Presidents 1860-1929

James Buchanan

Mar 4, 1857

James Buchanan was the only President who never married.
Buchanan did not grasp the political reality of his time.
Hs inability to impose peace on sharply divided partisans on the brink of the Civil War led him to be termed one of our worst presidents.

Abraham Lincoln

Mar 4, 1861

He was responsible for freeing the slaves.
Gave the Gettysburg Address about democratic ideals.
He realized the importance of good leader ship during the civil war.

Andrew Johnson

Apr 5, 1865

he was inpeached from office for vilateding the ten of office act.
He voted more bills than any previou president.
He bellived in the power out of the wealthy's hands.

Ulysses S. Grant

Mar 4, 1869

during the summer of 1869, financiers jay gould and james fisk tried to corner, or gain a monopoly on, the gold market.
civil services reform was the battle cry of new york, tribune editor horace greeley, grant's cibeal republican opponent in 1872.
Hoping to benefit form the split in the republican party, democrat also threw their support behind greeley

Rutherford B.Hayes

Mar 5, 1877

Born in Ohio in 1822, Hayes was educated at Kenyon College and Harvard Law School.
After five years of law practice in Lower Sandusky, he moved to Cincinnati, where he flourished as a young Whig lawyer.
Safe liberalism, party loyalty, and a good war record made Hayes an acceptable Republican candidate in 1876.

James A Garfield

Mar 4, 1881

As the last of the log cabin Presidents, James A. Garfield attacked political corruption and won back for the Presidency a measure of prestige it had lost during the Reconstruction period.
By a margin of only 10,000 popular votes, Garfield defeated the Democratic nominee, Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock.

Chester Arthur

Sep 20, 1881

President Grant in 1871 appointed him Collector of the Port of New York.
In 1878 President Hayes, attempting to reform the Customs House, ousted Arthur.
Failing, they reluctantly accepted the nomination of Arthur for the Vice Presidency.

Grover Cleveland

Mar 4, 1885

At 44, he emerged into a political prominence that carried him to the White House in three years.
He angered the railroads by ordering an investigation of western lands they held by Government grant.
After leaving the White House, Cleveland lived in retirement in Princeton, New Jersey. He died in 1908.

Benjamin Harrison

Mar 4, 1887

Cleveland won the popular election by some 100.00 votes.
They also spent coniderable amount of money on civil war densions for union veterans who mostley voted republican and other pet projects.
Althought Claeveland's started on reform annoyed some party's leaders he won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1888.

William Mckinley

Mar 4, 1889

At 34, McKinley won a seat in Congress. His attractive personality, exemplary character, and quick intelligence enabled him to rise rapidly.
During his 14 years in the House, he became the leading Republican tariff expert, giving his name to the measure enacted in 1890.

Theodore roosevelt

Sep 4, 1897

The Democrats again nominated william jennings bryan and made free silver and the economy the focus of their camoagign.
in 1900 most americans free silver and the economy the focus of their campaign.
Eight days later mckinley died and roosevelt became president.

William Howard Taft

Mar 4, 1909

Taft won the nomination on the first ballot.
The Democrats lost the election by a wide margin in the electrol college, but by just 1.25 million popular votes.
He had avoided the oftem hostile realm of electoral politics.

Woodrow Wilson

Mar 4, 1913

Wilson first priorty was to lower tariffs.
Wilson knew that supporters of big business had blocked tariff reduction during Taft's presidency.
Despite inite initial senate opposition congress passed the underwood tariff act in 1913.

Warren G Harding

Mar 4, 1921

An Ohio admirer, Harry Daugherty, began to promote Harding for the 1920 Republican nomination because, he later explained.
He did not live to find out how the public would react to the scandals of his administration.
Harding ran ona pro- bnusiness platform that promised tax revision higher tarifffs limits on immigration,and some did to farmer.

Calivin coolidge

Aug 3, 1923

He immediately began working to restore the reputation of the presidency by firing many of the people involved in the scandals.
However ,cooolidge continued to promote Harding popular pro-business policies because the national ecoomy was booming.
A dedicated conservative, coolidge was even more pro-business than Harding.