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George Washington
- Born in Westmoreland, County Va.
- Commander in the Continental Army
- Previosly was a farmer
- George Washington did not have any kids
- first American president
- president of the continental convention
- Copyright law
- Establishing the law
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John Addams
- born in Braintree Ma
- 5 kids
- head of the war and Ordnance Board
- was an American statesman -founding father -went to Harvard
- Sedition acts
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Thomas Jefferson
- Born in Shawell VA
- primary draftmans for the declaration of independence
- Studied mathematics
- 9 children
- Second vice president
- Stateman responsible for the Louisiana purchase
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James Madison
- born in Belle Grove -"Nothing more than a change of mind my dear" -Refurbish White House -He made a major effect to the Constitution -no kids -He went to princeton
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James Monroe
-Born in Monroe Hall VA
-Had 3 children
-Known for being the last president of the founding fathers
-Served as acting secretary -
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John Quincy Adams
-from Braintree MA
-Harvard University
-Served as the colonet during the Civil War
-Was a statesman and politician
-4 children
-Was a lawyer and a diarist
-was a delegate
-movement for independence
-served in France
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Andrew Jackson
- born in Waxhaws
- had 0 chilldren
- worked as a saddler then returned to school
- general in the US Army
- signed the indian removal act -statesman
- served in congress young
- self taught milatary leader
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Martin Van Buren
- born in Kinderhook NY
- had 0 children
- attended village schools wanting to study law
- was law clerk at fourteen
- rebellions against Europe
- ressetled the Missisipi River
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William Henry Harrison
-born in Berkley Plantation VA
-went to Sydney University
-Soldier politician
-first to die in office
-didn't have much events -
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John Tyler
- born in Charles city
- 15 children
- College of William and Mary
- Was in the party of Whig Party
- signing a bill of Texas statehood
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James K. Polk
- Born in Pineville NA
- Went to University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
- Did not have have any children
- 13th speaker of the House of the Representatives
- known for extending the territory of the US
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Zachary Taylor
- born in Orange County VA
- 6 children
- Zachary Taylor had basic education
- joined the military and became officer
- Later became the major general and national hero for his victories in the Mexican-American War.
- Priority was to preserve the Union.
- He was in the Black Hawk and Second Seminole War.
- Did not take sides on the enslavement
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Millard Fillmore
- born in Summer Hill NY
- Millard Fillmore had two children
- He was the last president in the Whig Party
- they led a brief truce in the battle over the expansion of slavery
- Millard was born into poverty and had little of education
- "the Accidental President"
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Franklin Pierce
- born in Hillsborough NH
- He was part of the Democratic party
- Franklin PIerce had 3 children
- He was the son of state govorner
- He attended Bowdoin College
- He signed the Kansas-Newbraska Act and the Gadsden Purchase
- "Bleeding Kansas"
- Treaty of Kanagawa
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James Buchanan
- Born in Cove Gap PA
- attended Dickinson College
- known for his commitment to states' rights and the Manifest Destiny
- He was an American Lawyer , diplomat, and politician
- He represented Pennsylvania in both houses of the US congress He was part in the:
- silver strike in Nevada
- Buchanan Inaugurated
- Dred Scott decision
- Mountain Meadow Massacre -Kansas Elects Free-State Legislature
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Abraham Lincoln
- Born in Larue County KY
- had 4 children
- Lincoln was self educated
- Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin in Kentucky
- known for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in 1863.
- Confederate States of America organized
- he adopted the Confederate Constitution
- HE ENDED SLAVARY!
- created the civil and social freedom for African Americans
- he preserved the Union
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Chester A Arthur
- born in Fairfield VA
- had 3 children
- took over the presidency after James A Garfield dying
- graduated from Union College
- He was a Republican lawyer from New York
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Andrew Johnson
- Born from Raleigh NC
- he had 0 kids
- he was born into poverty and never attended school
- he implemented his own presidential reconstruction
- Johnson grants amnesty
- Extending the freedmens Bureau
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Ulysses S. Grant
- born in Point Pleasant OH
- led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War
- he had 4 childrens
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Rutherford B Hayes
- born in Delaware OH
- he had 8 children
- Kenyon College (BA) Harvard University (LLB)
- Politician lawyer
- He served in Congress from 1865 to 1867 and was elected governor of Ohio, serving two consecutive terms from 1868 to 1872 and half of a third two-year term from 1876 to 1877 before his swearing-in as president. Hayes won the Republican nomination for president in the 1876 United States presidential election.
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James A Garfield
- born in Moreland Hills OH
- he had 6 children
- he got assassinated during his presidency after a few months because of the President's refusal to appoint him to a European consulship
- graduated from Williams College
- studied law to become an attorney
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Grover Cleveland
- born in Caldwell, NJ
- had 0 children
- was president number 22 and 24
- he was first to win the democracy after the Civil War
- he received his elementary education at the Fayetteville
- Cleveland Signs Presidential Succession Act
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Benjamin Harrison
- born in North Bend OH
- he had 0 children
- he was born in a farm
- he was a local attorney
- Farmer's College Miami University
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William Mckinley
- born in Niles OH
- victory in the Spanish–American War of 1898; gained control of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Cuba
- he had 0 children
- He regarded McKinley as a symbol of oppression and was convinced that it was his duty as an anarchist to kill him.
