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Presidential Images:

America’s Leaders Ever since became President in 1789, the presidency has been a major focus of American political life, and as with nearly everything associated

popular interest. There was, in fact, a time when painted, sculpted or engraved likenesseswith that office, were presidentialthe only means portraits that most have people from the knew outset their attracted Presidents. considerable In the case of Washington, there were even sporadic debates through much of the nineteenth century over which portrait had most accurately recorded him for posterity.

2 The media for presidential imagery has ranged everywhere from the traditional oil-on-canvas and marble to cotton handkerchiefs and sewing-box lids, and the 1 Gallery houses today a richly varied array of presidential likenesses. In the selection of portraits on view here, some are more sophisticated and striking than others; some are quite rare or altogether unique; some are calculated to impress us with their gravity while others are warmly intimate. Taken collectively, however, they all have one thing in common: In one degree or another, they all evoke the history Paintings by: 1. Ulysses S. Grant 2. Dwight Eisenhower of the nation’s highest office and the individuals who have occupied it. 3. 4. George W. Bush

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1. George Washington 24. Grover 2. 25. William McKinley 3. 26. 4. 27. William Howard Taft 28. I must study politics and war, that my sons may study 5. 6. 29. Warren Harding mathematics and philosophy…in order to give their 7. 30. children the right to study painting, poetry, 8. 31. Herbert Hoover music and architecture. John Quincy Adams 9. 32. Franklin D. Roosevelt 10. 33. Harry S 11. James Polk 34. Dwight Eisenhower 12. 35. John F. Kennedy 13. 36. Lyndon B. Johnson 14. 37. 15. 38. 16. Abraham Lincoln 39. Jimmy Carter 17. 40. Ronald Reagan 18. Ulysses S. Grant 41. George Bush 19. Rutherford Hayes 42. 20. James Garfield 43. George W. Bush 21. Chester Alan Arthur 44. 22. 45. Donald Trump 23. Benjamin Harrison 1 George Washington Term: 1789-1797 Vice President: John Adams Lived: 1732-1799 (age 67) artist: 1st Lady: Martha Dandridge Custis Washington date: Party: Unaffiliated Height: 6’ 2”

and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.” “Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, 2 John Adams Term: 1797-1826 Vice President: Thomas Jefferson Lived: 1735-1826 (age 90) Party: Federalist artist: Reynold Brown 1st Lady: Abigail Smith Adams date: 1965 Height: 5’ 7”

“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.” 3 Thomas Jefferson Term: 1801-1809 Vice Presidents: (1801–1805) George Clinton (1805–1809) Lived: 1743-1826 (age 67) Party: Democratic-Republican 1st Lady: Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson Height: 6’ 2”

“The who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.”

artist: date: 4 James Madison Term: 1809-1817 Vice Presidents: George Clinton (1809-1812) (1812-1814) None (1814–1817) Lived: 1751-1836 (age 85) artist: Party: Democratic-Republican date: 1st Lady: Dolley Payne Todd Madison Height: 5’ 4”

“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.” 5 James Monroe Term: 1817-1825 Vice President: Daniel D. Tompkins artist: 1758-1831 (age 73) Lived: date: Party: Democratic-Republican 1st Lady: Elizabeth Kortright Monroe Height: 6’ 0”

“The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.”

6 John Quincy Adams Term: 1825-1829 Vice President: John C. Calhoun artist: Lived: 1767-1848 (age 80) date: Parties: Democratic-Republican 1st Lady: Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams Height: 5’ 7”

“All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.” 7 Andrew Jackson Term: 1829-1837 Vice Presidents: John C. Calhoun (1829–1832) artist: None (1832–1833) date: Martin Van Buren (1833–1837) Lived: 1767-1845 (age 78) Parties: Democratic 1st Lady: Rachel Donelson Jackson Height: 6’ 1”

“As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.” 8 Martin Van Buren Term: 1837-1841 Vice Presidents: Richard Mentor Johnson Lived: 1782-1862 (age 79) artist: Parties: Democratic date: 1st Lady: Hannah Hoes Van Buren Height: 5’ 6”

“In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.” a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage 9 William Henry Harrison Term:

Vice1841-1841 President: (Died John inTyler office) Lived: 1773-1841 (age 68) Parties: Whig 1st Lady: Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison artist: Reynold Brown date: 1965 Height: 5’ 8”

“I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.” 10 John Tyler Term: 1841-1845 Vice President: John Tyler Lived: 1790-1862 (age 71) Parties: 1st Ladies: Whig then Unaffiliated artist: George Peter Alexander Healy date: 1859 Height: 6’ 0”

“Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.” 11 James Knox Polk Term: 1845-1849 Vice President: George M. Dallas artist: Lived: 1795-1849 (age 53) date: Parties: Democratic 1st Lady: Height: 5’ 8”

“All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.” 12 Zachary Taylor Term: George M. Dallas Vice President:1849-1850 (Died in office) Lived: 1784-1850 (age 65) Parties: Whig artist: 1st Lady: Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor date: Height: 5’ 8”

