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Conference
Date:
September 22, 2016 to September 24, 2016
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United States
Subject Fields:
American History / Studies, Law and Legal History, Government and Public Service, Political Science, Political History / Studies
May 13-14 Oregon State University Rethinking Grand Strategy International Conference
Portland Mon. May 16 7pm Oregon Historical Society
Conference website: tiny.cc/rgs2016
The RGS conference will be held May 13-14 at Oregon State University in Corvallis. All panels are free and open to the public (with free on-site registration).
Call for Papers
Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression
November 10–12, 2016
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Deadline: August 29, 2016
The match you have identified certainly fits deVoto's account of Taylor as a general. Perhaps there is something to this "channeling" notion.
The only successful presidential candidate before Donald Trump who lacked any roots in the nominating party that I can think of on the spur of the moment is Zachary Taylor, who had never voted or served in political office before his election as a Whig in 1848. Military officers like Eisenhower and Grant had been courted by both parties, as Taylor was, but they did have some connection to the Republicans who nominated them and they ran on platforms fairly consistent with the party's past policy positions. Am I missing someone else?
Peter
