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George Washington
George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
Washington was homeschooled
Washington served as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783).
Before president: Commander-in-Chief
Inauguration as the First President
Establishment of the Federal Judiciary
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John Adams
- He is from Braintree Massachusetts.
- Harvard University.
- Head of War and Ordnance board.
- Vice president, Minister to great Britain and Netherlands, Delegate to continental congress.
- He had 6 children with his wife.
- He assisted Jefferson in drafting the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and was its primary advocate in Congress. As a diplomat he helped negotiate a peace treaty with Great Britain and secured vital governmental loans.
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James Madison
- Virginia Port Conway
- Princeton University and college of New Jersey
- Orange county regiment, Virginia militia
- secretary of state, and VA representative
- No kids
- Madison was popularly acclaimed the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. James Madison Jr.
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Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson was born in Shadwell, Virginia.
attended the College of William and Mary, where he studied law and mathematics.
did not serve in the military.
Vice President of the United States
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James Monroe
- VA Monroe Hall
- Campbelltown Academy
- commissioned as colonel and commander of the Orange County Regiment, Virginia Militia.
- VA Representative, secretary of state\
- No Kids
- Madison was popularly acclaimed the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. James Madison Jr.
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John Quincy Adams
- Braintree MA
- Harvard University
- served as a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War
- MA district representative, secretary of state, USA Ambassador to the UK, US minister to Prussia Netherlands Russia
- 4 children
- served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. A member of multiple political parties over the years, he also served as a diplomat, a Senator, and a member of the House of Representatives.
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Andrew Jackson
- Waxhaw
- Studies law under an attorney
- a major general in the Regular Army of the United States
- TN senator, Federal military commissioner
- he had 4 kids
- He implemented his own form of Presidential Reconstruction – a series of proclamations directing the seceded states to hold conventions and elections to re-form their civil governments. His plans did not give protection to the former slaves.
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Martin Van Buren
- Kinderhook, NY
- Claverack College
- Did not serve in the military
- Vice president, United States Ambassador
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John Tyler
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William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison was born on February 2nd, 1773, at Berkeley Plantation, Virginia. He studied classics and history at Hampden-Sydney College, then began the study of medicine in Richmond. In 1791, Harrison switched interests, he joined the army and was commissioned as ensign in the First Infantry of the Regular Army. After resigning from the Army, In 1801 he became Governor of the Indiana Territory, serving 12 years. -
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James K Polk
James K. Poland was born November 2nd, 1795, in North Carolina. Polk graduated with honors in 1818 from the University of North Carolina, he became a young lawyer he entered politics, and served in the Texas legislature. In the House of Representatives, Polk was a chief lieutenant of Jackson in his Bank war. He served as Speaker between 1835 and 1839, leaving to become Governor of Tennessee. -
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Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor was born November 24th, 1784, in Virginia. Taylor received basic education and aspired from a young age to join the military. He was a career officer in the Army and spent 40 years in there. -
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Milliard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore was born January 7th, 1800, in New York. he would attend one-room schools, but studied diligently to become a lawyer. Fillmore held state office and for eight years was a member of the House of Representatives. In 1848, he was elected Vice President. -
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Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce, 14th President
Franklin Pierce was born November, 11th, 1804, in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Pierce attended Bowdoin College, after graduation, he studied law, then entered politics. At 24 he was elected to the New Hampshire legislature; two years later he became its Speaker. During the 1830’s he went to Washington, first as a Representative, then as a Senator. Pierce, after serving in the Mexican War, was proposed by New Hampshire friends for the Presidential nomination in1852 -
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James Buchanan
James Buchanan was born April 23rd , 1791, in Pennsylvania. Buchanan was a graduate of Dickinson College, and was gifted as a debater and learned in law. He was elected five times to the House of Representatives; then, after an interlude as Minister to Russia, served for a decade in the Senate. He became Polk’s Secretary of State and Pierce’s Minister to Great Britain -
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was born February 12th, 1809, in Kentucky. Lincoln was self-educated, He never attended college, but Lincoln retained a lifelong interest in learning. He married Mary Todd, and they had four boys, only one of whom lived to maturity. In 1858 Lincoln ran against Stephen A. Douglas for Senator. He lost the election, but in debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation that won him the Republican nomination for President in 1860. -
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Andrew Johnson
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Ulysses S Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was born April 27th, 1822, in Ohio. He went to West Point and graduated in the middle of his class. In the Civil War, he was reenlisted in the Union Army in April 1861.Lincoln appointed him General-in-Chief in March 1864. Grant directed Sherman to drive through the South while he himself, with the Army of the Potomac, pinned down Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, Eventually in 1865, Lee surrendered -
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Rutherford B Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes was born October 4th, 1822, in Ohio. Hayes was educated in Kenyon College and Harvard Law School. After five years of practice, he moved to Cincinnati, where he became a young lawyer. He fought in the Civil War, and rose to the rank of brevet major general. Hayes entered Congress in December 1865, Between 1867 and 1876 he served three terms as Governor of Ohio. -
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James Garfield
James Garfield was born November 19th, 1831, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. He earned enough money to get education, and he graduated and attended from Williams College. Garfield was elected to the Ohio senate in 1859 as a Republican. In 1862, Garfield was in the army for the union and was ranked as a major general, later on in that same year he was elected to Congress. -
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Chester A Arthur
Chester A. Arthur was born October, 5th, 1829, in Fairfield, Vermont. In 1848, he graduated from Union College, taught school, was admitted to the bar, practiced law in New York City. In 1880, Arthur became vice president, but after Garfield was assassinated, Arthur assumed the presidency -
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Grover Cleveland
Chester A. Arthur was born October, 5th, 1829, in Fairfield, Vermont. In 1848, he graduated from Union College, taught school, was admitted to the bar, practiced law in New York City. In 1880, Arthur became vice president, but after Garfield was assassinated, Arthur assumed the presidency -
