Some articles on state, states, united states presidential election in california:
... Monroe was raised in a family that belonged to the Church of England when it was the state church in Virginia, and as an adult attended Episcopal churches ... religious tolerance and separation of church and state ... In his 1875 State of the Union address, during conflicts over Catholic parochial schooling, Grant called for a constitutional amendment that would require all states to establish free public ...
... United States presidential election in California, 1852 Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes Democratic Franklin Pierce 40,721 53.02% 4 Whig ...
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—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
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