presidents of united states

  • George Washington

    George Washington
    He was the first president of united states, he was born in 1732 in virginia. He was the commander in chief of the continental army during the american revolutionary war (1775-1783), and one of the founding fathers of the united states, he was elected president in 1789. Even while alive he was called "father of his country".
  • John Adams

    John Adams
    John Adams was the second president of the united states (1797-1801), having earlier served as the first vice presindent of the united states (1798-1797). And american founding father. He assisted thomas jefferson in drafting the declaration of independence in 1776, and was it primary advocate in the Congress.
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson
    Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States (1801–1809). Was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776). In 1807 Jefferson drafted and signed into law the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves that banned slave importation into the United States.
  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
    Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War, In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy. He was the first Republican president , and the first president to be assassinated.
  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt
    Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States. A leader of the Republican Party, he was a leading force of the Progressive Era.
  • Woodrow Wilson

    Woodrow Wilson
    Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924)was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921.
    Among these included the Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, and the Federal Farm Loan Act. Upon the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Wilson maintained a policy of neutrality, while pursuing a more aggressive policy in dealing with Mexico's civil war.
  • Herbert Clark Hoover

    Herbert Clark Hoover
    Herbert Clark Hoover (1874 –1964)was the 31st President of the United States.When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with moderate government public works projects such as the Hoover Dam. The record tariffs imbedded in the Smoot-Hawley Tariff and aggressive increases in the top tax bracket from 25% to 63%, coupled with increases in corporate taxes,but not efective.
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945),was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States.
    A Democrat, he won a record four elections and served from March 1933 to his death in April 1945.He was a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. His program for relief, recovery and reform, known as the New Deal.
  • Harry S. Truman

    Harry S. Truman
    Harry S. Truman (1945–1953) was the 33rd President of the United States. Truman succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when Roosevelt died after months of declining health. Under Truman, the Allies successfully concluded World War II; in the aftermath of the conflict, tensions with the Soviet Union increased, marking the start of the Cold War.
    During World War I, he served in combat in France as an artillery officer in his National Guard unit.
  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy

    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    John F Kennedy was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. Notable events that occurred during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Police Week, the establishment of the Peace Corps, the Space Race, the building of the Berlin Wall, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and the increased U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon
    Richard Milhous Nixon (1913–1994), was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office. Nixon had previously served as a U.S. Representative and Senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
  • Jimmy Carter

    Jimmy Carter
    Jimmy carter is an American politician, author, and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize.Carter, raised in rural Georgia, was a peanut farmer who served two terms as a Georgia State Senator, from 1963 to 1967, and one as the Governor of Georgia, from 1971 to 1975. He was elected President in 1976, defeating incumbent president Gerald Ford in a very close election
  • Bill Clinton

    Bill Clinton
    Bill clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992. A member of the Democratic Party, ideologically Clinton was a New Democrat.Clinton left office with the highest end-of-office approval rating of any U.S. president since World War II. Since then, he has been involved in public speaking and humanitarian work.
  • George W. Bush

    George W. Bush
    Eight months into Bush's first term as president, the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks occurred. In response, Bush launched the War on Terror, an international military campaign which included the war in Afghanistan, launched in 2001 and the war in Iraq, launched in 2003. In addition to national security issues, Bush also promoted policies on the economy, health care, education, social security reform, and amending the Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage. He signed into law broad ta
  • Barack Obama

    Barack Obama
    Barack Hussein Obama II (born 1961), is the 44th and current President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office. He was elected in 2009, he is the current president. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School