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George Washington

George Washington

1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799)

John Adams

America's first Vice-President and second President. Sponsor of the American Revolution in Massachusetts, and wrote the Massachusetts guarantee that freedom of press "ought not to be restrained." (1797-1801)

Thomas Jefferson

3rd President of the United States , He was a delegate from Virginia at the Second Continental Congress and wrote the Declaration of Independence. He later served as the third President of the United States. (1801-1809)

James Madison

"Father of the Constitution," Federalist leader, and fourth President of the United States. (1809-1817)

James Monroe

5th president, begins expansionism including Florida and Missouri, as well as reigning over the Era of Good Feelings (1817-1825)

John Quincy Adams

6th president from (1825-1829); served in the Senate and House of Representatives; son of President John Adams; helped formulate the Monroe Doctrine as Secretary of State; lost his re-election to Andrew Jackson; viewed as one of the greatest diplomats in American history.

Andrew Jackson

7th president of the US; successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815; expanded the power of the presidency (1829-1837)

Martin Van Buren

8th president, (1837-1841) Advocated lower tariffs and free trade, and by doing so maintained support of the south for the Democratic party. He succeeded in setting up a system of bonds for the national debt.

William Henry Harrison

9th president, (1841), was an American military leader, politician, the ninth President of the United States, and the first President to die in office. His death created a brief Constitutional crisis, but ultimately resolved many questions about presidential succession left unanswered by the Constitution until passage of the 25th Amendment. Led US forces in the Battle of Tippecanoe.

John Tyler

Elected Vice President and became the 10th President of the United States when Harrison died (1841-1845), President responsible for annexation of Mexico after receiving mandate from Polk, opposed many parts of the Whig program for economic recovery

James K. Polk

11th president of the United States, (1845-1849) from Tennessee; committed to westward expansion; led the country during the Mexican War; U.S. annexed Texas and took over Oregon during his administration.

Zachary Taylor

12th president, (1849-1850), Whig president who was a Southern slave holder, and war hero (Mexican-American War). Won the 1848 election. Surprisingly did not address the issue of slavery at all on his platform. He died during his term and his Vice President was Millard Fillmore.

Millard Fillmore

13th president, (1850-1853), The Fugitive Slave Act was passed in 1850. California becomes a free state, territories chose popular sovereignty, Uncle Tom's Cabin. He helped pass the Compromise of 1850 by gaining the support of Northern Whigs for the compromise.

Franklin Pierce

14th president, (1853 to 1857) He is the only President from New Hampshire and was not nominated by his party (Democrat) for a second term.

James Buchanan

The 15th president of the United States (1857-1861). He tried to maintain a balance between proslavery and antislavery factions, but his moderate views angered radicals in both North and South, and he was unable to forestall the secession of South Carolina on December 20, 1860.

Abraham Lincoln

16th president of the United States, (1861-1865), saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth.

Andrew Johnson

17th president of the United States (1865-1869), A Southerner form Tennessee, as V.P. when Lincoln was killed, he became president. He opposed radical Republicans who passed Reconstruction Acts over his veto. The first U.S. president to be impeached, he survived the Senate removal by only one vote. He was a very weak president.

Ulysses S. Grant

An American general and the 18th president of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.

Rutherford B. Hayes

19th president of the United States (1877-1881), was famous for being part of the Hayes-Tilden election in which electoral votes were contested in 4 states, most corrupt election in US history.

James A. Garfield

20th president, (1881-1881) Four months after his inauguration, he is shot by Charles Guiteau, a disgruntled office-seeker. In September of the same year, he dies from complications of his wounds. He was the second of four United States Presidents who were assassinated.

Chester A. Arthur

21st president, (1881-1885) As vice president, he becomes president after the assassination of President Garfield. Born in Fairfield, Vermont, he grew up in upstate New York and honed his political skills in New York City. Journalist Alexander McClure wrote, "No man ever entered the Presidency so profoundly and widely distrusted... and no one ever retired ... more generally respected, alike by political friend and foe." He would serve one term.

Grover Cleveland

22nd president, (1885-1889), Honest and hardworking, fought corruption, vetoed hundreds of wasteful bills, achieved the Interstate Commerce Commission and civil service reform, violent suppression of strikes.

Benjamin Harrison

23rd President, (1889-1893), introduced the McKinley Tariff and increased federal spending to a billion dollars.

