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62  USA A T A GLANCE

The American Presidents Key to Timeline
Federalist
The presidents of the United States have come from all walks Democratic Republican
of life; at least two were born in a log cabin – Abraham Whig
Lincoln and Andrew Jackson. Others, such as Franklin D. Republican
Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, came from privileged Democrat
backgrounds. Millard Fillmore attended a one-room
schoolroom, and Jimmy Carter raised peanuts. Many,
including Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower, were Millard Fillmore William McKinley
military men, who won public popularity for their great (1850–53) (1897–1901)
achievements in battle. Zachary
Taylor
(1849–50)
Franklin Pierce
James K. Polk (1853–57) Benjamin Harrison
(1845–49) (1889–93)
W.H. Harrison
(1841)
Chester A. Arthur
(1881–85)

Rutherford B. Hayes
(1877–81)
George Washington
(1789–97) was a
Revolutionary War
general. He was James Madison (1809–17), Andrew
unanimously chosen to known as the Father of the Johnson
be the first president of Constitution, was co-author (1865–69)
the United States. of the Federalist Papers.
1775 1800 1825 1850 1875 1900
1775 1800 1825 1850 1875 1900
John Adams James John Tyler James A.
(1797–1801), Monroe (1841–45) Garfield
a lawyer and (1817–25) (1881)
historian, was the
first president John Quincy Ulysses S.
to live in Adams Martin Van Grant
the White (1825–29) Buren (1869–77) Warren Harding
House. (1837-41) Grover (1921–23)
Cleveland
James (1885–89)
Buchanan Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson (1857–61) (1861–65) won the
(1801–1809), architect, epithet, “the Great
inventor, landscape Andrew Jackson Emancipator”, for his
designer, diplomat, and (1829–37) defeated role in the abolition of
historian, was the the British at the slavery. He led the
quintessential Battle of New Union through the
Renaissance man. Orleans in the War Civil War. Grover
of 1812. Cleveland
(1893–97)
Theodore Roosevelt
(1901–9) created many
national parks and oversaw
the construction of the
Panama Canal.

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