Events from the year 1947 in the United States. President: Harry S. Truman (D-Missouri) Vice President: vacant Chief Justice: Fred M. Vinson (Kentucky)...

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive...

The following is a list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of New York. For chronological tables of members of both...

The United States has formal diplomatic relations with most nations. This includes all United Nations members and observer states other than Bhutan, Iran...

The 1947 United States Senate special election in Mississippi was held on November 4, 1947. John C. Stennis was elected to fill the seat vacated by the...

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Since the late 1850s, its main political rival has been...

the DuMont Network, which started daytime transmission before any other United States television network. New Series The Singing Lady 1947-48 United States...

Conservatism in the United States is based on a belief in individualism, traditionalism, republicanism, and limited federal governmental power in relation...

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America...

passed in most Northern states and a movement developed to abolish slavery. The role of slavery under the United States Constitution (1789) was the most...

The United States National Security Council (NSC) is the principal forum used by the president of the United States for consideration of national security...

designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution. The Army is the oldest branch of the U.S. military and the most senior in order of precedence...

The Twenty-second Amendment (Amendment XXII) to the United States Constitution limits the number of times a person can be elected to the office of President...

is illegal in all 50 states of the United States. Assisted suicide is legal in 10 jurisdictions in the US: Washington, D.C. and the states of California...

In the United States, military conscription, commonly known as the draft, has been employed by the U.S. federal government in six conflicts: the American...

United States Army. From 1886 onward, the secretary of war was in the line of succession to the presidency, after the vice president of the United States, the...

The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous...

This is a list of capital cities of the United States, including places that serve or have served as federal, state, insular area, territorial, colonial...

independence in 1947. The Philippines (then the Philippine Commonwealth) was a commonwealth with the United States, until gaining full independence in 1946....

reflected in discriminatory laws, practices, and actions (including violence) against "racial" or ethnic groups, throughout the history of the United States. Since...

human test subjects in the United States in the past are now considered to have been unethical, because they were performed without the knowledge or informed...

The vice president of the United States is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the United States federal government after the president...

The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic...

The United States is a highly developed mixed economy. It is the world's largest economy by nominal GDP; it is also the second largest by purchasing power...

In the United States, evangelicalism is a movement among Protestant Christians who believe in the necessity of being born again, emphasize the importance...

The Cabinet of the United States is the principal official advisory body to the president of the United States. The Cabinet generally meets with the president...

The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston...

is intended to provide an overview of notable events from the year 1899 in the United States. President: William McKinley (R-Ohio) Vice President: Garret...

Liberalism in the United States is based on concepts of unalienable rights of the individual. The fundamental liberal ideals of consent of the governed...

Fracking in the United States began in 1949. According to the Department of Energy (DOE), by 2013 at least two million oil and gas wells in the US had been...