Clement Augustus News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

8/19/2013: William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States, took office in January of 1909. He rode into the White House on a wave of popular support, and became known for his agenda on domestic reform, hoping to improve civil service practices, as well as the postal service. However, soon into his presidency, he gained notoriety for proposing a federal income tax to Congress in June of 1909; Congress approved the resolution of the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution a few weeks later, allowing for just such a tax. Amidst the furor and excitement caused by the proposal, most Ameri...

7/9/2013: One of the earliest Red River Valley settlers was also one of North Dakota’s most interesting and little-known characters.

4/3/2013: Few North Dakotans have likely heard of Jefferson Kidder, although most have heard of Kidder County, which was named for the 19th century North Dakotan. Kidder’s many and varied roles ranged from Lieutenant Governor to State Senator, and ran from his native Vermont to the wilds of Minnesota and Dakota Territory. His son was killed in action under Custer, and his grandson went on to become one of the greatest lawmen of the Old West, but Kidder himself made his name in politics.

10/1/2008: “An act to provide for the division of Dakota into two States and to enable the people of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington to form constitutions and State governments and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States.” Thus read the Enabling Act of 1889, approved by the Fiftieth Congress on February 22, of that year. It set into motion the final division of Dakota Territory into two separate states as well as the creation of Montana and Washington.