Final List: The Presidents of the United States Quick GuideI want you to learn about all 43 Presidents. Having you research and learn about all the Presidents would take far too long for our one week unit. Therefore, in order to learn about all the Presidents, we are going to work together to research and learn about each and every President this great country has had. (notice I said "great country," not "great presidents." They have not all been great.) This resource will be the starting point for your Presidents interdisciplinary unit you will be starting in a couple weeks. (However, the president you are researching isn't necessarily the president that will be assigned to you for that project.) This resource, that you are helping to create, will be a great starting point for all students to start researching their presidents. We are going to cover each president not in-depth, but just a few basics, to give us an idea of who each of them are. Working together as a class, we will be making this resource by having each student research 2 presidents. You will post your findings on this blog, for this post. When we are done, the comments on this post will be a list of all the presidents in order, with some basic information about them. Pay attention very closely to the following steps:
1. Click on the link on the side of this page called "Presidential Resource Assignment List" This will tell you what two presidents you are responsible for.
2. After you have figured out who you are to research, open up Microsoft Word. You will have to type your information on Word because we want this list to be in order. So you can NOT post whenever you want, you have to wait until its your turn. When it is you turn, simply copy and paste your information from Word into a comment box.
3. Here is what you need to find out about each president:
Name
Where From?
Years in office
Political Party
Vice President
3 things about him. (not long, just short, quality statements)
Famous Quote
Example:
President: Dan Klumper
From: Worthington, MN
Years in Office: 2012-2016
(insert political party here) :)
Vice President: Jason Bisbee
1. Started career as a teacher
2. Shingles houses during the summer
3. Led the USA through a war with Canada.
Quote: "I remember long ago when I taught the finest group of 8th graders known to man." -Dan Klumper during his inaugural address
Good Luck. Remember, your work is for the betterment of all your fellow classmates. Thank you.
20 Points per President.
DUE: January 14th, 2010
44 comments:
President: George Washington.
Birth place: Westmoreland County, Virginia.
Years in office: 1789-1797.
Political Party: Federalist.
Vice President: John Adams.
1.)He died of a throat infection.
2.)He owned slaves.
3.)He was one of the richest men in America.
Quote- Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
President : John Adams
From: Braintree, Massachusetts
Years in office: 1797–1801
Party: Federalist
Vice President: Thomas Jefferson
1. Was vice president for two terms before he was president.
2. He was a founding father.
3. He wrote in a dairy every day.
Quote: Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.
President: Thomas Jefferson
From: Albemarle County, Virginia.
Years in Office: April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826
Democrat-Republican Party
Vice President: Aaron Burr
1. Jefferson is the only president to serve two full terms in office without vetoing a single bill of Congress.
2. At the age of nine, Jefferson began studying Latin, Greek, and French.
3. Jefferson is alleged to have had a long-term, intimate relationship with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings.
Quote: I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
James Madison
From: Orange County, Virginia
Years in Office: 1809-17
Political Party: Democratic-Republican
Vice President: George Clinton (First term) Elbridge Gerry (Second term)
• 4th President
• “Father of the Constitution”
• Prior to presidency served as a lawyer
• Was friends with Thomas Jefferson and worked together with him
Quote: “The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.”
President: James Monroe
From: Westmoreland Country, Virginia
Years In Office: 1817-1825
Political Party: Republican
Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins
1) He was the 5th president
2) Jefferson once said to Monroe that he is so honest that if you were to turn his soul inside out there would not be one spot on it.
3) 20 years after Monroe died he became well known for Monroe Doctrine
Quote: "by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European Power."
(info compiled by Kourtney M.)
