US Presidents
The US President is the head of state and the head of the federal government of the United States of America. The current and the 44th President of the US is Barack Obama.
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Yes he did Swimming, Football, and was head cheerleader for Eureka College in Illinois.
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18th. He was born in 1732 and died in 1799. Became president in 1789.
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William McKinley 1901
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Stanton was was federal. He served as the Union's Secretary of War from 1862 to the end of the War.
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The act was steered through Congress by Senator George Hunt Pendleton. The act was signed into law by President Chester A. Arthur.
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Grover Cleveland
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Lincoln and McKinley.
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The Watergate Scandal (1972-1974) (or just "Watergate") was an American political scandal and constitutional crisis that led to...
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The first son of a president to also serve as president was John Quincy Adams (1825-29), son of John Adams (1797-1801). The only...
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Ronald Reagan was the first and so far the only US President to have ever been divorced. He was divorced many years before he ran...
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John F. Kennedy did not own or possess guns. He was once offered a free shot, so to speak at a hunting trip with Lyndon Johnson,...
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Calvin Coolidge
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No one in the government ranks above the president. I suppose you could say he reports to the US people. Congress has the power...
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He is called the blank-elect where blank is the name of the position to which he has just been elected. Examples:...
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There has never been a vegetarian president. There have been innumerable important vegetarians throughout history, however. A...
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For most of the war it was Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), who proclaimed that the conflict was ultimately intended to "preserve the...
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No- the president does not have the power to appropriate money.
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The Electoral College. Each state gets a number of electors equal to the total number of senators and representatives it has....
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James Buchanan was the bachelor president.
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i think it was after the refolutionary war they offered him to be king but he rejected
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Yes- James Buchanan was a life-long bachelor.
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The President can remove nearly any appointee, including cabinet officers. That is why they have the mantra "I serve at the...
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To destroy armies in the field, instead of just occupying territory, as his General-in-Chief, Henry Halleck, had ordered.When...
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He was home schooled until he was 11 and his father was sent to Europe as a diplomat. He went to schools in France and Holland...
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William Howard Taft often weighed more than the average new-born baby elephant.
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Calvin Coolidge is the only US president born on July 4th. He was born in Plymouth, Vermont on July 4, 1872.
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1920 was the first year that women voted nationally in the presidential election .
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Abraham Lincoln was our 16th president. At the time, slavery was a huge issue that was dividing the North and the South. When...
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close to year now
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Whether or not schools stay open or close on federal holidays is purely a state or local decision.
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Ronald Reagan got the nickname "Dutch." As a young boy. He revived it from his father. He kept the nickname throughout his youth.
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No, none that he fathered. He did have a number of black slave kids.
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1.George Washington was the first president George Washington was born the year of 1732 and died 1799 George Washington is a...
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Taft, eisenhower, Johnson
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The Vietnam War was a civil war in that country, which had been divided into North and South regions following the defeat of the...
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virginait isn't in a state. it is between Virginia and Delaware.
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If the President of the United States dies, or is unable to perform his duties, the Vice President becomes President for the...
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truman, the only president ever to order the use of nuclear weapons on another country.
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None of the candidates received a majority of electoral votes, so according to the constitutional process, the House of...
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The number of electoral votes each state receives is equal to the number of Senators plus the number of House Representatives....
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No, electing someone to a position for life has some serious drawbacks, and unless the system they work inside of is designed to...
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He worked at the TSBD warehouse where the shots were fired from. He was seen carrying a long thin package into the TSBD which he...
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The main reason a president will pick a vice president is to balance the ticket and hopefully get more votes than he could get on...
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Each Cabinet member manages one of the main departments of the US government. He is responsible for the performance of his...
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Department of Treasury
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Ronald Reagan was educated at Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and sociology.
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His name is Barack Hussein Obama. He was a junior until his father died.
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No, he was not a cross-dresser.
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The VP chairs the Senate and can vote if a tie-vote occurs. Therefore the party that the VP belongs to can pass legislation with...
