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George Washington
George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Second Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army in 1775, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War and then served as president of the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Washington has commonly known as the "Father of his Country". -
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John Adams
John Adams was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. 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. During the latter part of the Revolutionary War and in the early years of the new nation, he served the U.S. government as a senior diplomat in Europe. -
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was born in Shadwell, Virginia Colony. He got his education in College of William & Mary. In age 16 he studied mathematics, metaphysics, and philosophy. His father died when Thomas was 13 years old. Thomas Jefferson was married 2 times, and he had 12 children total. He was served as the second governor of Virginia from 1779 to 1781. In the early 1790s, Jefferson and James Madison organized the Democratic-Republican Party to oppose the Federalist Party. -
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James Madison
James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was born near Port Conway, Virginia. The education James Madison got at the College of New Jersey. He studied Latin, Greek, theology etc. He 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. -
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James Monroe
During the American Revolutionary War, he served in the Continental Army. Monroe studied law under Thomas Jefferson from 1780 to 1783 and subsequently served as a delegate to the Continental Congress as well as a delegate to the Virginia Ratifying Convention. In 1790, Monroe was a leader of the Democratic-Republican Party. He left the Senate in 1794 to serve as President George Washington's ambassador to France but was recalled by Washington in 1796. -
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John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams was born in Braintree, Massachusetts Bay. He had 4 children total. John Quincy was an American statesman, politician, diplomat, lawyer, and the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829.
During his long diplomatic and political career, Adams served as an ambassador and also as a member of the United States Congress representing Massachusetts in both chambers. He was the eldest son of John Adams, who served as the second president of the United States. -
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Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was born Waxhaw Settlement between North Carolina and South Carolina. He was schooled by a clergyman who taught him how to read, write, work with numbers, Latin, and Greek. Andrew Jackson had 2 children total. He was an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Jackson during his presidency had been criticized for his racial policies, particularly his treatment of Native Americans. -
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Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren was born in Kinderhook, New York. He received a basic education at the village schoolhouse, and briefly studied Latin at the Kinderhook Academy and at Washington Seminary in Claverack. With his wife Hannah Van Buren he had 5 children. Martin Van Buren was an American lawyer, diplomat, and statesman who served as the eighth president of the United States from 1837 to 1841. A primary founder of the Democratic Party, he served as New York's attorney general and U.S. senator. -
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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. He was also the first U.S. president to die in office, causing a brief constitutional crisis since presidential succession was not then fully defined in the United States Constitution. -
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John Tyler
John Tyler was born in Greenway Plantation, Charles City County, Virginia. He got his education in College of William and Mary. For his life he got 15 children. John Tyler was an American politician who served as the tenth president of the United States from 1841 to 1845, after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in 1841. Tyler was a stalwart supporter and advocate of states' rights, including regarding slavery, and he adopted nationalistic policies as president. -
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James K. Polk
James Polk was born in Pineeville, North Carolina. He did not have children. From 1845 to 1849 he was 11th president of the United States. During Polk's tenure, technological advancements persisted, including the continued expansion of railroads and increased use of the telegraph. These improvements in communication encouraged a zest for expansionism. However, sectional divisions became worse during his tenure. -
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Zachary Taylor
Barboursville, Virginia is Zachary Taylor's place of birth. He attended Middletown, Kentucky academy for his education. Zachary Taylor had 1 wife, and he had with her 6 kids. He 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. -
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Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore's place of birth was Moravia, New York. During his presidency he signed Domestic Affairs. The Fugitive Slave Act remained contentious after its enactment. Fillmore took a part in political parties, like Anti-Masonic (1828-1832), Whig (1832–1855), Know Nothing (1855–1856), and Democratic (from 1857). -
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Franklin Pierce
The 14th president of the United States Franklin Pierce from New Hampshire was a Northern democrat who believed that the abolitionist movement was a fundamental threat to the nation's unity, he alienated anti-slavery groups by signing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act. Conflict between North and South continued after Pierce's presidency, and, after Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, the Southern states seceded, resulting in the American Civil War. -
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James Buchanan
James Buchanan from Pennsylvania 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. He was an advocate for states' rights, particularly regarding slavery, and minimized the role of the federal government preceding the Civil War. -
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Abraham Lincoln
The 16th president of the United States is from Sinking Spring Farm, Kentucky. Lincoln was largely self-educated. His formal schooling was from itinerant teachers. It included two short stints in Kentucky, where he learned to read, but probably not to write. When Abraham Lincoln was an adult he worked as American lawyer, politician, and statesman. Later, he became the 16th president of the United States and was assassinated on his second presidential term. -
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Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was born into poverty and never attended school. In 1843, Johnson purchased his first slave, Dolly, who was 14 years old at the time. He was married 1 time and had 5 children with his wife Eliza McCardle. He favored quick restoration of the seceded states to the Union without protection for the newly freed people who were formerly enslaved. This led to conflict with the Republican-dominated Congress, so he was impeached in 1868. -
