American Presidents

 

GEORGE WASHINGTON Born 2/22/1732 in Pope's Creek, Virginia. Died 12/14/99 Previous experience: Surveyor, farmer, Continental Congress delegate Vice President: John Adams Term of Office: 4/30/1789-3/3/1797 [Biography] [Quotations] [Books]

JOHN ADAMS  Born 10/30/1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts. Died 7/4/1826 Previous experience: Lawyer, Continental Congress delegate, Vice President Political Party: Federalist Vice President: Thomas Jefferson Term of office: 4/4/1797-3/3/1801 [Biography] [Books]

THOMAS JEFFERSON  Born 4/13/1743 in Shadwell, Virginia. Died 7/4/1826 Previous experience: Continental Congress delegate, governor, Secretary of State, Vice President Political Party: Democratic-Republican Vice Presidents: Aaron Burr, George Clinton Term of office: 3/4/1801-3/3/1809 Key Events: Author of the Declaration of American Independance. [Biography] [Books] [Jefferson Digital Library]

JAMES MADISON Born 3/16/1751 in Port Conway, Virginia.  Died 6/28/1836 Previous experience: Lawyer, Continental Congress delegate, Congressman, Secretary of State Political Party: Democratic-Republican Vice Presidents: George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry Term of office: 3/4/1809-3/3/1817 [Books]

JAMES MONROE  Born 4/28/1758 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Died 7/4/1831 Previous experience: Soldier, lawyer, Continental Congress delegate, Senator, Governor, Secretary of State, Secretary of War Political Party: Democratic-Republican Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins Term of office: 3/4/1817-3/3/1825 [Books]

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Born 7/11/1767 in Braintree, Massachusetts. Died 2/23/48 Previous experience: Lawyer, Senator, Secretary of State, Congressman Political Party: Democratic-Republican Vice President: John C. Calhoun Term of office: 3/4/1825-3/3/29 "The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality." John Quincy Adams [Books]

ANDREW JACKSON  Born 3/15/1767 in Waxhaw District, South Carolina. Died 6/8/1845 Previous experience: Lawyer, Congressman, military leader, governor, Senator Political Party: Democratic Vice Presidents: John C. Calhoun, Martin Van Buren Term of office: 3/4/1829-3/3/37 [Biography] [Books]

MARTIN VAN BUREN  Born 12/5/1782 in Kinderhook, New York. Died 7/24/1862 Previous experience: Lawyer, Senator, governor, Secretary of State, Vice President Political Party: Democratic Vice President: Richard M. Johnson Term of office: 3/4/1837-3/3/41 [Biography] [Books]

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON  Born 2/9/1773 in Berkeley, Virginia. Died 4/4/1841 Previous experience: Military leader, territorial governor, Congressman, Senator Political Party: Whig Vice President: John Tyler Term of office: 3/4/1841- 4/4/41 Key events: Shortest term in office.  [Books]

JOHN TYLER  Born 3/29/1790 in Charles City County, Virginia. Died 1/18/62 Previous experience: Lawyer, Congressman, governor, Senator, Vice President Political Party: Whig Vice President: None Term of office: 4/6/1841 - 3/3/45 [Books]

JAMES KNOX POLK Born 11/2/1795 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Died 6/15/49 Previous experience: Lawyer, Congressman, governor Political Party: Democratic Vice President: George M. Dallas Term of office: 3/4/1845-3/3/49 Key Events: Mexican-American War [Books]

ZACHARY TAYLOR  Born 11/24/1784 in Montebello, Orange County, Virginia. Died 7/9/50 Previous experience: Military leader Political Party: Whig Vice President: Millard Fillmore Term of office: 3/4/1849-7/9/50 [Books]

MILLARD FILLMORE Born 1/7/1800 in Summerhill, New YorkDied 3/8/74 Previous experience: Lawyer, Congressman, Vice President Political Party: Whig Vice President: None Term of office: 7/10/1850-3/3/53 [Books]

FRANKLIN PIERCE  Born 11/23/1804 in Hillsborough, New Hampshire.Died 10/8/69 Previous experience: Lawyer, Congressman, Senator Political Party: Democratic Vice President: William R. King Term of office: 3/4/1853-3/3/57 [Books]

JAMES BUCHANAN Born 4/23/1791 in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania. Died 6/1/68 Previous experience: Lawyer, Congressman, Senator, member of Cabinet Political Party: Democratic Vice President: John C. Breckenridge Term of office: 3/4/1857-3/3/61 [Books]

