All the Country's Men: 44 White Guys and 1 Black Guy

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  1. 2. A 1-term president who did not run for a second term and even announced he would only run for the one term. Known for honesty and integrity. He nominated people for positions based on merit, not politics. He did not even campaign when he was nominated for the House of Representatives because he believed that, “An officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer… ought to be scalped.” He won his seat by a landslide.
  2. 4. A 1-term president. Life-long bachelor. The only president to be elected from Pennsylvania.
  3. 5. A 2-term president. He was VP before ascending to president. He came into office after his predecessor was assissinated. He was one of the first presidents to really work in foriegn affairs, and was the first president to win a nobel peach prize.
  4. 6. Served as VP before ascending to presidency. A 1-term president. The first president to have letter of impeachment drafted against him (The impeachment resolution did not pass).
  5. 8. A 2-term president. Was president of Princeton University before entering into politics. Was president when the US declared war against Germany. Therefore, formally entering the US into WWI
  6. 11. A 1.5-term president. He was the THIRD president to be assissinated. He was killed very shortly into his second term. So many assinations!!!
  7. 14. A 2-term president, but his terms were not consecutive. The only president two serve two non-consecutive terms.
  8. 17. A 1-term president. The only president to also serve as Chief Justice. Serving as Chief Justice was this former president's greatest honor; he wrote: “I don’t remember that I ever was President.”
  9. 18. A 2-term president. Wrote a memoir in order to pay off debts so that his family wouldn't be desititue when he died. He completed his memoir shortly before his death.
  10. 20. Served as VP before becoming president. A 2-term president. Died July 4, 1826. Purchased Louisianna Territory from Napolean.
  11. 22. Served as VP before ascending to president. A 1-term president. Our 8th president.
  12. 23. A 1.5 term president. Assassinated in office.
  13. 24. A 32-day presidency. First president to die in office.
  14. 25. A 2-term president. Legitimate murderer. He killed in a man in a duel. The duel ensued because of a slur bestowed upon this man's wife. He wasn't even a politician. Just a regular guy murdering someone, and no one even flinched!!! Under his presidency evolved our more current political parties: Democratic Republicans and the National Republicans
  15. 26. A 2-term president. The British set fire to the White House and the Capitol during the war of 1812 - a war declared by this sitting president.
  16. 27. A 1-term president. Was the 2nd president to be assisinated.
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  1. 1. A 1-term president. Second to die in office. Based on biographic overviews, he sounds like he would have been a total hippie (aside from the fact that he was a military general through-and-through). Ironically, his only son fought in the civil war, but fought for the confederates, not the union (good thing he didn't live to see that day).
  2. 3. A 2-term president. Three presidents died on the 4th of July (two of them on the exact same day/year, only a couple of hours apart!), he was the 3rd pres to die on July 4th. Also, this president has the exact same first and last initials as his presidential predecesor.
  3. 7. A 1-term president. VP prior to ascending to president. He was Vice President under Abraham Lincoln.
  4. 9. First US President
  5. 10. A 1-term president. The 14th US president.
  6. 12. A 1-term president. California, New Mexico, and Oregon were fully incorporated as US territories under his presidency
  7. 13. A 1-term president. Served as VP before becoming president. Died July 4, 1826. Whilst VP (prior to ascending to presidency) he complained to his wife Abigail, "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.”
  8. 15. A 1-term president. Was VP before ascending to presidency, albeit, he became president when his predicesor was assassinated
  9. 16. A 1-term president. Grandson of the US's 9th president. He was our 23rd president.
  10. 19. A 1-term president. The first president who was the son of a previous president. Oregon's occupations was initiated by this president while he was Secretary of State
  11. 21. A 1-term president. Served as VP before ascending to presidency. The 13th US president. Came into office after the untimely death of his presidential predicesor