Bio Herbert Hoover
Son of a Quaker blacksmith, Herbert Clark Hoover brought to the presidency a luminous reputation as an engineer, administrator, and...
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Bio Calvin Coolidge
1923, while visiting in Vermont, Calvin Coolidge received word that Warren G. Harding was dead and he was president. By the...
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Bio James A. Garfield
As the last of the log cabin presidents, James A. Garfield attacked political corruption and won back for the presidency...
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Bio George Washington
On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath...
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Bio Lucretia Garfield
In the fond words of her husband, James A. Garfield, Lucretia "grows up to every new emergency with fine tact...
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Bio George H. W. Bush
George Bush brought to the White House a wish to make the United States "a kinder and gentler nation." Coming...
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Bio Benjamin Harrison
Nominated for president on the eighth ballot at the 1888 Republican Convention, Benjamin Harrison conducted one of the first "front-porch" campaigns,...
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Bio Andrew Johnson
With the assassination of Lincoln, the presidency fell upon an old-fashioned southern Democrat of pronounced states' rights views. Although an...
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Bio Eliza Johnson
"I knew he'd be acquitted; I knew it," declared Eliza Johnson when told how the Senate had voted in her...
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Bio Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bringing to the presidency his vast experience as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II,...
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Bio Franklin D. Roosevelt
Assuming the presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in...
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Bio Andrew Jackson
More nearly than any of his predecessors, Andrew Jackson was elected by popular vote; as president, he insisted he was...