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Yes he won the popular vote in 2004, but not in 2000.
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Andrew Jackson first, then I think pretty much every Prez after him, too.
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He was electrocuted after a short trial. I think I read that his body was dissolved in acid afterward.
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A president gets 400,000 dollars a year, and if he wants to change his salary, he can do so, but it won't be effective until the...
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Because he died of a heart attack on August 2, 1923 whereas his term was set to end on March 4, 1925.
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The first five U.S. Presidents are: George Washington April 30, 1789 - March 4, 1797 John Adams March 4, 1797 - March 4, 1801 ...
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The candidate may be doing so well that the other eligible persons all support the first candidate. Someone who wishes to oppose...
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He did not grow up in a town, but on a farm in VA.
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John Foster Dulles was the main one. Christian Herter took over for the last year or so when Dulles resigned for health reasons....
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He had three brothers and five sisters.He and his wife Jacqueline had a daughter Caroline (born 1958) and a son John Jr....
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no- Pierce lived in New Hampshire all of his life except when he was in the army or serving in Washington. He did, however...
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Bill Clinton Harding , Pierce and Kennedy were considered to be attractive by many.
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FDR accumulated a large and valuable stamp collection. I don't think anybody counted them, but it is not hard for a long-time...
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More than any of his predecessors, Jackson exercised executive authority to implement his policies and thwart the opposition. He...
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James A. Garfield was assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881 in Washington D.C. while walking through the Baltimore...
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George H. W. Bush (1988 - 1992)
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Religiously, McKinley was a Christian; politically he was a Republican.
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In the US, they are usually held in May or in November along with the national and/or state elections.
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Maybe half of them. None of them would have been circumcised before the Victorian era as this practice was introduced by British...
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George Washington - John Adams 1789-1797 John Quincy Adams - Thomas Jefferson 1797-1801 Thomas Jefferson - Aaron Burr (1st Term)...
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Barack Obama was born on Friday, August 4, 1961, at 7:24 pm in Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital, in Honolulu, Oahu,...
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The secretary of defense is a cabinet position and a part of the executive branch.
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Taft died a natural death at age 72 from heart and artery disease.
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He warned against the military industrial complex. This was strange for a manwho served in the U.S. Armed Forces. He began the...
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James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States. He was born in Orange Ohio, which is now called Morland Hills...
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Abraham Lincoln named Thanksgiving.
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The Constitution assigns the Vice President to preside over the Senate with the right to vote in case of a tie vote. Also,...
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Harding played golf at least twice a week but he was not president very long , Eisenhower played a lot and had a putting green...
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Polk ran and was elected in 1844.
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Delegates from each state and US territories attend these national conventions. The delegates are elected officials from that...
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Two Chief Justices served on the US Supreme Court during President Franklin Roosevelt's tenure in office. Charles Evans Hughes,...
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Gerald Ford - 1974-1977 - Republican Jimmy Carter - 1977-1981 - Democrat Ronald Reagan - 1981-1989 - Republican George Bush -...
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Pres. Taylor was elected President as a member of the Whig Party, which lasted between 1834-1856. The party split in the issue of...
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Aaron Burr was the most troublesome, if not the most hated. Not only did he kill Alexander Hamilton in a duel but he devised a...
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Well, he did have one, Charles Dawes, after he was elected to his own term in 1924 but remember that Coolidge was vice president...
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Albert A Gore, Jr. 312 Lynnwood Blvd Nashville, TN 37205 USA Taken from: http://www.topsynergy.com/famous-contact/Al_Gore.asp
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The names of his children are Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Baker Lincoln, William Wallace lincoln, and Thomas "Tad" Lincoln.
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Labor problems were not severe at this time. There are always some strikes and the unions always want to repeal Taft-Hartley, but...
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get put in a coffin and buried. he died in office.
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Spiro Agnew, the Governor of Maryland. Agnew had been successful in a very left-wing state and represented the East Coast elite...
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He wanted Mexico's land to meet the manifest destiny of the US.
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