12072 examples of president in sentences

While Robbins was in custody, the President, John Adams, addressed a note to Judge Bee, requesting and advising him, if it should appear that the evidence warranted it, to deliver the prisoner up to the representatives of the British government.

The ultimate influence of the application of this doctrine cannot be exaggerated in importance, whether it originated with the President or not.

I well remember at college the contempt which the president and all the professors had for the Western warrior.

The confidential advisers of the President were Amos Kendall, afterwards Postmaster-General; Duff Green, a Democratic editor; Isaac Hill, a violent partisan, who edited a paper in Concord, New Hampshire, and was made second auditor of the treasury; and William B. Lewis, an old friend of the general in Tennessee,all able men, but unscrupulous politicians, who enjoyed power rather than the display of it.

These advisers became known in the party contests of the time as the president's "Kitchen Cabinet.

And this is the most serious charge against him as President; not his ignorance, but his despotic temper, and his self-conceit in supposing himself wiser than the collected wisdom and experience of the representatives of the nation,a notion which neither Washington nor Jefferson nor Madison ever entertained.

Langdon Cleves, of South Carolina, was the first president, succeeded in 1823 by Nicholas Biddle, of Philadelphia,a man of society, of culture, and of leisure,a young man of thirty-seven, who could talk and write, perhaps, better than he could manage a great business.

Thus things stood until November, when a letter appeared in the New York "Courier and Inquirer," stating that President Jackson, in his forthcoming first annual message to Congress, would come out strongly against the Bank itself.

Again, in the message of the President in 1830, he attacked the Bank, and Benton, one of the chief supporters of Jackson in spite of their early duel, declared in the Senate that the charter of the Bank ought not to be renewed.

His opposition exasperated the President in the highest degree.

Deputations of great respectability poured in upon the President from every quarter to induce him to change his policy,all of which he summarily and rudely dismissed.

Notwithstanding the evident stand taken by the President, the Calhoun party continued their opposition on State lines to the Federal authority.

Congress rallied around the Executive and a bill was passed providing for the enforcement of the collection of the customs at Charleston, and arming the President with extraordinary powers to see that the dangers were averted.

It may be doubted whether he would have made as good a President as many inferior politicians.

The most notable portion of Henry Clay's life was his great career as Senator in Congress, which he entered in December, 1831, two years after the inauguration of President Jackson.

The first subject of national importance to which he gave his attention was the one with which his name and fame are mostly identified,the tariff, to a moderate form of which the President in 1829 had announced himself to be favorable, but which he afterwards more and more opposed, on the ground that the revenues already produced were in excess of the needs of the government.

He had made powerful enemies, especially in Jackson and his partisans, and politicians dreaded his ascendency, and feared that as President he would be dictatorial, though not perhaps arbitrary like Jackson.

But inasmuch as it made Calhoun a member of the cabinet, it gave him an opportunity to express his mind on all national issues, and exercise an influence on the President himself.

Calhoun's popularity with all parties resulted in his election as vice-president by a very large popular vote.

The Adams administration was notable for nothing but beginnings of the tariff question and the protectionist Act of 1828, the growth of the Democratic party, the final intensity of the presidential campaign of 1828, and the election of Jackson, with Calhoun as Vice-president.

That subject being disposed of for the present, the attention of Congress and the country was now turned to the President's war on the United States Bank.

Dominating the festivities was the figure of F.B. Hubbard, at that time President of the Employers' Association of the State of Washington.

"A temporary organization was effected with F. B. Hubbard, President of the Eastern Railway & Lumber Company, as chairman.

At the Lewis County Trades Council the subject was brought up for discussion by its president, L. F. Dickson.

Dunning replied stating that he was vice president of the Labor Assembly and proceeded to tell Grimm the feeling of his organization on the subject.

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