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Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was born August 20th, 1833, In Ohio. Harrison attended Miami University in Ohio and read law in Cincinnati. He moved to Indianapolis, where he practiced law and campaigned for the Republican Party. -
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Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland was one of nine children, and was born March ,14th, 1837, in New Jersey. Cleveland received his education at The Fayetteville Academy and the Clinton Grammar School, after his dad died he left school to support his family. At 44, he emerged into a political prominence that carried him to the White House for three years, he was elected as Mayor of Buffalo in 188, and later, Governor of New York. -
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William McKinley
William McKinley was born January 1st, 1843, In Niles, Ohio. McKinley briefly attended Allegheny College, and was teaching in a country school when the Civil War broke out. Enlisting as a private in the Union Army. At 34, McKinley won a seat in Congress, 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. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was born October,7th, 1858, in New York. In 1884 his first wife, Alice Lee Roosevelt, and his mother died on the same day. Roosevelt spent much of the next two years on his ranch in the Badlands of Dakota Territory. In 1898, Roosevelt won the election for governor and was also vice president to McKinley -
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William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft was born September 15th,1857, In Cincinnati, Ohio. Taft graduated from Yale, and returned to Cincinnati to study and practice law. President Roosevelt made him Secretary of War, and by 1907 had decided that Taft would be his successor. -
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Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson was born December 28th, 1856, in Staunton ,Virginia. After graduation from Princeton and the University of Virginia Law School, Wilson earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University and entered upon an academics career -
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Warren G Harding
Warren G. Harding was born November 2nd, 1865, in Marion, Ohio. In 1914 he was elected to the Senate, which he found “a very pleasant place.” He won the Presidential election by an unprecedented landslide of 60 percent of the popular vote. -
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Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge was born July 4th, 1872, in Plymouth, Vermont. He graduated from Amherst College with honors, and entered law and politics in Northampton. He went up the political ladder from councilman in Northampton to Governor of Massachusetts, as a Republican. -
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Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover was born August 10th, 1874, in Iowa. He enrolled at Stanford University, and graduated as a mining engineer. Before his presidency, Hoover served as the director of the U.S. Food Administration, and served as the U.S. secretary of commerce. -
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Franklin D Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was born January 30th, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. Following the example of his fifth cousin, President Theodore Roosevelt, whom he greatly admired, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered public service through politics, but as a Democrat. He won election to the New York Senate in 1910. President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and he was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1920. -
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Harry S Truman
Harry S. Truman was born May 5th, 1884, in Lamar, Missouri. Active in the Democratic Party, Truman was elected a judge of the Jackson County Court (an administrative position) in 1922. He became a Senator in 1934. -
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Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower was born October 14th, 1890, in Texas. He excelled in sports in high school, and received an appointment to West Point. He commanded the Allied Forces landing in North Africa in November 1942; on D-Day, 1944, he was Supreme Commander of the troops invading France. -
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John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was born May 5th, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts. Kennedy graduated from Harvard and would later on would join the Navy. When Kennedy came back from the war, became a Democratic Congressman from the Boston area, advancing in 1953 to the Senate. -
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Lyndon B Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson was born August 8th, 1908, in Central Texas. He felt the pinch of rural poverty as he grew up, working his way through Southwest Texas State Teachers College. In 1937 he campaigned successfully for the House of Representatives on a New Deal platform, Later on in the 1960 campaign, Johnson, as JFK's running mate. He was elected Vice President. On November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated, Johnson was sworn in as President. -
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Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was born January 9th, 1913, in California. Nixon had a brilliant record at Whittier College and Duke University Law School before beginning the practice of law. he was elected to Congress from his California district. In 1950, he won a Senate seat. Two years later, General Eisenhower selected Nixon, age 39, to be his running mate. -
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Gerald R Ford
Gerald Ford was born July 14th, 1913. He starred on the University of Michigan football team, then went to Yale, where he served as assistant coach while earning his law degree. After the war he returned to Grand Rapids, where he began the practice of law, and entered Republican politics. -
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Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter was born October 1st, 1924, in Plains, Georgia. After seven years’ service as a naval officer, Carter returned to Plains. In 1962 he entered state politics, and eight years later he was elected Governor of Georgia. -
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Regan was born February 6th, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois. He attended high school in nearby Dixon and then worked his way through Eureka College. There, he studied economics and sociology. In 1966 he was elected Governor of California by a margin of a million votes; he was re-elected in 1970. -
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George H.W Bush
George H.W. Bush was born June 12th, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts. he became a student leader at Phillips Academy in Andover. On his 18th birthday he enlisted in the armed forces. George became interested in public service and politics. He served two terms as a Representative to Congress from Texas -
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Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton was born Augusts 19th, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas . Clinton graduated from Georgetown University and in 1968 won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. He received a law degree from Yale University in 1973, and entered politics in Arkansas. Clinton was elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976, and won the governorship in 1978. -
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George W Bush
George W. Bush was born July 6th, 1946, In New Haven, Connecticut. Bush graduated from Yale, received a business degree from Harvard. When George W. Bush, at the age of 54, became the 43rd president of the United States, it was only the second time in American history that a president’s son went on to the White House. -
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Barrack Obama
Obama was a member of the Illinois State Senate (1996-2004) and a U.S. Senator (2005-2008). Obama's current vice president is Joseph R. Biden. Obama is currently in his second term as president. -
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Donald Trump
Donald John Trump was born in Queens, New York, on June 14, 1946. His father, Fred Trump was a successful real estate developer. Trump was educated at the New York Military Academy and the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania.