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U.S. PRESIDENTS PT 1
CARMALT - U.S. Presidents and facts
| Question | Question | Question | Question | Answer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commander of Continental Army | President of Constitutional Convention | Unanimously elected 2 times | Increased states in Union from 11 to 16 | George Washington |
| Held no political office prior to presidency | Mining Engineer in Australia, China and England | Circled Globe 5 times by age 33 | Orphaned at age 9 | Herbert Hoover |
| Former Jr. US Senator from Illinois | President of Harvard Law Review | Practiced as a civil rights attorney | First African-American President | Barack Obama |
| First president from a poor family | War hero nicknamed "Old Hickory" | Founder of the Democratic Party | Arkansas and Mississippi joined union | Andrew Jackson |
| Former Indiana Territory governor | Studied to become a doctor | First Whig president | 2nd Oldest president every elected | William Henry Harrison |
| Former Virginia governor | 1st Vice President to become president on death of predecessor | Became "President without a Party" when Whig's severed all ties | Florida joined Union | John Tyler |
| Former Virginia governor | Believed in Jeffersonian Democracy (states' rights) | Author of Declaration of Independence | Ohio joined Union | Thomas Jefferson |
| Served 18 years as Member of Congress after presidency | Named "Old Man Eloquent" because of his persuasive speeches | First President photographed | Son of former president | John Quincy Adams |
| Former Tennessee governor | Was Speaker of the House | First dark-horse (little-known) candidate | Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin joined Union | James Knox Polk |
| Turned down NFL contract to study law | Appointed Richard Nixon's vice president when Spiro Agnew resigned | Succeeded President Nixon when he resigned | Only president who did not win election as vice president or president | Gerald Ford |
| Former Virginia governor | Signed Missouri Compromise | Received all but 1 electoral vote in 1820 election | Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama, Maine, Missouri joined Union | James Monroe |
| First president to have child in White House | Only president to serve 2 nonconsecutive terms | Sent federal troops to break up train strike that interfered with mail | Utah joined Union | Grover Cleveland |
| Former Georgia governor | Peanut farmer | First graduate of U.S. Naval Academy to become president | Negotiated Camp David peace accord between Egypt and Israel | James "Jimmy" Carter |
| Former California governor | Oldest elected president | Iran hostages released on Inauguration Day | Former actor appearing in over 50 movies | Ronald Reagan |
| Former Editor-publisher by trade | First to ride in car to inauguration | First to broadcast speech over radio | First to visit Canada and Alaska | Warren Harding |
| Former Ohio governor | Spanish-American War victory | Aided Cuba's fight for independence | Hawaii became territory | William McKinley |
| Former Tennessee governor | Tailor by trade | Only southern senator during Civil War who refused to secede with his state | Nebraska joined Union | Andrew Johnson |
| No prior political experience | U.S. "Unconditional Surrender" Grant | Continued Southern Construction | Colorado joined Union | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Former New Jersey governor | Only president to earn PH.D. | Started regular press conference | Created League of Nations | Woodrow Wilson |
| Former Ohio governor | Congress had to create special commission to decide the election | Declared winner of election just 56 hours before inauguration | Volunteer counsel for Underground Railway | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Sworn in as president on Air Force One | Passed civil rights measures | Passed anti-poverty measures | Established Medicare | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Former teacher and preacher | Last president to be born in a log cabin | At the Republican Convention, he received NO votes on first presidential ballot | Served only 6 months | James Garfield |
| Called "Little Ben" because of his size | Grandson of 9th president | Inaugurated 100 years after Washington | Electricity installed in White House | Benjamin Harrison |
| Only person whose vice presidential and presidential terms were not consecutive | Congratulated by special transmission the first man on the moon | Improved relations with China | Improved relations with Soviet Union | Richard Nixon |
| Formerly soldier for 40 years | Called "Old Rough and Ready" by troops for unkempt appearance | Never voted until his own election | Died in White House after 16 months in office | Zachary Taylor |
| Former Collector of Port of New York but was removed due to corruption | Defender of civil rights for blacks | Well-dressed, called "Gentleman Boss" | Passed first civil service law | Chester Arthur |
| Formerly Illinois lawyer | First Republican president | Portrait on $5 bill and penny | West Virginia and Nevada joined Union | Abraham Lincoln |
| Married his teacher | Last Whig president | Compromise of 1850 delayed Civil War | California joined Union | Millard Fillmore |
| 40 years prior service in Congress | Only bachelor president | Campaigned on "Save the Union" theme | Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas joined Union | James Buchanan |
| Formerly New York Governor | Paralyzed by polio | Expanded government to fight Great Depression | "New Deal" relief programs | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Former Arkansas governor | Elected to presidency while still governor | Impeached by Congress | Senate acquitted his congressional impeachment | William "Bill" Jefferson Clinton |
| First president born in the 20th century | Established Peace Corps | Youngest man elected president | First Catholic president | John F. Kennedy |
| Former New York governor | Reputation as an honest politician | First Democrat president after Civil War | Only president to serve 2 nonconsecutive terms | Grover Cleveland |
| Formerly New Hampshire senator | Appointed Jefferson Davis, future President of the Confederate States, as Secretary of War | Supported immigrants rights | Purchased land from Mexico, establishing present border | Franklin Pierce |
| First television campaign | Supreme Allied Commander during WWII | Nickname "Ike" | Hawaii and Alaska joined Union | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Middle name just the initial "S" because of family disagreement | Sign on his desk: "The Buck Stops Here" | Ordered use of atomic bomb | Start of Cold War with U.S.S.R. | Harry S. Truman |
| Former Massachusetts governor | Sworn in as president by his father, a justice of the peace | Believed in minimal government | Named "Silent Cal" for refusal to engage in small talk | Calvin Coolidge |
| Former Director of the CIA | Father of a president | Fall of Berlin Wall | Collapse of Soviet Union | George H.W. Bush |
| Successfully defended British soldiers accused of murder in Boston Massacre | Negotiated Treat of Paris in 1783, ending American Revolution | Signed Declaration of Independence | He and Thomas Jefferson died on 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence | John Adams |
| Former Texas governor | Closest election result in presidential history | Declared winner 36 days after election | Declared himself as a "compassionate conservative" | George Bush |
| Former New York governor | Nobel Peace Prize recipient for ending Russo-Japanese War | Doubled the number of national parks | Oklahoma joined Union | Theodore Roosevelt |
| 1st President as prior Congressman | Father of Constitution | Helped draft Bill of Rights | Louisiana and Indiana joined Union | James Madison |
| Formerly Civilian Governor of Philippines | Largest President at 6 feet, 300 pounds | Established Income Tax | Arizona ad New Mexico joined Union | William Taft |
| Formerly Governor of New York | Ran for President 3 times | "O.K." comes from his campaign slogan: "Old Kinderhook" | No states joined Union | Martin Van Buren |
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