Basic Notes On U.S. Presidents
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| Commander of the Continental Army during the American revolution | show 🗑
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| show | George Washington
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| show | George Washington
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| Only president inaugurated in two cities: NYC and Philadelphia (never lived in Washington, D.C.( | show 🗑
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| show | George Washington
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| His cabinet included: Sec. of State Jefferson; Sec. of the Treasury: Hamilton; Sec. of of War Knox; Attorney General Randolph | show 🗑
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| Farewell address (1797) - warned against "permanent alliances" | show 🗑
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| Father of the American Navy | show 🗑
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| show | John Adams
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| 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) | show 🗑
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| show | John Adams
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| Died on the same day as Jefferson, July 4, 1826 | show 🗑
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| Wrote the Declaration of Independence | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Jefferson
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| Monticello, his home | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Jefferson
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| show | Thomas Jefferson
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| show | James Madison
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| Had two vice-presidents to die in office (Clinton, Gerry) | show 🗑
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| show | James Madison
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| show | James Madison
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| Montpelier, his home | show 🗑
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| President during the War of 1812 | show 🗑
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| show | James Monroe
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| First and only president to have served in two cabinet ositions (sec. of state and war under Madison) | show 🗑
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| "Era of Good Feelings" president | show 🗑
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| Elected to the House of Representatives after completing the Presidency | show 🗑
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| show | John Quincy Adams
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| show | Andrew Jackson
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| show | Andrew Jackson
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| show | Andrew Jackson
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| Won the Battle of Horseshoe Bend over the Creeks | show 🗑
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| show | Andrew Jackson
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| show | Andrew Jackson
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| Advised by the Kitchen Cabinet | show 🗑
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| First to survive an assassination attempt | show 🗑
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| show | Martin Van Buren
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| His home, Kinderhook (origin of the phrase "o.k."?) | show 🗑
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| First president born after the American Revolution | show 🗑
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| Hero of Tippecanoe (1811) | show 🗑
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| His campaign slogan - "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" | show 🗑
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| show | William Henry Harrison
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| show | William Henry Harrison
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| show | William Henry Harrison
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| show | William Henry Harrison
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| show | William Henry Harrison
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| First vice-president to succeed to the presidency on the death of the president | show 🗑
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| First president to have his wife die while he was in office | show 🗑
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| show | John Tyler
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| Had more children than any other president (15) | show 🗑
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| show | John Tyler
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| show | James K. Polk
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| Added more total territory than any other president | show 🗑
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| show | James K. Polk
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| President during the Mexican War (1846-48) | show 🗑
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| show | James K. Polk
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| show | Zachary Taylor
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| Hero of Buena Vista - defeated Santa Anna's troops in 1847 | show 🗑
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| Last elected Whig president | show 🗑
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| show | Zachary Taylor
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| show | Millard Fillmore
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| Only president born in New Hampshire | show 🗑
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| "We Polked 'em in '44; we'll Pierce 'em in '52." | show 🗑
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| Only bachelor president | show 🗑
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| show | James Buchanan
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| show | James Buchanan
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| Secretary of State under Polk | show 🗑
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| President when the first states seceded from the Union | show 🗑
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| Only president born in Kentucky | show 🗑
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| Was a one-term president from Illinois | show 🗑
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| show | Abraham Lincoln
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| First Republican President | show 🗑
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| President during the Civil War (1861 - 1865) | show 🗑
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| show | Abraham Lincoln
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| First president to receive a patent; device to lift ships over dangerous shoals | show 🗑
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| show | Andrew Johnson
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| First president to be impeached (dismissed sec. of war Stanton, Tenure of Office Act) | show 🗑
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| show | Andrew Johnson
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| show | Ulysses Grant
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| show | Ulysses Grant
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| Political scandals; Credit Mobilier, Whiskey Ring, Belknap Scandal | show 🗑
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| 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 | show 🗑
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| show | Rutherford B. Hayes
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| Nicknamed Canal Boy | show 🗑
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| Second assassinated president; by Charles Guiteau in July 1881 at Union Station in Washington, D.C.; Garfield died in Sept. | show 🗑
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| show | Chester Arthur
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| Only president born in New Jersey | show 🗑
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| Rep. critics asked in the 1884 election, "ma, ma where's my pa?" Democrats answered, "Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha!" | show 🗑
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| show | Grover Cleveland
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| show | Grover Cleveland
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| Only president to marry in the White House | show 🗑
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| First and only grandson of a president | show 🗑
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| show | William McKinley
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| Sec. of State Hay - Open Door Policy | show 🗑
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| show | William McKinley
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| His home, Sagamore Hill | show 🗑
