Presidents of the United States
John Tyler (1841-1845)
10th President Term: Less than 1 yr First Lady: Letitia Christian (d. 1842) Julia Gardiner 9m. 1841) - Virginia governor (1825-1827) - First Vice President to become president on death of predecessor - Became "President without a Party" after Whig's severed all ties - First president married while in office - First impeachment attempt (failed) - Set up trade relations with China - Florida joined Union
James Knox Polk (1845-1849)
11th President Term: 1 First Lady: Sarah Childress - Tennessee Governor (1839-1841) - Speaker of the House - First dark-horse (little known) candidate - Mexican War victory extended nation's boundaries to Pacific OCean - 1849 Gold Rush spurred western expansion -First Elected President to not seek reelection - Texas, Iowa, and Wisconsin joined Union
Zachary Taylor (1849-1850)
12th President Term: Less than 1 year Vice President: Millard Fillmore First Lady: Margaret Mackall Smith - Soldier for 40 years - Called "Old Rough & ready" by troops for unkempt appearance - Never voted until his own election - First election to be held at the same time in all states - Died in the White House after 16 months in office - Related to fourth President, also Confederate General Robert E. Lee
Millard Fillmore (1850-1853)
13th President Term: 3 years (Not elected) First Lady: Abigail Powers - Married his teacher - Last Whig president - Compromise of 1850 delayed Civil War by 10 years - Enforced Fugitive Slave Laws - Financed expedition to the Far East, opening door to trade with Japan - California joined the Union
Franklin Pierce (1853-1857)
14th President Terms: 1 Vice President: William R. King First Lady Jane Means Appleton - New Hampshire Senator at age 32 - Appointed Jefferson David (future President of the Confederate States) Secretary of War - Supported Immigrant rights - Unsuccessful attempt to seize Cuba from Spain - Purchased land from Mexico, establishing present border - Passed controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act, nullifying Missouri Compromise
James Buchanan (1857-1861)
15th President Term: 1 Vice President: John C. Breckinridge First Lady: Never Married - Only Bachelor President - 40 years prior service in Congress - Campaigned on "Save the Union" theme - During presidency, six slave states seceded to form new "Confederate States of America" - Minnesota, Oregon, and Kansas joined the Union
Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)
16th President Terms: Elected to 2 Vice President: Hannibal Hamlin, Andrew Johnson First Lady: Mary Todd - First republican President - President during the Civil War - Assassinated beginning of second term - Emancipation Proclamation freed southern slaves - West Virginia, Nevada joined the Union - Portrait on $5 bill, penny
Andrew Johnson (1865-1869)
17th President Term: Less than 1 (not elected) Vice President: none First Lady: Eliza McCardle - Tailor by trade - Only southern senator during Civil War who refused to secede with his state - Start of Southern Reconstruction - Slavery officially abolished - Purchased Alaska from Russia - Nebraska joined Union
Ulysses Simpson Grant (1869-1877)
18th President Terms: 2 Vice President: Schuyler Colfax, Henry Wilson First Lady: Julia Dent - U.S. "Unconditional Surrender" Grant - No prior political experience - Continued Southern Reconstruction - Political corruption at all levels of office - Colorado joined Union - Portrait on $50 bill - Transcontinental railroad completed - Telephone invented 1876 - Established Yellowstone National Park
Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1877-1881)
19th President Term: 1 Vice President: William A. Wheeler First Lady: Lucy Ware Webb - Volunteer counsel for Underground Railway, helping slaves win freedom -Congress had to create special Electoral Commission to decide the election - Declared winner of election just 56 hours before inauguration - Withdrew troops from South - Labor unions grew
George Washington (1789-1797)
1st President Terms 2 Vice President - John Adams First Lady: Martha Dandridge Custis -Commander of the Continental Army -Unanimously elected twice -Did not want to run for a second term -Increased States in Union from 11 to 16 -Portrait on the Dollar bill & Quarter -Namesake of Nation's Capital
