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presidents of the united states

  • George Washington

    George Washington
    He spent most of his youth in in Virginia.When George Washington was eleven years old, his father Augustine died, that help him to learn the importance of hard work and efficiency.

    He excelled in mathematics and learned the rudiments of surveying. Nor did he attend college. His formal education ended around the age of 15.
    George Washington was a leader of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, and was the first to become U.S. president.
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    John Adams

    He was the first President to live in the White House.
    Adams had a tough job filling Washington's shoes. His advocacy of the Alien and Sedition Acts allowed him to silence critics, but made him unpopular. He lost reelection to Thomas Jefferson.
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    Thomas Jefferson

    He was considered the most brilliant President, he wrote the Declaration of Independence, founded the University of Virginia, and was an architect, a farmer, and a scientist.
    He approved the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, which nearly doubled the size of the U.S.
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson
    He was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.He was also responsible for the Louisiana Purchase.
    On March fourth Thomas Jefferson is inaugurated as the third president of the United States, becoming the first president inaugurated in Washington, D.C.
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    James Madison

    Madison presided over the War with Britain, during which the White House was burned.
  • James Monroe

    James Monroe
    He was born on April 28, 1758, in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
    He was fifth president of the United States, James Monroe is known for his Monroe Doctrine, disallowing further European colonization in the Americas as well as for expanding U.S territory via the acquisition of Florida from Spain. Monroe, who died in 1831, was the last of the Founding Fathers.He was not only president , also U.S. Representative, Military Leader, U.S. Governor, Diplomat, Government Official.
  • Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson
    Andrew Jackson was born in 1767 in the Waxhaws region.
    He became a national war hero after defeating the British in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812.
    Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States. He is known for founding the Democratic Party and for his support of individual liberty.Jackson destroyed the Second Bank of the United States and instituted policies that resulted in the forced migration of Native Americans. He died on June 8, 1845.
  • Martin Van Buren

    Martin Van Buren
    Martin Van Buren, the eighth President of the United States, delivers his inaugural address.
    He was one of the founders of Democratic Party.
    On august fifth Van Buren announces his opposition to the annexation of Texas, primarily to make possible the ensuing peace with Mexico but also to alleviate abolitionist concerns at home.
  • William Henry Harrison

    William Henry Harrison
    He was born in Virginia on February 9, 1773.
    William Henry Harrison was the ninth president of the United States ,he was elected at age 67, he was then the oldest man to take the office and the first to die in office.
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky, on February 12, 1809.
    On March fourth Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the sixteenth President of the United States, and the nation's first Republican President. He preserved the Union during the U.S. Civil War and brought about the emancipation of slaves.
  • Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant
    He was born on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio.
    He served as U.S. general and commander of the Union armies during the late years of the American Civil War, later becoming the 18th U.S. president.
    During his presidency was created the known black friday.
    He died on July 23, 1885 just as his memoirs were being published at the age of 63, in Mount McGregor, New York.
  • James A. Garfield

    James A. Garfield
    He was born in Orange Township, Ohio, on November 19, 1831.
    He from humble beginnings to serve as a college president, a nine-time congressman, and military general before his election.
    He is best known as the 20th president of the United States. He was assassinated after only a few months in office by a disgruntled office seeker.
  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt
    He was born in New York City on October 27, 1858.
    Theodore Roosevelt was governor of New York before becoming U.S. vice president. At age 42, Teddy Roosevelt became the youngest man to assume the U.S.
    Outside of his political career, Roosevelt published more than 25 books about a range of subjects, including history, biology, geography and philosophy.
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    He led the nation during the Great Depression of the 1930s and to victory in World War II.
    He also greatly expanded the size and role of the federal government through his New Deal social programs.
    Roosevelt is the only President elected four times.
  • Jonh.F. Kennedy

    Jonh.F. Kennedy
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts.On January twentieth John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the thirty-fifth President of the United States.
    On November 21, 1963, President Kennedy flew to Dallas, Texas for a campaign appearance. The next day Kennedy, along with his wife and Texas governor. the president was hitting the twice. Kennedy died at Parkland Memorial Hospital shortly thereafter, at age 46.Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
  • Bill Clinton

    Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. In 1975, he married Hillary Rodham.
    After graduating from Yale, the Clintons moved to Arkansas, where Bill began teaching at the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville and thrust himself into politics.
    William Jefferson Clinton better known as Bill Clinton is inaugurated as the forty-second President of the United States and the second to be impeached. He oversaw the country's longest peacetime economic expansion.
  • George W.Bush

    George W.Bush
    He was born in July 6, 1946.He studied in Harvard Business School, where he earned a Masters of Business Administration degree in 1975.
    George W. Bush was the 43rd president of the United States. He led his country's response to the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and initiated the Iraq War in 2003.He is the second son of a President to occupy the Oval Office.
  • Barack Obama

    Barack Obama
    He was born in Honolulu in 1961.Barack Obama went on to become President of the Harvard Law Review and a U.S. senator representing Illinois.
    Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States, and the first African American to serve in the office. First elected to the presidency in 2008, he won a second term in 2012.
  • Donald Trump

    Donald Trump
    Donald Trump was born on June 14, 1946, in Queens, New York.
    He is the fourth of five children, Donald Trump’s parents were Frederick C. and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump.
    Donald John Trump is the 45th and current President of the United States who took office January 20, 2017. Previously, he was a real estate mogul, and a former reality TV star. Born in Queens, New York, in 1971 Trump became involved in large, profitable building projects in Manhattan.