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U.S. Presidents
Basic Notes On U.S. Presidents
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Commander of the Continental Army during the American revolution | George Washington |
| Father of his country. | George Washington |
| Only president unanimously elected | George Washington |
| Only president inaugurated in two cities: NYC and Philadelphia (never lived in Washington, D.C.( | George Washington |
| Mount Vernon was his home | George Washington |
| His cabinet included: Sec. of State Jefferson; Sec. of the Treasury: Hamilton; Sec. of of War Knox; Attorney General Randolph | George Washington |
| Farewell address (1797) - warned against "permanent alliances" | George Washington |
| Father of the American Navy | John Adams |
| Only and last Federalist president | John Adams |
| First president to live in the White House, actually still the Executive Mansion (1800); Monroe presided over its being painted white after the British set fire to it in 1814 (was then nicknamed White House) | John Adams |
| Called the vice-presidency "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived" | John Adams |
| Died on the same day as Jefferson, July 4, 1826 | John Adams |
| Wrote the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
| First president to have been a state governor (Virginia) | Thomas Jefferson |
| Monticello, his home | Thomas Jefferson |
| First president inaugurated in Washington D.C. | Thomas Jefferson |
| Accomplishments included in his epitaph; author of Dec. of Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, father of the U. of Va. | Thomas Jefferson |
| Called the Father of the Constitution | James Madison |
| Had two vice-presidents to die in office (Clinton, Gerry) | James Madison |
| One of the authors of the Federalist Papers | James Madison |
| Shortest president at 5' 4" | James Madison |
| Montpelier, his home | James Madison |
| President during the War of 1812 | James Madison |
| First president to have been a senator | James Monroe |
| First and only president to have served in two cabinet ositions (sec. of state and war under Madison) | James Monroe |
| "Era of Good Feelings" president | James Monroe |
| Elected to the House of Representatives after completing the Presidency | John Quincy Adams |
| "corrupt bargain" president | John Quincy Adams |
| Only president born in SC (Waxhaw) | Andrew Jackson |
| Old Hickory, his nickname | Andrew Jackson |
| The Hermitage, his home | Andrew Jackson |
| Won the Battle of Horseshoe Bend over the Creeks | Andrew Jackson |
| Hero of New Orleans (Unnecessary Battle - Jan. 8, 1815) | Andrew Jackson |
| First presidential candidate named by a nominating convention | Andrew Jackson |
| Advised by the Kitchen Cabinet | Andrew Jackson |
| First to survive an assassination attempt | Andrew Jackson |
| Nicknamed Little Magician | Martin Van Buren |
| His home, Kinderhook (origin of the phrase "o.k."?) | Martin Van Buren |
| First president born after the American Revolution | Martin Van Buren |
| Hero of Tippecanoe (1811) | William Henry Harrison |
| His campaign slogan - "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" | William Henry Harrison |
| "log cabin and hard cider" campaign | William Henry Harrison |
| First Whig president | William Henry Harrison |
| Delivered the longest inaugural speech in a cold, pouring rain; caught pneumonia | William Henry Harrison |
| First president to die in office | William Henry Harrison |
| Served the shortest time as president (one month) | William Henry Harrison |
| First vice-president to succeed to the presidency on the death of the president | John Tyler |
| First president to have his wife die while he was in office | John Tyler |
| First president to marry while in office (in NYC) | John Tyler |
| Had more children than any other president (15) | John Tyler |
| His home, Sherwood forest | John Tyler |
| First dark horse candidate for the presidency | James K. Polk |
| Added more total territory than any other president | James K. Polk |
| The only president to serve as Speaker of the House | James K. Polk |
| President during the Mexican War (1846-48) | James K. Polk |
| Young Hickory | James K. Polk |
| Old Rough and Ready - never lost a battle | Zachary Taylor |
| Hero of Buena Vista - defeated Santa Anna's troops in 1847 | Zachary Taylor |
| Last elected Whig president | Zachary Taylor |
| Died in office | Zachary Taylor |
| Last Whig president | Millard Fillmore |
| Only president born in New Hampshire | Franklin Pierce |
| "We Polked 'em in '44; we'll Pierce 'em in '52." | Franklin Pierce |
| Only bachelor president | James Buchanan |
| Only president born in Pennsylvania | James Buchanan |
| Wheatland, his home | James Buchanan |
| Secretary of State under Polk | James Buchanan |
| President when the first states seceded from the Union | James Buchanan |
| Only president born in Kentucky | Abraham Lincoln |
| Was a one-term president from Illinois | Abraham Lincoln |
| Tallest president AT 6' 4" | Abraham Lincoln |
| First Republican President | Abraham Lincoln |
