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Robert P. Patterson
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Stephen Benton Elkins
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Joel Roberts Poinsett
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Kenneth Claiborne Royall
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Edwin Stanton
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John B. Floyd
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Alphonso Taft
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Joseph Holt
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John W. Weeks
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John C. Spencer
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Jefferson Davis
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William H. Crawford
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James McHenry
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Lindley Miller Garrison
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Timothy Pickering
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Robert Todd Lincoln
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Charles Magill Conrad
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Elihu Root
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Patrick J. Hurley
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Henry Knox
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Newton D. Baker
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John C. Calhoun
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William L. Marcy
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James Barbour
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John Eaton (politician)
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Russell A. Alger
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Luke Edward Wright
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Simon Cameron
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John Bell (Tennessee politician)
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Henry L. Stimson
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James William Good
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Lewis Cass
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Dwight F. Davis
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Samuel Dexter
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William Eustis
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George W. McCrary
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William W. Belknap
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John Armstrong Jr.
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J. Donald Cameron
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William Crowninshield Endicott
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Jacob M. Dickinson
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Peter Buell Porter
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William Wilkins (U.S. politician)
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John Aaron Rawlins
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George Dern
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Harry Hines Woodring
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Henry Dearborn
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George W. Crawford
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James Madison Porter
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Alexander Ramsey
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