The Presidents of the United States of AmericaAustin Hill

#1-George Washington On April 30, 1789, George Washington

took his oath as the first president of the United States of America.

Was born and raised in Virginia. Leader of the Continental Army in the

French Revolution.

#2-John Adams Born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony,

in 1735. Went to Harvard’s law school. During the Revolutionary War, he served

in France and Holland, and helped negotiate the treaty of peace.

#3-Thomas Jefferson Born in 1743 in Albemarle County,

Virginia. He wasn’t much of a public speaker. He

went as far one time as to write down and show everyone what he wanted to say rather than speak aloud.

Succeeded as minister of France in 1785.

#4-James Madison Born in 1751 and was raised in Orange

County, Virginia. Attended Princeton (which was called

College of New Jersey then).

#5-James Monroe Was born (1758) and raised in

Westmoreland County, Virginia. Attended the College of William and

Mary. 20 years after he died, he was referred

to Doctrine Monroe.

#6- John Quincy Adams First president to be the son of a former

president. Born and raised in Braintree,

Massachusetts in 1767. At the age of 26, he was appointed the

Minister of the Netherlands, then appointed to the Berlin Legation.

#7-Andrew Jackson Born in the backlands of the Carolinas in

1767. Was an outstanding young lawyer in

Tennessee. A major leader in the war of 1812 in

New Orleans.

#8-Martin Van Buren Born in 1782 in Kinderhook, New York. In 1821, he was elected to the United

States Senate. Died in the year 1862.

#9-William Henry Harrison Born at Berkeley in 1773. First president to die in the White House. Died of a cold that turned into

pnuemonia.

#10- John Tyler First president to become the president

from being a vice president, after his predecessor died.

After leaving the house, he served as the Governor of Virginia.

#11- James K. Polk Referred to as the “dark horse”. Last decent president until the Civil War. Born in Mecklenburg County, NC. Urged the choice of “Manifest Destiny”.

#12- Zachary Taylor Born in Virginia in 1784, and was taken

as an infant. He was raised on a plantation.

His son, Richard, served as a general in the Confederate Army.

Within four days of him growing ill, he died.

#13- Millard Fillmore Born in the Finger Lakes country in New

York in 1800. Was a remember in the House of

Representatives.

#14- Franklin Pierce

Served in the Mexican War. Right before he was president, him and

his wife saw their 11-year-old son being killed in a train wreck. When he became president, he was nervously exhausted.

#15- James Buchanan The only president who never married. Born in Pennsylvania in 1791. Graduate of Dickinson College in law.

#16- Abraham Lincoln Born February 12, 1809. Was the president during the Civil War. Fought for the right of blacks. Died from an assassination.

#17- Andrew Johnson Born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1808. Born and raised in poverty. Was in the Senate in Tenessee.

#18- Ulysses S. Grant Leader of the Confederate Army during

the Civil War. Born in 1822. When the Civil War first started, he was

working in his dad’s store in Illinois, when he thought he should do something.

#19- Rutherford B. Hayes Beneficiary the most fiercely disputed

election in American history. Banished wines and liquors from the

White House. Born in Ohio in 1822. Fought in the Civil War, was injured, and

was raised to the rank of brevet major general.

#20- James Garfield Born and raised in Cuyahoga County,

Ohio in 1831. He was fatherless at the age of 2. Died from an infection and internal

hemorrhage.

#21- Chester Arthur Was said to “actually look like a

president”. Son of a Baptist preacher, and was born

and raised in Fairfield, Vermont. Died from a fatal kidney disease.

#22- Grover Cleveland First Democrat elected after the Civil

War. The only president to reside from

presidency, and then return later for another four year term.

#23- Benjamin Harrison Born in 1833, on a farm close to the

Ohio River, below Cincinnati. Died in 1901.