Getting to know the U.S. presidents

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1) George Washington: first president, 1789-1797

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An introduction to the life of George Washington, who proved himself a good military leader during the American Revolution and became the nation's first president.

2) James Madison: fourth president, 1809-1817

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An introduction to the life of James Madison, a man of poor health who could not fight in the Revolutionary War but whose ideas formed the core of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and who became the nation's fourth president.

3) James Monroe: fifth president, 1817-1825

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An introduction to the life of James Monroe, an influential patriot during the American Revolution who became the nation's fifth president and was subsequently reelected.

4) John Adams: second president, 1797-1801

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An introduction to the life of John Adams, an influential patriot during the American Revolution who became the nation's first vice president and second president.

5) John Quincy Adams: sixth president, 1825-1829

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An introduction to the life of John Quincy Adams, son of the second president who himself became the sixth president.

6) Thomas Jefferson: third president, 1801-1809

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An introduction to the life of Thomas Jefferson, a man whose ideas helped create a new kind of government and who became the nation's third president.

7) Andrew Jackson: seventh president, 1829-1837

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8) Andrew Johnson: seventeenth president, 1865-1869

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9) Franklin Pierce: fourteenth president, 1853-1857

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10) James Buchanan: fifteenth president, 1857-1861

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11) James K. Polk: eleventh president, 1845-1849

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12) John Tyler: tenth president, 1841-1845

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13) Martin Van Buren: eighth president, 1837-1841

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14) Millard Fillmore: thirteenth president, 1850-1853

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15) Ulysses S. Grant: eighteenth president , 1869-1877

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16) William Henry Harrison: ninth president, 1841

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17) Zachary Taylor: twelfth president, 1849-1850

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18) Abraham Lincoln

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Presents a short biography of the sixteenth President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and chronicles his childhood, early career in law and politics, presidency during the Civil War, assassination, and more.

19) Benjamin Harrison: twenty-third president, 1889-1893

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20) Calvin Coolidge: thirtieth president, 1923-1929

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21) Chester A. Arthur: twenty-first president, 1881-1885

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22) Grover Cleveland: twenty-second and twenty-fourth president, 1885-1889, 1893-1897

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23) Herbert Hoover: thirty-first president, 1929-1933

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24) James A. Garfield: twentieth president, 1881

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25) Rutherford B. Hayes: nineteenth president, 1877-1881

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26) Theodore Roosevelt: twenty-sixth president, 1901-1909

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27) Warren G. Harding: twenty-ninth president, 1921-1923

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28) William Howard Taft: twenty-seventh president, 1909-1913

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29) William McKinley: twenty-fifth president, 1897-1901

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30) Bill Clinton: forty-second president, 1993-2001

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Examines the life and career of the forty-second president of the United States.

31) Franklin D. Roosevelt: thirty-second president, 1933-1945

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Examines the life and career of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the thirty-second president of the United States.

32) George W. Bush: forty-third president, 2001-present

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Examines the life and career of the forty-third president of the United States.

33) Harry S. Truman: thirty-third president, 1945-1953

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Examines the life and career of Harry S. Truman, the thirty-third president of the United States.

34) Jimmy Carter: thirty-ninth president, 1977-1981

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Examines the life and career of the thirty-ninth president of the United States.

35) John F. Kennedy: thirty-fifth president, 1961-1963

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Examines the life and career of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth president of the United States.

36) Lyndon B. Johnson: thirty-sixth president, 1963-1969

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Examines the life and career of Lyndon B. Johnson, the thirty-sixth president of the United States.

37) Richard M. Nixon: thirty-seventh president, 1969-1974

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Examines the life and career of Richard M. Nixon, the thirty-seventh president of the United States.

38) Ronald Reagan

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39) Woodrow Wilson: twenty-eighth president, 1913-1921

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40) George Bush: forty-first president, 1989-1993

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Examines the life and career of the forty-first president of the United States.

41) Gerald R. Ford: thirty-eighth president, 1974-1977

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Examines the life and career of the thirty-eighth president of the United States.