US Presidents

By JLumbreras
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    George Washington

    George Washington was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Washington inaugurated as the first President of the US in NY, the nation's capital. Congress passes the US' first naturalization law, establishing terms of citizenship. He signs the first US copyright law. He signs a bill into law that directed the federal government to assume the Revolutionary War debts of the states.
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    John Adams

    He was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Before his presidency, he was a leader of the American Revolution that achieved independence from Great Britain. Adams is inaugurated as the second President of the US in Philadelphia. Thomas Jefferson will serve as VP. Adams is authorized by Congress to raise a militia of 80,000 men for defensive purposes in case of war with France.
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    Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.Thomas Jefferson is inaugurated as the third president of the US, becoming the first president inaugurated in Washington, D.C. Aaron Burr, who had tied Jefferson in electoral votes before losing the election in the House of Representatives, is inaugurated VP.
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    James Madison

    James Madison was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. 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. After negotiations with British minister Erskine, Madison issues a proclamation -- known as the Erskine Agreement -- revoking the embargo on Britain, effective June 10.
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    James Monroe

    James Monroe was an American statesman, lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825, a member of the Democratic-Republican Party. Monroe enunciates a policy of neutrality towards the Latin American colonies seeking independence. He also advocates a controversial fact-finding mission, the Aguirre Mission, to Buenos Aires that could be construed as recognition for the colony's sovereignty.
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    John Quincy Adams

    John Quincy Adams was an American statesman, politician, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States secretary of state from 1817 to 1825. Captain David Porter, a perennial thorn in the side of the United States Navy, is court-martialed for overstepping his powers when he chooses to land 200 troops at Fajardo, Puerto Rico, in November 1824.
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    Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson was an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before his presidency, he gained fame as a general in the U.S. Army and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. Congress passes the Indian Removal Act, sanctioning the forcible relocation of Creek, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Choctaw, and Seminole tribes to land allotments west of the Mississippi river.
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    Martin Van Buren

    Martin Van Buren was an American lawyer, diplomat, and statesman who served as the eighth president of the United States from 1837 to 1841.The Panic of 1837 begins in New York when banks first suspend payments of specie. Following the collapse of credit facility, banks can no longer redeem currency notes in gold and silver. Compounding the problem, a depression in England causes the price of cotton to drop and ends British loans to the United States.
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    William Henry Harrison

    William Henry Harrison was an American military officer and politician who served as the ninth president of the United States. Harrison died just 31 days after his inauguration as president in 1841, making his presidency the shortest in U.S. history. Harrison dies of pneumonia only one month after his inauguration, making him the first President to die while in office.
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    John Tyler

    John Tyler was an American politician who served as the tenth president of the United States from 1841 to 1845.. Tyler's entire cabinet, with the exception of Secretary of State Daniel Webster, resigns after Tyler vetoes a second bill for the establishment of a National Bank of the United States. In the congressional elections, the Democrats gain a majority over the Whigs in the House of Representatives, while at the same time defending their majority in the Senate.
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    James Knox Polk

    James Knox Polk was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. He also served as the 13th speaker of the House of Representatives from 1835 to 1839 and the ninth governor of Tennessee from 1839 to 1841. The great Irish potato famine forces huge waves of starving immigrants to the US, sparking anti-Catholic, nativist backlashes. Zachary Taylor receives orders from Polk to move his troop to a position “on or near the Rio Grande” in Tx to discourage a Mexican invasion.
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    Zachary Taylor

    Zachary Taylor was an American military leader who served as the 12th president of the United States from 1849 until his death in 1850. Taylor was a career officer in the United States Army, rising to the rank of major general and becoming a national hero for his victories in the Mexican–American War. Congress debates solutions to the issue of slavery's possible expansion into the territories won in the Mexican War.
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    Millard Fillmore

    Millard Fillmore was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853, the last president to have been a member of the Whig Party while in office. Zachary Taylor dies suddenly of cholera at the age of 55. VP Millard Fillmore is slated to assume the duties of the presidency. Judge William Cranch administers the executive oath to Millard Fillmore, making Fillmore the nation's thirteenth President. Knowing that Fillmore's sympathies lie with the proposed congressional compromise.
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    Franklin Pierce

    “Bleeding Kansas” a guerilla war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers as they attempt to establish “popular sovereignty” emerges and consumes Kansas for two years. Two months before taking office as President, Franklin Pierce and his family are struck by tragedy. A train wreck kills the Pierces' eleven-year-old son, Benjamin, the only surviving child of his marriage. President Pierce, meanwhile, is grief and guilt-stricken when he enters office.
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    James Buchanan

