Posted by
Defend America on Sunday, November 08, 2009 4:02:58 PM
From yesterday:
1874 - The Republican party of the U.S. was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly.
1893 - The state of
Colorado granted its women the right to vote.
1916 - Jeanette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
November 7,
1944
FDR reelected a record third time
Democrat
Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected president of the United States for a
record third time, handily defeating his Republican challenger, Thomas
Dewey, the governor of New York, and becoming the first and only
president in history to win a fourth term in office.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=5504
November 7,
1972
Nixon re-elected president
Richard Nixon defeats Senator George McGovern (D-South Dakota) and is re-elected President of the United States.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1466
1973 - The U.S.
Congress over-rode President Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act, which
limits a chief executive's power to wage war without congressional
approval.
November 7, 1989
Two African American firsts in politics
In
New York, former Manhattan borough president David Dinkins, a Democrat,
is elected New York City's first African American mayor, while in
Virginia, Lieutenant Governor Douglas Wilder, also a Democrat, becomes
the first elected African American state governor in American history.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=5505
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton made history as the first president's
wife to win public office. The state of New York elected her to the U.S. Senate.