Presidents
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| show | George Washington
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| show | John Adams
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| show | Thomas Jefferson
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| Father of the Constitution. Little Jemmy. His Little Majesty | show 🗑
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| show | James Monroe
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| Old Man Eloquent. The Abolitionist. The only American President to be elected to the House of Representatives after his Presidency. | show 🗑
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| Old Hickory. The Hero of New Orleans | show 🗑
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| show | Martin Van Buren
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| show | William Henry Harrison
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| His Accidency. Only President elected tothe Confederate Congress; but died before his term began. | show 🗑
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| Young Hickory. The Napoleon of the Stump | show 🗑
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| show | Zachary Taylor
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| show | Millard Fillmore
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| Handsome Frank | show 🗑
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| show | James Buchanan
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| The Great Emancipator. The Rail-Splitter. First president to be assassinated. Shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater | show 🗑
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| show | Andrew Johnson
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| Unconditional Surrender | show 🗑
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| Rutherfraud or His Fraudulency | show 🗑
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| show | James Garfield
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| Chet. Gentleman Boss | show 🗑
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| Uncle Jumbo. His Obstinacy. Only president to serve two non-consecutive terms | show 🗑
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| Human Iceberg. Little Ben. Grandson of William Henry Harrison | show 🗑
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| The Napoleon of Protection. 3rd President to be assassinated. Shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition | show 🗑
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| The Lion. TR. The Hero of San Juan. Trustbuster | show 🗑
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| show | William Howard Taft
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| The Phrasemaker. The Schoolmaster. | show 🗑
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| show | Warren G. Harding
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| show | Calvin Coolidge
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| show | Herbert Hoover
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| FDR. Only president elected 4 times. Died at the beginning of his 4th term. | show 🗑
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| show | Harry Truman
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| show | Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| Jack. JFK. 4th President to be assassinated. According to the Warren Commission, Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the shooting; but many doubts linger | show 🗑
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| show | Lyndon B. Johnson
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| show | Richard Nixon
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| show | Gerald Ford
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| show | Jimmy Carter
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| show | Ronald Reagan
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| Poppy. 41 | show 🗑
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| Bubba. Slick Willie. Comeback Kid. Big Dog. Second president tried for impeachment but was not convicted. | show 🗑
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| Dubya. 43 | show 🗑
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| No Drama | show 🗑
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| show | George Washington
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| show | George Washington
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| This president's home was Mount Vernon | show 🗑
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| The Quasi-War with France occurred during his presidency | show 🗑
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| show | Virginia (8)
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| 1st president to be born a citizen of the United States and not a British subject. | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Jefferson
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| show | Theodore Roosevelt
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| show | Kentucky
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| show | David Rice Atchison
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| First president born in Hawaii | show 🗑
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| His presidency saw the 9/11 attacks, the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, Hurricane Katrina, and the 2008 Recession | show 🗑
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| His presidency saw the passing of the Affordable Care Act, the Stimulus, Dodd-Frank Act. | show 🗑
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| show | Barack Obama
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| This president appointed Samuel Alito and the current Chief Justice, John Roberts. | show 🗑
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| show | Ronald Reagan
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| show | Richard Milhous Nixon
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| Namesake curse that plagued any president elected in a year ending in zero | show 🗑
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| His presidency saw the dot.com boom, the Bosnia and Kosovo Wars. He was tried for impeachment for the crime of perjury but as acquitted. | show 🗑
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| show | Ronald Reagan
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| show | George Herbert Walker Bush
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| Gulf Storm (the 1st Iraq War) occurred during his presidency | show 🗑
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| show | Ronald Reagan
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| "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself" was a quote from his 1st inauguration , in hopes to calm people's fears about the Great Depression | show 🗑
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| show | Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" came from his first inauguration speech on January 20th, 1961 | show 🗑
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| show | Lyndon Baines Johnson
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| President who escalated the Vietnam War in the 1960s; starting with the Golf of Tonkin Resolution | show 🗑
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| show | Abraham Lincoln
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| show | James Garfield
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| This anarchist, Leon Czologz, shot this man at the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo, NY in 1901. This president's death gave way to President Theodore Roosevelt | show 🗑
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| show | Theodore Roosevelt
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| show | John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| show | John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| show | John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| show | John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| His vice-president was Dick Cheney | show 🗑
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| His vice-president was Al Gore | show 🗑
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| show | George H.W. Bush
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| His vice-president was George H.W. Bush | show 🗑
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| show | Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| show | Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| This former president of Princeton and NJ governor said it would be the great irony of his presidency dealt with foreign, rather than domestic, issues. He was proven right because of World War I. | show 🗑
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| His progressive presidency saw the passing of the 16th Amendment (Income Tax) and the creation of the Federal Reserve System | show 🗑
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| His progressive presidency saw the passing of the 17th Amendment (Direct Election of US Senators) | show 🗑
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| This president fought and won his battle against the 2nd National Bank of the United States | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Jefferson
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| President who was affected by the Whiskey Ring and Credit Mobilier scandals | show 🗑
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| show | Warren G. Harding
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| This man was the governor of Massachusetts and Harding's VP before becoming president in 1923. He was the only president born on the Fourth of July | show 🗑
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| Before President Obama visited Cuba in 2016; he was the last sitting US President to visit the island; doing so in 1928 | show 🗑
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| President who signed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) into law in 1970 | show 🗑
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| His National Security Adviser and Secretary of State was Henry Kissinger; he drafted the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 which ended the US role in Vietnam | show 🗑
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| show | John Tyler
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| show | Rutherford B. Hayes
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| The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation was signed by this president in 1883 | show 🗑
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| "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far!" was a favorite quote by this President, known by such nicknames as TR, The Lion and the Trustbuster | show 🗑
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| This President pushed for the creation of the Panama Canal in 1903 | show 🗑
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| show | Theodore Roosevelt
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| show | Theodore Roosevelt
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| show | William Howard Taft
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| show | William Howard Taft
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| His presidency saw the Louisiana Purchase, the Barbary Wars against Tripoli and the Embargo Act against England | show 🗑
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| His presidency was marked by the War of 1812 (1812-1814) | show 🗑
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| This president's namesake doctrine warn European nations to not interfere in the Western Hemisphere | show 🗑
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| show | James Knox Polk
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| show | William Henry Harrison
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| show | Ronald Reagan
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| show | Jimmy Carter
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| show | Herbert C. Hoover
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| show | James Buchanan
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| This president was known as a doughboy; a Northern with pro-Southern views. He is often forgotten in modern times. He was nicknamed Handsome Frank | show 🗑
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| This general was of the Mexican War. He died from a stomach illness; one that could have been caused by eating raw fruit and drinking iced milk. Millard Fillmore took over as President | show 🗑
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| Originally the VP for Zachary Taylor, his presidency is most noted for the Great Compromise of 1850; which admitted California as a free state and the creation of the Fugitive Slave Act | show 🗑
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| show | Theodore Roosevelt
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| His presidency saw the Korean War, the use of the atomic bomb on Japan and the start of the Cold War. | show 🗑
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| show | Theodore Roosevelt
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| His many Great Depression programs were called the New Deal | show 🗑
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| show | Harry S Truman
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| He was the first American president to visit Hiroshima; visiting there in May of 2016 | show 🗑
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| show | Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| Some of this man's New Deal programs and legislation included Social Security, the Wagner Act, Glass-Steagall Act and the Tennessee Valley Authority | show 🗑
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| show | Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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