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04/16/2010

National Leaders Who Have Visited Fayetteville

The following are people who have served as presidents, premiers, prime ministers or royalty of their respective nations and have visited Fayetteville, either before, during or after serving in those roles. In chronological order of their first visit to Fayetteville:

Jefferson Davis, 1834, Confederate States of America
Sam Houston, 1840s, Republic of Texas
John Ross, 1854, Cherokee Nation
George Washington Grayson (Tulwa Tustunugge), 1859, Creek Nation
Herbert Hoover, 1894, United States
William Howard Taft, 1917, United States
Harry Truman, 1950s, United States
Bill Clinton, numerous occasions beginning in early 1960s, United States
Richard Nixon, 1969, United States
George H.W. Bush, 1969, 1973, 2009, United States
Ricardo Martinelli, 1972-3, 2010, Panama
Jimmy Carter, 1975 and other occasions, United States
Wilma Mankiller, 1976, Cherokee Nation
John Berrey, 1987, Quapaw Nation
Queen Noor, 2001, Jordan
Benazir Bhutto, 2002, Pakistan
Ehud Barak, 2002, Israel
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, 2007, India
Ehud Olmert, 2009, Israel
Chad Smith, 2010, Cherokee Nation

Posted at 08:30 AM in Government, People-19th Century, People-20th Century, People-21st Century | Permalink

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