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Theodore Roosevelt
- born in New York
- known as Teddy Roosevelt
- had more than 2 children
- he was part of the Navy and Great White fleet
- he won Nobel Peace Prize
- was an American Politician, statesman, conservationist, naturalist, and writer
- went to Harvard University
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William Howard Taft
- born in Cincinnati, OH
- he attended Yale University
- had 0 children
- he studied at the Cincinnati Law School where he graduated with the class
- Taft's conservatism angered Roosevelt, so he challenged Taft for the party nomination at the 1912 Republican National Convention. When Taft and his conservative allies narrowly prevailed, Roosevelt rallied his progressive supporters and launched a third-party bid.
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Franklin D Roosevelt
- born in Hyde Park NY
- graduated from Harvard
- He was a member of the Democratic Party and is the only U.S. president
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Woodrow Wilson
- born in Staunton, VA
- changed the nation's economic policies and led the United States into World War I in 1917. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations, and his progressive stance on foreign policy came to be known as Wilsonianism.
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Warren G Harding
- born in Blooming Grove OH
- had 0 children
- Ohio Central College (BA)
- Journalist politician
- signed the Budget and Accounting Act
- member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular sitting U.S. presidents
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Calvin Coolidge
- born in Plymouth Notch
- had 0 children
- he signed the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
- was a republican lawyer
- tended the Black River Academy and then St. Johnsbury Academy before enrolling at Amherst College
- was an American attorney and politician
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Herbert Hoover
- born in West Branch IA
- Hoover led the American Relief Administration, which provided food to the starving millions in Central and Eastern Europe, especially Russia.
- Hoover was an orphan
- held office during the Great Depression
- Stanford University in 1895
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Harry S Truman
- born in Lamar MO
- A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States
- 1 children
- At home, Truman protected and reinforced the New Deal reforms of his predecessor, guided the American economy from a war-time to a peace-time footing, and advanced the cause of African-American civil rights. Historians now rank Truman among the nation's best Presidents.
- Spalding's Commercial College
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
- born in Denison TX
- Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas, and raised in Abilene, Kansas. His family had a strong religious background, and his mother became a Jehovah's Witness. Eisenhower, however, belonged to no organized church until 1952. He graduated from West Point in 1915 and later married Mamie Doud, with whom he had two sons.
- had children
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John F Kennedy
- born in Brookline MA
- he got assasinated
- John F Kennedy had 3 children
- His economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II;
- 1961–1968: The Presidencies of John F. ...
- The Laos Crisis, 1960–1963.
- The Congo, Decolonization, and the Cold War, 1960–1965.
- USAID and PL–480, 1961–1969.
- The Bay of Pigs Invasion and its Aftermath, April 1961–October 1962.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
- Born in Stonewall, TX
- stance on civil rights put him at odds with other white
- Johnson was a member of the United States Naval Reserve when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
- Southwest Texas State Teachers College (BS)
- Politician teacher
- Born in Stonewall, Texas, Johnson worked as a high school teacher and a congressional aide
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Richard Nixon
- Born in Yorba Linda, CA
- Children: Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon Cox
- Nixon imposed wage and price controls for 90 days
- graduated from Duke Law School
- he became the only President to ever resign
- Children: Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Tricia Nixon Cox
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Gerald Ford
- Born in Omaha, NE
- Children: Steven Ford, Susan Ford Bales, Michael Gerald Ford, John Gardner Ford
- Ford presided over the worst economy in the four decades since the Great Depression
- Ford was the only person to serve as president without being elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency.
- went to University of Michigan
- served in the U.S. Naval Reserve
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Jimmy Carter
- Born in Plains, GA
- Children are James Carter, Amy Carter, Donnel Carter, Jack Carter
- he served in the Navy until October
- Carter successfully pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, and the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. He also confronted stagflation. His administration established the U.S. Department of Energy and the Department of Education
- Carter sought reforms to the country's welfare, health care, and tax systems
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Ronald Reagan
- born in Tampico, IL
- Children: Ron Reagan, Patti Davis, Maureen Reagan, Christine Reagan, Michael Reagan
- served as the president of the Screen Actors
- Dixon High School
- initiated a massive buildup of the United States military
- A member of the Republican Party, his presidency constituted the Reagan era
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George H. W. Bush
- born in Milton, MA
- Children 6
- was an American politician
- Republican (2001-2005) and (2005-2009), neo-conservative, foreign policy dominated by war on terror, No child left behind, tax cuts, high deficits, major economic problems, proposed privatizing social security, opposed stem cell research/pro-life/carbon reductions/ international law, but wanted more domestic drilling to alleviate oil dependence, major contributions to HIV/AIDs
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Bill Clinton
- Born in Hope, AR
- he earned a scholarship to University College
- Democrat (1993-2001) War in Bosnia; NAFTA, campaign that emphasized broad economic issues instead of the racial and cultural questions that had divided Democrats in the past., extended Palestinian self-rule and arranged timetables for Israeli withdrawal from disputed lands, was impeached due to the Monica Lewinski scandal and was later acquitted, cut spending; lowered taxes; decreased national debt
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Barack Obama
- born in Honolulu, HI -Columbia University (BA) Harvard University (JD)
- recovery of the U.S. economy
- Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president in United States history.
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Donald Trump
- Born in New York
- has a lot children
- He is also a real estate developer and businessman who has owned, managed, or licensed his name to hotels,
- Two years after leaving office, Trump became the first former president to be charged with a crime when a Manhattan grand jury indicted him on charges of falsifying business records in connection with a hush-money payment in 2016 to the adult-film star Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, who claimed to have had an affair with
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Joe Biden
- born in Scranton, PA
- has children
- Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden moved with his family to Delaware in 1953. He graduated from the University of Delaware before earning his law degree from Syracuse University. He was elected to the New Castle County Council in 1970 and to the U.S. Senate in 1972.