James Abram Garfield (1881)
20th President Term: Less than 1 Vice President: Chester Alan Arthur First Lady: Lucretia (Crete) Rudolph - Last president born in a log cabin - Former teacher and preacher - Served only 6 months - Second President to be assassinated
Chester Alan Arthur (1881-1885)
21st President Term: Less than 1 (not elected) Vice President: None First Lady: Widowed in 1880 - Well dressed, called "Gentleman Boss" - Defender of civil rights for blacks - Passed first civil service law - Modernized navy
Grover Cleveland (1885-1889)
22nd President Term: 1 Vice President: Thomas A. Hendricks First Lady: Frances Folsom (m. 1886) - Reputation as an honest politician - First Democratic President after Civil War - Only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms - Married in White House - Dedicated Statue of Liberty - Favored low tariffs - Portrait on $1,000 bill
Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893)
23rd President Term: 1 Vice President: Levi P. Morton First Lady: Caroline Lavinia Scott - Called "Little Ben" because of his size - Grandson of the ninth president -Enlarged the Navy - Favored high tariffs - North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming joined the Union
Grover Cleveland (1893-1897)
24th President Term: 1 Vice President: Adlai E. Stevenson First Lady: Frances Folsom - Only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms - First president to have a child born in the White House - Sent Federal troops to break up a train strike that was interfering with the mail - Withdrew Senate bill to annex Hawaii - Utah joined the Union Portrait on the $1,000 bill
William McKinley (1897-1901)
25th President Term: Elected to 2 Vice President: Garret A. Hobart, Theodore Roosevelt First Lady: Ida Saxton - Spanish-American war victory - Aided Cuba's fight for independence - Acquired Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and America Samoa - Hawaii became a Territory - Assassinated in second term - Namesake of Alaska's Mount Mckinley, North America's highest peak - Portrait on $500 bill
Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909)
26th President Term: 2 (elected to 1) Vice President: Charles W. Fairbanks First Lady: Edith Kermit Carow - Nobel Peace Prize recipient for ending Russo-Japanese War - Doubled the number of national parks - As "Trust-Buster", tried to limit power of big business - Initiated creation of Panama Canal - Settled Alaska/Canada border dispute - Oklahoma joined the union - Teddy Bear namesake
William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
27th President Term: 1 Vice President: James S. Sherman First Lady: Helen (Nellie) Herron - Civilian Governor of the Philippines (1901-1904) - Largest President (six feet and 300 pounds) - Established federal income tax - Arizona and New Mexico joined the Union - Declared the White House as "the lonesomest place in the world" -Became chief justice of the Supreme Court after presidential term
Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)
28th President Terms: 2 Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall First Lady: Ellen Louise Axson (d. 1914), Edith Bolling Galt (m.1915) - Only president to earn a PH.D. - Started regular presidential press conferences - 19th Amendment allowed women to vote - Created the League of Nations - Expanded role of government during World War 1
Warren Gamaliel Harding (1921-1923)
29th President Terms: Less than 1 Vice President: Calvin Coolidge First Lady: Florence Fling de Wolfe - Editor-publisher by trade - First President to ride in car to inauguration - First president to broadcast speech over the radio - First presidential visit to Canada and Alaska - Died in San Francisco on return trip from Alaska, after 2 1/2 years in office
John Adams (1797-1801)
2nd President Term - 1 Vice President - Thomas Jefferson First Lady: Abigail Smith -Successfully Defended British Soldiers accused of murder in Boston Massacre. -Signed Declaration of Independence -Negotiated Treaty of Paris in 1783, ending the American Revolution -First President to occupy the White House -Believed avoiding war was the most important achievement of his presidency. -Father of the 6th president.
Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)
30th President Terms: 2 (elected to 1) Vice President: Charles G. Dawes First Lady: Grace Anna Goodhue - Sworn in as president by his father, a justice of the peace - Believed in minimal government - Named "Silent Cal" for refusal to engage in small talk - Did not choose to run for reelection
Herbert Clark Hoover (1929-1933)
31st President Terms: 1 Vice President: Charles Curtis First Lady: Lou Henry - Orphaned at age 9 - Mining engineer in Australia, China, and England - Circled the globe 5 times by age 33 - International relief work in World War 1 - Self made millionaire by age 40 - All payment for public service went to charity - Humanitarian - Held no political office prior to presidency - Believed prosperity was "just around the corner"
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945)
32nd President Terms: Elected to 4 Vice Presidents: John N. Garner, Henry A. Wallace, Harry S. Truman First Lady: Eleanor Roosevelt - New York governor (1929-1933) - Paralyzed by polio in 1921 - Only president elected to four consecutive terms - Expanded government to combat Great Depression - "New Deal" relief programs - Died at beginning of fourth term - Portrait on dime
Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)
33rd President Terms: 2 (elected to 1) Vice President: Alben W. Barkley First Lady: Elizabeth (Bess) Virginia Wallace - Sign on his desk "The Buck Stops Here" - Ordered use of atomic bomb - Start of Cold War with U.S.S.R. - Truman Doctrine stated that United States would help other nations battle Communist control - Negotiated North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - Ordered troops into Korean War
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)
34th President Terms: 2 Vice President: Richard M. Nixon First Lady: Mamie Geneva Doud - Nickname "Ike" - Supreme Allied Commander during World War 11 - First television campaign - Helped end Korean War - Success in space with artificial satellite - Start of Vietnam War - Enforced school desegregation - Ended diplomatic relations with Cuba - Hawaii and Alaska joined Union - First President over all 50 states
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1961-1963)
35th President Terms: Less than 1 Vice President: Lyndon B. Johnson First Lady: Jacqueline Bouvier - Youngest man elected president - First president born in 20th century - First Catholic President - Worked for civil rights and equality - Established Peace Corps - Forced U.S.S.R. to withdraw nuclear missiles from Cuba - Assassinated after 2 1/2 years in office - Buried at Arlington Cemetery - Portrait on 50 cent coin
Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963-1969)
36th President Terms: 2 (1 elected) Vice President: Hubert H. Humphrey First Lady: Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor - Sworn in as president aboard Air Force One - Passed civil rights and antipoverty measures - Established Medicare -Escalation of Vietnam War - War policy caused riots - Chose not to run for reelection "because of division in the American House" regarding war
Richard Milhous Nixon (1969-1974)
37th President Terms: Elected to 2 Vice President: Spiro T. Agnew, Gerald R. Ford First Lady: Thelma Catherine (Pat) Ryan - Only person whose Vice Presidential and Presidential terms were not consecutive - Congratulated (by special telephone connection) the first man on the moon. - Improved relations with Soviet Union and China - Pulled American troops out of Vietnam - Watergate political scandal - First president to resign when faced with certain impeachment
Gerald Rudolph Ford (1974-1977)
38th President Term: Less than 1 (not elected) Vice President: Nelson A. Rockefeller First Lady: Elizabeth "Betty" Bloomer - Turned down Nation Football League (NFL) contract in order to study law - Appointed as Richard Nixon's vice president when Spiro Agnew resigned - Only president who did not win election to office of with vice president or president - Final American Troop withdrawal from Vietnam while in office
James (Jimmy) Earl Carter (1977-1981)
39th President Terms: 1 Vice President: Walter Mondale First Lady: Rosalynn Smith - Peanut farmer - Georgia governor (1971-1975) First Graduate of U.S. Naval Academy to become president - Negotiated Camp David peace accord between Egypt and Israel - returned control of the Panama Canal to Panama - Established full diplomatic relations with China - Iran terrorists hostage crisis
Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809)
3rd President Terms: 2 Vice President: Aaron Burr, George Clinton First Lady: Widowed -Author of the Declaration of Independence -Jeffersonian Democracy (Believed the States had Rights) -First constitutional transfer of power between political groups -Purchased Louisiana from France -Ohio joined the Union -Portrait on $2 bill, nickel
Ronald Wilson Reagan (1981-1989)
40th President terms:2 Vice President George H.W. Bush First Lady: Nancy Davis - Actor appeared in over 50 movies - California Governor (1967-1975) - Oldest elected president - Iran hostages released on Inauguration Day
