American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884-December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States, 1945-53; Vice-President under Franklin D. Roosevelt, January 20-April 12, 1945; assuming the Presidency upon Roosevelt's death; U.S. Senator, 1934-45; presiding judge for Jackson County Court, Missouri, 1926-34; salesman, manager of building and loan company, 1925-26; judge of the Eastern District; Jackson County Court, Missouri, 1922-24; married Elizabeth "Bess" Virginia Wallace, 1919; Captain during World War I, 1918, in command of Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, fighting at St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne, Sommedieu; First Lieutenant in National Guard, 1917; railroad timekeeper, reporter for the Kansas City...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882-April 12, 1945) was the 32nd President of the United States, 1933-45, whose Presidential term spanned over 12 years, the longest of any President; the seventh President to die in office; Governor of New York, 1929-33; stricken with infantile paralysis, 1921; Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-20; New York State Senator, 1911- 13; admitted to bar, 1907; graduated from Columbia Law School, 1907; married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, 1905; and graduated from Harvard College, 1904. Franklin Delano Roosevelt descended from Claes Martenssen Van Roosevelt, who emigrated from Holland to New Amsterdam in the 1640's. Franklin's great-great-grandfather,...

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874-October 20, 1964) was the 31st President of the United States, 1929-33; Secretary of Commerce under both Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, 1921-28; served on the council of the American Relief Administration, 1919-21; U.S. Food Administrator during World War I, 1917-19; Commissioner for Belgian Relief, 1915-19; Chairman of the American Relief Committee in London, 1914-15; married Lou Henry, 1899; successful mining engineer, 1895-1914; graduated from Stanford University, 1895. On Monday, March 4, 1929, in his Inaugural Address, President Herbert Clark Hoover entreated: <This occasion is not alone the administration of the most sacred oath which...

(John) Calvin Coolidge (July 4, 1872-January 5, 1933) was the 30th President of the United States, 1923-29, during the era known as the "Roaring Twenties"; Vice-President under Warren G. Harding, 1920-23, assuming the Presidency upon Harding's death; Governor of Massachusetts, 1918-20, gaining popularity by refusing to allow the police to join unions and go on strike, which would jeopardize public security; Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 1915-18, Massachusetts State Senator, 1911-15; Mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts, 1910-11; Massachusetts State Representative, 1906-08; married Grace Anne Goodhue, 1905; Northampton City Solicitor, 1899-1901; Northampton City Councilman, 1899; admitted to bar, 1897; and graduated from Amherst...

Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865-August 2, 1923) was the 29th President of the United States, 1921-23, the sixth president to die in office; first president to speak on radio, 1920, at the Minnesota State Fair; U.S. Senator, 1915-21; Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, 1904-06; Ohio State Senator, 1900-04; married Florence De Wolfe Kling, 1891; editor of the Marion Star, Ohio, 1884-1920; and attended Ohio Central College, 1879-82. On Friday, March 4, 1921, in his Inaugural Address, President Warren G. Harding expressed: <Standing in this presence, mindful of the solemnity of this occasion, feeling the emotions which no one may know until...