Presidents Timeline

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  • George Washington

    George Washington
    Federalist president from April 30, 1789 – March 4, 1797
    VP - John Adams
    Created the process of treaty negotiations
    He set the first salary to be 2% of the total US budget
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  • John Adams

    John Adams
    Federalist president from March 4, 1797 – March 4, 1801
    VP - Thomas Jefferson
    Passed The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798
    Only of the first 5 presidents that wasn't a slaveholder
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  • Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson
    Democratic - Republican president from March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1809
    VP - Aaron Burr and George Clinton
    Approved the Louisiana purchase for 15 million
    Wrote the declaration of independence
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  • Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln
    Repuclican President from March 4 1861 - April 15, 1865
    VP - Hannibal Hamlin and Andrew Johnson
    Cheif of Staff Henry Halleck
    Created the Emancipation Proclamation and ended slavery
    Abe practiced law without a degree
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  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt
    Republican president September 14, 1901 – March 4, 1909
    VP - Charles W. Fairbanks
    Made tbe federal gov. head of environment and conservation policies
    His mother and wife died on the same day
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Democrate March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945
    VP - John Nance Garner, Henry Agard , and Harry S. Truman
    Introduced the New Deal to lift the country out of the depression
    Was diagnosed with Polio
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Republican president January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961
    VP - Richard Nixon
    Relied on the nuclear weapons to deal with the Soviet Union
    His real first name is David, not Dwight
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  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy
    Democratic president from January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963
    VP - Lyndon B. Johnson
    Kennedy didn't pass many new policies because he was going to wait for his 2nd term as congress was too republican
    Installed a secret taping system in the whitehouse
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  • Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Reagan
    Republican president from January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989
    VP - George H. W. Bush
    Ended the price controls on domestic oil which had been started by Richard Nixon
    Ronald was also a B list movie actor
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  • William Clinton

    William Clinton
    Democratic president January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001
    VP - Al Gore
    Pro-environment and saved 4.6 million acres of national monuments
    A cat named “Socks” was one of the most famous of all presidential pets
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