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Following the election of 1840, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, and John Tyler each were briefly the American President.

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Whig legislators Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln, and David Crockett recognized the importance of infrastructural development in the West.

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The concept of bankruptcy is as ancient as the Old Testament.

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James K. Polk entered the office of the President as heir apparent to Andrew Jackson's Democratic party after the miserable failure of the Whigs under William Henry Harri