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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| show | George Washington
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| Mount Vernon was his home | show 🗑
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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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| show | George Washington
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| show | John Adams
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| Only and last Federalist president | show 🗑
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| show | John Adams
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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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| First president to have been a state governor (Virginia) | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Jefferson
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| show | Thomas Jefferson
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| show | Thomas Jefferson
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| Called the Father of the Constitution | show 🗑
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| show | James Madison
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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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| First president to have been a senator | show 🗑
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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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| "corrupt bargain" president | show 🗑
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| Only president born in SC (Waxhaw) | show 🗑
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| show | Andrew Jackson
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| The Hermitage, his home | show 🗑
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| show | Andrew Jackson
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| Hero of New Orleans (Unnecessary Battle - Jan. 8, 1815) | show 🗑
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| show | Andrew Jackson
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| Advised by the Kitchen Cabinet | show 🗑
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| show | Andrew Jackson
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| Nicknamed Little Magician | show 🗑
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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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| show | William Henry Harrison
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| "log cabin and hard cider" campaign | show 🗑
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| show | William Henry Harrison
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| Delivered the longest inaugural speech in a cold, pouring rain; caught pneumonia | show 🗑
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| show | William Henry Harrison
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| show | William Henry Harrison
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| show | John Tyler
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| First president to have his wife die while he was in office | show 🗑
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| First president to marry while in office (in NYC) | show 🗑
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| Had more children than any other president (15) | show 🗑
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| show | John Tyler
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| First dark horse candidate for the presidency | show 🗑
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| Added more total territory than any other president | show 🗑
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| The only president to serve as Speaker of the House | show 🗑
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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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| Died in office | show 🗑
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| Last Whig president | show 🗑
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| show | Franklin Pierce
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| show | Franklin Pierce
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| show | James Buchanan
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| Only president born in Pennsylvania | show 🗑
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| Wheatland, his home | show 🗑
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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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| show | Abraham Lincoln
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| Was a one-term president from Illinois | show 🗑
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| show | Abraham Lincoln
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| show | Abraham Lincoln
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| show | Abraham Lincoln
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| show | Abraham Lincoln
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| show | Abraham Lincoln
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| Had no formal education; had been apprenticed to a tailor | show 🗑
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| show | Andrew Johnson
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| Only president to return to the Senate after serving as president | show 🗑
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| show | Ulysses Grant
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| Union commander during the Civil War | show 🗑
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| show | Ulysses Grant
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| show | Rutherford B. Hayes
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| Married to Lemonade Lucy Hayes, who refused to allow alcohol to be served at the White House | show 🗑
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| show | James Garfield
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| show | James Garfield
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| First president to take the oath of office at his own home (NYC) | show 🗑
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| show | Grover Cleveland
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| show | Grover Cleveland
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| First elected Democrat after the Civil War | show 🗑
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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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| show | William McKinley
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| Third assassinated president (Sept. 6, 1901) by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in BuffaloN.Y.; died of infection on Sept 14 | show 🗑
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| show | Theodore Roosevelt
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| show | Theodore Roosevelt
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| show | Theodore Roosevelt
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| First president to visit a foreign country (initiated work of the Panama canal and wanted to see the work done) | show 🗑
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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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| First president buried in Arlington National Cemetery | show 🗑
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| show | William Howard Taft
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| show | Woodrow Wilson
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| show | Woodrow Wilson
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| show | Woodrow Wilson
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| show | Woodrow Wilson
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| Won the Nobel Peace Prize | show 🗑
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| His domestic program - New Freedom - to reduce corporate power and return government to the people | show 🗑
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| show | Woodrow Wilson
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| show | Warren Harding
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| Ohio Gang - his associates, friends, cronies who received high offices | show 🗑
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| Harry Daugherty -Took kickbacks, first attorney general tried for high crimes while in office | show 🗑
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| show | Warren Harding
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| Died of a stroke in San Francisco | show 🗑
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| show | Calvin Coolidge
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| show | Calvin Coolidge
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| show | Calvin Coolidge
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| "The business of America is business" | show 🗑
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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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| show | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| show | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| show | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| show | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| show | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| show | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| His advisors - Brian Trust | show 🗑
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| Good Neighbor Policy - relations with Latin America | show 🗑
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| President during most of World War II | show 🗑
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| Died in Warm Springs, GA (April 12, 1945) | show 🗑
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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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| Truman Doctrine (1947) - to twart communism in Greece and Turkey | show 🗑
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| show | Harry S. Truman
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| show | Dwight Eisenhower
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| Only president who was a five-star general | show 🗑
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| show | Dwight Eisenhower
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| First president of 50 states; Alaska and Hawaii added | show 🗑
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| First president born in the 20th century (1917) | show 🗑
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| First president to win a Pulitzer Prize - Profiles in Courage | show 🗑
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| Commanded a PT boat during WWII; boat sank; rescued his crew and became a hero | show 🗑
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| show | John F. Kennedy
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| Youngest man ever elected president | 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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| Established the Peace Corps | show 🗑
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| Fourth assassinated president (November 22, 1963) by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas; buried in Arlington National Cemetery | show 🗑
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| show | Lyndon Baines Johnson
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| First president to take the oath of office on an airplane | show 🗑
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| Great Societ - his domestric program | show 🗑
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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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| First president to visit Russia and china | show 🗑
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| show | Richard Nixon
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| show | Richard Nixon
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| show | Gerald ford
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| Only president born in Nebraska | show 🗑
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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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| show | Jimmy Carter
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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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| show | Ronald Reagan
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| Served as president of the Screen Actors Guild | show 🗑
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| First divorced president | show 🗑
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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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| Ambassador to China | show 🗑
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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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| Only president bourn in arkansas; former governor | show 🗑
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| Only president who was a Rhodes scholar | show 🗑
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| Second president to be impeached | show 🗑
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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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