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At the Battle of the Thames, north of Lake Erie, on October 5, 1813, he defeated the combined British and Indian forces, and killed Tecumseh.
But before he had been in office a month, he caught a cold that developed into pneumonia. On April 4, 1841, he died--the first President to die in office--and with him died the Whig program. |
# 9 William Henry Harrison
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On January 20, 1981, he took office. Only 69 days later he was shot by a would-be assassin, but quickly recovered and returned to duty.
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# 40 Ronald Reagan
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On April 2,1917, he asked Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
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# 28 Woodrow Wilson
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During his second term, he was increasingly preoccupied with keeping the Nation from involvement in the Napoleonic wars, though both England and France interfered with the neutral rights of American merchantmen.
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#3 Thomas Jefferson
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He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. In his first "hundred days," he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, and reform, especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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#32 Franklin D. Roosevelt
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