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Born in Kinderhook NY; nicknamed the Little Magician; was the 8th President of the US 1837-1841 | Martin Van Buren |
11th President of the US; Texas was admitted to the Union;The United States fought a war with Mexico; Gold was discovered in California | James Polk |
13th President; Served as a Whig but ran for President again as a Know-Nothing;Became President upon the death of Zachary Taylor | Millard Fillmore |
14th President; Kansas-Nebraska Act passed;Commodore Perry signs the Kanagawa opening up trade between the US and Japan;only president from NH | Franklin Pierce |
15th President; MN, OR, and KS were admitted to the Union; John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859;Nevada and Utah territories are created; He is known as the bachelor president | James Buchanan |
17th president, born in Raleigh NC; served as military governor of TN;He is impeached in 1868 for violating the Tenure of Office Act | Andrew Johnson |
19th President; got the support of Southern Democrats over Samuel Tilden; Reconstruction ends; Knows as His Fraudency | Rutherford Hayes |
20th President;Booker T. Washington opens the Normal School for Colored Teachers later to be named Tuskegee University;he is shot by Charles J. Guiteau;served as president of Hiram College | James Garfield |
Born Caldwell NJ; signs the Presidential Succession Act; asks Congress to accept the Statue of Liberty from France; served as mayor of Buffalo NY; the Interstate Commerce Commission is created to regulate railroads; the American Federation of Labor is founded by Samuel Gompers in 1886, This president is both the 22 and 24th Presidents; only president to be married in the White House | Grover Cleveland |
23rd president; saw the admission to the union of many of the western territories; the Sherman Anti-trust Act is passed in 1890 which banned monopolies | Benjamin Harrison |