Presidents of Era (1860-1928)

Abraham Lincoln

Mar 4, 1861

Gave the Gettysburgh Adress. He had helped to abolish slavery. He had preserved the union when the south succeded from the north.

Ulysses S. Grant

Mar 4, 1869

Commanding officer of the Civil war. He was part of the battle of Shiloh. Grant allowed Radical Reconstruction to run its course in the south.

James A. Garfield

Mar 4, 1881

Attacked political corruption. Won back for the presidency a measure of prestige it lost during the Reconstruction period. Garfield was mortally wounded and died from internal hemorrhage.

William McKinley

Mar 4, 1897

During his 14 years in the House, he became the leading Republican tariff expert. Giving his name to the measure enacted in 1890.

Theodore Roosevelt

Apr 4, 1901

With the assassination of President McKinley. Theodore Roosevelt not quite 43 became the youngest President in the Nation's history.He brought new excitement and power to the Presidency.

William Howard Taft

Mar 4, 1909

President Roosevelt made him Secretary of War. By 1907 he had decided that Taft should be his successor.The Republican Convention nominated him the next year.

Woodrow Wilson

Mar 4, 1913

Wilson advanced rapidly as a conservative young professor of political science and became president of Princeton in 1902.But after the election Wilson concluded that America could not remain neutral in the World War. On April 2,1917, he asked Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.

Warren G. Harding

Mar 4, 1921

Harding, born near Marion, Ohio, in 1865, became the publisher of a newspaper. A Democratic leader, William Gibbs McAdoo, called Harding's speeches "an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea." He organized the Citizen's Cornet Band, available for both Republican and Democratic rallies.

Calvin Coolidge

Mar 4, 1923

At 2:30 on the morning of August 3, 1923, while visiting in Vermont, Calvin Coolidge received word that he was President.Born in Plymouth, Vermont, on July 4, 1872, Coolidge was the son of a village storekeeper. As President, Coolidge demonstrated his determination to preserve the old moral and economic precepts amid the material prosperity which many Americans were enjoying.

Herbert Hoover

Mar 4, 1929

Son of a Quaker blacksmith, Herbert Clark Hoover brought to the Presidency an unparalleled reputation for public service. As an engineer, administrator, and humanitarian.Born in an Iowa village in 1874, he grew up in Oregon. He enrolled at Stanford University when it opened in 1891, graduating as a mining engineer.