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CARMALT - U.S. Presidents with MORE facts

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Democrats split into North and South during 1860 presidential election but neither would renominate him   Six slave states seceded to form new Confederate States of America   Only bachelor president   Campaigned on "Save the Union" theme   James Buchanan  
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Campaigned from automobile to hide his wheelchair   Died at beginning of 4th term   Portrait on a dime   Announced Pearl Harbor attack as a "Day of Infamy"   Franklin D. Roosevelt  
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Appointed first woman as Secretary of State   Signed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)   Passed anti-crime laws   Wife is present day Secretary of State   William "Bill" Clinton  
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Portrait on 50-cent coin   Buried in Arlington Cemetery   Forced U.S.S.R. to withdraw nuclear missiles from Cuba   Assassinated in Dallas Texas on November 22, 1963   John F. Kennedy  
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Portrait on $1,000 bill   Favored low tariffs   Forced return of illegal railroad lands   Dedicated Statue of Liberty   Grover Cleveland  
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Passed Kansas-Nebraska Act, nullifying Missouri Compromise   Unsuccessful attempt to seize Cuba from Spain   Appointed Jefferson Davis as Secretary of War who later became President of the Confederate States   Was a New Hampshire senator at age 32   Franklin Pierce  
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First president over all 50 states and enforced school desegration   Ended diplomatic relations with Cuba   Success in space with artificial satellite   Helped end Korean War and start of Vietnam War   Dwight D. Eisenhower  
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Teddy Bear namesake   Likeness carved on Mount Rushmore   Settled Alaska/Canada border dispute   Initiated creation of Panama Canal   Theodore Roosevelt  
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Appointed first woman to Supreme Court   Built up U.S. military power   Expanded Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)   Iran-Contra arms scandal   Ronald Reagan  
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Portrait on $500 bill   Namesake of Alaska's Mountain, North America's highest peak   Assassinated in 2nd term   Acquired Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and American Samoa   William McKinley  
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Established Yellowstone Park   Transcontinental railroad completed   Portrait on $50 bill   Political corruption at all levels of his office   Ulysses S. Grant  
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Expanded role of government during WWI   Created League of Nations   19th Amendment allowed women to vote   First to have regular press conferences   Woodrow Wilson  
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Labor unions grew   Withdrew troops from South   Declared winner 56 hours before inauguration   Counsel for Underground Railroad   Rutherford B. Hayes  
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Chose not to run for reelection "because o division in the American house" regarding war   War policy caused riots   Escalation of Vietnam War   Fought for Civil Rights   Lyndon Johnson  
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Iran terrorists hostage crisis   Established full diplomatic relations with China   Returned control of Panama Canal to Panama   Negotiated Camp David peace accord between Egypt and Israel   Jimmy Carter  
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"Ohio Gang" scandals rocked presidency   Died in San Francisco on return trip from Alaska, after 2 1/2 years in office   First presidential visit to Canada and Alaska   First to radio broadcast speech   Warren Harding  
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Purchased Alaska from Russia   Slavery officially abolished   Start of Southern Reconstruction   Impeached by House, acquitted by Senate   Andrew Johnson  
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First constitutional transfer of power between political groups   Portrait on $2 bill   Purchased Louisiana from France   Likeness carved on Mt. Rushmore   Thomas Jefferson  
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Final American troops withdrawn from Vietnam while in office   did not win election to either vice presidential or presidential offices   Succeeded Nixon as president when Nixon resigned   Turned down NFL contract to study law   Gerald Ford  
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Died on 55th anniversary of Declaration of Inependence   His doctrine declared America closed to foreign colonization   Signed Missouri Compromise   Captured Florida from Spain   James Monroe  
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Related to 4th president and Confederate General Robert E. Lee   Died in White House after 16 months in office   First election to be held at the same time in all states   Never voted until his own election   Zachary Taylor  
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Ordered troops into Korean War   Negotiated North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)   His doctrine stated US would help other nations battle Communist control   Ordered use of Atomic Bom and end of WWII   Harry S. Truman  
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Born on 96th anniversary of Declaration of Independence   Did not choose to run for reelection   Nicknamed "Silent Cal"   Believed in minimal government   Calvin Coolidge  
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Leader in Gulf War, triggered by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait   Saw collapse of Soviet Union   Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Soviet Union   Father of 43rd President   George H.W. Bush  
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Father of 6th President   Believed avoiding war was most important achievement of his presidency   First to occupy White House   Negotiated Treaty of Paris in 1783, ending the American Revolution   John Adams  
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First president to die in office while in the White House   Served one month, shortest term   Grandfather of 23rd President   2nd oldest president ever elected at age 68   William Henry Harrison  
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Set up trade relations with China   First impeachment attempt failed   First president to marry while in office   First vice president to become president upon death of predecessor   John Tyler  
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Successfully defended black rebels in the 1841 Amistad Rebellion   Argued everyone has a right to freedom   First congressman to suggest government's right to free slaves in times of war   First president to be photographed   John Quincy Adams  
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First elected president not to seek reelection   1849 Gold Rush spurred western expansion   Mexico War victory extended nation's boundaries to Pacific Ocean   Former Speaker of the House   James Polk  
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Withdrew Senate bill to annex Hawaii   First to have a child born in the White House   Portrait on $1,000 bill   Served 2 nonconsecutive terms   Grover Cleveland  
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Son of 41st President   Signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act   Appointed first African American Secretary of State   Ordered invasion into Iraq and Afghanistan   George W. Bush  
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Death served as catalyst for civil service reform   Alexander Graham Bell tried to unsuccessfully locate bullet in his back   2nd president to be assassinated   Served only 6 months   James Garfield  
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Shortest president at 5'4"   Portrait on $5,000 bill   President during War of 1812   Both vice presidents died in office   James Madison  
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Became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court after presidency   Buried in Arlington Cemetery   Declared White House to be "the lonesomest place in the world"   Arizona and New Mexico joined Union   William Taft  
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Helped form first Political Machine, an organization that trades favors for votes   Believed government role should be small even in times of need   First Great Depression, Panic of 1837   Ran for president 3 times   Martin van Buren  
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First president to resign when faced with certain impeachment   Watergate scandal   Pulled troops out of Vietnam   Improved relations with Soviet Union and China   Richard Nixon  
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Birthday celebrated nationally   Namesake of nation's capital   Likeness carved on Mt. Rushmore   Portrait on dollar bill and quarter   George Washington  
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Portrait on $20 bill   First presidential candidate nominated by national convention   Indian Removal Act forced migration of American Indians   Founder of Democratic Party   Andrew Jackson  
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Made official trips to Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa as a U.S. Senator   Taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School   Served 3 terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004   Practiced as a civil rights attorney   Barack Obama  
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Called "Little Ben" because of his size   Grandson of the 9th president   Electricity installed in White House   Established first Pan American Congress   Benjamin Harrison  
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Known to be a humanitarian   All payment for public service went to charity   Self-made millionaire at age 40   International relief work in WWI   Herbert Hoover  
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Unsuccessfully vetoed bill prohibiting Chinese immigration   Modernized navy   Passed first civil service law   Overcame scandal of corruption in New York to become vice president and president   Chester Arthur  
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Likeness carved on Mount Rushmore   Emancipation Proclamation freed southern slaves   Assassinated at start of 2nd term   Portrait on $5 bill and penny   Abraham Lincoln  
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Financed expedition to Far East   Opened door to trade with Japan   Enforced Fugitive Slave Laws   Last Whig president   Millard Fillmore  
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