Known For...
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President
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The first president born a U.S. citizen
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Martin Van Buren
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Presided over the War of 1812
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James Madison
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Only served as president for a month before his death
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William Henry Harrison
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The first vice president to ascend to the presidency upon the death of the president
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John Tyler
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Presided over the moon landing
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Richard Nixon
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The Smithsonian opened, and the first postage stamps were issued during his presidency
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James Polk
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The only president who was never voted into that office
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Gerald Ford
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Signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Responsible for The Louisiana Purchase
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Thomas Jefferson
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Was president the day Wall Street crashed
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Herbert Hoover
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Supported Habitat for Humanity and won a Nobel Peace Prize
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Jimmy Carter
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During World War II, he was a five-star general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The only president to be born on the 4th of July, in 1872
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Calvin Coolidge
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Urged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall
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Ronald Reagan
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Presided over the beginnings of the Korean War and the Cold War
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Harry S. Truman
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Brought California into the United States
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Zachary Taylor
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Was the first President
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George Washington
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The first president born in the 20th century
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John F. Kennedy
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The first president to hire a full-time bodyguard
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Franklin Pierce
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Only president to serve two terms that didn’t occur back to back
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Grover Cleveland
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"Freed" the slaves
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Abraham Lincoln
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The only president who also served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
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William Howard Taft
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Brought new territories into U.S. control — Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines
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William McKinley
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The first president to be impeached
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Andrew Johnson
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Created the two-party system that still reigns today
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Andrew Jackson
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Brought the United States into World War I
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Woodrow Wilson
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Signed the peace treaty that ended U.S. involvement in World War I
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Warren G. Harding
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Led the U.S. out of the Great Depression, and into World War II
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Harding was not present for the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, which officially ended World War I.
Millard Fuller, not Jimmy Carter, was the founder of Habitat for Humanity.
Gerald Ford was the only president who was never elected to be either president or vice president but several vice presidents were never elected president (Tyler, Fillmore, Johnson, Arthur).