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    oldest living former United States secretary of state, as well as the earliest serving. James Addison Baker III was born in Houston at 1216 Bissonnet St....
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    undergo rehabilitation. He held the distinction as the oldest living and earliest serving former prime minister following the death of Piet de Jong in July 2016...
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    was buried in Elizabethtown. At the time of his death, he was the earliest-serving living former governor of a U.S. state. Aldo Charles Poletti was born...
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    appointed to both cabinet and cabinet-rank positions. Hills is the earliest-serving living former U.S. Cabinet member. Born Carla Anderson in Los Angeles...
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    death of John M. Patterson of Alabama in June 2021, Nigh has been the earliest-serving living former American governor, having first served as governor of...
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    primary. On the death of Happy Chandler in 1991, Stassen became the earliest serving governor of any U.S. state still living. When he died, the title was...
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    generations of young attorneys. At the time of his death, he was the earliest-serving former governor. Sidney Sanders McMath was born in a dog-trot log cabin...
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    he was the oldest living former Kentucky governor as well as the earliest-serving former governor. Albert Benjamin Chandler was born in the farming community...
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    on her estate. At the time of his death, Herman Talmadge was the earliest serving former governor. 1969, he was awarded an honorary degree in Doctor...
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    Upon Arnaldo Forlani's death in July 2023, Amato became the country's earliest-serving Prime Minister. Later, he was Vice President of the Convention on the...
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  • know as the self-serving bias. Miller and Ross conducted a study in 1975 that was one of the earliest to assess not only self-serving bias but also the...
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    the age of 101 years, 115 days, De Jong was the oldest living and earliest-serving former prime minister of the Netherlands[citation needed] and the oldest...
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  • began about 40 million years ago with the glaciation of Antarctica. In the earliest part of the Eocene period, a series of abrupt thermal spikes have been...
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  • Follette as Wisconsin Secretary of State in 2023, Anthony became the earliest serving statewide elected official in the United States, not counting federal...
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    Tableware (redirect from Serving piece)
    utensils used for setting a table, serving food, and dining. The term includes cutlery, glassware, serving dishes, serving utensils, and other items used...
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    Memorial Hospital in Juneau on May 29, 1982. Jay Hammond (then governor of Alaska) and Dora M. Sweeney join Parks's niece in serving him birthday cake....
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    The Earliest Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl (Spanish: Primeros Monasterios en las faldas del Popocatépetl) are sixteen earliest 16th-century...
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    described the use of ice cream cones as part of a larger dessert dish. The earliest certain evidence of ice cream cones come from Mrs A. B. Marshall's Book...
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    programme for the existing C-130H aircraft. New Zealand possesses some of the earliest C-130H Hercules off the Lockheed production line, with the most recorded...
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    years ago in the Paleoarchean, a few hundred million years before the earliest fossil evidence of life, for which candidates range in age from 3.48 to...
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    Spoon (redirect from Serving spoon)
    in food preparation to measure, mix, stir and toss ingredients and for serving food. Present day spoons are made from metal (notably flat silver or silverware...
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    Archived from the original on January 22, 2016. Retrieved March 26, 2014. Earliest serving United States Senator William Sprague of Rhode Island at the Wayback...
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    Congress to reach the age of 100 while still in office and the oldest-serving senator. His 48 years as a senator, a record at the time, is the fourth-longest...
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  • the longest-serving incumbent president Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, the longest serving female non-royal head of state The longest-serving male president...
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    Australian former politician. He was a member of parliament across six decades, serving in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly (1947–1949, 1956–1993) and...
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    former Delaware governor Elbert Carvel in 2005, Leader became the earliest serving US governor of any state still living until his death in 2013. Leader...
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    surviving minister who served in the Second Whitlam ministry, and is the earliest elected Senator and federal Labor parliamentarian still alive. Born on...
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    fourteen-year hold on every U.S. House seat from Iowa. Coad is the earliest-serving living member of the House, having been first elected in 1956. Born...
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  • elected into the Senate. The earliest known LGBT congressperson was Ed Koch, who began his term in the House in 1969. The earliest known LGBT senator is Harris...
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    frozen berries, and chocolate chips loosely combined into a pudding. The earliest known mention of the salad is in the 1867 cookbook Dixie Cookery by Maria...
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