Bio William Howard Taft
Distinguished jurist, effective administrator, but poor politician, William Howard Taft spent four uncomfortable years in the White House. Large, jovial,...
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Bio Warren G. Harding
Before his nomination, Warren G. Harding declared, "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not...
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Bio William Henry Harrison
Give him a barrel of hard cider and settle a pension of two thousand a year on him, and my...
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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 William J. Clinton
Bill Clinton could fairly claim that his presidency had been among the most successful in modern times. He presided over...
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Bio Woodrow Wilson
Like Theodore Roosevelt before him, Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. "No one but the...
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Bio Gerald R. Ford
When Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office on August 9, 1974, he declared, "I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances. . . ....
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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 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 James Buchanan
Tall, stiffly formal in the high stock he wore around his jowls, James Buchanan was the only president who never...
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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 James Madison
At his inauguration, James Madison, a small, wizened man, appeared old and worn; Washington Irving described him as "but a...