Grover Cleveland

24th president, (1893-1897) He is inaugurated a second time, as the 24th president. He is the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms.

William McKinley

25th president, (1897-1901), responsible for Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and the Annexation of Hawaii, imperialism. Is assassinated by an anarchist

Theodore Roosevelt

26th president, (1901-1909). Increased size of Navy, "Great White Fleet". Added Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine. "Big Stick" policy. Received Nobel Peace Prize for mediation of end of Russo-Japanese war. Later arbitrated split of Morocco between Germany and France.

William Howard Taft

27th president, (1909-1913), he angered progressives by moving cautiously toward reforms and by supporting the Payne-Aldrich Tariff; he lost Roosevelt's support and was defeated for a second term.

Woodrow Wilson

28th president, (1913-1921) known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize.

Warren G. Harding

29th president, (1921-1923), from Ohio. His death was from natural causes.

Calvin Coolidge

30th president, (1923-1929), became president when Harding died of pneumonia. He was known for practicing a rigid economy in money and words, and acquired the name "Silent Cal" for being so soft-spoken. He was a true republican and industrialist. Believed in the government supporting big business.

Herbert Hoover

31st president, (1929-1933), republican candidate who assumed the presidency in March 1929 promising the American people prosperity and attempted to first deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd president, (1933-1945), he began New Deal programs to help the nation out of the Great Depression, and he was the nation's leader during most of WWII.

Harry S. Truman

33rd president, (1945-1953), who succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt upon Roosevelt's death in April 1945. Truman, who led the country through the last few months of World War II, is best known for making the controversial decision to use two atomic bombs against Japan in August 1945. After the war, Truman was crucial in the implementation of the Marshall Plan, which greatly accelerated Western Europe's economic recovery.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

34th president, (1953-1961), American General who began in North Africa and became the Commander of Allied forces in Europe.

John F. Kennedy

35th president, (1961-1963), during part of the cold war and especially during the superpower rivalry and the cuban missile crisis. He was the president who went on tv and told the public about the crisis and allowed the leader of the Soviet Union to withdraw their missiles. Other events, which were during his terms was the building of the berlin wall, the space race, and early events of the Vietnamese war. The 4th president to get assassinated in 1963.

Lyndon B. Johnson

36th president, (1963-1969), signed the civil rights act of 1964 into law and the voting rights act of 1965. He had a war on poverty in his agenda in an attempt to win, he set a few goals, including the great society, the economic opportunity act, and other programs that provided food stamps and welfare to needy families. He also created a department of housing and urban development. His most important legislation was probably medicare and medicaid.

Richard Nixon

37th president, (1969-1974), vice president under President Eisenhower.

Gerald Ford

38th president, (1974-1977), Solely elected by a vote from Congress. He pardoned Nixon of all crimes that he may have committed. Evacuated nearly 500,000 Americans and South Vietnamese from Vietnam, closing the war. We are heading toward rapid inflation. He runs again and debates Jimmy Carter. At the debate he is asked how he would handle the communists in eastern Europe and he said there were none and this apparently sealed his fate.

Jimmy Carter

39th president, (1977-1981), Created the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. He was criticized for his return of the Panama Canal Zone, and because of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, he enacted an embargo on grain shipments to USSR and boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow and his last year in office was marked by the takeover of the American embassy in Iran, fuel shortages, and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, which caused him to lose to Ronald Reagan in the next election.

Ronald Reagan

40th president, (1981-1989),"Great Communicator" Republican, conservative economic policies, replaced liberal Democrats in upper house with conservative Democrats or "boll weevils".

George H. W. Bush

41st president, (1989-1993). Republican, republican, former director of CIA, oil company founder/owner, foreign policy (panama, gulf war), raised taxes even though said he wouldn't.

Bill Clinton

42nd president, (1993-2001), advocated economic and healthcare reform; second president to be impeached.

George W. Bush

43rd president, (2001-2009) who began a campaign toward energy self-sufficiency and against terrorism in 2001.

Barack Obama

44th president, (2008-2017), first African American president of the US, health care bill; Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster; economy: huge stimulus package to combat the great recession, is removing troops from Iraq, strengthened numbers in Afghanistan; repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell; New Start treaty with Russia

Donald Trump

45th president, (2017-2021), only president to get impeached 2 times, many say he was the worse president ever.

Joe Biden

46th president, (2021-present), vice president for President Obama.