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With the assassination of President William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, became the 26th and youngest President in the...

William McKinley was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897, until his assassination on September 14, 1901,...

The first Democrat elected after the Civil War in 1885, our 22nd and 24th President Grover Cleveland was the only President to leave the...

Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893, elected after conducting one of the first “front-porch”...

The son of a Baptist preacher who had emigrated from northern Ireland, Chester A. Arthur was America’s 21st President (1881-85),...

James Garfield was elected as the United States’ 20th President in 1881, after nine terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. His...

As the 19th President of the United States (1877-1881), Rutherford B. Hayes oversaw the end of Reconstruction, began the efforts that led...

In 1865, as commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an...

With the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States (1865-1869), an...

Abraham Lincoln became the United States 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those...

James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States (1857-1861), served immediately prior to the American Civil War. He remains the...

Franklin Pierce became 14th President of the United States at a time of apparent tranquility (1853-1857). By pursuing the recommendations...

Millard Fillmore, a member of the Whig party, was the 13th President of the United States (1850-1853) and the last President not to be...

Zachary Taylor, a general and national hero in the United States Army from the time of the Mexican-American War and the War of 1812, was...

Often referred to as the first “dark horse” President, James K. Polk was the last of the Jacksonians to sit in the White House, and the...

John Tyler became the tenth President of the United States (1841-1845) when President William Henry Harrison died in April 1841. He was...

William Henry Harrison, an American military officer and politician, was the ninth President of the United States (1841), the oldest...

Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States (1837-1841), after serving as the eighth Vice President and the tenth...

Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837, seeking to act as the direct representative of the...

John Quincy Adams, son of John and Abigail Adams, served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. A member of...