GHS SBCB — V History: #2

16. Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)

Republican nicknamed ”Honest Abe,” “The Great Emancipator,” and “The Rail-Splitter” who was married to Mary Todd with Vice Presidents Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson, Secretary of State WIlliam Seward, Secretary of Treasury Salmon P. Chase, and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton; president during Civil War who signed the Homestead Act and Emancipation, as well as participating in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and the tallest at 6’4” before being assassinated

17. Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)

Democrat nicknamed “The Tennessee Tailor” and assumed presidency after Lincoln’s assassination as he was the vice president with Secretary of State William Seward, serving duuring the 13th and 14th Amendments in Reconstruction as well as being impeached but never convicted

18. Ulysses Simpson Grant (1869-1877)

Republican born Hiram Ulysses, wife Julia Dent and Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, always calling for “Unconditional Surrender” during the Civil War, where he led the Union Army, as well as serving during the 15th Amendment, the Transcontinental Railroad, the Tweed Ring (Tammany Hall), the Panic of 1873, the Crédit Mobilier scandal, and the Whiskey Ring

19. Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1877-1881)

Republican nicknamed “His Fradulency” and married to Lucy, nicknamed “Lemonade Lucy” as she never served alcohol

20. James Abram Garfield (1881)

Republican with Vice President Chester A. Arthur and Secretary of State James G. Blaine (from Maine), serving for six months before being assassinated by Charles Guiteau

21. Chester Alan Arthur (1881-1885)

Republican who assumed presidency after Garfield’s assassination as he was vice president, Secretary of State James G. Blaine, serving as president during the Pendleton Act, as well as setting up the civil service commission

22. (Stephen) Grover Cleveland (1885-1889)

Democrat serving the first of his two nonconsecutive terms as the twenty-*fourth* president, having the title during the Haymarket Riot and the Interstate Commerce Act

23. Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)

Republican and grandson of ninth president William Henry Harrison with Secretary of State James G. Blaine, serving during the Sherman Antitrust Act

24. (Stephen) Grover Cleveland (1893-1897)

Democrat serving the second of his two nonconsecutive terms as the twenty-*fourth* president, having the title during the Panic of 1893 and the Pullman Strike

25. William McKinley (1897-1901)

Republican with Vice President Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary of State John Hay, serving during the Spanish-American War, the Open Door Policy, the Boxer Rebellion, and ultimately being assassinated by Leon Czolgosz

26. Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)

Republican who assumed presidency after McKinley’s assassination as he was vice president with Vice President Charles Fairbanks and Secretary of States John Hay and Elihu Root, being the youngest to take office after leading the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill on Cuba during the Spanish-American War and saying “Speak softly and carry a big stick,” serving during the Panama Canal, the “Square Deal,” the Pure Food and Drug Act, the Meat Inspection Act, and “muckrakers,” earning himself a reputation as a “trust-buster”

27. William Howard Taft (1909-1913)

Republican and fattest president who got stuck in a bathtub, being the only latter Supreme Court Chief Justice

28. (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)

Democrat nicknamed “Fourteen Points,” being the President of Princeton and Governor of New York, serving during the inception of the Federal Reserve System and the Sinking of the Lusitania, as well as leading America into WWI to “make the world safe for democracy”

29. Warren Gamaliel Harding (1921-1923)

Republican and another “Dark Horse” candidate with Vice President Calvin Coolidge and Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, serving during the Teapot Dome scandal caused by the Ohio Gang and dying in office

30. (John) Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)

Republican nicknamed “Silent Cal” as he didn’t talk much

John C. Frémont

Nicknamed “The Pathfinder,” a California state Senator who ran for President in “Free Soil, Free Men, and Frémont,” leading 5 western expeditions in the Rocky Mountains, Oregon Trail, and California, making the American West accessible for many Americans as well as being a Civil War Major General

Otto von Bismarck

A russian statesman nicknamed “The Iron Chancellor”

Huey Long

Governor of Louisiana and Senator from there nicknamed “The Kingfish,” being assassinated and the subject of the novel All the King’s Men

J. Robert Oppenheimer

U.S. Scientist and inventor who led the Manhattan Project nicknamed “Father of the Atomic Bomb”

Joseph R. McCarthy

Communist-hunting Wisconsin Senator of the 1950s nicknamed “Tail-Gunner Joe”

Margaret Thatcher

U.K. Prime Minister of the 1980s nicknamed ”The Iron Lady”