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Smith, Elbert Benjamin was born on May 1, 1920 in Benham, Kentucky, United States. Son of Elbert Benjamin and Margaret Gladys (Huffaker) Smith.
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This is the first modern and complete life of F.P. Blair, member of Andrew Jackson's Kitchen Cabinet, founder and editor of the Washington Globe, a founder of the Republican Party, advisor and confidant to five U.S. Presidents, patriarch of one of Maryland's biggest political dynasties, shaper of America, and one of the country's greatest and shrewdest "behind the scenes" powers.
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Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 - July 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the twelfth President of the United States. Taylor had a 40-year military career in the U.S. Army, serving in the War of 1812, Black Hawk War, and Second Seminole War before achieving fame while leading U.S. troops to victory at several critical battles of the Mexican-American War. Taylor's short Presidency was shadowed by the issue then dominating all aspects of American national affairs - that of slavery. However, the immediate issue was the admission of New Mexico and California as states. Taylor confounded his Southern supporters, who had assumed that since the President owned slaves, he would support the pro-slavery position and refuse entry into the union to two states settled by Northerners and likely to be anti-slavery. Taylor recommended that the two territories develop their own constitutions and then request admission based on those constitutions. When Southern states threatened secession he warned them that he would use all his resources as commander-in- chief to preserve the union. He stated that if they seceded he would track them down like he had the Mexicans, and handle them in the same manner that he had deserters. Taylor's brief term in the White House also featured the still on-going question of balancing power between the Congress and the presidency.
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In this book Elbert B. Smith disagrees sharply with traditional interpretations of Taylor and Fillmore, the twelfth and thirteenth presidents (from 1848 to 1853). He argues persuasively that the slaveholding Taylor—and not John C. Calhoun—was the realistic defender of southern slaveholding interests, and that Taylor did nothing to impede the Compromise of 1850. While Taylor opposed the combination of the issues into a single compromise bill that could not be passed without amendments to suit the extremists, he would have approved the different parts of the Compromise that were ultimately passed as separate measures. Most historians have written that Taylor's death and Fillmore's accession led to an abrupt change in presidential policy, but Smith believes that continuity predominated. Taylor wanted the controversies debated and acted upon as separate bills. Fillmore helped to accomplish this. Taylor was ready to defend New Mexico against Texas. Fillmore ordered 750 additional troops to New Mexico and announced publicly that he would do the same. Taylor had wanted statehood for California and New Mexico with self-determination on slavery. As separate measures, the Congress admitted California and preserved a viable New Mexico as a territory authorized to make its own decision on slavery. With secessionists pitted against moderates in the southern elections of 1851, Fillmore had to choose between his constitutional oath and his personal antipathy to the new fugitive slave law. He supported the law and thereby helped keep southern moderates in power for a few more years. In fact, however, his efforts did not recapture a single slave. In Smith's view, Fillmore's most serious mistake was refusing in 1852 to get himself nominated for another term. Smith argues that Taylor and Fillmore have been seriously misrepresented and underrated. They faced a terrible national crisis and accepted every responsibility without flinching or directing blame toward anyone else.
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Smith, Elbert Benjamin was born on May 1, 1920 in Benham, Kentucky, United States. Son of Elbert Benjamin and Margaret Gladys (Huffaker) Smith.
AB, Maryville College, 1940; AM, University of Chicago, 1947; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1949.
Associate professor Youngstown (Ohio) University, 1949-1957. Associate professor, then professor Iowa State University, Ames, 1957-1967. Professor University Maryland, College Park, 1968-1990, professor emeritus, since 1990.
Visiting professor University Wisconsin, Madison, 1967-1968. Visiting Fulbright professor University Tokyo, 1954-1955, Moscow State University, 1976, 82, Leningrad (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics) University, 1991. Exchange professor Beijing University, 1983, 88.
Lecturer cruise ships, 1989-2005.
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(In this book Elbert B. Smith disagrees sharply with tradi...)
Democratic candidate United States Senate, 1962, 66. Member United States Board Foreign Scholarships, Washington, 1979-1981. Founding president District of Columbia chapter Fulbright Association, 1984, national president, 1989-1990.
Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1945. Member American Association United Nations (chairman Iowa Speaker Bureau 1961-1965), American History Association, Organization American Historians.
Married Jean Frances Smith, December 26, 1944. Children: Randall, Stephen, Amy, Scott, Robert.