [[1776]]<br>[...
52: ...e date each of the original 13 states adopted the Constitution as the date on that state "entered the Union" (be...
58: ...as supplanted by the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]] in [[1789]], forming a more centralized [[feder...
60: ...d the [[Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|13th Amendment]] took effect. The Civil War effe... - Canada (35540 bytes)
3: ...e of the many "main" articles about Canada linked from this article, e.g., [[Politics of Canada]], [[G...
8: ...mentary]] [[representative democracy]] and is a [[constitutional monarchy]] with [[Elizabeth II of Canada|Queen ...
10: ...[English language|English]] and [[French language|French]]. Its [[Statistics Canada|official]] populat...
17: ...ions]], the [[Commonwealth of Nations]], and [[La Francophonie]]. Canada is officially [[Bilingualism ...
18: * [[Canadian French|French]] is the majority language of [[Quebec]] and ... - Nigeria (19231 bytes)
1: ...n City]]. The country's name is unrelated to its African heritage; it was proposed by a ''[[The Times|...
37: | From the United Kingdom<br>[[October 1]] [[1960]]
57: ...as a terminal of north-south trade between North African [[Berber]]s and forest people. In the early 1...
67: ... of surrender and the total destruction of the Biafran populace, Philip Effiong, Chief of Staff of the...
69: ... his chief of staff, [[Olusegun Obasanjo]]. A new constitution was drafted in 1977, and elections were held in 1... - Ghana (10910 bytes)
1: ...rly the [[Gold Coast]], the name Ghana is derived from the [[Ghana Empire]] (although its territory ne...
14: ..."center" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: Freedom and Justice''</small>
54: | [[6 March]] [[1957]], from the [[United Kingdom]]
67: Upon achieving independence from the [[United Kingdom]], the name "Ghana" was ch...
72: ...981]] and the banning of political parties. A new constitution, restoring multiparty politics, was approved in [... - Ethiopia (20233 bytes)
1: ...aintained independence during the [[Scramble for Africa]], and continued to do so until [[1936]], when...
40: ...gdom|British]]) [http://www.civicwebs.com/cwvlib/africa/ethiopia/pankhurst/history_of_northern_ethiopi...
59: ...at powers of his time. It was at this time that [[Frumentius]] introduced [[Christianity]] into the co...
61: ...r]]), basing their claims on their direct descent from [[Solomon]] and the queen of [[Sheba]].
67: ... the southern entrance of the Red Sea, was bought from the local sultan in March 1870 by an Italian co... - Jordan (20715 bytes)
48: | From the [[League of Nations]]<br>
77: ...ion -- 700,000 in 1966 -- grew by another 300,000 from the West Bank. The period following the 1967 wa...
79: ...ver the ''fedayeen'' in July 1971, expelling them from the country.
86: ... judges by decree, approves [[amendment]]s to the constitution, declares [[war]], and commands the [[Military of...
88: ...er Chamber of Deputies, elected by [[universal suffrage]] to a 4-year term, is subject to dissolution ... - Netherlands (35958 bytes)
1: ...rlands is a [[parliamentary democracy]] under a [[constitutional monarch]], located in northwestern [[Europe]]. ...
12: ...motto = ''Je Maintiendrai''<br>([[French language|French]]: "I will maintain")|
14: ...es = [[Dutch language|Dutch]], [[Frisian language|Frisian]] <sup>1</sup> |
18: government_type= [[Democracy|Dem.]] [[Constitution|const.]] [[monarchy]] |
40: established_dates = [[Eighty Years' War|From Spain]]<br/>[[May 23]], [[1568]]<br/>[[January ...
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