The outstanding American Presidents

George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
William H. Harrison
John Tyler
James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
James A. Garfield
Chester A. Arthur
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert C. Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
Gerald R. Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald W. Reagan
George H. W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
American Presidents
Grover Cleveland
To get more information
about some of them
click here

George Washington
(1789 - 1797)
George Washington set a
pattern for all other Presidents to follow
G.W.:
“As the first of everything, in our situation
will serve to establish a Precedent”
The first president

Born in 1732
Into a Virginia planter family
He pursed 2 interests:
- military arts
- Western expressions

From 1759 to the outbreak of the American Revolution,
Washington managed his
lands around Mount Vernon
and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses.
He soon realized that the Nation under its Articles
of Confederation was not functioning well,
so he became a prime mover in the steps
leading to the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787.

Thomas Jefferson
(1801 – 1809)
Thomas Jefferson: “I have
sworn upon the altar of God
form of tyranny over the
mind of man”
During Jefferson's second term,
he was increasingly preoccupied with keeping the Nation
from involvement in the Napoleonic wars,
though both England and France interfered
with the neutral rights of American merchantmen.
The third president

Abraham Lincoln
(1861 - 1865)
Abraham Lincoln hated war
but accepted it as the only
Means to save the nation
"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."
The 16th president

The son of a Kentucky frontiersman,
Lincoln had to struggle for a living and for learning.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(1933 - 1945)
Roosevelt brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, “the only
thing we have to fear is fear itself”
Roosevelt had pledged the United States to the
"good neighbor"
policy, transforming the Monroe Doctrine
from a unilateral American manifesto
into arrangements for mutual action against
aggressors.
The 32d president

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(1961 - 1963)
Kennedy: the youngest man
Elected President, the
youngest to die in office”
He wished America to resume its old mission
as the first nation dedicated to the revolution
of human rights
The 35th president

On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office,
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed
by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas,
Texas.

William Jefferson Clinton
(1993 - 2001 )
During the administration of
William J. Clinton, the U.S.
enjoyed more peace and
economic well being than
at any time in its history
He was the first Democratic president since
Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term.
The 42d president

He proposed the first balanced budget in decades
and achieved a budget surplus.
he successfully dispatched peace keeping
forces to war-torn Bosnia
and bombed Iraq when Saddam Hussein
stopped
United Nations inspections
for evidence of nuclear, chemical,
and biological weapons.

In 1998, as a result of issues surrounding
personal
indiscretions with a young woman
White House intern, Clinton was the second
U.S. president to be impeached by the House
of Representatives.

George Washington Bush
(2001 - 2009)
George W. Bush is the 43rd
President of the United
States
George W. Bush is the 43rd President
of the United States.

President Bush declared war against terror
and has made victory in the war
on terrorism and the advance of human freedom
the priorities of his Administration.

President Bush is married to Laura Welch Bush,
a former teacher and librarian,
and they have twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna.
The Bush family also includes their two dogs,
Spot and Barney, and a cat, India.

(born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and
current President of the United States.
Barack Obama

He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.

In October 2009, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

they are known around the world

they are known around the world