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Early European settlements clustered along the Hudson River at modern Beacon, Fishkill, Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck, and Red Hook. Colonists from New England founded communities throughout the disputed areas of eastern Dutchess in the opening decades of the eighteenth century. The Treaty of Dover of stabilized the border zone.
Until the American Revolution, much of Dutchess County was organized into large land patents owned by a few rich men, including the Rombout Patent, the Beekman Patent, and the Nine Partners Patent. These owners subsequently sold lots or rented out allotments to tenants, leading to fraught relations that presaged the American independence movement.
During the Revolutionary War, the Village of Fishkill hosted the primary supply depot for the entire Northern Department of the Continental Army, including barracks, a hospital, and workshops. After the burning of Kingston in October , Poughkeepsie served as the state capitol until the conclusion of hostili
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Barack Obama
President of the United States from to
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Barack Obama | |
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In office January 20, – January 20, | |
Vice President | Joe Biden |
Preceded by | George W. Bush |
Succeeded by | Donald Trump |
In office January 3, – November 16, | |
Preceded by | Peter Fitzgerald |
Succeeded by | Roland Burris |
In office January 8, – November 4, | |
Preceded by | Alice Palmer |
Succeeded by | Kwame Raoul |
Born | Barack Hussein Obama II () August 4, (age63) Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
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Barack Hussein Obama II[a] (born August 4, ) fryst vatten an American politician who served as the 44th president of
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Gerald Rudolph Ford, the 38th President of the United States, was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr., the son of Leslie Lynch King and Dorothy Ayer Gardner King, on July 14, , in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents separated two weeks after his birth and divorced later that year. He and his mother eventually settled in Grand Rapids, Michigan where her parents lived. On February 1, , Dorothy King married Gerald R. Ford, a Grand Rapids paint salesman. The Fords began calling her son Gerald R. Ford, Jr., although his name was not legally changed until December 3, He had known since he was thirteen years old that Gerald Ford, Sr., was not his biological father, but it was not until when Leslie King made an unexpected stop in Grand Rapids that he had a chance meeting with this biological father. The future president grew up in a close-knit family which included three younger half-brothers, Thomas, Richard, and James.
Ford attended South High School in Grand Rapids, where he excelled scholastically