    James Buchanan Jr. was an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician. He served as the 15th president of the United States from 1857 to 1861, as the secretary of State from 1845 to 1849, and represented Pennsylvania in both houses of the U.S. Congress. In congressional elections, the Republicans take control of both the House and Senate.The Comstock Lode is discovered in western Nevada. It is the first major U.S. silver strike and the richest U.S. silver deposit. Virginia City becomes a boomtown.
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    Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman, who served as the 16th president of the United States, from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.The Confederate States of America is organized by the lower Southern states stretching from South Carolina to Texas. Jefferson Davis is elected president. Davis, a native Mississippian, had served in the Senate as a leading Southern advocate and was Secretary of War for President Franklin Pierce.
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    Andrew Johnson

    Andrew Johnson was an American politician who served as the 17th president of the United States from 1865 to 1869. He assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, as he was vice president at that time. Vice President Andrew Johnson takes the presidential oath of office in his hotel room at the Kirkwood House following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
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    Ulysses S. Grant

    Ulysses S. Grant was an American military officer, politician, and the 18th president of the United States, who served from 1869 to 1877. As commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and briefly served as U.S. secretary of war. The first transcontinental railroad is completed at Promontory Point, Utah, through the work of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific track crews. The “Black Friday” financial panic takes place in New York City.
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    Rutherford B. Hayes

    Rutherford Birchard Hayes was an American military officer and politician from the state of Ohio. A Republican, Hayes served as the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881. As an attorney in Ohio, Hayes served as Cincinnati's city solicitor from 1858 to 1861. Troops depart the statehouse in South Carolina following a meeting at the White House with Daniel H. Chamberlain and Wade Hampton; without support, Chamberlain gives in, and Hampton becomes governor.
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    James A. Garfield

    James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death the following September after being shot by an assassin in July. Garfield completes his slate of cabinet members, naming James G. Blaine as Secretary of State and Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert, as Secretary of War. Garfield angers Conkling with his nomination of William Windom of Minnesota, a non-Eastern man, as Secretary of Treasury.
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    Chester A. Arthur

    Chester Alan Arthur was an American politician who served as the 21st president of the United States from 1881 to 1885. He was a Republican lawyer from New York who previously served as the 20th vice president under President James Garfield dies from blood poisoning and complications after surgeons search endlessly to find the lost bullet in his back, lodged in his pancreas. The assassin, Guiteau, will be hanged on June 30, 1882.
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    Grover Cleveland

    Stephen Grover Cleveland was an American politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He is the only president in U.S. history to serve non-consecutive presidential terms. On January 19, 1886, President Grover Cleveland signed the Presidential Succession Act. The Presidential Succession Act of 1886 remained in force until 1947.
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    Benjamin Harrison

    Benjamin Harrison was an American politician who served as the 23rd president of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He was a member of the Harrison family of Virginia—a grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, and a great-grandson of Benjamin Harrison V, a Founding Father.
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    Grover Cleveland

    Cleveland vetoes the first of several bills granting military pensions to Civil War Union veterans who had appealed to Congress after their claims were rejected by the Pensions Bureau. Cleveland recommends to Congress that the nation accept France's gift of the Statue of Liberty. The gift commemorates the alliance between the two countries during the Revolutionary War.. Ellis Island will serve as a welcoming center for the soaring number of immigrants to New York City.
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    William McKinley

    William McKinley was a member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Republicans largely dominant in the industrial states and nationwide for decades. William McKinley is inaugurated as the twenty-fifth President of the United States. McKinley asserts: “The country is suffering from industrial disturbances from which speedy relief must be had. Our financial system needs some revision; our money is all good now, but its value must not further be threatened.”
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    Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt Jr., often referred to as Teddy or by his initials, T. R., was an American politician, statesman, conservationist, naturalist, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.While emphasizing the need for a strong foreign policy, Roosevelt talks of the need to “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” The saying catches the fancy of the whole nation, and the “big stick” becomes a favorite object of political cartoonists.
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    William Howard Taft

    William Howard Taft takes the oath of office, becoming the twenty-seventh President of the United States. Taft had been handpicked by his predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt, and trusted to carry through Theodore Roosevelt's progressivism. Not surprisingly, Taft makes many references to his “distinguished predecessor” in his inaugural address. Nevertheless, a newfound chill had arisen between the two men, mirroring the frigid temperatures in the capital that day.
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    Woodrow Wilson

    Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election.
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    Warren G. Harding

    Warren Gamaliel Harding was an American politician who served as the 29th president of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular sitting U.S. The Thompson-Urrutia Treaty with Colombia is ratified. The treaty grants Colombia $25 million loss cause Panama. Raising tariffs, especially on farm products, the temporary bill will be replaced one year later by the Tariff Act, a permanent bill with even higher tariff rates. .
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    Calvin Coolidge