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| show | Theodore Roosevelt
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| First president to win a Nobel Peace Prize (1906) for helping to end the Russo-Japanese War | show 🗑
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| show | Theodore Roosevelt
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| Known for trust busting, conservation of natural resources, and creation of national parks | show 🗑
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| show | Theodore Roosevelt
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| His foreign policy - big stick policy | show 🗑
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| His domestic policy - Square Deal | show 🗑
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| First president of the 48 states (Arizona, the 48th state) | show 🗑
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| show | William Howard Taft
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| show | William Howard Taft
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| show | William Howard Taft
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| The 332-pound Taft was supposedly stuck in the White House bathtub; it took six men to remove him | show 🗑
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| show | Woodrow Wilson
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| First president to have been president of a major university (Princeton) | show 🗑
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| President during World War I (1914-1918, US entered in 1917) | show 🗑
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| Advocated the Fourteen Points and the League of Nations | show 🗑
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| show | Woodrow Wilson
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| His domestic program - New Freedom - to reduce corporate power and return government to the people | show 🗑
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| Only president buried in Washington, D.C. (National Cathedral) | show 🗑
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| Slogan: "Return to Normalcy" | show 🗑
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| show | Warren Harding
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| Harry Daugherty -Took kickbacks, first attorney general tried for high crimes while in office | show 🗑
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| Teapot Dome Scandal - sec. of interior Fall fraudulently leased naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills California | show 🗑
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| show | Warren Harding
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| show | Calvin Coolidge
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| First president born on July 4th | show 🗑
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| Nicknamed Silent Cal | show 🗑
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| show | Calvin Coolidge
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| Food Administrator during World War I | show 🗑
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| show | Herbert Hoover
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| show | Herbert Hoover
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| Fifth cousin to TR | show 🗑
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| Didn't contract polio until 1921 | show 🗑
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| show | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| First president to appear on television | show 🗑
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| show | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| Four Freedoms; freedom from want, from fear, of worship, of speech | show 🗑
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| His domestic program for the Depression; New Deal | show 🗑
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| show | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| show | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| President during most of World War II | show 🗑
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| show | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| President at the end of WWII | show 🗑
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| Only president from Missouri | show 🗑
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| Fair Deal - Trumans' domestic program aimed at extending New Deal programs | show 🗑
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| show | Harry S. Truman
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| show | Harry S. Truman
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| Marshall Plan (European Recovery Program) (1947) - economic aid to help rebuild Europe after WWII | show 🗑
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| Supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe during WWII; led the D-Day invasion of France | show 🗑
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| Only president who was a five-star general | show 🗑
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| President of Columbia University | show 🗑
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| show | Dwight Eisenhower
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| First president born in the 20th century (1917) | show 🗑
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| show | John F. Kennedy
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| show | John F. Kennedy
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| show | John F. Kennedy
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| Youngest man ever elected president | show 🗑
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| Only Catholic president | show 🗑
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| show | John F. Kennedy
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| New Frontier - his domestic program, called for federal aid to education, Medicare, equal opportunity in employment, advances in space exploration, and vigorous leadership | show 🗑
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| Established the Peace Corps | show 🗑
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| show | John F. Kennedy
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| Began his career as a speech and debate teacher | show 🗑
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| First president to take the oath of office on an airplane | show 🗑
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| show | Lyndon Baines Johnson
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| Popularity waned because of the escalation of the Vietnam War | show 🗑
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| Only president born in California | show 🗑
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| show | Richard Nixon
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| show | Richard Nixon
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| Watergate scandal | show 🗑
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| First and only president to resign (1974) | show 🗑
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| Born Leslie Lynch King, Jr. | show 🗑
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| show | Gerald Ford
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| show | Gerald Ford
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| Pardoned Nixon | show 🗑
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| show | Jimmy Carter
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| show | Jimmy Carter
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| Interested in human rights; work with Habitat for Humanity | show 🗑
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| Only president born in Illinois (Tampico) | show 🗑
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| Oldest man to becomes president (69) | show 🗑
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| First actor to become presidetn | show 🗑
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| Served as president of the Screen Actors Guild | show 🗑
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| show | Ronald Reagan
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| show | Ronald Reagan
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| Navy pilot during WWII, shot down in the Pacific | show 🗑
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| show | George Bush
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| show | George Bush
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| show | George Bush
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| President during the Persian Gulf War | show 🗑
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| Graduated from Eureka college | show 🗑
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| show | Bill Clinton
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| show | Bill Clinton
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| show | Bill Clinton
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| show | George W. Bush
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| show | George W. Bush
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| Only president born in Connecticut | show 🗑
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