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1 day ago · t. e. In the politics of the United States, elections are held for government officials at the federal, state, and local levels. At the federal level, the nation's head of state, the president, is elected indirectly by the people of each state, through an Electoral College. Today, these electors almost always vote with the popular vote of their ...
1 day ago · Website. georgia .gov. Georgia is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the northwest, North Carolina to the north, South Carolina to the northeast, Florida to the south, and Alabama to the west. Of the 50 United States, Georgia is the 24th-largest by area and 8th most populous.
- 59,425 sq mi (153,909 km²)
- Province of Georgia
- United States
- 9 Republicans, 5 Democrats (list)
3 days ago · Elihu B. Washburne in 1869. This is a list of United States secretaries of state by time in office. This is based on the difference between dates; if counted by number of calendar days all the figures would be one greater. Cordell Hull is the only person to have served as secretary of state for more than eight years.
- July 27, 1789
- Fourth
2 days ago · The Western United States, also called the American West, the Western States, the Far West, and the West, is the region comprising the westernmost U.S. states. As American settlement in the U.S. expanded westward, the meaning of the term the West changed. Before around 1800, the crest of the Appalachian Mountains was seen as the western frontier.
- 1,873,251.63 sq mi (4,851,699.4 km²)
- $5.619 trillion (2019)
- United States
- 78,588,572
3 days ago · American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild— Repression, censorship, and official violence in the First Red Scare. Woodrow Wilson was long ranked among the ten greatest US Presidents but has fallen far in historians’ estimation in recent decades.
16 hours ago · Learn English as you read and listen to our American history series. The programs are written at the intermediate and upper-beginner level and are read one-third slower than regular VOA English.
2 days ago · Durham ( / ˈdʌrəm / ⓘ DURR-əm, locally / ˈdɜːrəm / listen ⓘ) [a] is a cathedral city and civil parish in the county of Durham, England. It is the county town and contains the headquarters of Durham County Council, the unitary authority which governs the district of County Durham. [3] [4] The built-up area had a population of 50,510 ...
