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US Presidents Posters, Prints, Photographs & Charts pg 2/3
for the social studies classroom and home schoolers.
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history > Presidents 1789-1850 | 1850-1929 | 1929-present < social studies
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United States Presidents from 1850 to 1929 arranged chronologically: Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, US Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge.
Presidents Day is the 3rd Monday in February.
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Millard Fillmore (W)
(13th President, 1850-1853)
b. 1-7-1800; Cayuga Co. NY
d. 3-8-1874; Richmond, VA
Millard Fillmore quotes
• “May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.”
• “It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.”
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Franklin Pierce (D)
(14th President, 1853-1857)
b. 11-23-1804; Hillsboro, NH
d. 10-8-1869; Concord, NH
Franklin Pierce quote
• “With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.”
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James Buchanan (D)
(15th President, 1857-1861)
b. 4-23-1791; Cove Gap near Mercersburg, PA
d. 6-1-1868; Lancaster, PA
James Buchanan quote
• “What is right and what is practicable are two different things.”
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Andrew Johnson (D)
(17th President, 1865-1869)
b. 9-29-1808; Raleigh, NC
d. 7-31-1875; Carter's Station, TN
Andrew Johnson, the sixth vice president to become president, was the second to do so due to assassination. Andrew Johnson, the first president to be impeached (and acquited), was the only President to later serve as a Senator. His impeachment was for political reasons as he didn't fit into the ideology of the vendictive Reconstructionist Republican congress.
FYI - Andrew Johnson, who was self taught as was Lincoln, approved the purchase of Alaska that was arranged by Secretary of State Seward.
• Andrew Johnson National Historic Site
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Ulysses S. Grant (R)
(18th President, 1869-1877)
b. 4-27-1822; Point Pleasant, OH
d. 8-28-1885; Mt. McGregor, NY
U.S. Grant quotes
• “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.”
• “Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.”
• U. S. Grant Cabin, Missouri poster
• General Grant Tree
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Rutherford B. Hayes (R)
(19th President, 1877-1881)
b. 10-4-1822; Delaware, OH
d. 1-17-1893; Fremont, OH
Rutherford Birchard Hayes lost the popular election to Samuel Tilden, but won sthe presidency by one electoral vote; he was the only president whose election was decided by Congress.
FYI - First Lady Lucy Ware Web Hayes started the tradition of rolling Easter eggs on the White House lawn. She was also the first First Lady to graduate from college, a fervent abolitionist, and earned the sobriquet of 'Lemonade Lucy' for never serving alcohol at the White House.
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James A. Garfield (R)
(20th President, 1881)
b. 11-19-1831; Orange, OH
d. 9-19-1881; Elberon, NJ after being shot July 2 in Washington DC by Charles J. Guiteau.
To date, James A. Garfield is the only clergyman to serve as president; he was also a teacher. Garfield is the also only person to be a Representative, Senator-elect and President-elect at the same time, as well as the second president to be assassinated (Lincoln), and his was the second shortest administration (Wm. Henry Harrison). FYI - Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln's son, was with Garfield when he was shot.
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Chester Alan Arthur (R)
(21th President, 1881-1885)
b. 10-5-1829; Fairfield, VT
d. 11-18-1886; NYC
Chester A. Arthur quotes
• “I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.”
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Grover Cleveland (D)
(22th & 24th President, 1885-1889 & 1893-1897)
b. 3-18-1837; Caldwell, NJ
d. 6-24-1908; Princeton, NJ
Grover Cleveland quotes
• “Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.”
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President Benjamin Harrison (R)
(23rd President, 1889-1893)
b. 8-20-1833, North Bend, Ohio
d. 3-13-1901, Indianapolis, IN
Benjamin Harrison quotes
• “I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.”
• “We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.”
• “When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?”
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William McKinley (R)
(25th President, 1897-1901)
b. 1-29-1843; Niles, OH
d. 9-14-1901; after being shot in Buffalo, NY
William McKinley quotes
• “I do not prize the word ‘cheap.’ It is not a badge of honor. It is a symbol of despair. Cheap prices make for cheap goods; cheap goods make for cheap men; and cheap men make for a cheap country.”
• “Our differences are politics. Our agreements are principles.”
• “I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana during the night of the fifteenth of February. The destruction of that noble vessel has filled the national heart with inexpressible horror. Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our Navy, reposing in the fancied security of a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation.”
• Mt. McKinley poster
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Theodore Roosevelt (R)
(26th President, 1901-1909)
b. 10-27-1858; New York City
d. 1-6-1919
Theodore “Teddy” Possevelt, a politican, soldier, naturalist, and historian, is a symbol of American optimism and progress at the turn of the 20th century. TR's nickname was Rough Rider.
Theodore Roosevelt quotes
• “The government is us; we are the government, you and I.”
• “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
• “Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
• “Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
• “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
• Nobel Peace Prize, 1906 for the Peace Treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War.
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William Howard Taft (R)
(27th President, 1909-1913)
b. 9-15-1857; Cincinnati, OH
d. 3-8-1930
Taft is the only US president to serve on the Supreme Court, from 1921 till his death.
William Howard Taft quotes
• “Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.”
• “No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.”
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Warren G. Harding (R)
(29th President, 1921-1923)
b. 11-2-1865; Blooming Grove, OH
d. 8-2-1923; SF, CA. possible stroke
Warren G. Harding quotes
• “I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.”
• “Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.”
• “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!”
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Calvin Coolidge (R)
(30th President, 1923-1929)
b. 7-4-1872, VT
d. 1-5-1933, MA
Calvin Coolidge quotes
• “After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.”
• “Civilization and profit go hand in hand.”
• “I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.”
• “Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.”
• “Advertising is the life of trade.”
• White House.gov
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Herbert Hoover (R)
(31th President, 1929-1933)
b. 8-10-1874; West Branch, IA
d. 10-20-1964; NYC
Herbert Hoover quotes
• “About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”
• “Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.”
• “Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.”
• “It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.”
• “Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.”
• “Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.”
• Alfred E. Smith, TIME Magazine Cover
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