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Nicholas Murray Butler

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Nicholas Murray Butler (April 2, 1862 – December 7, 1947) was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. [1]

89 relations: Acrostic, Alexander Hamilton, Allen Ginsberg, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Andrew Carnegie, Bachelor of Arts, Baltimore, Beat Generation, Blank verse, Butler Library, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Charles W. Fairbanks, Château de Chavaniac, Clarence Mackay, College Board, Columbia College (New York), Columbia University, Columbia University Medical Center, Doctor of Philosophy, Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, Edward MacDowell, Elihu Root, Elizabeth, New Jersey, Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Frank D. Fackenthal, George von Lengerke Meyer, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Grace Hoadley Dodge, Harry Thurston Peck, HathiTrust, Herbert Hawkes, History of Auvergne, Horace Mann School, Iambic pentameter, Jacob Rutsen Schuyler, James S. Sherman, Jane Addams, Jerome Klein, Joel Elias Spingarn, John Burgess (political scientist), John Grier Hibben, Johns Hopkins University, Joseph Hodges Choate, Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration, List of Presidents of Columbia University, List of United States Republican Party presidential tickets, Master of Arts, Michael Sokal, ..., Morningside Drive (Manhattan), New York (state), New York City, Nobel Peace Prize, Order of Leopold (Belgium), Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, Order of the Crown of Italy, Order of the Red Eagle, Order of the Redeemer, Paterson, New Jersey, Peithologian Society, Pilgrims Society, Poetry (magazine), President of the United States, Progressive Party (United States, 1912), Prohibition in the United States, Pulitzer Prize, Randolph Bourne, Repeal of Prohibition in the United States, Republican National Convention, Republican Party (United States), Rolfe Humphries, Seth Low, Society of the Cincinnati, Teachers College, Columbia University, The American Mercury, The New Republic, The New York Times, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas E. Davis, United States presidential election, 1912, United States presidential election, 1916, United States presidential election, 1920, United States presidential election, 1928, Utah, Vermont, Vice President of the United States, William A. Chanler, William Howard Taft. Expand index (39 more) »

Acrostic

An acrostic is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet.

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Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757July 12, 1804) was a statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet, philosopher, writer, and activist.

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American Academy of Arts and Letters

The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member honor society; its goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art.

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Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie (but commonly or;MacKay, p. 29. November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (BA or AB, from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, sciences, or both.

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Baltimore

Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.

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Beat Generation

The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era.

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Blank verse

Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter.

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Butler Library

Butler Library, located on the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia University at 535 West 114th Street, is the university's largest single library with over 2million volumes.

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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) is a foreign-policy think tank with centers in Washington D.C., Moscow, Beirut, Beijing, Brussels, and New Delhi.

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Cedar Lawn Cemetery

Cedar Lawn Cemetery is a nondenominational cemetery in Paterson, New Jersey, and is also considered one of the finest Victorian cemeteries in the USA.

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Charles W. Fairbanks

Charles Warren Fairbanks (May 11, 1852 – June 4, 1918) was an American politician who served as the 26th Vice President of the United States from 1905 to 1909 and a Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905.

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Château de Chavaniac

The Château de Chavaniac is a fortified manor house of eighteen rooms furnished in the Louis XIII style located in Chavaniac-Lafayette, Haute-Loire, in Auvergne, France.

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Clarence Mackay

Clarence Hungerford Mackay (April 17, 1874 – November 12, 1938) was an American financier.

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College Board

College Board is an American non-profit organization that was formed in December 1899 as the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) to expand access to higher education.

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Columbia College (New York)

Columbia College is the oldest undergraduate college at Columbia University, situated on the university's main campus in Morningside Heights in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Columbia University Medical Center

Columbia University Herbert and Florence Irving Medical Center (CUMC) is an academic medical center and the largest campuses of New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.

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Dorothy Dunbar Bromley

Dorothy Dunbar Bromley (December 25, 1896 – January 3, 1986) was an American journalist and early writer on birth control and women's issues.