“All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.” 13 Millard Fillmore Term: 1850-1853 Vice President: None Lived: 1800-1874 (age 74)

Parties: Whig artist: 1st Lady: Abigail Powers Fillmore date: Height: 5’ 9”

“It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.” 14 Franklin Pierce Term: 1853-1857 Vice President: James Buchanan Lived: 1804-1869 (age 64) Party: Democratic artist: 1st Lady: Jane Means Appleton Pierce date: Height: 5’ 10”

“While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can unite in a common objective and sustain common principles.” 15 James Buchanan Term: 1857-1861 Vice President: John C. Breckinridge Lived: 1791-1868 (age 77) Party: Democratic artist: 1st Lady: Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston date: Height: 6’ 0”

“The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” 16 Abraham Lincoln Term: 1861-1865 (Assassinated) Vice President: (1861–1865) Andrew Johnson (1865) Lived: 1809-1865 (age 56) artist: date: Party: Republican (National Union) 1st Lady: Height: 6’ 4”

“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” 17 Andrew Johnson Term: 1865-1869 Vice President: None Lived: 1808-1875 (age 66) artist: Reynold Brown Republican (National Union) then Democratic Party: date: 1965 1st Lady: Eliza McCardle Johnson Height: 5’ 10”

“Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.” 18 Ulysses S. Grant Term: 1869-1877 Vice President: (1869–1873) (1873–1875) artist: None (1875–1877) date: Lived: 1822-1885 (age 63) Party: Republican 1st Lady: Julia Dent Grant Height: 5’ 8”

“Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.”

19 Rutherford B. Hayes Term: 1877-1881 Vice President: William A. Wheeler Lived: 1822-1893 (age 70) Party: Republican artist: Reynold Brown 1st Lady: Lucy Ware Webb Hayes date: 1965 Height: 5’ 8”

“The President of the should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best.” 20 James A. Garfield Term: 1881-1881 (Assassinated) Vice President: Chester A. Arthur Lived: 1831-1881 (age 49) Party: Republican artist: 1st Lady: date: 6’ 0” LucretiaHeight: Rudolph Garfield

“The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.” 21 Chester A. Arthur Term: 1881-1885 Vice President: None Lived: 1829-1886 (age 57) Party: Republican artist: Ole Peter Hansen Balling Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur 1st Lady: date: 1886 Height: 6’ 2”

“The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.” 22 Grover Cleveland Term: 1885-1889 Vice President: None Lived: 1837-1908 (age 71) Party: Democratic artist: 1st Lady: Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston date: Height: 5’ 11”

“Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.” 23 Benjamin Harrison Term: 1889-1893 Vice President: None Lived: 1833-1901 (age 67) Party: Republican artist: Mary Dimmick Harrison 1st Lady: date: Height: 5’ 6”

“We should not cease to be hospitable to immigration, but we should cease to be careless as to the character of it.” 24 Grover Cleveland Term: 1893-1897 Vice President: None Lived: 1837-1908 (age 71) Party: Democratic artist: Reynold Brown 1st Lady: Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston date: 1965 Height: 5’ 11”

“The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.” 25 William McKinley Term: 1897-1901 (Assassinated) Vice President: (1897–1899) None (1899–1901) Theodore Roosevelt (1901) artist: Lived: 1837-1901 (age 58) date: Party: Republican 1st Lady: Ida Saxton McKinley Height: 5’ 7”

“That’s all a man can hope for during his lifetime to set an example and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.” 26 Theodore Roosevelt Term: 1901-1909 Vice President: None (1901–1905) Charles W. Fairbanks (1905–1909) Lived: 1858-1919 (age 60) artist: date: Party: Republican 1st Lady: Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt Height: 5’ 10”

“I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!” 27 William Howard Taft Term: 1909-1913 Vice President: James S. Sherman (1909–1912) None (1912–1913) artist: Lived: 1857-1930 (age 72) date: Party: Republican 1st Lady: Helen Louise Herron “Nellie” Taft Height: 5’ 11”

“We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.” 28 Woodrow Wilson Term: 1913-1921 Vice President: James S. Sherman (1909–1912) None (1912–1913) Lived: 1856-1924 (age 67) artist: Party: Democratic date: 1st Lady: Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (1915 - 1921) Ellen Louise Axson Wilson(1913- 1914) Height: 5’ 11”

“We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.” 29 Warren G. Harding Term: Calvin Coolidge Vice President:1921-1923 (Died in office) Lived: 1865-1923 (age 57) Party: Republican artist: Florence Mabel Harding 1st Lady: date: Height:

“I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends...They’re the ones that keep me

walking the floor nights.” 30 John Calvin Coolidge Jr. Term: 1923-1929 Vice President: None (1923–1925) Charles G. Dawes (1925–1929) artist: Lived: 1872-1933 (age 60) date: Party: Republican 1st Lady: Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge Height: 5’ 10”

“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.” 31 Herbert Hoover Term: 1929-1933 Vice President: Lived: 1874-1964 (age 90) Party: Republican artist: 1st Lady: date: Height: 5’ 11”

