Richard Ballinger

(noun)

Mayor of Seattle, Washington, from 1904 to 1906 and U.S. secretary of the interior from 1909 to 1911.

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  • Gifford Pinchot
  • General Land Office (GLO)

Examples of Richard Ballinger in the following topics:

  • Ballinger and Pinchot

    • Forest Service Chief Gifford Pinchot and Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger.
    • The Pinchot-Ballinger Controversy, also known as the "Ballinger Affair," was a dispute between U.S.
    • Secretary of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger.
    • He did not retain Garfield, an Ohioan, as secretary, choosing instead a westerner, former Seattle mayor Richard A.
    • Ballinger.
  • Sears Roebucks

    • When Richard Warren Sears was a railroad station agent in North Redwood, Minnesota, he received an impressive shipment of watches from a Chicago jeweler, which the local cube jeweler did not want.
    • Richard Sears knew that farmers often brought their crops to town, where they could be sold and shipped.
    • One of his reasons for leaving Sears in 1895 was the stress the business placed upon him; he later took some delight in pointing out his longevity in comparison to the much shorter life of Richard Sears.
    • Richard Sears, the co-founder and owner of Sears, Roebuck, and Co.
  • The Election of 1960

    • Kennedy beat Vice President Richard Nixon by a very narrow margin.
    • The Republican Party nominated Richard Nixon, Eisenhower's Vice-President, while the Democrats nominated John F.
    • Eisenhower's Vice President, Richard Nixon, was the obvious choice for the Republican nomination.
  • The Election of 1968

    • Republican candidate Richard Nixon defeated Vice President Hubert Humphrey in the tumultuous 1968 Presidential election.
    • With Johnson's withdrawal, the Democratic Party quickly split into four factions, each of which distrusted the other three: The first faction consisted of labor unions and big-city Democratic bosses, led by Mayor Richard J.
  • The Nixon Administration

    • Republican Richard Nixon was elected president in 1968 and easily won reelection in 1972; however he left office amidst a scandal in 1974.
    • Richard Milhous Nixon was elected president in the election of 1968, narrowly beating the incumbent vice president, Hubert Humphrey.
  • Nixon in China

    • Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in easing relations between both nations.
    • Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an important step in easing relations between the two countries.
  • Partisan Cooperation and Conflict

    • The 80th Congress included Republican freshmen who would become prominent in the years to come, including Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy and California Congressman Richard Nixon.
    • Republican Richard NIxon's first term as a Congressman was during the 80th Congress, which Truman nicknamed the "Do Nothing Congress
  • The Ford Inauguration

    • Gerald Ford became president of the United States after Richard Nixon resigned, serving from 1974 to 1977.
    • When President Richard Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974 over the controversy of the Watergate scandal, Vice President Gerald Ford assumed the presidency; this made him the only person to assume the presidency without having been previously voted into either the presidential or vice presidential office.
  • The Southern Renaissance

    • This is a rather glaring omission, considering the prominence of other notable African-American writers from the South such as Richard Wright, a Mississippi native and author of the renowned 1940 novel, Native Son.
    • Native Son author Richard Wright was one of the notable African-American authors who has been arguably overlooked as part of the Southern literary tradition.
  • The Jackson Presidency

    • Davis, Richard Lawrence, an unemployed house painter from England, aimed a pistol at Jackson, which misfired.
    • Finally, he told his interrogators that he was a deposed English King—specifically, Richard III (dead since 1485)—and that Jackson was his clerk.
    • This 1835 etching depicts Richard Lawrence's assassination attempt on Andrew Jackson.
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