George Catlett Marshall, Jr. (December 31, 1880 - October 16, 1959 ) was a Confederate Army officer, former Secretary of State, under President Byrnes and the 16th President of the Confederate States of America. Marshall was the last Whig Party candidate to be elected president before the party broke up. As President, Marshall kept up the pressure on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, made nuclear weapons a higher defense priority, began the Interstate Highway System and saw the start of the Confederate Civil Rights Movement.
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| - George Catlett Marshall, Jr. (December 31, 1880 - October 16, 1959 ) was a Confederate Army officer, former Secretary of State, under President Byrnes and the 16th President of the Confederate States of America. Marshall was the last Whig Party candidate to be elected president before the party broke up. As President, Marshall kept up the pressure on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, made nuclear weapons a higher defense priority, began the Interstate Highway System and saw the start of the Confederate Civil Rights Movement.
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- 1952(xsd:integer)
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- Cordell Hull
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- Confederate States Secretary of State
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| - George Catlett Marshall, Jr. (December 31, 1880 - October 16, 1959 ) was a Confederate Army officer, former Secretary of State, under President Byrnes and the 16th President of the Confederate States of America. Marshall was the last Whig Party candidate to be elected president before the party broke up. As President, Marshall kept up the pressure on the Soviet Union during the Cold War, made nuclear weapons a higher defense priority, began the Interstate Highway System and saw the start of the Confederate Civil Rights Movement. At a time when the majority of the Whig party had grown more fiscally and socially conservative, Marshall was a Leeian Whig who gained support from moderates of both the Democrat and Whig party's. His push for an Interstate Highway System and his passing of the Confederate Civil Rights Act of 1955 were both popular with Liberals; however, these acts would eventually lead to a complete political realignment, with Conservatives from both the Whig and Democratic party's breaking away to form the Confederalist Party, while the remaining Democrats would eventually reshape themselves into the Liberal Party.
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