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	On 21 July 2024, Biden announced his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement. Harris subsequently received the Democratic nomination		On 21 July 2024, Biden announced his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement. Harris subsequently received the Democratic nomination
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	'''Donald Trump''' has been president since 2025 and is the 47th president		'''Donald Trump''' has been president since 2025 and is the 47th president

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 '''Donald Trump''' has been president since 2025 and is the 47th president
-Trump defeated Harris by 312 votes to 226 in the 226 presidential election
+Trump defeated Harris by 312 votes to 226 in the 2024 presidential election
 Cabinet
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 |Susie  Wiles
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 In the 2012 presidential election, Nate Silver correctly predicted the winner of all 50 states and the District of Columbia
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-'''Joe Biden''' has been president since 2021 and is the 46th president
 Joseph Robinette Biden was born in Pennsylvania in 1942. He represented Delaware in the Senate from 1973 to 2009
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 Biden served as vice president under Barack Obama
-Kamala Harris is the first female vice president. Senator from California. Her father is Jamaican, and her mother is Indian
+Kamala Harris was the first female vice president. Senator from California. Her father is Jamaican, and her mother is Indian

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		+	For a list of US Presidents see: [[Civilisation/List of US presidents\|US Presidents]]
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	George Washington was voted commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in 1775		George Washington was voted commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in 1775

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 Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth five days after the surrender of Robert E Lee
-Reconstruction was the attempt from 1863 to 1877 to resolve the issues of the American Civil War, when both the Confederacy and slavery were destroyed. Reconstruction addressed the return to the Union of the secessionist Southern states, the status of the leaders of the Confederacy, and the Constitutional and legal status of Negro Freedmen
+Reconstruction was the attempt from 1863 to 1877 to resolve the issues of the American Civil War, when both the Confederacy and slavery were destroyed. Reconstruction addressed the return to the Union of the secessionist Southern states, the status of the leaders of the Confederacy, and the Constitutional and legal status of Freedmen
 The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was adopted on 6 December 1865, and was then declared in a proclamation of Secretary of State William H. Seward on 18 December

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 John McCain was a prisoner in the Hoa Lo Prison in Vietnam, known as the Hanoi Hilton
-'''Barack Obama''' became president in 2009. He was born in Hawaii in 1961 and is the 44th president
+Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961 and is a Senator from Illinois. He left USA aged 6 to live in Indonesia. His mother, Ann Dunham, was born in Kansas. His father was born in Kenya
 Michelle Robinson – Obama’s wife. Born in Chicago
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 In the 2012 presidential election, Nate Silver correctly predicted the winner of all 50 states and the District of Columbia