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Abraham Lincoln
President Lincoln(1861-65) was born in 1809 in Illinois. he ran for president with Andrew Johson and Hannibal Hamlin. On January 1, 1863 Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves and furthering the Civil War.Lincoln was also assassinated by john wilkes Boothe -
Ulysses S. Grant
When he was elected, the American people hoped for an end to turmoil.As President, Grant presided over the Government much as he had run the Army. Indeed he brought part of his Army staff to the White House.During his campaign for re-election in 1872, Grant was attacked by Liberal Republican reformers.Grant allowed Radical Reconstruction to run its course in the South, bolstering it at times with military force. -
James A. Garfield
Garfield was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1859 as a Republican. Garfield repeatedly won re-election for 18 years, and became the leading Republican in the House.On July 2, 1881, in a Washington railroad station Garfield was shot.Mortally wounded, Garfield lay in the White House for weeks.September 19, 1881, he died from an infection and internal hemorrhage. -
Chester Alan Arthur
Chester Arthur took office after President Grafield was assassinated. He was a republican that served from 1881-1885.The Arthur Administration enacted the first general Federal immigration law. In 1883 Congress passed the Pendleton Act, that made certain Government positions obtainable only through competitive written examinations. -
Grover Cleveland
The First Democrat elected after the Civil War. Running as a reformer, he was elected Mayor of Buffalo in 1881, and later, Governor of New York.Cleveland won the Presidency with the combined support of Democrats and reform Republicans. grover cleaveland was also the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms. -
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was in office from 1889 to 1893.Nominated for President on the eighth ballot at the 1888 Republican Convention, Benjamin Harrison conducted one of the first "front-porch" campaigns.In the Presidential election, Harrison received 100,000 fewer popular votes than Cleveland, but carried the Electoral College 233 to 168. -
William McKinley
During his 14 years in the House, he became the leading Republican tariff expert, giving his name to the measure enacted in 1890. The next year he was elected Governor of Ohio, serving two terms.His second term,came to a tragic end in September 1901.He was standing in a receiving line at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition when a deranged anarchist shot him twice. He died eight days later. -
Theodore Roosevelt
With the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, became the youngest President in the Nation's history.Some of Theodore Roosevelt's most effective achievements were in conservation. He added enormously to the national forests in the West, reserved lands for public use, and fostered great irrigation projects. -
Woodrow Wilson
He was nominated for President at the 1912 Democratic Convention and campaigned on a program called the New Freedom, which stressed individualism and states' rights.But after the election Wilson concluded that America could not remain neutral in the World War. On April 2,1917, he asked Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.The President, against the warnings of his doctors, had made a national tour to mobilize public sentiment for the treaty. Exhausted, he suffered a stroke and nearly die -
Calvin Coolidge
His first message to Congress in December 1923 called for isolation in foreign policy, and for tax cuts, economy, and limited aid to farmers.By the time the disaster of the Great Depression hit the country, Coolidge was in retirement.