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Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses Grant had been born in Point Pleasant, Ohio. At the age of five, Ulysses began his formal education, starting at a subscription school and later in two private schools. At age 17 years old he trained in military academy at West Point, New York. Ulysses Grant became his career as military officer, and then became a politician and served as the United States's president from 1869 to 1877 for two presidential terms. -
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio. His father was Vermont storekeeper and died 10 weeks before his son Rutherford was born. His education he got at the Methodist Norwalk Seminary in Norwalk, Ohio, preparatory school in Middletown, Connecticut, and Kenyon College in Gambier. From 1868 to 1871 he worked as Cincinati's city solicitor, and by being an abolitionist he defended refugee slaves court proceedings. -
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James A. Garfield
James Abram Garfield from Moreland Hills, Ohio 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. A preacher, lawyer, and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president. -
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Chester A. Arthur
Chester Arthur was a Republican lawyer from New York who briefly served as the 20th vice president under President James A. Garfield. During his time at school, he gained his first political inclinations and supported the Whig Party. As an adult Arthur assumed the presidency after Garfield's death on September 19, 1881, and served the remainder of his term until March 4, 1885. -
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Grover Cleveland
Cleveland was elected mayor of Buffalo in 1881 and governor of New York in 1882. While governor, he closely cooperated with state assembly minority leader Theodore Roosevelt to pass reform measures, winning national attention. He led the Bourbon Democrats, a pro-business movement opposed to high tariffs, free silver, inflation, imperialism, and subsidies to business, farmers, or veterans. Cleveland opposed the push to annex Hawaii and launched an investigation coup against the Hawaiian queen. -
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Benjamin Harrison
Harrison was born on a farm by the Ohio River and graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Hallmarks of Harrison's administration were unprecedented economic legislation, including the McKinley Tariff, which imposed historic protective trade rates, and the Sherman Antitrust Act. Harrison also facilitated the creation of the national forest reserves through an amendment to the Land Revision Act of 1891. During his administration six western states were admitted to the Union. -
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Grover Cleveland
In the years before his presidency, he served as a mayor and governor of New York state, winning fame as an anti-corruption crusader. Cleveland was the first Democrat to win the presidency after the Civil War. From his earliest involvement in politics, Cleveland aligned with the Democratic Party. He had a decided aversion to Republicans John Fremont and Abraham Lincoln, and the heads of the Rogers law firm were solid Democrats. In 1865, he ran for District Attorney. -
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William McKinley
Williiam McKinley from Niles, Ohio was an American politician who served as the 25th president of the United States from 1897 until his assassination in 1901 on his second presidential term. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Republicans largely dominant in the industrial states and nationwide for decades. He presided over victory in the Spanish American War of 1898; gained control of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Cuba; and raised protective tariffs. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
Before his political career Theodore Roosevelt worked as
statesman, conservationist, naturalist, and writer. He held various positions in New York politics, rising up the ranks to serve as the state's 33rd governor for two years. In 1901, he assumed the presidency after McKinley's assassination. As president, Roosevelt emerged as a leader of the Republican Party and became a driving force for anti-trust and Progressive policies. -
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William Howard Taft
Taft was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1857. He was the 27th president of the United States, and the tenth chief justice of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1930, the only person to have held both offices. In 1901, President William McKinley appointed Taft civilian governor of the Philippines. In 1904, Roosevelt made him Secretary of War, and he became Roosevelt's hand-picked successor. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt. -
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Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia. As 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. As president, Wilson changed the nation's economic policies and led the United States into World War I in 1917. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations, and his progressive stance on foreign policy came to be known as Wilsonianism. -
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Warren G, Harding
A member of the Republican Party, Harding was one of the most popular sitting U.S. presidents. He conducted a front porch campaign, remaining mostly in Marion and allowing people to come to him. He promised a return to normalcy of the pre–World War I period and defeated Democratic nominee James M. Cox in a landslide to become the first sitting senator elected president. -
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Calvin Coolidge
During his gubernatorial career, Coolidge ran on the record of fiscal conservatism, strong support for women's suffrage, and vague opposition to Prohibition. During his presidency, he restored public confidence in the White House after the many scandals of the Harding administration. He signed into law the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, which granted U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans, and oversaw a period of rapid and expansive economic growth known as the "Roaring Twenties". -
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Herbert Hoover
A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression. A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover led the wartime Commission for Relief in Belgium, served as the director of the U.S. Food Administration, and served as the U.S. secretary of commerce. Hoover was influential in the development of air travel and radio. He led the federal response to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt was born in Warm Springs, Georgia. Until age 14 he was homeschooled. After 14 years Roosevelt attended Groton School, an Episcopal boarding school in Groton, Massachusetts. He was a member of the Democratic Party and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. His initial two presidential terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth saw him shift his focus to America's involvement in World War II. -
