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    Alben William Barkley (/ˈbɑːrkli/; November 24, 1877 – April 30, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served as the 35th vice...
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    Alben William Barkley II (September 15, 1944 – January 30, 2023) was an American politician who served as Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture from 1980...
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    On October 3, 1963, a bronze sculpture of Alben W. Barkley, the 35th vice president of the United States, was installed in the Kentucky State Capitol,...
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    the United States from 1949 to 1953, as the wife of Vice President Alben W. Barkley. She was born in Keytesville, Missouri; her father was a lawyer and...
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    full term of Harry S. Truman as president as well as the only term of Alben W. Barkley as vice president. Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson administered the presidential...
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  • The Alben W. Barkley School of Law (formerly the American Justice School of Law) was a private, for-profit law school founded in 2004 in Paducah, Kentucky...
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    Douglas declined. Truman instead selected Senate Minority Leader Alben W. Barkley, the preferred choice of many Democratic delegates, and a border state...
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    selected Senator Alben W. Barkley from Kentucky, who had delivered the convention's keynote address, as his running mate, and Barkley was nominated by...
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    Majority Leader Alben Barkley was re-elected to a third term in office over Republican John P. Haswell. The true challenge to Barkley came in the Democratic...
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  • nominations of President Harry S. Truman for a full term and Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky for vice president in the 1948 presidential election. One...
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    Representative Alben W. Barkley, who would go on to serve for twenty-two years before ascending to become Vice President of the United States. Alben W. Barkley, U...
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    lost the election to incumbent President Harry S. Truman and Senator Alben W. Barkley in an election upset. Warren sought the Republican nomination in the...
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    1948 re-election and bringing nine Democrats into the Senate. When Alben Barkley became vice-president and resigned his seat, Lucas became majority leader...
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    seemed unlikely. For his running mate, Truman accepted Kentucky Senator Alben W. Barkley, though he really wanted Justice William O. Douglas, who turned down...
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    President Harry S. Truman of neighbouring Missouri, running with Senator Alben W. Barkley, with 50.31% of the popular vote, against Governor Thomas Dewey (R–New...
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    2022. "George H. W. Bush". whitehouse.gov. Retrieved May 14, 2022. "William J. Clinton". whitehouse.gov. Retrieved May 14, 2022. "George W. Bush". whitehouse...
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  • a church to be placed there. Among those buried at Mount Kenton is Alben W. Barkley (1877–1956), 35th vice president of the United States under Harry S...
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  • Senator Barkley may refer to: Alben W. Barkley (1877–1956), U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1927 to 1949 and from 1955 to 1956 Dean Barkley (born 1950)...
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    incumbent President Harry S. Truman (D–Missouri), running with Senator Alben W. Barkley, with 50.37% of the popular vote, against Governor Thomas Dewey (R–New...
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    President Harry S. Truman (D–Missouri), running with Kentucky Senator Alben W. Barkley, with 43.41% of the popular vote. On May 11, 1948, the North Dakota...
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    "Morning in America", and George H. W. Bush's 1988 "Revolving Door", all of which became major factors. In 1992, George H. W. Bush's promise of "Read my lips:...
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    convention went as follows: Democratic candidates: Vice President Alben W. Barkley Senator Hubert Humphrey from Minnesota Senator Estes Kefauver from...
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    in the house of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty." — Alben W. Barkley, vice-president of the United States (30 April 1956), alluding to Psalms...
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    In 1948, Harry S. Truman and Alben W. Barkley were elected president and vice president of the United States, defeating Republican nominees Thomas E. Dewey...
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  • is established. 1956 – Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia. 1957 – Supplementary Convention on...
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    John Sparkman Oklahoma Senator A. S. Mike Monroney Vice President Alben W. Barkley Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver...
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    Paul McNutt of Indiana, House speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri, and Douglas. Five...
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  • S. Truman (D-Missouri) Vice President: vacant (until January 20), Alben W. Barkley (D-Kentucky) (starting January 20) Chief Justice: Fred M. Vinson (Kentucky)...
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    V. McNutt - 3 (0.25%) Alben W. Barkley - 1 (0.08%) 1948 United States presidential election: Harry S. Truman/Alben W. Barkley (D) - 24,179,347 (49.6%)...
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    Jefferson to Clinton (1995) ch. 5–6. Robert W. Cherny, A Righteous Cause: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (1994) H.W. Brands, Woodrow Wilson (2003). Douglas...
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