First In Office
Was first president to be impeached (he opposed Reconstruction (keep people from obtaining rights and enslaved by Confederates); he took office after the assassination of President Lincoln
Who was Andrew Johnson the 17th President
Rode a mechanical horse for exercise in the white house and
Calvin Coolidge 30th President
He ended the war in Vietnam War and resigned from office due to Watergate scandal
The 37th President Richard Nixon
Was the 16th President, killed by John Wilkes Booth and lobbied Congress to pass the 13th Amendment (abolish slavery)
Who was President Abraham Lincoln
Who was the 22nd and 24th President
Glover Cleveland
Who created Head Start (1965); Medicare & Medicaid (1965) and Elementary and Secondary Education Act ( 1965)
Lyndon B. Johnson the 36th President
He served as Vice President and President without being elected to either office (due to VP and President both resigning while in office); first president to pardon another president (Richard Nixon)
Who is the 38th President Gerald Ford
Swam nude in the Potamic River; helped to acquire Florida from Spain
John Quincy Adams 6th President
He launched No Child Left Behind and lead the nation through the 9/11 Terror Attacks
George W Bush 43rd President
Only US representative every elected president without serving as VP or executive order
Who was 20th President James Garfield
Elected four times and served 1933 - 1945
Who was Franklin D Roosevelt
Who enacted the National Defense Education Act (1958) boosted math and science during the cold war
Dwight D Eisenhower the 34th President
Expand health care to millions of people; killed Osama Bin Laden and the first African American to be elected president
Who was 44th President Barack Obama
Avid Fisherman a book was written about him called The Fishing President: created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932) support banks and businesses and authorized the Hoover Dam largest infrastructural project in US history
Herbert Hoover 31st President
Authorize the use of atomic bomb (Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945) ending World War II
33rd President Harry S Truman
Who founded the Peace Corp in 1961 and was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
John F Kennedy 35th President
Served Two Terms and led nation during the Spanish American War; assassinated in 1901
William McKinley 25th President
American Rescue Plan (2021) COVID relief and child poverty reduction.
Joe Biden 46th President
First professional actor to become president; was original a Democrat then became Republican in 1962, his policies negatively affected marginalized communities (people of color)
Who was Ronald Reagan 40th President
Woodrow Wilson 28th President
Faced the COVID 19 pandemic and then later term gave request to reduce number of government employees
Was the shortest presidency - died of pneumonia on April 4, 1841
Who was the 9th President William Henry Harrison
Ulysses S Grant 18th President
Advocated for Land grant schools (agricultural, mechanical and technical education)
Who as the Thomas Jefferson 3rd President
First to host the Pope at the White House; received Nobel Prize after his presidency; created the Department of Energy; taught Sunday School while he was president; was 100 years old when he died
Who Jimmy Carter the 39th President
Loved Golf; often playing 18 holes under 2 hours; signed the American with Disabilities Act (1990) father to George W Bush (43 President)
George H.W. Bush the 41st President
Commander and Chief during the American Revolution; helped to establish the federal court system and owned planation that enslaved over hundred people.
Father of the Country President 1 George Washington
Opposed expansion of slavery especially in new places such as California; only served 16 months in office
Zachary Taylor 12th President
Welfare Reform (1996) change welfare to a work-based system; impeached by the House for Perjury and obstruction (Monica Lewinsky) increase tax on the wealthy and spending restraints (Implement Fiscal discipline)
Help to draft the Declaration of Independence, signed legislation to establish the Library of Congress and US Military Academy of West Point.
John Adams 2nd President of the US