Presidents of the United States

John F. Kennedy. He was the youngest person to be elected president.

Bill Clinton. He was the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt to be elected to two terms.

George H. W. Bush. He launched the Persian Gulf War to drive Iraqi forces from Kuwait.

Dwight D. Eisenhower. He led Allied forces during World War II before being elected president.

Richard Nixon. His presidency has brought down by the Watergate Scandal.

John Tyler. During his presidency, the United States took over Texas.

Theodore Roosevelt. His motto was, “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”

Abraham Lincoln. He guided the United States through the Civil War and freed the nation’s slave.

Herbert Hoover. He became very unpopular because he could not soften the effects of the Great Depression.

Woodrow Wilson. He led the United States through World War I and helped create the League of Nations.

Ulysses S. Grant. He led Union forces in the Civil War before being elected president.

Harry S. Truman. He led the United States out of World War II and into the Korean War.

Zachary Taylor. He fought in the Mexican War before being elected president.

William McKinley. He oversaw the U.S. victory in the Spanish-American War, which placed the Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico under U.S. rule.

George W. Bush. He launched a war on terrorism.

Grover Cleveland. He was the only president to be reelected after being voted out of office.

Andrew Jackson. He was the first president to ride a train and to survive an assassination attempt.

Franklin D. Roosevelt. He saw the United States through the Great Depression and World War II and was elected president four times.

Lyndon B. Johnson. The Vietnam War flared during his presidency.

Calvin Coolidge. As president, he said that “The chief business of the American people is business.”

Millard Fillmore. Under his leadership, Congress passed the Compromise of 1850.

Rutherford B. Hayes.                 As president, he withdrew federal troops form the South, ending Reconstruction.

Benjamin Harrison. He signed the Sherman Antitrust Act, which prohibited business associations that hurt fair trade.

James Garfield. He was assassinated after only four months in office.

Jimmy Carter. He was a peanut farmer, then a governor, then the president.

James Buchanan. He failed to keep the South from breaking away from the United States and the Civil War began immediately after his presidency.

James Polk. During his term, the United States grew to stretch all the way from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

Martin Van Buren. He was one of the founders of the Democratic Party.

William Howard Taft. After his presidency, he became the chief justice of the Supreme Court.

James Madison. He was known as the “Father of the Constitution,” and was responsible for the Bill of Rights.

Gerald Ford. He was elected neither vice president nor president, but he served as both.

James Monroe. He established a doctrine to protect the Western Hemisphere from outside influence.

Ronald Reagan. He was a movie actor, then a governor, then the president.

Chester A. Arthur. He reformed the government’s civil service bureau.

Warren G. Harding. He was the first president to visit Alaska, but he died on the return journey.

Thomas Jefferson. He wrote the Declaration of Independence.

John Quincy Adams. He was elected president by the U.S. House of Representatives.

Andrew Johnson. He was the first president to be impeached.

William Henry Harrison. He died after only one month in office.

Franklin Pierce. He was unpopular proslavery president in the years before the Civil War.

John Adams. He was the first president to live in the White House.

George Washington. He led the Continental Army to victory and was the first president of the United States.