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31 Cards in this Set
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8th President of the United States, 1837-1841
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Martin Van Buren
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3rd President of the United States, 1801-1809
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Thomas Jefferson
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7th President of the United States, 1829-1837
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Andrew Jackson
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5th President of the United States, 1817-1825
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James Monroe
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6th President of the United States, 1825-1829
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John Quincy Adams
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25th President of the United States, 1897-1901
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William McKinley
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4th President of the United States, 1809-1817
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James Madison
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1st President of the United States, 1789-1797
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George Washington
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9th President of the United States, 1841
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William Henry Harrison
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"Old Tippecanoe"
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William Henry Harrison
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"Father of His Country"
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George Washington
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Born: February 9, 1773, Berkeley Plantation, Virginia
Died: April 4, 1841, Washington, D.C. |
William Henry Harrison
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Born: March 16, 1751, Port Conway, Virginia
Died: June 28, 1836, Montpelier, Virginia |
James Madison
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the third Chief Executive to be assassinated
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William McKinley
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Born: January 29, 1843, Niles, Ohio
Died: September 14, 1901, Buffalo, New York |
William McKinley
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His father was an ironmaker in Ohio.
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William McKinley
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In 1860 he enrolled at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, but illness and his family's financial problems forced him to drop out after only one term.
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William McKinley
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His father was the son of Benjamin Harrison, a former Governor of Virginia who signed the Declaration of Independence.
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William Henry Harrison
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In 1791 he quit college and accepted a commission as an ensign in the Army, and for several years served on the northwest frontier fighting the Indians.
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William Henry Harrison
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In 1861 he enlisted in an Ohio infantry regiment commanded by Colonel and future President Rutherford B. Hayes.
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William McKinley
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By the time the Civil War ended, he had achieved the army rank of brevet major. When he returned to Ohio, he studied law and in the fall of 1866 he entered Albany Law School in New York and later established a practice in Canton, Ohio.
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William McKinley
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Born: April 28, 1758, Westmoreland County, Virginia
Died: July 4,1831, New York, New York |
James Monroe
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The son of a modest farmer and the oldest of five children, he was born in 1758 in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
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James Monroe
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In 1786 he married Elizabeth Kortright. They later had two daughters and a son.
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James Monroe
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In 1790 the Virginia Legislature appointed him to the United States Senate, and from 1794-1796 he was Minister to France.
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James Monroe
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He had served as a United States Senator, a Minister to France, and Governor of Virginia before becoming President.
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James Monroe
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In 1803 he aided Robert R. Livingston in negotiations with France which resulted in the Louisiana Purchase.
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James Monroe
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made reforms for sailors' work conditions and child labor
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Woodrow Wilson
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was injured when a Japanese destroyer sank his boat in World War II
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John F. Kennedy
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born William Jefferson Blythe III but was renamed when his widowed mother remarried
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William Jefferson Clinton
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He was once a salesman of oil field supplies in Texas.
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George Walker Herbert Bush
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