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Abraham Lincoln
Abrarham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated while in office. He freed the slaves. Lincoln was re-elected and served two terms. -
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was vice president with Abraham Lincoln, and took over after he was assassinated. He was the first president to do so. There was no vice president during his term. -
Ulysses S. Grant
President Abraham Lincoln had once made him lieutenant general and commander of all of the Union Armies. He won the election because of the War Hero aspect. As president, he enforced Reconstruction by enforcing civil rights laws and fighting Ku Klux Klan violence. -
Rutherford B. Hayes
Hayes believed in meritocratic government, equal treatment without regard to race, and improvement through education. As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution. Hayes was a reformer who began the efforts that led to civil service reform and attempted, unsuccessfully, to reconcile the divisions that had led to the American Civil War fifteen years earlier. -
James A. Garfield
James Garfield served as the 20th President of the United States, after completing nine consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. Garfield's presidency lasted just 200 days—from March 4, 1881, until his death on September 19, 1881, as a result of being shot by assassin Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881. Only William Henry Harrison's presidency, of 32 days, was shorter. -
William McKinley
McKinley served in the Civil War and rose from private to brevet major.In 1876, he was elected to Congress, where he became the Republican Party's expert on the protective tariff, which he promised would bring prosperity. Rapid economic growth marked McKinley's presidency. -
Theodore Roosevelt
He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912. Before becoming President, he held offices at the city, state, and federal levels. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician. Roosevelt was 42 years old when sworn in as President of the United States in 1901, making him the youngest president ever; he beat out the youngest elect -
William Howard Taft
He was nominated for President at the 1912 Democratic Convention and campaigned on a program called the New Freedom, which stressed individualism and states' rights. Taft much preferred law to politics. He aspired to be a member of the Supreme Court, but his wife, Helen Herron Taft, held other ambitions for him. -
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson had seen the frightfulness of war. His growing national reputation led some conservative Democrats to consider him Presidential timber. He was nominated for President at the 1912 Democratic Convention and campaigned on a program called the New Freedom, which stressed individualism and states' rights. -
Warren G. Harding
In the 1920 election his running matew as Calvin Coolidge. They defeated Democrat and fellow Ohioan James M. Cox in the largest presidential popular vote landslide in American history. Was president during the Teapot Dome Scandal.
