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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate, and he had already served in the House of Representatives, but had returned to practicing law after only 1 term. Lincoln hated slavery and signed the Emancipation Proclamation to help eliminate some slavery. -
Ulysses S. Grant
Grant led the Union forces and achieved great success. He had won a reputation as a determined military leader. President Lincoln found him invaluable and likes his determination to fight and win. -
James A. Garfield
Garfield was a Republican Party's presidential candidate. Running with Garfield in the Republican Party was Conkling's political ally Chester A. Arthur as Vice President. Less than four months after Garfield's inauguration, he was shot by Charles Guiteau. -
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland was supported by people called mugwumps- big chiefs. Also, he had gained national attention when he opposed Tammany Hall while governor of New York. Cleveland was accused of fathering a child out of wedlock. -
Benjamin Harrison
Harrison, a Republican, was elected to the presidency in 1888, defeating Democratic Grover Cleveland. Defeated by Cleveland in his bid for re-election in 1892, Harrison returned to private life in Indianapolis. He later represented the Republic of Venezuela in an international case against the United Kingdom. -
William McKinley
McKinley was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his death. McKinley led the nation to victory in the Spanish–American War, raised protective tariffs to promote American industry, and maintained the nation on the gold standard in a rejection of inflationary proposals. McKinley's administration ended with his assassination in September 1901, but his presidency began a period of over a third of a century dominated by the Republican Party. -
William Howard Taft
Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States. He is the only person to have served in both of these two offices. In his only term, Taft's domestic agenda emphasized trust-busting, civil service reform, strengthening the Interstate Commerce Commission, improving the performance of the postal service, and passage of the Sixteenth Amendment. -
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912. In his first term as President, Wilson persuaded a Democratic Congress to pass major progressive reforms. In his first term, Wilson successfully pushed a legislative agenda that few presidents have equaled, and remained unmatched up until the New Deal. -
Warren G. Harding
Harding's conservativism, affable manner, and "make no enemies" campaign strategy made Harding the compromise choice at the 1920 Republican National Convention. During his presidential campaign, in the aftermath of World War I, he promised a return of the nation to "normalcy". This "America first" campaign encouraged industrialization and a strong economy independent of foreign influence. -
Herbert Hoover
As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubric "economic modernization". In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected-office experience. Hoover is the most recent cabinet secretary to be elected President of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents.
