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George
Washington, the First President of the United States
On April 30, 1789, George Washington,
standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York,
took his oath of office as the first President of the United States.
John Adams,
the Second President of the United States
Learned and thoughtful, John Adams was
more remarkable as a political philosopher than as a politician. "People
and nations are forged in the fires of adversity," he said, doubtless
thinking of his own as well as the American experience.
Thomas
Jefferson, the Third President of the United States
In the thick of party conflict in 1800,
Thomas Jefferson wrote in a private letter, "I have sworn upon
the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over
the mind of man."
John
Quincy Adams, the First President Who Was the Son of a President
The first President who was the son of
a President, John Quincy Adams in many respects paralleled the career
as well as the temperament and viewpoints of his illustrious father.
Abraham
Lincoln, the President of the Civil War
Lincoln warned the South in his Inaugural
Address: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and
not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will
not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy
the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve,
protect and defend it."
Ulysses
Grant, the Symbol of Union Victory
Late in the administration of Andrew Johnson,
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant quarreled with the President and aligned himself
with the Radical Republicans. He was, as the symbol of Union victory
during the Civil War, their logical candidate for President in 1868.
President
Grover Cleveland, First Democrat Elected After the Civil War
The First Democrat
elected after the Civil War, Grover Cleveland was the only President
to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later.
One of nine children of a Presbyterian minister, Cleveland was born
in New Jersey in 1837.
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