In November of 1840, the American people elected their 9th president, William Henry Harrison.

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Franklin Pierce was elected the fourteenth president in eighteen fifty-two.

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They elected the Republican candidates.

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Mikheil Saakashvili was re-elected the President of Georgia in January of last year, receiving 53 percent of the vote.

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Canadian Senator Sharon Carstairs says governments from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe are suppressing the rights of elected parliamentarians for offenses as small as promoting the views of those who elected them.

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The next year he was one of the first five players to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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On Tuesday voters in Massachusetts elected a Republican to finish the term of Ted Kennedy who died in August.

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Their members are often elected. But some Americans say the lack of national standards is wrong in a competitive global economy.

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So they took an extreme step. They formed their own government in opposition to the elected government of the territory.

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She won easily. She was the first woman and first black to be elected to Congress to represent Texas.

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In New York, Roosevelt made a major speech promising to continue the work of his administration if he was re-elected.

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He served for 8 years in the Illinois state Senate before voters elected him to the United States Senate in 2004.

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He was first elected in 1989 to complete the term of Harold Washington, the city's first black mayor, who died in office.

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Barbara Jordan became the first African-American woman to be elected to the United States Congress to represent Texas.

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MacArthur told Japan it would now be ruled by a parliament that was freely elected by the people.

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The president and other political leaders of the United States are elected to office by the citizens.

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Elected judges in the United States got a warning this week about money, politics and the law.

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The next year, Edward Kennedy was elected to the Senate seat formerly held by his brother John.

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"Milk" is about Harvey Milk,the first openly homosexual man elected to public office in the United States.

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Glenn became famous. He later was elected to the United States Senate from the state of Ohio.

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Patrick Murray has been an elected member of the school governing board in Bradford,Maine, for four years.

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First,they refused to let many of the recently elected southern congressmen take their seats when Congress opened.

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Some of those leaders, especially senators Henry Clay of Kentucky and Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, believed they could control the newly elected president.

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