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North Beach Person · 04-02-2009, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by jtur88

Who was the last man to be elected president of a Western Hemisphere nation in which slavery was legal?

Lincoln-US, 1860.

Future Trooper · 04-02-2009, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by jtur88

The question specified Western Hemisphere, so it would need to be a country in the Americas.

As for your answer, Tandja Mamadou, was elected president if Niger in 1999, and that country did not outlaw slavery until 2003.

I stand corrected. I didnt know that Niger didnt outlaw slavery in 2003

Mauritania is located west of the Prime Meridian so it is located in the Western Hemisphere.

jtur88 · 04-02-2009, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by gdude

Mauritania is located west of the Prime Meridian so it is located in the Western Hemisphere.

Which makes Alaska the easternmost state in the USA.

Abraham Lincoln is not the correct answer. The correct person was elected president of his country in 1861.

Future Trooper · 04-04-2009, 05:59 PM

Jefferson Davis? That would be the only answer that I think is plausable

jtur88 · 04-04-2009, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by gdude

Jefferson Davis? That would be the only answer that I think is plausable

That's correct---Jefferson Davis was elected in 1861 as presdient of a country that still had legal slavery. Brazil did too, but was ruled by an emperor Don Pedro II, who was not elected, up until the abolition of slavery in Brazil.

jtur88 · 04-05-2009, 09:45 PM

What county in the United States came into existence and was named for a president on the day the president was inaugurated?

Future Trooper · 04-09-2009, 05:53 PM

Polk County, VA???????

jtur88 · 04-09-2009, 06:34 PM

I forgot I had asked this. That is a very good guess. There is no Polk County Virginia. But Polk County Tennessee was named after James K. Polk before he was president---he was the governor of Tennessee at the time. Polk County Arkansas was formed and named within the month after Polk was elected, and he had not yet been inaugurated. Florida statehood occurred the day before Polks inauguration, but Polk was not one of Florida's original counties.

Here's a hint---it's a 20th century president.

Future Trooper · 04-09-2009, 06:39 PM

Darn it! thats right I forgot that there is no Polk County,VA!!(dumb me!)

Grandstander · 04-09-2009, 10:16 PM

Jefferson Davis was never elected president of a western hemisphere nation. He was the president of an alliance for rebellion which failed in its attempt to make itself into a nation. It did not win foreign recognition, it did not win acknowledgement from the legal government it wished to overthrow. It only ever asserted nationhood, it never achieved it.