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Edward MacDowell

Edward Alexander MacDowell (December 18, 1860January 23, 1908) was an American composer and pianist of the late Romantic period.

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Elihu Root

Elihu Root (February 15, 1845February 7, 1937) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as the Secretary of State under President Theodore Roosevelt and as Secretary of War under Roosevelt and President William McKinley.

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Elizabeth, New Jersey

Elizabeth is both the largest city and the county seat of Union County, in New Jersey, United States.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940.

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Frank D. Fackenthal

Frank Diehl Fackenthal (February 22, 1883 – September 5, 1968) was an American academic administrator best known for his long association with Columbia University.

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George von Lengerke Meyer

George von Lengerke Meyer (June 24, 1858 – March 9, 1918) was a Massachusetts businessman and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, as United States ambassador to Italy and Russia, as United States Postmaster General from 1907 to 1909 during the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt and United States Secretary of the Navy from 1909 to 1913 during the administration of President William Howard Taft.

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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), in the United States often known simply as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War.

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Grace Hoadley Dodge

Grace Hoadley Dodge (May 21, 1856 – December 27, 1914) was an American philanthropist.

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Harry Thurston Peck

Harry Thurston Peck (November 24, 1856 – March 23, 1914) was an American classical scholar, author, editor, and critic.

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HathiTrust

HathiTrust is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via the Google Books project and Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.

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Herbert Hawkes

Herbert Edwin Hawkes (1872 - 1943) was an American mathematician and an experienced educator and had first-hand knowledge of the various problems, boys face during their college life.

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History of Auvergne

The history of the Auvergne dates back to the early Middle Ages, when it was a historic province in south central France.

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Horace Mann School

Horace Mann School (also known as Horace Mann or HM) is an independent college preparatory school in the Bronx, founded in 1887.

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Iambic pentameter

Iambic pentameter is a type of metrical line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama.

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Jacob Rutsen Schuyler

Jacob Rutsen Schuyler (February 23, 1816 - February 4, 1887) founded Schuyler, Hartley and Graham, the largest firearms retail business in the United States in 1860.

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James S. Sherman

James Schoolcraft Sherman (October 24, 1855 – October 30, 1912) was an American politician who was a United States Representative from New York from 1887 to 1891 and 1893 to 1909, and the 27th Vice President of the United States from 1909 until his death.

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Jane Addams

Jane Addams (September 8, 1860May 21, 1935), known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, public administrator, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.

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Jerome Klein

Jerome Klein was an American art historian and art critic and a founding member of the American Artists' Congress (AAC).

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Joel Elias Spingarn

Joel Elias Spingarn (May 17, 1875 – July 26, 1939) was an American educator, literary critic, and civil rights activist.

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John Burgess (political scientist)

John William Burgess (August 26, 1844 – January 13, 1931) was a pioneering American political scientist.

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John Grier Hibben

John Grier Hibben (April 19, 1861 – May 16, 1933) was a Presbyterian minister, a philosopher, and educator.

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Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University is an American private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Joseph Hodges Choate

Joseph Hodges Choate (January 24, 1832 – May 14, 1917) was an American lawyer and diplomat.

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Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration

The Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration was founded in 1895 to support the cause of international arbitration, arbitration treaties, and an international court, and to generate public support on behalf of the cause.

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List of Presidents of Columbia University

This is a list of Presidents of Columbia University in the state of New York.

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List of United States Republican Party presidential tickets

This is a list of the candidates for the offices of President of the United States and Vice President of the United States of the Republican Party of the United States.

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Master of Arts

A Master of Arts (Magister Artium; abbreviated MA; also Artium Magister, abbreviated AM) is a person who was admitted to a type of master's degree awarded by universities in many countries, and the degree is also named Master of Arts in colloquial speech.

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Michael Sokal

Michael Sokal is a retired professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the history of science.