ABRAHAM LINCOLN Born 2/12/1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky. Died 4/15/65 Previous experience: Lawyer, Congressman, Senatorial candidate Political Party: Republican (called National Union in the election of 1864) Vice Presidents: Hannibal Hamlin, Andrew Johnson Term of office: 3/4/1861-4/15/65 Key Events - Civil War, Abolition of Slavery, Assassinated [Biography] [Books] [Quotations]

ANDREW JOHNSON  Born 12/29/1808 in Raleigh, North Carolina.Died 7/31/75 Previous experience: Congressman, governor, Senator Party: National Union Vice President: None Term of office: 4/15/1865-3/3/69 [Books]

ULYSSES S. GRANT Born 4/27/1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio.Died 7/23/85 Previous experience: Army General Political Party: Republican Vice Presidents: Schuyler Colfax, Henry Wilson Term of office: 3/4/1869-3/3/77 [Biography] [Quotations] [Books]

RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD HAYES Born 10/4/1822 in Delaware, Ohio. Died 1/17/93 Previous experience: Lawyer, military leader, Congressman, governor Political Party: Republican Vice President: William A. Wheeler Term of office: 3/4/1877-3/3/81 [Books]

JAMES A. GARFIELD  Born 11/19/1831 in Orange, Ohio Died 9/17/81 Previous experience: Military leader, Congressman, Senator Political Party: Republican Vice President: Chester A. Arthur Term of office: 3/4/1881-9/17/81 Key Events: Assassinated 20th President. Could reputedly write Latin with his right hand and Greek with his left hand simultaneously. [Books]

CHESTER A. ARTHUR  Born 10/5/1830 in Fairfield, Vermont.Died 11/18/86 Previous experience: Public official, Vice President Political Party: Republican Vice President: None Term of office: 9/20/1881-3/3/85 [Books]

GROVER CLEVELAND  Born 3/18/1837 in Caldwell, New Jersey. Died 6/24/1908 Previous experience: Lawyer, sheriff, mayor, governor Political Party: Democratic Vice President: Thomas A. Hendricks Term of office: 3/4/1885-3/3/89 [Books]

BENJAMIN HARRISON  Born 8/20/1833 in North Bend, Ohio. Died 3/13/1901 Previous experience: Lawyer, military leader, Senator Political Party: Republican Vice President: Levi P. Morton Term of office: 3/4/1889-3/4/93 [Books]

GROVER CLEVELAND  Born 3/18/1837 in Caldwell, New Jersey.Died 6/24/1908 Previous experience: Lawyer, sheriff, mayor, governor Political Party: Democratic Vice President: Adlai E. Stevenson Term of office: 3/4/1893-3/3/87 [Books]

WILLIAM MCKINLEY  Born 1/29/1843 in Niles, Ohio. Died 9/14/1901 Previous experience: Soldier, lawyer, Congressman, governor Political Party: Republican Vice Presidents: Garret A. Hobart, Theodore Roosevelt Term of office: 3/4/1897-9/14/1901 Key Events: Assassinated [Books]

THEODORE ROOSEVELT Born 10/27/1858 in New York, New York. Died 1/6/1919 Previous experience: governor, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Vice President Political Party: Republican Vice President: Charles W. Fairbanks Term of office: 9/14/1901-3/3/09 [Books] [Quotations] [Biography]

WILLIAM H. TAFT  Born 9/15/1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Died 3/8/1930 Previous experience: Lawyer, judge, Governor of the Philippines, Secretary of War Political Party: Republican Vice President: James S. Sherman Term of office: 3/4/1909-3/3/13 [Books]

WOODROW WILSON Born 12/28/1856 in Staunton, Virginia.Died 2/3/1924 Previous experience: Princeton University President, Governor of New Jersey Political Party: Democratic Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall Term of office: 3/4/1913-3/3/21 [Books] "I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it." Woodrow Wilson, 1919

WARREN G. HARDING Born 11/2/1865 in Corsica, Ohio. Died 8/2/23 Previous experience: lieutenant governor, Senator Political Party: Republican Vice President: Calvin Coolidge Term of office: 3/4/1921-8/2/23 [Books]

CALVIN COOLIDGE  Born 7/4/1872 in Plymouth, Vermont. Died 1/5/33 Previous experience: lawyer, public official, governor, Vice President Political Party: Republican Vice President: Charles G. Dawes Term of office: 8/3/1923-3/3/29 - 30th President [Books]