“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.” 32 Franklin D. Roosevelt Term: (1933–41) Vice President:1933-1945 (Died in office) Henry A. Wallace (1941–45) Harry S. Truman (1945) Lived: 1882-1945 (age 63) Party: Democrat 1st Lady: Anna Height:

“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”

artist: date: 33 Harry S Truman Term: 1945-1953 Vice President: None (1945–49)[a] Alben W. Barkley (1949–53) Lived: 1884-1972 (age 88) artist: Party: Democrat date: 1st Lady: Elizabeth “Bess” Truman Height: 5’ 8”

“It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.” 34 Dwight D. Eisenhower Term: 1953-1961 Vice President: Richard Nixon Lived: 1890-1969 (age 78) Party: Republican artist: James Anthony Wills Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower 1st Lady: date: 1967 Height: 5’ 10”

“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” 35 John F. Kennedy Term: 1961-1963 (Assassinated) Vice President: Lyndon B. Johnson Lived: 1917-1963 (age 46) Party: Democrat artist: Jacqueline Kennedy 1st Lady: date: Height: 6’ 0”

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer,

Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. 36 Lyndon B. Johnson Term: 1963-1969 Vice President: None (1963–1965) (1965–1969) Lived: 1908-1973 (age 64) artist: Norman Rockwell Democrat Party: date: 1st Lady: Height: 6’ 4”

“Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.” 37 Richard Nixon Term: (1969–1973) Vice President:1969-1974 (Resigned from office) None (Oct–Dec. 1973) Gerald Ford (1973–1974) Lived: 1913-1994 (age 81) Party: Republican 1st Lady: Height: 6’ 0”

“Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. artist: date: And then you destroy yourself.” 38 Gerald Ford Term: 1974-1977 Vice President: None (Aug–Dec. 1974) (1974–77) Lived: 1913-2006 (age 93) artist: Party: Republican date: 1st Lady: Height: 6’ 0”

“Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.” 39 Jimmy Carter Term: 1977-1981 Vice President: Lived: 1924- Party: Democrat artist: date: 1st Lady: Height: 5’ 10”

“Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent. “ 40 Ronald Reagan Term: 1981-1989 Vice President: George H. W. Bush Lived: 1911-2004 (age 93) Party: Republican artist: 1st Lady: date: Height: 6’ 1”

“We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” 41 George H. W. Bush Term: 1989-1993 Vice President: Lived: 1924- Party: Republican artist: date: 1st Lady: Height: 6’ 2”

“America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.” 42 Bill Clinton Term: 1993-2001 Vice President: Lived: 1946- Party: Democrat artist: Hillary Rodham Clinton 1st Lady: date: Height: 6’ 1”

“Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” 43 George W. Bush Term: 2001-2009 Vice President: Lived: 1946- Party: Republican artist: Robert A. Anderson date: 2008 1st Lady: Height: 6’ 0”

“Americans are generous and strong and decent, not because we believe in ourselves, but because we hold beliefs beyond ourselves.” 44 Barack Obama Term: 2009-2017 Vice President: Lived: 1961- Party: Democrat artist: 1st Lady: date: Height: 6’ 1”

“There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there’s the United States of America.” 45 Donald Trump - President-elect Term: 2017- Vice President: Lived: 1946- Party: Republican 1st Lady: Height: 6’ 3”

“You have to think anyway, so why not think big?”

artist: date: Presidential Facts

Grover Cleveland was the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms. (1901), John F. Kennedy (1963). Four Presidents were assassinated - Abraham Lincoln (1865), James Garfield (1881), William McKinley

Harding (1923), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1945). Two sonsPresidents of Presidents married were while elected in office - John - Grover Quincy Cleveland Adams (sonand Woodrow of John Adams) Wilson. and George Four died from illness while in office - William H. Harrison (1841), Zachary Taylor (1850), Warren G. W. Bush (son of George Bush). Attempted assassinations - Andrew Jackson (1835), President-elect Franklin Roosevelt (1933), Harry Truman (1950), Gerald R. Ford (1975), Ronald Reagan (1981). Benjamin Harrison was the only grandson of a President.

Impeached or resigned - Andrew Johnson (impeached in 1868 by the House, not convicted in the Sen- Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest President at age 42. ate), Richard Nixon (resigned in 1974 amid impeachment proceedings), Bill Clinton (impeached by the House in 1998, not convicted in the Senate in 1999). William H. Taft was the only ex-President to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Calvin Coolidge was born on July 4. Three of the first five Presidents died on July 4 after leaving office (Adams, Jefferson, Monroe). Truman’s inauguration was the first one televised. John Quincy Adams became the only ex-President to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. AtJohn age F. 69,Kennedy Ronald gave Reagan the firstwas livethe televisedoldest man press elected conference, and was six the days only after actor. taking office. Andrew Johnson became the only ex-President to serve in the U.S. Senate, and made an emotional return in 1875 to the scene of his impeachment trial. Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Crowd in front of during Andrew Jackson’s first inaugural reception in 1829