... 2927845.stm ) However it was at that time that an agreement was reached with both leaders of the British and Irish Governments, John Major and John Bruton, who had only recently taken up the role as Taoiseach, that Mitchell would chair the International Commission on Disarmament of Paramilitary groups ... Ireland when he appointed a woman, from a family who are widely considered as the most famous Irish American family of them all, Jean Kennedy Smith, sister of President John F Kennedy to the role of American ambassador to Ireland at a crucial stage in the Peace Process. It was a decision...

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... Congress and had to be vetoed by his own party chairman, President William Howard Taft. Newly arrived to in the presidency, Wilson was faced with a new figure, the Democratic Congressman John L. Burnett of Alabama, the Democratic chairman of the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, that sought to reintroduce the measure of literacy test as measure against uncontrolled Immigration coming to ... approval of the literacy test was required as proof of admission to America. A memorial was adopted as anonymous telegraphed to President Wilson, in which they said things like: &apo...

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... the first time. Their leaders were largely clergymen, lawyers, and teachers who had been educated in the North and abroad. Among the ablest were Robert B. Elliott of South Carolina and John R. Lynch of Mississippi. Both were speakers of their state House of Representatives and were members of the United States Congress. Between 1869 and 1901, 20 black representatives and 2 black senators ... Rankin's 27 years in Congress, 32 other women were successful in their bids for the House and Senate. During FDR's 13 years as President, 23 women joined Congress. Margaret Chase Smith was the first...

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