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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln ended slavery.
He wrote the Gettysburg Address during the American Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln's death was the first assassination of a U.S. president and sent the nation into mourning. -
Andrew Johnson
He came under vigorous political attack from Republicans, ending in his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives; he was acquitted by the U.S. Senate.
Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American Civil War.
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Grover Cleveland
Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893–1897) and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents.
He was the winner of the popular vote for president three times—in 1884, 1888, and 1892.
He was the only Democrat elected to the presidency in the era of Republican political domination that lasted from 1861 to 1913. -
William McKinley
He 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.
His presidency began a period of over a third of a century dominated by the Republican Party.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore created the Bull Moose party.
In 1901, upon being sworn in as President of the United States, Roosevelt was only 42 years old, making him the youngest president ever, beating out the youngest elected president John F. Kennedy, by only one year
Roosevelt also remains, to this day, only one of three sitting presidents to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the other two being Woodrow Wilson and Barack Obama -
WIlliam Howard Taft
In 1900, President William McKinley appointed Taft Governor-General of the Philippines.
In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Taft Secretary of War in an effort to groom Taft, then his close political ally, into his handpicked presidential successor.
He is the only person to have served in both 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and then the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930) -
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson's first priority was to lower tariffs.
Wilson backed passage of the Clayton Antitrust Act in October 1914. This act Clarified and extended the 1890 Sherman Antittrust Act by clearly stating what corporation could not do.
As part of the New Freedom program, the Wilson administration backed the creation of the Federal Trade Commission by Congress in September 1914. -
Warren G. Harding
He was also the first incumbent United States Senator and the first newspaper publisher to be elected President
He served in the Ohio Senate (1899–1903)
The 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio (1904–1906) and as a U.S. Senator (1915–1921). -
Calvin Coolidge
To end the Boston Police strike Coolidge called in the state militia.
Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state.
Elected in his own right in 1924, he gained a reputation as a small-government conservative, and also as a man who said very little. -
Herbert Hoover
Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author.
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.