George Herbert Walker Bush (1989-1993)
41st President Terms:1 Vice President: Dan Quayle First Lady: Barbara Pierce - Director of CIA in 1975 - Father of 43rd president - Fall of Berlin Wall - Collapse of Soviet Union - Leader in Gulf War, triggered by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton (1993-2001)
42nd President Terms: 2 Vice President: Albert Gore First Lady: Hilary Clinton - Arkansas Governor (1978-1980, 1982-1993) - Elected to presidency while still governor - Impeached by Congress, but acquitted by Senate - Passed anti-crime laws - Signed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Mexico and Canada - Appointed first woman as Secretary of State
George Walker Bush (2001-2009)
43rd President Terms: 2 Vice President: Richard B. Cheney First Lady: Laura Welch - Son of 41st President - Texas Governor (1994-2001) -Closest opponent won popular vote and contested voting irregularities - First president to appoint an African American secretary of state - Terrorists attack U.S. soil on Sept. 11, 2001 - established Homeland Security Act, 2002
Barack Obama (2009 -2016
44th President Terms: elected to 2 Vice President: Joseph Biden First Lady: Michelle Robinson - The first African- American President
Donald J. Trump (2017-2021)
45th President Terms: 1 VP: Mike Pence First Lady: Melania Trump Business man, reality show host, 3rd President of the U.S. to be impeached 1st President of the U.S. to be impeached twice From New York City Mar Largo was his "Southern White House"
James Madison (1809-1817)
4th President Terms: 2 Vice President: George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry First Lady: Dorothea (Dolley) Payne Todd -First President with prior service as Congressman -"Father of the Constitution" -Played a large role in drafting the Bill of Rights -Louisiana and Indiana joined in office -Both vice-presidents died in office -President during war of 1812 -Portrait on the $5,000 bill -Shortest president (5'4")
James Monroe (1817-1825)
5th President Terms: 2 Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins First Lady: Elizabeth Kotright - Captured Florida from Spain - Received every electoral college vote except one in 1820 election - Signed Missouri Compromise - Monroe Doctrine declared America Closed to further foreign colonization - Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama, Maine, Missouri joined the Union.
John Quincy Adams (1825-1829)
6th President 1 term Vice President: John C. Calhoun First Lady: Louisa Catherine Johnson - Son of second President - Named "Old Man Eloquent" because of his persuasive speeches - First president photographed - Member of Congress for 18 years after term as President - First congressman to assert government's right to free slaves in times of war - In the 1841 Amistad rebellion, successfully defended black rebels with argument that everyone has a right to freedom
Andrew Jackson (1829-1837)
7th President 2 terms Vice President: John C. Calhoun, Martin Van Buren First Lady: Widowed in 1828 - First president from poor family - War hero nicknamed "Old Hickory" - Founder of Democratic Party - Indian Removal Act forced migration by national convention - Arkansas, Michigan joined the Union - Portrait on $20 bill
Martin Van Buren (1837-1841)
8th President 1 term Vice President: Richard M. Johnson First Lady: Widowed in 1819 - New York Governor (1829) - Ran for president 3 times - "O.K." comes from campaign slogan "Old Kinderhook" - First Great Depression, Panic of 1837 - Believed government role should be small even in times of need - Helped form first Political Machine, an organization that trades favors for votes
William Henry Harrison (1841)
9th President less than 1 year First Lady: Ann Tuthill Symmes - Studied to become a Doctor - Indiana Territory governor (1800-1812) - First Whig President - Second oldest president ever elected (age 68) - Grandfather of 23rd President - Served one month, shortest term of all presidents - First President to die in office, dies in White House
Name 3 Presidents who were assassinated in office.
Abraham Lincoln James Garfield William McKinley John F. Kennedy
Who was the only president to serve 2 non consecutive terms?
Grover Cleavland (22 and 24)
Name 3 presidents who died on July 4th.
James Monroe John Adams Thomas Jefferson
Who was the oldest president?
Joe Biden age 80. Prior to Biden, it was Ronald Reagan who was 77 at the end of his term.
Who was the youngest president elected to office?
John F. Kennedy (43)
Who was the only president to resign from office?
Richard Nixon resigned over the Watergate scandal; Gerald Ford was his successor.
Who was the youngest president?
Theodore Roosevelt (42) Assumed the presidency when McKinley was assassinated.
Which president served the shortest term?
William Henry Harrison. Died of pneumonia after 31 days in office. He didn't wear proper clothing on the rainy day that he took the oath of office resulting in a chills, a cold, and eventually pneumonia. The Whig program died with him.
Name 3 presidents who died in office but were not assassinated.
Zachary Taylor Warren G. Harding William Henry Harrison Franklin Delanor Roosevelt