President: John Quincy Adams
From: July 11, 1767-February 23, 1848
Party: Federalist, Democratic-Republican
Years in office: March 4, 1825 – March 4, 1829
Three Facts
1. Father was John Adams, seonds President of the U.S.
2. Opposed honoring the officers who served in the Mexican-American War
3. Died of stroke
Quote: Presidency was the worst four years of my life
(info compiled by Alec Finch)
President: Andrew Jackson
From: Waxhaw, North Carolina
Years in office: 1829-1837
Vice President: John C. Calhoun
Political party: Democratic
Three facts:Supported Indian removal
Survived over 100 duals
He is on the twenty dollar bill
Famous Quote: “Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.”
President: Martin Van Buren
From: Kinderhook, New York
Years in Office: March 4, 1837 – March 4, 1841
Republican Party
Vice President: Richard Mentor Johnson
1. Active in politics and worked to secure the Congressional nomination for John Van Ness
2. New York State Senate
3. Van Buren had few economic tools to deal with the Panic of 1837.
Quote: "Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy." -President Martin Van Buren
President: William Henry Harrison
From: Charles City Country, Virginia
Years in Office: One Month
Political Party: Whig
Vice President: John Tyler
1. Was the ninth president
2. Died in office because of pneumonia
3. Had a career as a soldier
"There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest
and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power."-William Henry Harrison
President: John Tyler
From: Virginia
Years in Office: 1841 - 1854
Political Party: Democratic- Republican, Whig
1. Was vice president took place after Harrison died.
2. Born on March 29th
3. 51 yrs old, he was the youngest U.S. president to take office to the point where Harrison has been the oldest man to take office as president, at that point in time
Quote: I can never consent to being dictated to.
President James K. Polk
From: Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Years in Office: 1845-1849
Political Office: Democratic
Vice President: George Mifflin Dallas
Interesting Facts
1. He did not have any kids.
2. He was a lawyer before becoming president.
3. He was a governor for Tennessee
Quote: "With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses." James K. Polk
President: Zachary Taylor
From: Barboursville, Virginia
Years in Office: 1849-1850
Political Party: Whig
Vice President: Millard Fillmore
1. He was the 12th president of the United States
2. He was an American military leader
3. He died of acute gastroenteritis just 16 months into his term
Quote: "The idea that I should become President seems too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person" --Zachary Taylor—
Name: Millard Fillmore
Where From: Cayuga County, New York
Years in Office: 1850-1853
Political Party: Whig Party
Vice President: No one
1.)He was born in a log cabin in Moravia
2.)He was never elected
3.)He failed to win election as the know nothing party and Whig Candidate
Famous Quote: “It’s not strange…to mistake change for progress”
President: Franklin Pierce
From: Hillsborough, New Hampshire
Years in office: 1852-1869
Political party: Republican
1. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
2. Served as a brigadier general in the Mexican War.
3. Signed the Gadsden Purchase.
Quote: With the union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
President: James Buchanan
From: Pennsylvania
Years in Office: 1857–1861
Political Party: Democrat
Vice President: John C. Breckinridge
Interesting Facts
1) he is the only President from the state of Pennsylvania
2) Only President to never marry
3) Was a Lawyer
“The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”
President Abraham Lincoln
From: Hardin County Kentucky
Years in Office: 1861-1865
Political Party: Republican Party
Vice President: Hannibal Hamlin (1861 – 1865) Andrew Johnson (1865)
3 things about him: Tallest President. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy. On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth.
Famous Quote: "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain--that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
President Andrew Johnson
Raleigh, North Carolina
1865-1869
Democratic
Ulysses S. Grant
born in 1808 died in 1875, had a wife named Eliza McCardle Johnson, and was a vice president
“If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet
Robert Lee B.
