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Franklin Delano RooseveltOutstanding US Presidents
3rd President Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809
5th President James Monroe 1817-1825
16th President Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865
Abraham Lincoln became the president when everything was going wrong for the USA: he successfully led the country through its greatest constitutional, military and moral crisis—the American Civil War—by preserving the Union by force while ending slavery and promoting economic modernization. Lincoln was an opponent of slavery, he believed that it had to die out for the nation to live. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation and worked for the 13th amendment to ban slavery. Although these did not effectively ensure the end of slavery, it won sympathy for the North throughout the world. Just six days after the surrender of the commanding general of the Confederate army, Lincoln was killed by an assassin. He was the first President to suffer such a fate. Lincoln has often been ranked by scholars as one of the greatest U.S. Presidents. 26th President Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909
28th President Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921
32nd President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945
Th president John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK
As president, Reagan introduced new political and economic steps. His supply-side economic policies, dubbed "Reaganomics," advocated reducing tax rates to spur economic growth, controlling the money supply to reduce inflation, deregulation of the economy, and reducing government spending. In his first term he survived an assassination attempt, took a hard line against labor unions, and ordered military actions in Grenada. He was reelected in a landslide in 1984, proclaiming it was "Morning in America." His second term was primarily marked by foreign matters, such as the ending of the Cold War, the bombing of Libya, and the revelation of the Iran-Contra affair. Publicly describing the Soviet Union as an "evil empire," he supported anti-Communist movements worldwide and spent his first term forgoing the strategy of détente by ordering a massive military buildup in an arms race with the USSR. Reagan negotiated with Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, culminating in the INF Treaty and the decrease of both countries' nuclear arsenals. Reagan left office in 1989. In 1994, the former president disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease earlier in the year; he died ten years later at the age of 93. He ranks highly in public opinion polls of U.S. Presidents, and is a conservative icon.
Four American presidents were killed.
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George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander in chief of the Continental Army in 1775–1783, and he presided over the writing of the Constitution in 1787. As the unanimous choice to serve as the first President of the United States (1789–1797), he developed the forms and rituals of government that have been used ever since, such as using a cabinet system and delivering an inaugural address. As President, he built a strong, well-financed national government that stayed neutral in the wars raging in Europe, suppressed rebellion and won acceptance among Americans of all types, but also saw the advent of contentious political parties. Washington was universally regarded as the "Father of his country". During Washington's presidency, the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution) was adopted (in 1791). The Bill of Rights guarantees the rights of the American people.
Thomas Jeffersonwas the third President of the United States (1801–1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776). Thomas Jefferson cared passionately about his country and put the interests of the people before his. He cut down on the army and the navy as he thought that a country should be run cheaply as possible so there would always be money for bigger developments when the need came. He was successful in buying from France the whole Louisiana territory, stretching from the Mississippi river to the Rocky Mountains and thus doubled the size of his country. When there was a threat from the Barbary pirates based in Africa, he utilized his navy to attack these pirates which once again ensured the smooth flow of American ships through the Mediterranean Sea. He was on very good terms with the people and mostly likely would have been reelected; instead he stepped down as president, believing that no one should run for more than two terms for democracy to be sustained in the land of the free.
James Monroe’s presidency became known as the time of good feelings - . His presidency was marked both by an "Era of Good Feelings" – a period of relatively little partisan strife – and later by the Panic of 1819 and a fierce national debate over the admission of the Missouri Territory. As a diplomat in France he helped negotiate the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States. He took trips around the country to know more about what was going on in the minds of people and what they wanted. He settled tensions between England and America by coming to an agreement of reducing the number of ships present in the Great Lakes. This made a beginning of friendly cooperation and peaceful negotiations between the countries of America, England and France. During his presidency Florida was bought from Spain. The Missouri compromise was signed which allowed Missouri to be a slave state but make sure that all further states up north would be non slavery states. He also signed and ensured the Monroe Doctrine which forbade all European countries making new colonies in the Americas.
Lincoln was brought up in a poor family on the western frontier, he was mostly self-educated. He was an loving, though often absent, husband, and father of four children.
Theodore Roosevelt became the youngest ever president when he became president. He is noted for his energetic personality, range of interests and achievements, and his "cowboy" image and robust masculinity. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician. As president he controlled trusts so that small businesses and workers were not exploited. He got Congress to pass laws which protected the people from impure food and drugs and forced the owners of the coal mines during that time to pay better wages to its laborers. He is recognized as having done more than any other president to save the natural resources of USA. Roosevelt established national parks and more than 125 million acres of national forests. A firm believer in having a strong navy, he also got congress to build new battleships and cruisers. It was for the objective that the navy could move easily from one ocean to the other and also for trade purposes that he built the Panama Canal.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson He is the only U.S. President to have a Doctor of Philosophy Degree which he obtained from Johns Hopkins University and to serve two presidential terms. He was given the Nobel Peace Prize. Because of his leadership in World War I, he is frequently ranked as one of the greatest U.S. Presidents. He reformed the national banking system and create the federal Reserve system which works as the US Central Bank. It was his second presidential term when World War I started. His aim was clearly to stay out of the war, he instead looked forward to help the warring countries to make peace. When German submarines bombed American ships in the Atlantic without warning, the USA had to enter the war. In the late stages of the war, Wilson took personal control of talks with Germany. He was the first US president to pay official visit to Europe: he went to Paris in 1919 to create the League of Nations (international security organization whose principle mission was to maintain world peace). But the United States themselves never joined it.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known by his initials, FDR, was faced with the immediate problem of the Great Depression as soon as his arrival to the oval office. FDR's combination of optimism and activism contributed to reviving the national spirit. He led the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and World War II. Working closely with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in leading the Allies against Germany and Japan in World War II, he died just as victory was in sight. He declared bank holidays which closed all bank. He got Congress to pass laws which helped farmers, small businesses and people who were about to lose their homes during that time. He kept moving on with his social reforms which changed the course of American government. Just when things started to return back to normal and the people grew in confidence, World War 2 broke out. The USA kept sending more and more supplies to the British. America eventually joined in the war against Japan after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He saw the USA through two grave crises and his last great achievement was to lay the foundation of what would later be the UN. He is the only American president elected to more than two terms.
Born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate before becoming the 35th president in 1961. As president, Kennedy faced a number of foreign crises, especially in Cuba and Berlin, but managed to secure such achievements as the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and the Alliance for Progress. On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas.
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989), the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975) and prior to that, an actor.
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States, having taken office in 2009. He is the first African American to hold the office. A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School. As president, Obama signed some economic laws, laws concerning taxes, unemployment, health care. In foreign policy, Obama withdrew combat troops from Iraq, increased troop levels in Afghanistan, and signed an arms control treaty with Russia. In October 2009, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.