US Presidents

3. "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country"
5. served the shortest term but had the longest inaugural speech
7. first president to be born in the US
11. elected by North due to his war heroism and by South because he was a fellow slave owner
12. founded the Navy
14. terrible communicator; fueled trade wars and exacerbated the Great Depression
19. served immediately prior to the Civil War and wouldn't challenge Confederacy; lifelong bachelor
22. profiteered on his own orders during Vietnam War
24. enforced clemency for draft evaders
29. “A house divided against itself cannot stand."
30. negotiated treaty of peace between Egypt and Israel
32. chief commander of allied forces during WWII
35. avid poker player; remembered for litany of corruption and scandals
37. joined the Confederacy; only president to agree with successionists
38. married a former student
39. first impeached president
41. first black president
42. sworn into the US Senate in a hospital
43. negotiated the Missouri Compromise
44. first president to resign from office

1. entered WWI
2. auctioned off many priceless items that had been in the White House since John Adams
4. entered WWII
6. made federal dollars available for infrastructure improvements in the South after Civil War
8. ordered the invasion of Afghanistan and the overthrow of the Taliban
9. signed the bill accepting Texas as the 28th state
10. chief author of the Constitution
11. only US president with no political or military experience
13. led the nation to victory in the Spanish-American War
15. signed an act that delayed the Civil war for a decade
16. arrested for running over an old woman with his horse in presidency
17. first president to live in the White House
18. known for Louisiana Purchase, a single land transaction that doubled US size
20. mandated federal income tax
21. enacted first federal law to regulate giant corporations (the Sherman Antitrust Act)
23. removed Indians from their native land
25. led the Continental Army to victory over the British
26. passed the the Family and Medical Leave Act
27. recognized Israel as its own nation
28. signed Immigration Act that created Border Patrol and limited European immigrants, indirectly responsible for many Jews to be denied entrance into the US during WWII
31. implementation of supply-side economics
33. became blind due to a boxing accident while president
34. only president to serve nonconsecutive terms
36. Union war hero
40. founded his own TX oil company