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Gov't Presidents
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| George Washington | -1st President to not represent a political party -General during the American Revolution -1st President to be put on a stamp and the one dollar bill |
| John Adams | -1st Vice President of the US -President during the XYZ Affair -Died on July 4th, 1826 with Thomas Jefferson |
| Thomas Jefferson | -invented the coat hanger -purchased the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon for 15 million dollars -Principal author of the Declaration of Independence |
| James Madison | -President during War of 1812 -White House was burned to the ground by the British during his term -Shortest President at 5'4" |
| James Monroe | -Florida seceded during his term -Formed the nation of Liberia in Africa -Creates the Monroe Doctrine that sets American Foreign Policy to this date |
| John Q. Adams | -was a Harvard professor -1st ambassador to Russia -Would skinny dip in the Potomac River |
| Andrew Jackson | -Only President to kill a man in a duel -Only President to serve in the military during the American Revolution and the War of 1812 -General during the War of 1812 won the Battle of New Orleans |
| Martin Van Buren | -1st President born a US citizen |
| William Harrison | -1st President to die in office |
| John Tyler | -Annexed Texas from Mexico -most children by a President (15) Only President to not name a Vice President |
| Abraham Lincoln | -1st president assassinated -Created Emancipation Proclamation |
| Andrew Johnson | -missed being impeached by 1 vote in the Senate -Sec of State Seward bought Alaska from Russia during his term -Issues pardons to all Confederate officers and politicians |
| Ulysses S. Grant | -Union General was received Lee's Sword at Appomattox Courthouse ending Civil War -established Yellowstone 1st National Park |
| James Garfield | -2nd president assassinated |
| Grover Cleveland | -President that dedicated the Statue of Liberty -Broke the Pullman Strike |
| William McKinley | -assassinated by Anarchist Leon Czolgosz -1st President to ride in an automobile (to hospital after being shot) |
| Theodore Roosevelt | -Youngest acting President in US history -Purchased Panama Canal -1st President to travel outside the US (Panama) |
| William Taft | -Heaviest President at 322 lbs -Got stuck in the White House bathtub |
| Woodrow Wilson | -President during WWI -19th Amendment is passed giving women's suffrage -Created Fourteen Points to fix Europe after WWI |
| Warren G. Harding | -lost the entire White House china set in a poker game -was caught in a closet with a young female intern by his wife -corrupt friends brought into DC creating numerous scandals |
| Calvin Coolidge | -used laissez faire economics -Cleaned up DC after Harding Era |
| Herbert Hoover | -President during the Great Depression started by the Stock Market Crash of 1929 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | -Only President to win an election 4 times -Created the New Deal economic program to try and stop the Great Depression -President during WWII |
| Harry S. Truman | -Gave order to drop the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -Created the CIA -Created the Marshall Plan to fix Europe after WWII |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | -General in charge of D-Day in WWII -Created NASA in response to the Soviet Union launching Sputnik satellite -Sent troops to Alabama to protect African American students |
| John F. Kennedy | -President during the Cuban Missile Crisis -Was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald -1st Catholic President |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | -Vietnam War during his term -Installed a buzzer in the oval office to warn when his wife was coming |
| Richard Nixon | -resigned due to Watergate Investigation -1st President to travel to all 50 states and China during his term -Only US president to resign |
| Gerald Ford | -was a model in college at Michigan -Only vice president and president without winning an election |
| Jimmy Carter | -1st president to claim to have seen a UFO -Returned the Panama Canal to Panama -Place embargo on Soviet Union and boycotted Moscow Olympics 1980 |
| Ronald Reagan | -Only President that was divorced -Oldest President to win an election -was President when the Berlin Wall fell symbolizing the end of the Cold War |
| George H.W. Bush | -President during the Persian Gulf War |
| William Clinton | -1st President to be a Rhodes Scholar -Impeached and then acquitted in the Monica Lewinski scandal |
| George W. Bush | -President during 9/11 -Fought war in Afghanistan -Fought War in Iraq to get rid of Sadam Hussain |
| Barack Obama | -1st African American President -Passed National Healthcare -Created Gay Marriage Rights |
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