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Morningside Drive (Manhattan)

Morningside Drive is a roughly north-south bi-directional street in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish, Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

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Order of Leopold (Belgium)

The Order of Leopold (Leopoldsorde, Ordre de Léopold) is one of the three current Belgian national honorary orders of knighthood.

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Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus

The Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus (Ordine dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro) is a Roman Catholic dynastic order of knighthood bestowed by the House of Savoy, founded in 1572 by Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, through amalgamation approved by Pope Gregory XIII of the Order of Saint Maurice, founded in 1434, with the medieval Order of Saint Lazarus, founded circa 1119, considered its sole legitimate successor.

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Order of the Crown of Italy

The Order of the Crown of Italy, italic, was founded as a national order in 1868 by King Vittorio Emanuele II, to commemorate the unification of Italy in 1861.

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Order of the Red Eagle

The Order of the Red Eagle (Roter Adlerorden) was an order of chivalry of the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Order of the Redeemer

The Order of the Redeemer (translit), also known as the Order of the Saviour, is an order of merit of Greece.

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Paterson, New Jersey

Paterson is the largest city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.

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Peithologian Society

The Peithologian Society was an undergraduate debate society at Columbia University.

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Pilgrims Society

The Pilgrims Society, founded on 16 July 1902 by Sir Harry Brittain, is a British-American society established, in the words of American diplomat Joseph Choate, 'to promote good-will, good-fellowship, and everlasting peace between the United States and Great Britain'.

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Poetry (magazine)

Poetry (founded as, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse), published in Chicago since 1912, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Progressive Party (United States, 1912)

The Progressive Party was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former President Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protégé, incumbent President William Howard Taft.

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Prohibition in the United States

Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Randolph Bourne

Randolph Silliman Bourne (May 30, 1886 – December 22, 1918) was a progressive writer and intellectual born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University.

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Repeal of Prohibition in the United States

The repeal of Prohibition in the United States was accomplished with the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution on December 5, 1933.

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Republican National Convention

The Republican National Convention (RNC) is a series of presidential nominating conventions of the United States Republican Party since 1856.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Rolfe Humphries

George Rolfe Humphries (November 20, 1894 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – April 22, 1969 in Redwood City, California) was a poet, translator, and teacher.

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Seth Low

Seth Low (January 18, 1850 – September 17, 1916) was an American educator and political figure who served as mayor of Brooklyn, as President of Columbia University, as diplomatic representative of the United States, and as 92nd Mayor of New York City.

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Society of the Cincinnati

The Society of the Cincinnati is a hereditary society with branches in the United States and France, founded in 1783, to preserve the ideals and fellowship of officers of the Continental Army who served in the Revolutionary War.

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Teachers College, Columbia University

Teachers College, Columbia University (TC or Columbia University Graduate School of Education) is a graduate school of education, health and psychology in New York City.

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The American Mercury

The American Mercury was an American magazine published from 1924 to 1981.

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The New Republic

The New Republic is a liberal American magazine of commentary on politics and the arts, published since 1914, with influence on American political and cultural thinking.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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Thomas E. Davis

Thomas E. Davis (c. 1785 or 1795 – March 16, 1878), also spelled Thomas E. Davies, was a prolific real estate developer who built residential properties in New York between 1830 and 1860.

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United States presidential election, 1912

The United States presidential election of 1912 was the 32nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1912.

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United States presidential election, 1916

The United States presidential election of 1916 was the 33rd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1916.

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United States presidential election, 1920

The United States presidential election of 1920 was the 34th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1920.

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United States presidential election, 1928

The United States presidential election of 1928 was the 36th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1928.

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Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

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Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Vice President of the United States

The Vice President of the United States (informally referred to as VPOTUS, or Veep) is a constitutional officer in the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States as the President of the Senate under Article I, Section 3, Clause 4, of the United States Constitution, as well as the second highest executive branch officer, after the President of the United States.

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William A. Chanler

William Astor "Willie" Chanler (June 11, 1867 – March 4, 1934) was a soldier, explorer, and politician who served as U.S. Representative from New York.

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William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Murray_Butler

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