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Abraham Lincoln
He was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. As President, he built the Republican Party into a strong national organization. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy. -
Ulysses S. Grant
Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point rather against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. In the Mexican War he fought under Gen. Zachary Taylor. -
Rutherford B. Hayes
He was born in Ohio in 1822, and was educated at Kenyon College and Harvard Law School. He fought in the civil war and was wounded in action. While he was still in the Army, Cincinnati Republicans ran him for the House of Representatives. -
James A. Garfield
He was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1831. He graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts in 1856. Garfield was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1859 as a Republican. -
Benjamin Harrison
Born in 1833 on a farm by the Ohio River below Cincinnati, Harrison attended Miami University in Ohio. He moved to Indianapolis, where he practiced law and campaigned for the Republican Party.He married Caroline Lavinia Scott in 1853. -
William Mckinley
Born in Niles, Ohio, in 1843, McKinley briefly attended Allegheny College. Was teaching in a country school when the Civil War broke out. During his 14 years in the House, he became the leading Republican tariff expert, -
William Howard Taft
Born in 1857, the son of a distinguished judge, he graduated from Yale, and returned to Cincinnati to study and practice law. President Roosevelt made him secretary of war. By 1907 had decided that Taft should be his successor. -
Wodrow Wilson
He campaigned on a program called the New Freedom. In the three-way election he received only 42 percent of the popular vote but an overwhelming electoral vote. -
Warren G. Harding
He won the Presidential election by an unprecedented landslide of 60 percent of the popular vote. His campaign was less government in business and more business in government. In August of 1923, he died in San Francisco of a heart attack. -
Herbert Hoover
Germany declared war on France when he was president. He was appointed chairman of a similar commission by President Eisenhower in 1953. He died at 90 in New York City on October 20, 1964.
