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- Jane Addams, 1914 - Prominent Progressive Era reformer Jane Addams dedicated her life to the settlement house movement, labor reform, women's rights, and world peace. Addams - founder of Chicago's Hull House, charter member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union - was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Jane Addams, 1914
Prominent Progressive Era reformer Jane Addams dedicated her life to the settlement house movement, labor reform, women's rights, and world peace. Addams - founder of Chicago's Hull House, charter member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union - was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Political Campaign Poster, "William H. Taft, Our Next President," 1908 - The Republicans nominated William Howard Taft for president in 1908. Taft was the Secretary of War and a friend of President Theodore Roosevelt. Taft was also Roosevelt's choice to replace him in the White House. With enthusiastic campaigning from Roosevelt, Taft and his running mate, James Sherman, easily defeated the Democratic candidate, William Jennings Bryan.
- 1908
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Political Campaign Poster, "William H. Taft, Our Next President," 1908
The Republicans nominated William Howard Taft for president in 1908. Taft was the Secretary of War and a friend of President Theodore Roosevelt. Taft was also Roosevelt's choice to replace him in the White House. With enthusiastic campaigning from Roosevelt, Taft and his running mate, James Sherman, easily defeated the Democratic candidate, William Jennings Bryan.