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  1. 4. 1850 to 1853. He was the last president to be a member of the Whig Party, and the last to be neither a Democrat nor a Republican.
  2. 6. 1877 to 1881. Hayes served as Cincinnati's city solicitor from 1858 to 1861. He was a staunch abolitionist who defended refugee slaves in court proceedings.[1] At the start of the Civil War, he left a fledgling political career to join the Union army as an officer. He was wounded five times, (multiple hello’s)
  3. 7. 1837 to 1841. A primary founder of the Democratic Party, he served as New York's attorney general and U.S. senator, then briefly as the ninth governor of New York before joining Andrew Jackson's administration as the tenth United States secretary of state, (van)
  4. 8. 1865 to 1869. He assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, as he was vice president at that time. Johnson was a Southern Democrat who ran with Abraham Lincoln on the National Union Party ticket, coming to office as the Civil War concluded. He favored quick restoration of the seceded states to the Union without protection for the newly freed people who were formerly enslaved, as well as pardoning ex-Confederates. (not jackson)
  5. 9. Serving from 1825 to 1829. He previously served as the eighth United States secretary of state from 1817 to 1825 (initials)
  6. 11. He was a leading figure in the movement for independence, a key player in drafting the Declaration of Independence, and later served as the first Vice President under George Washington
  7. 13. his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He served as the fourth U.S. President, and his presidency saw the country embark on the War of 1812
  8. 14. 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederate States of America, playing a major role in the abolition of slavery, expanding the power of the federal government, and modernizing the U.S. economy.
  9. 15. 1857 to 1861. He also served as the secretary of state from 1845 to 1849 and represented Pennsylvania in both houses of the U.S. Congress.
  10. 17. American military officer and politician who was the 12th president of the United States, serving from 1849 until his death in 1850
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  1. 1. . He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence
  2. 2. 1845 to 1849. A protégé of Andrew Jackson and a member of the Democratic Party, he was an advocate of Jacksonian democracy and extending the territory of the United States. (almost a dance)
  3. 3. March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot two months earlier. A preacher, lawyer, and Civil War general, (cartoon cat)Washington the first president of the US (1789-17970
  4. 5. 1869 to 1877. In 1865, as commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War.
  5. 8. 1829 to 1837. Before his presidency, he rose to fame as a general in the U.S. Army and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. His political philosophy became the basis for the Democratic Party (not jonsen)
  6. 10. Pierce 1853 to 1857. A northern Democrat who believed that the abolitionist movement was a fundamental threat to the nation's unity, he alienated anti-slavery groups by signing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act. Conflict between North and South continued after Pierce's presidency, and, after Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, the Southern states seceded, resulting in the American Civil War.
  7. 12. He was the last Founding Father to serve as president as well as the last president of the Virginia dynasty
  8. 16. Serving from March 4 to April 4, 1841, the shortest presidency in U.S. history.