HERBERT C. HOOVER Born 8/10/1874 in West Branch, Iowa. Died 10/20/64 Previous experience: Secretary of Commerce Political Party: Republican Vice President: Charles Curtis Term of office: 3/4/1929-3/3/33 [Books]

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Born 1/30/1882 in Hyde Park, New York. Died 4/12/45 Previous experience: Public official, lawyer, governor Political Party: Democratic Vice Presidents: John N. Garner, Henry A. Wallace, Harry S. Truman Term of office: 3/4/1933-4/12/45 Key Events: WW2  [Biography] [Books] [Quotations] [Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt]

HARRY S TRUMAN  Born 5/8/1884 in Lamar, Missouri. Died 12/26/72 Previous experience: judge, Senator, Vice President Political Party: Democratic Vice President: Alben W. Barkley Term of office: 4/12/45-1/20/53 Key Events: Berlin Airlift. Captain of artillery battery WW1, company D. Was vice president for only 82 days before becoming President. Atom bomb after 4 months in office [Books] [Quotations]

"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell." Harry S. Truman

DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Born 10/14/1890 in Denison, Texas. Died 3/28/69 Previous experience: Military leader, college president Political Party: Republican Vice President: Richard M. Nixon Term of office: 1/20/53-1/20/61 Key Events: Korean War [Books] [Biography]

JOHN F. KENNEDY Born 5/29/17 in Brookline, Massachusetts.  Died 11/22/63 Previous experience: Congressman, Senator, author Political Party: Democratic Vice President: Lyndon B. Johnson Term of office: 1/20/61-11/22/63 Key Events: Cold War, Cuban crisis, Assassinated [Biography] [Books] [Quotations] [Kennedy's Inaugural Speech]

LYNDON B. JOHNSON Born 8/27/1908 in Stonewall, Texas. Died 1/22/73 Previous experience: public official, Vice President Political Party: Democratic Vice President: Hubert H. Humphrey Term of office: 11/22/63-1/20/69 Key Events: Kennedy asassination, Vietnam War There are those who are troubled 100 per cent about the situation in Vietnam. That goes double for me. President Lyndon Baines Johnson, quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald, 28/5/66. Ride over the bastards! Robert Askin, NSW Premier, 27/7/68. (Purportedly to the driver of LBJ's limousine during an anti-war demonstration in Sydney) [Books]

RICHARD M. NIXON Born 1/9/13 in Yorba Linda, California. Died 4/22/94 Previous experience: Lawyer, Congressman, Senator, Vice President Political Party: Republican Vice Presidents: Spiro T. Agnew, Gerald R. Ford Term of office: 1/20/69-8/9/74 Key Events: Vietnam War, Watergate [Books]

GERALD R. FORD  Born 7/14/13 in Omaha, Nebraska Previous experience: Congressman, Vice President Political Party: Republican Vice President: Nelson A. Rockefeller Term of office: 8/9/74 - 1/20/77 Key Events: Pardoned Nixon [Books]

JAMES E. CARTER  Born 10/1/24 in Plains, Georgia Previous experience: Naval officer, businessman, state senator, governor Political Party: Democratic Vice President: Walter F. Mondale Term of office: 1/20/77-1/20/81 [Books]

RONALD W. REAGAN  Born 2/6/11 in Tampico, Illinois Previous experience: actor, union official, governor Political Party: Republican Vice President: George H.W. Bush Term of office: 1/20/81-1/20/89 Key Events:  [Books]

GEORGE H.W. BUSH Born: 6/12/24 in Milton, Massachusetts Previous experience: Vice President, Congressman, ambassador, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Political Party: Republican Vice President: J. Danforth Quayle Term of office: 1/20/89-1/20/93 Key Events: Gulf War, Collapse of Communism [Books]

WILLIAM J. CLINTON Born 8/19/46 in Hope, Arkansas Previous experience: governor Political Party: Democratic Vice President: Albert Gore, Jnr. Term of office: 1/20/93 - January 2001 Key Events: Impeachment, Balkan conflicts [Books] [Biography]

GEORGE W. BUSH Born July 6, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut Previous experience: Military pilot, governor of Texas Political Party: Republican Term of Office: January 20, 2001 - Key Events: Sept 11 2001, Iraq War 2003 [Books] [Quotations] [Comments]

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