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Mid-Late 19th Century
Rutherford Hayes
1822–93, 19th President of the United States (1877–81), b. Delaware, Ohio, grad. Kenyon College, 1843, and Harvard law school, 1845...
James Garfield
1831–81, 20th President of the United States (Mar.–Sept., 1881). Born on a frontier farm in Cuyahoga co., Ohio, he spent his early years in poverty...
Grover S. Cleveland
22nd and 24th president of the USA, 1885-89 and 1893-97; the first Democratic president elected after the Civil War...
William McKinley
1843–1901, 25th president of the United States (1897–1901), b. Niles, Ohio. He was educated at Poland (Ohio) Seminary and Allegheny College...
Early 20th Century
Theodore Roosevelt
1858–1919, 26th President of the United States (1901–9), b. New York City...
William Taft
1857–1930, 27th President of the United States (1909–13) and 10th Chief Justice of the United States (1921–30), b. Cincinnati...
Woodrow Wilson
US statesman and 28th president (1913–21), born in Staunton, Virginia, USA...
Warren Harding
1865–1923, 29th President of the United States (1921–23), b. Blooming Grove (now Corsica), Ohio...
Calvin Coolidge
1872–1933, 30th President of the United States (1923–29), b. Plymouth, Vt....
Herbert Hoover
1874–1964, 31st President of the United States (1929–33), b. West Branch, Iowa...
Mid-Late 20th Century
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1882–1945, 32d President of the United States (1933–45), b. Hyde Park, N.Y....
Harry S. Truman
1884–1972, 33d President of the United States, b. Lamar, Mo....
Dwight Eisenhower
1890–1969, American general and 34th President of the United States, b. Denison, Tex.; his nickname was "Ike..."
John F. Kennedy
1917–63, 35th President of the United States (1961–63), b. Brookline, Mass.; son of Joseph P. Kennedy...
Lyndon Johnson
1908–73, 36th President of the United States (1963–69), b. near Stonewall, Tex....
Richard Nixon
1913–94, 37th President of the United States (1969–74), b. Yorba Linda, Calif....
Gerald Ford
1913–2006, 38th president of the United States (1974–77), b. Omaha, Nebr. He was originally named Leslie Lynch King, Jr....
Jimmy Carter
US statesman and 39th president (1977–81), born in Plains, Georgia, USA...
Ronald Reagan
40th president of the USA 1981-89, a Republican. He was governor of California 1966-74, and a former Hollywood actor.
George H.W. Bush
1924–, 41st President of the United States (1989–93), b. Milton, Mass., B.A., Yale Univ., 1948...
Bill Clinton
42nd president of the USA 1993-2001. A Democrat, he served as governor of Arkansas 1979-81 and 1983-93, establishing a liberal and progressive reputation...
21st Century
George W. Bush
1946–, 43d president of the United States (2001–), b. New Haven, Conn....
Barack Obama
44th president of the USA from 2009. A Democrat, he served as senator of Illinois from 2005 to 2008
Donald Trump
(born June 14, 1946, New York, N.Y., U.S.) U.S. real-estate developer and politician who became president-elect of the United States in 2016.
Joe Biden
2020-
46th president of the U.S.
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