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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 2000

significant part of Clinton's success. Clinton's victory in the election ended twelve years of Republican rule of the White House and twenty of the previous

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mexican–American War. The first battles of the war were fought in Texas: the Siege of Fort Texas, Battle of Palo Alto and Battle of Resaca de la Palma. After these

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.

secretary of the Communist Party; Alexei Kosygin, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers; and Nikolai Podgorny, the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme

was a Democratic one-party state for decades, until after passage of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 to enforce constitutional

counties) Maine, 1820, from Massachusetts (District of Maine) Texas, 1845, previously the Republic of Texas Vermont, 1791, previously the Vermont Republic (also

Southwest Kansas, however, was still a part of Spain, Mexico, and the Republic of Texas until the conclusion of the Mexican–American War in 1848, when these

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

as the "isle of New Orleans", had become a colony of Spain by the Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762). The transfer of power on either side of the river would

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

the middle of the high plains of the Colorado Plateau, about 25 miles (40 km) west of Winslow. A rim of smashed and jumbled boulders, some of them the size

During the turn of the 19th century, the extreme northeastern part of New Mexico, north of the Canadian River and east of the spine of the Sangre de Cristo

711,908 as of the 2020 United States census. This was an increase of 1,024,255, or 10.57% over the 2010 figure of 9,687,653 residents. As of 2010[update]