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Henry "Hank" Merritt Paulson, Jr(March 28, 1946- ) was born in Palm Beach, Florida, USA. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1970, Paulson stepped into the Pentagon.
In July 2006, he was appointed as the 74th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. He previously served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs, a major investment bank.
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Australian family and poet, one of the founders of Australian native culture, racist, born into a working poor family. His father was Norwegian and moved to Australia in 1866, first as a gold miner and later as a farmer. Lawson studied for only three years and began working at the age of 14 as a painter, sawyer, and telegraph lineman.
Henry Lawson had a very difficult life. He published poems, essays and ** in newspapers very early, most of which described Australian bush life, gold diggers, farm operations, sheep shearers, and the revolutionary storm of the urban poor, reflecting the characteristics of Australian local culture and unique style, presenting a picture of the life of Australian working people. It shows the characteristics of the work's realism, contemporary, people's nature and locality.
His work embodies a staple of the entire Australian realist literary tradition. Henry Lawson is mainly famous in the literary world for his short stories, and has published a collection of poems "In the Days of the Sea and the Sky" and a collection of short stories "When the Water in the Can Boils".
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William Henry Harrison studied at university and later with Dr. Benjamin, a famous doctor. He joined the army at the age of 18 as an adjutant to General Anthony Wayne. In 1798 he was appointed Minister of the Northwest Territories.
In 1798, he became governor of Indiana, a newly formed state. He took 30 million acres from the Indians and incorporated them into the state. In 1812, the British and Indians jointly invaded Indiana, the United States declared war on the British, and Harrison, as commander of the Combined Forces in the Northwest Territories, won the Battle of the Thames.
After the war, he served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, a senator from Ohio, a U.S. senator, and a minister to Colombia. In 1836 he ran unsuccessfully as a Whig candidate. Elected in 1840.
However, he only served as the country's chief executive for a month. The hero of the War of 1812 won the ** position after a hard-fought campaign at the age of 68. On March 4, 1841, Harrison's inauguration day was met with a cold snap and a bitter cold wind, and Harrison spent an hour and a half reading his inaugural address.
His speech, along with several other speeches, gave the participants a long taste of the cold in Washington. A few days later, the old man contracted pneumonia and died 32 days later. Deputy John Taylor was immediately in charge, and William Henry Harrison didn't seem to be in office for a few days.
Although historians still remember Harrison as an excellent military commander, the only record of him being the shortest reigning man in history. Harrison's day on duty was cold. His inaugural speech was the longest in U.S. history, at nearly two hours.
He gave speeches outside without an overcoat, contracted acute pneumonia, and died 31 days later, becoming the first person in U.S. history to die in office**, and the shortest tenure** in U.S. history**. After his death, the Whigs began to decline.
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