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Under which president did Henry L. Stimson serve as Governor-General of the Philippines?

  • Harry S. Truman

  • Calvin Coolidge

  • Herbert Hoover

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Henry L. Stimson served as Governor-General of the Philippines from 1927 to 1929, under President Calvin Coolidge. Stimson was a Republican and a former Secretary of War, and he was appointed to the position by Coolidge in order to help improve relations between the United States and the Philippines. Stimson was successful in this task, and he helped to lay the groundwork for the eventual independence of the Philippines.
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