President Ulysses S. Grant
Point Pleasant, Ohio
1869-1877
Republican
Schuyler Colfax, Henry Wilson
Born April 27, 1822; Died July 23, 1885 at Mount McGregor, New York; Died at the age of 63
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. –Ulysses S. Grant
President: Rutherford B. Hayes
From: Delaware, Ohio
Years in office: 1877-1881
Party: Republican
Vice President: William A. Wheeler
1. Lawyer
2. He was in the United States Army
3. He was a Brevet Major General in the military
President: Chester A. Arthur
From: Fairfield, Vermont
Party: Republican
Years in office: 1881-1885
Three facts:
1. Born on October 5th, 1830
2. Signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act into law.
3. Had no vice president.
Quote: “I may be president, but my personal life is no of your business"
(info compiled by Cam Miller)
President: Grover Cleveland
Caldwell, New Jersey
Years in office, 1885-1889
Vice President, Thomas A. Hendricks
1. Started as a lawyer
2. Sherriff of Erie County
3. Governor of New York
“Gone to the white house Ha! Ha! Ha!
Grover Cleveland when he won the election.
President: Benjamin Harrison
From: Cinncinati, Ohio
Years in office:1889-1893
Political Party: republican
Vice President: Levi P. Morton
3 Facts
- first president to have electric lights
-First president to have christmas tree in white house
-grandson of William H. Harrison
Quote: "Great Lives never go out, they go on."
President: Grover Cleveland
Caldwell, New Jersey
Years in office, 1893-1897
Vice President, adlai Stevenson
Started as a lawyer
1. Sherriff of Erie County
2. Governor of New York
“Gone to the white house Ha! Ha! Ha!
Grover Cleveland when he won the election.
President: William McKinley
From: Niles, Ohio
Years in Office: March 4, 1897 – September 14, 1901
Republican
Vice President: Garret A. Hobart
1. last veteran of the American Civil War to be elected to the office.
2. 25th President of the United States of America.
3. McKinley was re-elected in 1900, this time with foreign policy paramount
Quote: "It must not be equality and justice in the written law only. It must be equality and justice in the law's administration everywhere, and alike administered in every part of the Republic to every citizen thereof. It must not be the cold formality of constitutional enactment. It must be a living birthright
Theodore Roosevelt
From: New York, New York
Years in Office: 1901-1909
Political Party: Republican
Vice President: Charles Fairbanks (Second term- no first term vice president)
• Was William McKinley’s Vice President in the prior election
• Passed several laws regarding the well-being of people like food inspections and keeping labels from being false
• 26th President of the United States
• Initiated the building of the Panama Canal
Quote: "This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in if it is not a reasonably good place for all of us to live in."..."Laws are enacted for the benefit of the whole people, and must not be construed as permitting discrimination against some of the people."
President: Woodrow Wilson
From: Stauton, Virginia
Party: Democratic
Years in office: March 4, 1913-March 4, 1921
Three facts
1. Wilson is the face on the $100,000 bill (bank notes, not for civilians)
2. Offered to be a mediator in WWI, but Allies and Central powers didn’t listen
3. Kept America out of WWI from 1914-1917, but finally join in on 1918
Quote: If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience
(info compiled by Alec F.)
President Warren G. Harding
From: Marion, Ohio
Years in Office: 1921-1923
Political Office: Republican
Vice President: Calvin Coolidge
Interesting Facts:
1. He had one child.
2. He was a senator of Ohio
3. Also a governor of Ohio.
Quote: “I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!” Warren G. Harding
President: Calvin Coolidge
From: Plymouth, Vermont
Year in Office: 1923 - 1929
Political Party: Republican
1. Only president to be born on the 4th of July
2. Layer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, becoming governor
3. He was the 30th president
Quote: “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”
Name: Herbert Hoover
Where From: Iowa
Years in office: 1929-1933
Vice President: Charles Curtis
1.)Spoke Chinese to his wife to keep their stories private.
2.)He was a professional mining engineer and author.
3.)He is the last cabinet secretary to be directly elected president of the United States of America.
Famous Quote: “Older men declare war. But it is the young that must fight and die”
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
From: New York
Years in Office: 1933-1945
Political Party: Democratic Party
Vice President: John N. Garner, Henry A. Wallace, Harry S. Truman
3 things about him: Only President to serve more than 2 terms. He was the first president to speak on television. He was the first president whose mother was allowed to vote for him.