    Calvin Coolidge was an American attorney and politician who served as the 30th president of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Born in Vermont, Coolidge was a Republican lawyer who climbed the ladder of Massachusetts politics, becoming the state's 48th May 26 – Coolidge signs the Immigration Act of 1924 into law. June 2 – Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act and the Revenue Act of 1924 into law. June 7 – Coolidge signs the Anti-Heroin Act of 1924 into law.
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    Herbert Hoover

    Herbert Clark Hoover was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression. Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as the thirty-first President of the United States. Hoover appoints Henry L. Stimson Secretary of State.The State Department begins its effort to help Standard Oil of California (SOCAL) attain oil rights in Bahrain from the Gulf Oil Company.
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    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He was a member of the Democratic Party and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. Roosevelt is inaugurated as the thirty-second President of the United States. He also appoints Francis Perkins as secretary of labor, making her the first woman hold a cabinet post.
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    Harry S. Truman

    Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to1945 and briefly as the 34th vice president in 1945 under Franklin D. Roosevelt. May 8, 1945. Germany surrenders, ending World War II in Europe. Potsdam Conference. August 14,1945. Japan surrenders. The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Japan surrenders, ending World War II in Asia
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    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Dwight David Eisenhower, nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as . During World War II, he was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe and achieved the five-star rank as General of the Army. The Soviet Union announces the death of Josef Stalin. Eisenhower delivers his “Chance for Peace” speech, also knowns as the “Cross of Iron” speech, to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, speaking against increased military spending
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    John F. Kennedy

    John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president. Kennedy, fulfilling a campaign pledge, issues an executive order creating a temporary Peace Corps and asks Congress to authorize the program permanently. He appoints Sargent Shriver to head the organization. Alan Shepard Jr. becomes the first American in space.
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    Lyndon B. Johnson

    Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy,. Johnson addresses a joint session of Congress calling on legislators to fulfill Kennedy's legacy and pass civil rights and tax legislation. Johnson creates a special commission chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren to investigate the Kennedy assassination.
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    Richard Nixon

    Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Following an attack on a U.S. plane on April 15, Nixon orders that reconnaissance flights off of North Korea be resumed. Nixon asks that Congress be granted authority to consolidate federal assistance.
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    Gerald Ford

    Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He previously served as the leader of the Republican Party in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1965 to 1973, and as the 40th vice president under President Richard Nixon from 1973 to 1974. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigns, pleading no contest to a charge of income tax evasion. President Richard Nixon offers Gerald Ford the nomination for vice president.
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    Jimmy Carter

    A member of the Democratic Party, Carter was the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, and a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967.Congress passes Emergency Natural Gas Act, authorizing the President to deregulate natural gas prices due to a shortage in supply. Carter signs the bill and announces plans to present an energy program to Congress. He later proposes the establishment of a cabinet-level Department of Energy.
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    Ronald Reagan

    Ronald W. Regan was a member of the Republican Party, his presidency constituted the Reagan era, and he is considered one of the most prominent conservative figures in American history. Reagan proposes increased defense spending, and decreased taxes and domestic spending in speech to Congress. Reagan sends budget proposal for fiscal year 1982 to Congress. The budget calls for spending $695.3 billion with a projected deficit of $45 billion
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    George H. W. Bush

    George Herbert Walker Bush was an American politician, diplomat, and businessman who served as the 41st president of the United States. President Bush, at a White House press conference, introduces his bail-out plan for troubled savings and loans banks. It provides for the sale of $50 billion in government bonds to finance the bail-out and gives the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) regulatory oversight over S&Ls. The Bush administration, at the urging of federal drug czar,
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    Bill Clinton

    William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician who was a member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 1992. Six people are killed and more than a thousand suffer injuries after a bomb planted under the World Trade Center in New York City explodes. The bomb marks the beginning of a string of threats against the United States made during the Clinton administration by both foreign and domestic terrorists
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    George W. Bush

    George Walker Bush is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court stops the recount of votes in several contested Florida counties. The Democratic candidate, Vice President Albert Gore Jr., concedes the election, leaving Governor George W. Bush of Texas, the Republican candidate, as President-elect.
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    Barack Obama

    Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president in United States history. The Child Care and Development Block Grant of 2014 is signed into law. This act provides grants to states so they can assist low-income families in finding child care for their children. Barack Obama is elected president by defeating Senator John McCain.
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    Donald Trump

    Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump received a Bachelor of Science in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. His father named him president of his real estate business in 1971.
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    Joe Biden

    The Inflation Reduction Act, Changing our Failed Approach on Marijuana, Protecting Reproductive Right, Historic Climate Action, Rallying the World in Support of Ukraine, In the mid-1970s, Biden was one of the Senate's strongest opponents of race-integration busing. His Delaware constituents strongly opposed it, and such opposition nationwide later led his party to mostly abandon school integration policies.