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In the 1960 campaign, Lyndon B. Johnson was elected Vice President as John F. Kennedy’s running mate. On November 22, 1963, when Kennedy...

John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States (1961-1963), the youngest man elected to the office. On November 22, 1963,...

Bringing to the Presidency his prestige as commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during World War II, Dwight D....

During his few weeks as Vice President, Harry Truman scarcely saw President Franklin Roosevelt, and received no briefing on the...

Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in...

Before serving as America’s 31st President from 1929 to 1933, Herbert Hoover had achieved international success as a mining engineer and...

William Howard Taft was elected the 27th President of the United States (1909-1913) and later became the tenth Chief Justice of the...

As America’s 30th President (1923-1929), Calvin Coolidge demonstrated his determination to preserve the old moral and economic precepts...

Warren G. Harding, an Ohio Republican, was the 29th President of the United States (1921-1923). Though his term in office was fraught...

Woodrow Wilson, a leader of the Progressive Movement, was the 28th President of the United States (1913-1921). After a policy of...

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...