Famous Quote: “If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.”
President: Harry S. Truman
From: Lamar, Missouri
Years in Office: 1945–1953
Democrat
Vice President: Alben W. Barkley
1. Truman faced challenge after challenge in domestic affairs.
2. His parents chose "S" as his middle name in an attempt to please both of Harry's grandfathers.
3. In 1933 Truman was named Missouri's director for the Federal Re-Employment program
Quote:
"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
President: Dwight D. Eisenhower
From: Denison, TX
Years in office: January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961
Party: Republican
Vice President: Richard Nixon
1. He was the 34th president
2. He was born on October 14, 1890
3. His first lady was Marie "Mamie" Geneva Doud
Quote: A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
President: John F. Kennedy
From: Brookline, Massachusetts
Years in Office: 1961-63
Political Party: Democratic
Vice President: Lyndon B. Johnson
1. In 1940 he graduated from Harvard University with a science degree
2. He was the second youngest president, the first president born in the 20th century, and the youngest elected into office.
3. He wanted everyone to help the underdeveloped countries and established the Peace Corps; he also faced against the Soviet Union in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Quote: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” –John F. Kennedy--
President: Lyndon B. Johnson.
Birth Place: Near Johnson City, Texas
Years in Office: 1963-1969
Political Party: Democrat
1.) His remodel was John F. Kennedy.
2.) As a boy and a man he suffered from a sense of emptiness: he couldn't stand to be alone; he needed constant companionship, attention, affection, and approval.
3.) He despised being in the second spot.
Quote- “While you're saving your face, you're losing your butt.”
President: Richard M. Nixon
From: Yorba Linda, California
Years in office: 1969-1974
Vice President: Gerald Ford
Political Party: Republican
Three facts: He was about to get impeached but resigned
Served in the navy in WWII
He lost to JFK in 1960
Famous Quote: “I am not a crook”
President: Gerald R. Ford
From: Omaha, Nebraska
Years in office: 1974-1977
Political party: Republican
1. Served in Vietnam War
2. Great football player-played center
3. US Navy
Quote: I am a Ford not a Lincoln.
(info compiled by Kevin P.)
President: James Carter
From: Plains, Georgia
Years in office: 1977-1981
Party: Democratic
Vice President: Walter Mondale
1. Farmed peanuts
2. Lieutenant in military
3. He was a lieutenant in the military
Quote - To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
President: Ronald Reagan
From: Tampico, Illinois,
Years in Office: 1981–1989
Political Party: Democrat,
Vice president: George H. W. Bush
Interesting Facts:
1) He was an actor
2) He was a private assigned to Troop B, 322nd Cavalry at Des Moines, Iowa
3) Has been married twice and has five kids one adopted
“Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.”
President: George H. W. Bush
From: Milton, Massachusetts
Years In Office: 1989-1993
Political Party: Republican
Vice President: Dan Quayle
1) He went to Iraqi before he became president
2) He wouldn’t send anymore kids into battle under force
3) In 1992 he lost his reelection to democrat William Clinton
Quote: Read my lips: NO NEW TAXES!
President William J. Clinton
Hope, Arkansas
1993-2000
Democratic
Al Gore
Born on August 19, 1946; Age 63; Wife Hillary Rodham Clinton
It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is. –William J. Clinton
President: George W. Bush
From: New Haven, Connecticut
Years in Office: 2001-2008
Political Party: Republican
Vice President: Dick Cheney
1. He was one of only two presidents to be the son of a preceding president.
2. He was president during the September 11, 2001 terrorist’s attacks, and ordered invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq.
3. He was governor of Texas until he became president.
Quote: “A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.” –George W. Bush--
President Barack Obama
Honolulu, Hawaii
2009-still going
Democratic
Joe Biden
44th president, born in August 4, 1961, he grew up herding goats with his father.
“Yes we can!”
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