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James Monroe 6Th: John Quincy Adams KIDSPOST’S GUIDE TO THE PRESIDENTS These guys made history Did you guess “the presidents of the United States”? If so, you’re in February.) So here is KidsPost’s tribute to the presidents. We right. And while more presidents — six of them — were born in can think of endless games you can play while studying this page. October than any other month, many people think of the Who had the longest name? Who had the shortest? How many presidents during February because of the Presidents’ Day presidents had beards? How many wore glasses? (See, the fun holiday. (In addition to George Washington and Abraham never ends!) To find out more about each president and their Lincoln, Ronald Reagan and William Henry Harrison were born inaugural speeches, go to www.kidspost.com. 1st: George Washington 1789-97 = elected once or served less than four years Only president to win 100 percent = elected more than once of electoral votes 2nd: John Adams 3rd: Thomas Jefferson 4th: James Madison 5th: James Monroe 6th: John Quincy Adams 7th: Andrew Jackson 1797-1801 1801-09 1809-17 1817-25 1825-29 1829-37 First one-term president Tried to assemble a mastodon Shortest U.S. president Died on July 4 Kept an alligator in the Invited public to the White House skeleton in the White House at 5 feet 4 inches (as did John Adams and Jefferson) White House for several months for inaugural ball 8th: Martin Van Buren 9th: William Henry Harrison 10th: John Tyler 11th: James K. Polk 12th: Zachary Taylor 13th: Millard Fillmore 1837-41 1841 1841-45 1845-49 1849-50 1850-53 First president to be born Served as president Had 15 children Signed law creating First voted in 1848, Was born in a log cabin a U.S. citizen for only 32 days the Smithsonian Institution when he was 62 years old 14th: Franklin Pierce 15th: James Buchanan 16th: Abraham Lincoln 17th: Andrew Johnson 18th: Ulysses S. Grant 19th: Rutherford B. Hayes 1853-57 1857-61 1861-65 1865-69 1869-77 1877-81 His nickname was Only president to His son Willie is the only child Congress tried to remove First president to see Hosted first White House “Handsome Frank” never get married to die in the White House him from office the Pacific Ocean Easter Egg Roll 20th: James A. Garfield 21st: Chester A. Arthur 22nd, 24th: Grover Cleveland 23rd: Benjamin Harrison 25th: William McKinley 26th: Theodore Roosevelt 1881 1881-85 1885-89; 1893-97 1889-93 1897-1901 1901-09 First left-handed president Had the first elevator installed Only president to serve First president to have a Christmas First president to ride in a car The teddy bear was in the White House two terms not in a row tree in the White House named after him 27th: William Howard Taft 28th: Woodrow Wilson 29th: Warren G. Harding 30th: Calvin Coolidge 31st: Herbert C. Hoover 32nd: Franklin D. Roosevelt 1909-13 1913-21 1921-23 1923-29 1929-33 1933-45 Only president to become a Supreme Signed the law giving Had the largest shoe size Only president born on Two asteroids are No president will ever Court justice after leaving office women the right to vote of any president: 14 the Fourth of July named for him serve as long as he did 33rd: Harry S. Truman 34th: Dwight D. Eisenhower 35th: John F. Kennedy 36th: Lyndon B. Johnson 37th: Richard M. Nixon 38th: Gerald R. Ford 1945-53 1953-61 1961-63 1963-69 1969-74 1974-77 First president to be First president of all 50 states (Alaska Youngest person Only president to be First president to speak First president to have sworn in on television and Hawaii were new) elected president sworn in by a woman to a man on the moon been an Eagle Scout 39th: Jimmy Carter 40th: Ronald Reagan 41st: George H.W. Bush 42nd: Bill Clinton 43rd: George W. Bush 44th: Barack Obama 1977-81 1981-89 1989-93 1993-2001 2001-09 2009-present Was a peanut farmer before Acted in movies before Only president to be First president to have Second president to also be the son Won the Nobel Peace Prize (as did running for president becoming president born in June an e-mail address of a president (J.Q. Adams was first) T. Roosevelt, Wilson and Carter) KK illustrations by Michael Hoeeweler for the washington post.
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