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Harold Edward Stassen was an American Republican Party politician,military officer,and attorney who was the 25th governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1943. He was a leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the United States in 1948. Though he was considered for a time to be the front-runner,he lost the nomination to New York governor Thomas E. Dewey. He thereafter regularly continued to run for the presidency and other offices,such that his name became most identified with his status as a perennial candidate.
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Benjamin Everett Jordan was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as a United States Senator from North Carolina from 1958 to 1973.
Hugh Swinton Legaré was an American lawyer,diplomat and politician from South Carolina who served as the 16th United States Attorney General under President John Tyler.
Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party,he represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1941 to 1945 and from 1947 to 1959 and in the U.S. Senate,from 1959 to 1977. He served as Senate Minority Leader from 1969 to 1977.
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Allan Turner Howe was a U.S. Representative from Utah.
The 1968 United States Senate elections were elections for the United States Senate. Held on November 5,the 34 seats of Class 3 were contested in regular elections. They coincided with the presidential election of the same year. The Republicans picked up five net seats in the Senate. This saw Republicans win a Senate seat in Florida for the first time since Reconstruction.
Lawrence Brooks Hays was an American lawyer and politician who served eight terms as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Arkansas from 1943 to 1959. He was also a president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Floyd Davidson Spence was an American attorney and a politician from the U.S. state of South Carolina. Elected for three terms to the South Carolina House of Representatives from Lexington County as a Democrat,in 1962 Spence announced his decision to switch to the Republican Party,as he was unhappy with shifts in the national party.
Jacob McGavock Dickinson was United States Secretary of War under President William Howard Taft from 1909 to 1911. He was succeeded by Henry L. Stimson. He was an attorney,politician,and businessman in Nashville,Tennessee,where he also taught at Nashville University. He came to have a national role after moving to Chicago,Illinois,in 1899.
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The Clariosophic Society,also known as ΜΣΦ,is a literary society founded in 1806 at the University of South Carolina,then known as South Carolina College,as a result of the splitting in two of the Philomathic Society,which had been formed within weeks of the opening of the college in 1805 and included virtually all students. At what was called the Synapian Convention held in February 1806,the members of Philomathic voted to split into two separate societies,one of which became known as Clariosophic,while the other society became known as Euphradian. Two blood brothers picked the members for the new groups in a manner similar to choosing sides for an impromptu baseball game. John Goodwin became the first president of Clariosophic. Other early presidents include Stephen Elliott,Hugh S. Legaré. George McDuffie and Richard I. Manning. The Society was reactivated in 2013.
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