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Harry S. Truman
Harry Truman from Lamar, Missouri before his presidential career was the United States senator from 1935 to 1945 years. After Roosevelt's death, Truman became the president and implemented the Marshall Plan in the wake of World War II to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established both the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain the expansion of Soviet communism. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the conservative coalition that dominated the Congress. -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower was born in Denison, Texas. Before become the US president he was an American military officer and statesman, and in 1953 he became the 34th United States president. 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. Eisenhower planned and supervised two of the most consequential military campaigns of World War II: Operation Torch in the North Africa and the invasion of Normandy. -
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John F. Kennedy
Kennedy's presidency saw high tensions with communist states in the Cold War. During his presidency the American military was increased. In 1961, Kennedy authorized attempts to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion and Operation Mongoose. In October 1962, U.S. spy planes discovered Soviet missile bases had been deployed in Cuba. The resulting period of tensions, termed the Cuban Missile Crisis, nearly resulted in nuclear war. -
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Born in Stonewall, Texas, Johnson worked as a high school teacher and a congressional aide before winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1937. When he became president of the United States his Great Society was aimed at expending civil rights, public broadcasting, access to health care, aid to education and the arts, urban and rural development, and public services. He sought to create better living conditions for low-income Americans by spearheading the war on poverty. -
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Richard Nixon
Californian 37th president of the United States was a member of the Republican Party. His presidency saw the reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon's second term ended early when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office, as a result of the Watergate scandal. -
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Gerald Ford
The Ford presided over the worst economy in the four decades since the Great Depression, with growing inflation and a recession. In one of his most controversial acts, he granted a presidential pardon to Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal. Foreign policy was characterized in procedural terms by the increased role Congress began to play, and by the corresponding curb on the powers of the president.[3] Ford signed the Helsinki Accords, which marked a move toward détente in the Cold War. -
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Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter was born in Plains, Georgia. When he grew up and become the United States president, he pardoned all Vietnam War draft evaders on his second day in office. He created a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. Carter successfully pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, and the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. He escalated the Cold War by ending détente, imposing a grain embargo against the Soviets. -
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan at the beginning worked as Hollywood's actor and in later became the 40th president of the United States. In his first term, Reagan implemented "Reaganomics", which involved economic deregulation and cuts in both taxes and government spending during a period of stagflation. He escalated an arms race and transitioned Cold War policy away from détente with the Soviet Union. Reagan also ordered the invasion of Grenada in 1983. Additionally, he fought public-sector labor unions. -
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George H. W. Bush
Foreign policy drove Bush's presidency as he navigated the final years of the Cold War and played a key role in the reunification of Germany. He presided over the invasion of Panama and the Gulf War, ending the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait in the latter conflict. Though the agreement was not ratified until after he left office, Bush negotiated and signed the North American Free T Agreement. After leaving office in 1993, Bush was active in humanitarian activities, often working alongside Clinton. -
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Bill Clinton
Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history. He signed into law in the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act but failed to pass his plan for national health care reform. Also, the Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and WOA, the State Children's Health Insurance Program and financial deregulation measures. -
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George W. Bush
Upon presidency, Bush signed a major tax cut program and an education reform bill, the NCLBA. He pushed for socially conservative efforts such as the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and faith-based initiatives. He also initiated the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in 2003 to address the AIDS epidemic. The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, decisively reshaped his administration, resulting in the start of the war on terror and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. -
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Barack Obama
Obama's first-term actions addressed the global financial crisis and included a major stimulus package to guide the economy in recovering from the Great Recession, a partial extension of George W. Bush's tax cuts, legislation to reform health care, a major financial regulation reform bill, and the end of a major U.S. military presence in Iraq. Obama also appointed Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, the former being the first Hispanic Americans on the Supreme Court. -
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Donald Trump
As president, Trump ordered a travel ban on citizens from several Muslim-majority countries, diverted military funding toward building a wall on the U.S.–Mexico border, and implemented a policy of family separations for migrants detained at the U.S. border. He weakened environmental protections, rolling back more than 100 environmental policies and regulations. He signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which cut taxes for individuals and businesses. -
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Joe Biden
As president, Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent recession. He signed bipartisan bills on infrastructure and manufacturing. He proposed the Build Back Better Act, which failed in Congress, but aspects of which were incorporated into the Inflation Reduction Act that he signed into law in 2022. He responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by imposing sanctions on Russia and authorizing civilian and military aid to Ukraine.