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David King Bunce, son of James A.L. Bunce and Esther Lewis, was born 27 Apr 1845 in Mt. Carroll, Carroll County, Illinois. He married Elizabeth Linerode (daughter of Isaac Deardorff Linerode and Nancy Jane Thomas, born 1 July 1848, in Stark County, Ohio) on 15 Nov 1867 in Morrison, Whiteside County, Illinois. They had seven children. David died 13 Dec 1916, in Gilbert, Story County, Iowa. Elizabeth also died in Gilbert on 18 May 1920. Their descendants have lived in Iowa, South Dakota, Illinois, Oregon and other areas throughout the United States.
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The Guide to the Presidency is an extensive study of the most important office of the U.S. political system. Its two volumes describe the history, workings and people involved in this office from Washington to Clinton. The thirty-seven chapters of the Guide, arranged into seven distinct subject areas (ranging from the origins of the office to the powers of the presidency to selection and removal) cover every aspect of the presidency. Initially dealing with the constitutional evolution of the presidency and its development, the book goes on to expand on the history of the office, how the presidency operates alongside the numerous departments and agents of the federal bureaucracy, and how the ...
At the FBI, the “Sex Deviates” program covered a lot of ground, literally; at its peak, J. Edgar Hoover’s notorious “Sex Deviates” file encompassed nearly 99 cubic feet or more than 330,000 pages of information. In 1977–1978 these files were destroyed—and it would seem that four decades of the FBI’s dirty secrets went up in smoke. But in a remarkable feat of investigative research, synthesis, and scholarly detective work, Douglas M. Charles manages to fill in the yawning blanks in the bureau’s history of systematic (some would say obsessive) interest in the lives of gay and lesbian Americans in the twentieth century. His book, Hoover’s War on Gays, is the first to fully e...
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