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Abe Lincoln
Abe Lincoln was part of the republican political party. He also was the pesident during the civil war (1861-1865). On Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was part of the Republican Political party. While he was in service the Thirteenth amendment was ratified. He also purchased Alaska. -
Ulysses S Grant
Grant was a general in the civil war. On the day Lincoln was assassinated, Grant's wife Julia was stalked by John Wilkes Booth. -
Rutherford B Hayes
He fought in the Civil War, was wounded in action, and rose to the rank of brevet major general.While he was still in the Army, Cincinnati Republicans ran him for the House of Representatives.Hayes was a republican candidate. -
James A Garfield
Garfield was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1859 as a Republican. On July 2, 1881, in a Washington railroad station, an embittered attorney who had sought a consular post shot Garfield. Garfield laid in the white house mortally wounded for weeks. -
Chester A Arthur
Arthur was a firm believer in the spoils system. Arthur was a republican.President HAyes in 1878, ousted Arthur. -
Grover Cleveland
Grover was the first democrat elected after the civil war. He was the only president to leave the white house and return for a second term. He died in 1908. -
Benjamin Harrison
Harrison was a grandson of President William Henry Harrison During the American Civil War, he served the Union as a Brigadier General in the XX Corps of the Army of the Cumberlan. Harrison was a republican. -
William Mckinely
At age 34, McKinley won a seat in Congress. Mckinley was a republican.He was the president during the deppresion. -
Theodore Roosevelt
During the Spanish-American War, Roosevelt was lieutenant colonel of the Rough Rider Regiment. He was a republican political party.He won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Russo-Japanese War.