| President during the Civil War (1861 - 1865) | Abraham Lincoln |
| First assassinated president; by John Wikles booth while watching Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. | Abraham Lincoln |
| First president to receive a patent; device to lift ships over dangerous shoals | Abraham Lincoln |
| Had no formal education; had been apprenticed to a tailor | Andrew Johnson |
| First president to be impeached (dismissed sec. of war Stanton, Tenure of Office Act) | Andrew Johnson |
| Only president to return to the Senate after serving as president | Andrew Johnson |
| Butcher of Galena, Unconditional Surrender | Ulysses Grant |
| Union commander during the Civil War | Ulysses Grant |
| Political scandals; Credit Mobilier, Whiskey Ring, Belknap Scandal | Ulysses Grant |
| Won the disputed election of 1876 though Tilden had more popular votes; led to the Compromise of 1877 and guaranteed the end of military Reconstruction in the South | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Married to Lemonade Lucy Hayes, who refused to allow alcohol to be served at the White House | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Nicknamed Canal Boy | James Garfield |
| Second assassinated president; by Charles Guiteau in July 1881 at Union Station in Washington, D.C.; Garfield died in Sept. | James Garfield |
| First president to take the oath of office at his own home (NYC) | Chester Arthur |
| Only president born in New Jersey | Grover Cleveland |
| Rep. critics asked in the 1884 election, "ma, ma where's my pa?" Democrats answered, "Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha!" | Grover Cleveland |
| First elected Democrat after the Civil War | Grover Cleveland |
| First and only president to serve nonconsecutive terms | Grover Cleveland |
| Only president to marry in the White House | Grover Cleveland |
| First and only grandson of a president | Benjamin Harrison |
| President during the Spanish-American War (1898) | William McKinley |
| Sec. of State Hay - Open Door Policy | William McKinley |
| Third assassinated president (Sept. 6, 1901) by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in BuffaloN.Y.; died of infection on Sept 14 | William McKinley |
| His home, Sagamore Hill | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Youngest man to become president | Theodore Roosevelt |
| First president to win a Nobel Peace Prize (1906) for helping to end the Russo-Japanese War | Theodore Roosevelt |
| First president to visit a foreign country (initiated work of the Panama canal and wanted to see the work done) | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Known for trust busting, conservation of natural resources, and creation of national parks | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Began the Bull Moose or Progressive Party | Theodore Roosevelt |
| His foreign policy - big stick policy | Theodore Roosevelt |
| His domestic policy - Square Deal | Theodore Roosevelt |
| First president of the 48 states (Arizona, the 48th state) | William Howard Taft |
| Only man to serve as both president and chief justice of the Supreme Court | William Howard Taft |
| His foreign policy - dollar diplomacy - using diplomacy to promote U.S. business interests overseas | William Howard Taft |
| First president buried in Arlington National Cemetery | William Howard Taft |
| The 332-pound Taft was supposedly stuck in the White House bathtub; it took six men to remove him | William Howard Taft |
| First president with a Ph.D | Woodrow Wilson |
| First president to have been president of a major university (Princeton) | Woodrow Wilson |
| President during World War I (1914-1918, US entered in 1917) | Woodrow Wilson |
| Advocated the Fourteen Points and the League of Nations | Woodrow Wilson |
| Won the Nobel Peace Prize | Woodrow Wilson |
| His domestic program - New Freedom - to reduce corporate power and return government to the people | Woodrow Wilson |
| Only president buried in Washington, D.C. (National Cathedral) | Woodrow Wilson |
| Slogan: "Return to Normalcy" | Warren Harding |
| Ohio Gang - his associates, friends, cronies who received high offices | Warren Harding |
| Harry Daugherty -Took kickbacks, first attorney general tried for high crimes while in office | Warren Harding |
| Teapot Dome Scandal - sec. of interior Fall fraudulently leased naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills California | Warren Harding |
| Died of a stroke in San Francisco | Warren Harding |
| First president sworn in by his father | Calvin Coolidge |
| First president born on July 4th | Calvin Coolidge |
| Nicknamed Silent Cal | Calvin Coolidge |
| "The business of America is business" | Calvin Coolidge |
| Food Administrator during World War I | Herbert Hoover |
| First president born west of the Mississippi River and only president born in Iowa | Herbert Hoover |
| 1929 - stock market crash and Depression | Herbert Hoover |
| Fifth cousin to TR | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Didn't contract polio until 1921 | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| First president inaugurated on January 20 instead of March 4 (1937) | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| First president to appear on television | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Only president elected to more than two terms; elected to four terms; defeated Herbert Hoover (1932), Alf Landon (1936), Wendell Willkie (1940), Thomas Dewey (1944); his vice-presidents: John Nance Garner, Henry Wallace, and Harry Truman | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Four Freedoms; freedom from want, from fear, of worship, of speech | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| His domestic program for the Depression; New Deal | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| His advisors - Brian Trust | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Good Neighbor Policy - relations with Latin America | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| President during most of World War II | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Died in Warm Springs, GA (April 12, 1945) | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| President at the end of WWII | Harry S. Truman |
| Only president from Missouri | Harry S. Truman |
| Fair Deal - Trumans' domestic program aimed at extending New Deal programs | Harry S. Truman |
| President during the Korean War (1950 - 1953) | Harry S. Truman |
| Truman Doctrine (1947) - to twart communism in Greece and Turkey | Harry S. Truman |
| Marshall Plan (European Recovery Program) (1947) - economic aid to help rebuild Europe after WWII | Harry S. Truman |
| Supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe during WWII; led the D-Day invasion of France | Dwight Eisenhower |
| Only president who was a five-star general | Dwight Eisenhower |
| President of Columbia University | Dwight Eisenhower |
| First president of 50 states; Alaska and Hawaii added | Dwight Eisenhower |
| First president born in the 20th century (1917) | John F. Kennedy |
| First president to win a Pulitzer Prize - Profiles in Courage | John F. Kennedy |
| Commanded a PT boat during WWII; boat sank; rescued his crew and became a hero | John F. Kennedy |
| Alliance for Progress - his program for Latin American | John F. Kennedy |
| Youngest man ever elected president | John F. Kennedy |
| Only Catholic president | John F. Kennedy |
| Participated in the First televised presidential debate (wtih richard Nixon) | John F. Kennedy |
| New Frontier - his domestic program, called for federal aid to education, Medicare, equal opportunity in employment, advances in space exploration, and vigorous leadership | John F. Kennedy |
| Established the Peace Corps | John F. Kennedy |
| Fourth assassinated president (November 22, 1963) by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas; buried in Arlington National Cemetery | John F. Kennedy |
| Began his career as a speech and debate teacher | Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| First president to take the oath of office on an airplane | Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| Great Societ - his domestric program | Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| Popularity waned because of the escalation of the Vietnam War | Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| Only president born in California | Richard Nixon |
| Vice-president under Eisenhower | Richard Nixon |
| First president to visit Russia and china | Richard Nixon |
| Watergate scandal | Richard Nixon |
| First and only president to resign (1974) | Richard Nixon |
| Born Leslie Lynch King, Jr. | Gerald ford |
| Only president born in Nebraska | Gerald Ford |
| First to become president without being electd by the people to v-p or pres,; was appointed v-p when Agnew resigned in 1973 | Gerald Ford |
| Pardoned Nixon | Gerald Ford |
| Only president born in georgia (Plains); served as governor | Jimmy Carter |
| Graduate of the US Naval Academy | Jimmy Carter |
| Interested in human rights; work with Habitat for Humanity | Jimmy Carter |
| Only president born in Illinois (Tampico) | Ronald Reagan |
| Oldest man to becomes president (69) | Ronald Reagan |
| First actor to become presidetn | Ronald Reagan |
| Served as president of the Screen Actors Guild | Ronald Reagan |
| First divorced president | Ronald Reagan |
| Shot by John Hinkley, Jr. in 1981 | Ronald Reagan |
| Navy pilot during WWII, shot down in the Pacific | George Bush |
| U.S ambassador to the United Nations | George Bush |
| Ambassador to China | George Bush |
| CIA director | George Bush |
| President during the Persian Gulf War | George Bush |
| Graduated from Eureka college | Ronald Reagan |
| Only president bourn in arkansas; former governor | Bill Clinton |
| Only president who was a Rhodes scholar | Bill Clinton |
| Second president to be impeached | Bill Clinton |
| Second son of a president to become president | George W. Bush |
| Only president with a master's degeree in business | George W. Bush |
| Only president born in Connecticut | George W. Bush |
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