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actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he became an important figure in the American

the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Bush family and Republican Party, he was the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to

Democratic Party nomination, finishing with a victory in Jerry Brown's home state of California. During the campaign, questions of conflict of interest regarding

as a leader of the House and the leader of their party (which need not be the majority party; theoretically, a member of the minority party could be elected

problem of internal communist subversion ... It provided for registration of all Communist Party members and required a statement of the source of all printed

Carter won the Democratic Party’s nomination and narrowly defeated the incumbent president, Gerald Ford of the Republican Party, in the 1976 presidential

when Theodore Roosevelt left the Republican Party to launch a third-party campaign against Wilson and sitting Republican president William Howard Taft. Franklin's

regardless of which party has a majority of seats. Each senator chooses a desk based on seniority within the party. By custom, the leader of each party sits

it soon became the Democratic-Republican Party or the Jeffersonian Republican Party and began the era of the First Party System. In 1800, Thomas Jefferson's

westernmost portion of the annexed Mexican territory of Alta California soon became the American state of California, and the remainder of the old territory

the Kingdom of Spain and its Spanish Empire in 1821, what is now Arizona became part of its Territory of Nueva California, ("New California"), also known

shadow of the Sierra Nevada in California. The eastern half of the state lies in the rain shadow of the Wasatch Mountains. The primary source of precipitation

in the Republican Party. His major rivals for the Republican nomination were Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas, Representative Jack Kemp of New York

jpg Trump registered as a Republican in 1987; a member of the Independence Party, the New York state affiliate of the Reform Party, in 1999; a Democrat in

million. During the late 20th century, the Republican Party replaced the Democratic Party as the dominant party in the state. Beginning in the early 21st

population of Florida has boomed in recent years with the state being the recipient of the largest number of out-of-state movers in the country as of 2019.

County, part of Northern Virginia, where slightly over a third of Virginia's population of 8.7 million live. Eastern Virginia is part of the Atlantic Plain

Since statehood, the Republican Party has usually been the dominant party in Idaho. At one time, Idaho had two Democratic parties, one being the mainstream

State". Passage of the Homestead Acts in 1862 brought a further influx of settlers, and the booming cattle trade of the 1870s attracted some of the Wild West's

called the governor, who serves as both head of state and head of government. All governors are chosen by statewide direct election. The governor may approve