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George Washington, 1789-1797
was elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. On July 3, 1775, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he took command of his poorly trained troops and sailed to a war that would last six long and bloody years. -
John Adams, 1797-1801
During the Revolutionary War he served in diplomatic roles in France and Holland, and helped negotiate the peace treaty. From 1785-1788, he was Minister of the Court of St. James, returning to be elected Vice President under President George Washington. -
Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809
He sent a naval squadron to fight the Barbary pirates, who were harassing American commerce in the Mediterranean. -
James Buchanan, 1857-1861
Promoting the admission of the territory as slave state. Although he directed his Presidential authority to this goal, later angered Republicans and alienated members of his own party. Kansas was still a territory. -
James Madison, 1809-1817
The British Printing of American sailors and the siege of cargeros impelled Madison to give in to pressure. On June 1, 1812, he asked Congress to declare war. -
James Monroe (1817-1825)
He proclaimed the fundamental policy that bear his name, responding to the threat of more conservative governments in Europe could try to help Spain regain its former Latin American colonies. -
John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829
The only president who was the son of another president. John Quincy Adams matched its position in many aspects as well as temperament and views to those of his illustrious father. -
Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837
Recommended eliminating the Electoral College. He also tried to democratize the administration of federal offices. The state machinery was already built in sponsorship, and a senator from New York openly proclaimed "what the victors belong the losers ..." Jackson took a milder view. -
Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841
Federal aid for internal improvements, he cut expenses so completely that the government even sold the tools that were used in public works. Leaning more and more in opposing the expansion of slavery, Van Buren blocked the annexation of Texas because it probably would add to the territory and slavery could be that would cause the war with Mexico. -
William Henry Harrison, 1841
In the campaign against the Indians, Harrison served as Assistant Field to General "Mad Anthony" Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, which opened most of the area from Ohio to colonize. -
John Tyler, 1841-1845
Tyler was promptly joined the fight for the rights of the Southern States in congress assembled with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and the new President of the Party of opposition "Whigs" Jackson. -
James Knox Polk, 1845-1849
He served as spokesman between 1835 and 1839, retiring to become governor of Tennessee. Until circumstances raised Polk's ambitions, he was a leading contender for the Democratic nomination for Vice President in 1844. -
Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850
Taylor did not defend slavery or southern sectionalism; 40 years in the army made a strong nationalist. He spent a quarter century patrolling the borders against Indians. In the Mexican War, won important victories in Monterrey and Buena Vista. -
Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853
Fillmore presided over the Senate during the months of discussions takes-ribs on the Compromise of 1850. He made no public comment on the merits of the proposals of commitment, but a few days before the death of President Taylor, approached him and said that if there is a tie vote on the bill of Henry Clay, he would vote for him. -
Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857
By the end of his administration, Pierce could claim "a peaceful condition of things in Kansas." But to his disappointment, the Democrats rejected the renominarlo, turning to the less controversial Buchanan. -
Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865
On January 1, 1863, issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free the slaves within the Confederacy. -
Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869
He proceeded to reconstruct past Confederate States while Congress was not in session in 1865. He pardoned all those who took oath of allegiance, but required that the leaders and men of wealth to obtain special Presidential pardons. -
Ulises Simpson Grant, 1869-1877
Grant presided over the government as much as he had had made in the army. In fact brought much of its staff in the army at the White House. Although a man of scrupulous honesty, Grant as President accepted beautiful present of his admirers. -
Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881
Hayes insisted that his appointments were due to conclude on merit, not on political considerations. For his Cabinet he chose men of high caliber, but demoted many Republicans because one member was an ex-Confederate and another had divided the party as one liberal Republican in 1872. -
James Abram Garfield, 1881
It strengthened the federal authority over the Customs House in New York, stronghold of Senator Roscoe Conkling, who was leader of the Stalwart Republicans and facilitator sponsorship in New York. -
Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885
Acting independently of party dogma, Arthur also tried to lower tariff rates so the government not embarrassed by the excesses of income. Congress subia about as many rates as the many that reduced, but Arthur signed the Act of 1883 rates. -
Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889
Cleveland faced an acute depression. He dealt directly with the Treasury crisis rather than deal with business failures, farm mortgage closures and unemployment. Derrogación obtained inflationary gently Minutes of the Sherman Silver Purchase and, with the help of Wall Street, kept the gold reserve of the treasure. -
Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893
In the 1880's, he served in the United States Senate, where he defended the Indians, Creoles and veterans of the civil war. In the presidential election, Harrison received 100,000 fewer votes than Cleveland, but carried the Electoral College 233-168. -
Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897
In December 1887, he asked Congress to reduce high protective tariffs. He said he had given Republicans an effective campaign issue for 1888, and replied, "What's the use of being elected or re-elected unless it endures for something." -
William McKinley, 1897-1901
He won Largest most popular votes since 1872. Born in Niles, Ohio, in 1843, McKinley briefly attended Allegheny College and taught school in the county when the civil war broke out. -
Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909
In 1912 he ran for President on a Progressive ticket. The once commented to reporters that he felt he could so much as a bull moose, the name of his new party. -
William Howard Taft, 1909-1913
Taft alienated many liberal Republicans who later formed the Progressive Party, defending the Payne-Aldrich Act which unexpectedly continued high tariff rates. -
Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921
In the campaign he asserted his independence from the Conservatives and the machine that had nominated him, endorsing a progressive platform, which continued as governor. -
Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923
He won the presidential election by a large margin unprecedented 60 percent of the popular vote. Republicans in Congress easily got the President's signature on their bills. -
Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
demonstrated its determination to preserve the old moral and economic precepts amid the material wealth which many Americans enjoyed. -
Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933
In six weeks his committee helped 120,000 Americans return to the United States. Hoover continued shift to a much more difficult task, feed Belgium, which had been undermined by the German army. -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945
Highlighted in the exercise of his office, Roosevelt managed to gain the respect and loyalty of those who dealt with him, so that the withdrawal of Wilson's political life, advised him to stand as the Democratic vice presidential candidate. -
Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953
During World War II, led the research committee of the Senate war, verifying losses and corruption and perhaps saving as much as 15 trillion. As President, Truman made some of the most crucial decisions in history. -
Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961
He commanded the Allied forces landed in North Africa in November 1942; D-Day in 1944, was Supreme Commander of the troops invadsoras France -
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963
His vision of America extended to the quality of national culture and the central role of the arts in a vital society. The desire that America summarize his old mission as the first nation dedicated to human rights revolution. -
Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969
In 1953, he became the leader of the youngest in the history of the Senate minority, and the following year, when the Democrats gained control, was leader of the majority. With an uncanny ability he gained approval a number of key measures Eisenhower. -
Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974
During World War II, Nixon served as a Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific. By leaving the service, he was elected to Congress in your district in California. -
Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977
During World War II, he earned the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the Navy. After the war he returned to Grand Rapids, where he began practicing lawyer, and was incorporated in Republican politics. -
James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981
Carter announced his candidacy for President in December 1974 and began a two-year campaign that gradually gained momentum. -
Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989
As President of the Actors Guild Screen, Reagan became involved in conflicts over the issue of Communism in the movie industry; his political views shifted from liberal to conservative. He traveled the country as the main television host, becoming a spokesman for conservatism. -
George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993
In 1980 Bush campaigned for the Republican nomination for President. He lost, but was chosen as running mate by Ronald Reagan. As Vice President, Bush had responsibility in several domestic areas, including federal programs deregulation and anti-drug, and visited the governments of foreign countries -
William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001
Clinton signed into law measures to revitalize the economy and renew the American community. To raise living standards and create jobs, won congressional approval of a massive plan for deficit reduction, a broken trade agreement barriers with Mexico, aid to Russia, and tax cuts for small businesses and people without employment. -
George Bush (hijo), 2001-2009
Despite the criticism after the terrorist attacks of 11-S in 2001 and the war in Iraq in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein, whose detention air gave a president suffocated by the Franco-alemanas- pressures and intercept some weapons of mass destruction that have not yet appeared, George W. Bush returned to have the support of American citizens in the 2004 presidential. -
Barack Obama 2009-Actualidad
the first African American to hold the office. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree.
