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Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was a Democratic candidate for president during the 2008 US presidential election. In addition to being an attorney and First Lady to former President Bill Clinton during his two terms in office, she also served as a U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009. Clinton's Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, became the Democratic nominee at the 2008 Democratic National Convention by a relatively small margin—Clinton had 1,640 pledged delegates to Obama's 1,763. Obama was elected president in the November 2008 election, and he soon after named Hillary Clinton as U.S. Secretary of State. She served as Secretary of Suntil she was succeeded by John Kerry in 2013. In 2015, Hillary Clinton announced she would run as a Democratic candidate in the 2016 presidential election. 

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Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) was the 23rd President of the United States. His term in office lasted from 1889-1893. He was also the grandson of the 9th U.S. President, William Henry Harrison. A Republican, Benjamin Harrison ran for a second presidential term in 1892 against Democrat Grover Cleveland, who had already served a term as President immediately prior to Harrison, from 1885 to 1889. As seen in this button, Harrison ran on a platform that focused in part on protectionism, or restraining trade with other states through tariffs on imported goods. Harrison lost the election to Cleveland. 

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Carol Moseley Braun was a United States Senator from Illinois. She held the seat for six years, from 1993 to 1999. A native of Chicago, Moseley Braun was the first female African-American to ever serve in the U.S. Senate and the first female senator from Illinois. This button promotes her first senatorial campaign in 1992, upon the conclusion of which she became the first woman to ever defeat an incumbent U.S. senator in an election (Alan J. Dixon). After her term in office, she was appointed Ambassador to New Zealand by President Bill Clinton from 1999 to 2001. 

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This button is from The Edgar Winter Group's third studio album, They Only Come Out At Night, released in 1972. The album has two of their most popular singles, Frankenstein and Free Ride, and it stayed on the Billboard Hot 200 for 80 weeks. This American rock band broke up in the mid-1970s.

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Stan Ridgway is an American musician who fronted the alternative rock band, Wall of Voodoo, from 1977 until 1983. He has nine studio albums to his credit, including his 1989 release, Mosquitos, by which the illustration on this button may have been inspired.

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This button is from Squeeze's eighth studio album, Frank, released in 1989. The band had noted success before making this album, with four certified albums between 1979 and 1987. With no charting singles, Frank became one of the least successful records by this English new wave band.

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Your Little Secret is the fifth album by singer/songwriter Melissa Etheridge, released in 1995. The single "I Want to Come Over” reached #22 on the Billboard Hot 100. Melissa Etheridge, born in 1961, is a rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist. She has also been a gay and lesbian activist since her public coming out in January 1993. Her debut album was released in 1988, but she didn’t reach mainstream success until the release of her fourth album in 1993, Yes I Am, which featured three hit singles. Etheridge earned her star on the Walk of Fame in 2011.

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Faster and Llouder is the title of the second album by American country duo, Foster and Lloyd. The album was released on April 15, 1989 under the RCA label. The duo was considered a new kind of country music when they came onto the Nashville scene. Their fast-paced Rockabilly style and aesthetic was described as louder than other typical country music of the era.

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The Parisian Novelty Company was a button producing company which was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1898. In 2008, the button portion of the Parisian Novelty Company was sold to the Matchless Group and renamed Matchless Parisian Novelty, Inc.

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Hyatt Manufacturing Company produced this button as a means to advertise their company's services and to promote their catalog.  Hyatt Mfg. Co. was located in Baltimore, Maryland on the northeast corner of Holliday and Baltimore Streets.