* 36th President

Lyndon Baines Johnson
(1963-1969)
b. 1908 Stonewall, Texas d. 1973 Gillespie County, Texas

Signed Civil Rights legislation barring discrimination in employment, hotels, restaurants, public facilities, and housing and outlawing discriminatory literacy tests.

* 35th President

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(1961-1963)
b. Brookline, Massachusetts d. 1963 Dallas, Texas.

First president to be born in the 20th century; the youngest president to be elected.

* 34th President

Dwight David Eisenhower
(1953-1961)
b. 1890 Denison, Texas d. Washington, D.C.

”A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

* 33rd President

Harry S. Truman
(1945-1953)
b. 1884 Lamar, Missouri d. 1972 Kansas City, Missouri

He had a middle initial but no middle name.

* 32nd President

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(1933-1945)
b. 1882 Hyde Park, New York d. 1945 Warm Springs, Georgia

The New Deal: Developed programs to bring the nation out of the Great Depression. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at the age of 39. First president to be elected to four terms. Declared December 7, 1941, the date of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as a day which “will live in infamy”.

* 31st President

Herbert Clark Hoover
(1929-1933)
b.1874 West Branch, Iowa d. 1964 New York City, New York

Served the U.S. Government for 42 years without accepting a salary.

* 30th President

John Calvin Coolidge
(1923-1929)
b. 1872 Plymouth, Vermont d. 1933 Northampton, Massachusetts

First president to broadcast on radio from the White House.

* 29th President

Warren Gamaliel Harding
(1921 – 1923)
b. 1865 Corsica, Ohio d. 1923 San Francisco, California

First president to win an election in which American women could vote.

* 28th President

Thomas Woodrow Wilson
(1913-1921)
b. 1856 Staunton, Virginia d. 1924 Washington, D.C.

The only president to earn a Ph.D., his dissertation was the first in a series of brilliant writings on government.

* 27th President

William Howard Taft
(1909-1913)
b.1857 Cincinnati, Ohio d. 1930 Washington, D.C.

Having once been stuck in a normal size bathtub, he had an oversized bathtub installed in the White House. He weighed approximately 332 lbs.

* 26th President

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
(1901-1909)
b. 1858 New York City, New York d. 1919 Long Island, New York

Responsible for the construction of the Panama Canal. He married his childhood sweetheart, Edith, two years later. Assassination Attempt: On his way to give a speech he was shot. The bullet penetrated copies of his speech and his eyeglass case and fractured his 4th rib. With blood running down his shirt, he delivered the hour-long speech before going to the hospital.

* 25th President

William McKinley, Jr.
(1897-1901)
b. 1843 Niles, Ohio d. 1901 Buffalo, New York

On September 6, 1901, McKinley was shot while shaking hands at a public event; the assassin was an unemployed mill worker who viewed politicians as enemies of the working class. On being shot, he cried out to his guards, “Don’t let them hurt him” (the assassin).

* 37th President

Richard Milhouse Nixon
(1969-1974)
b. 1913 Yorba Linda, California d. 1994 New York City, New York

His headstone reminds onlookers that “the greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker."

* 38th President

Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr.
(1974-1977)
b. 1913 Omaha, Nebraska (Leslie Lynch King, Jr.)

Turned down offers to play professional football from the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions.

* 39th President

James Earl Carter, Jr.
(1977-1981)
b. 1924 Plains, Georgia

First president to be born in a hospital and he was one of three presidents to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

* 40th President

Ronald Wilson Reagan
(1981-1989)
b. 1911 Tampico, Illinois d. 2004 Bel Air, California

The oldest president when elected, he was the first to have been divorced.
”Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

* 41st President

George Herbert Walker Bush
(1989-1993)
b. 1924 Milton Massachusetts

Became the youngest pilot then in the navy in 1943. Flew 58 combat missions. Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for completing the mission in spite of attack on his airplane by the enemy. One of three presidents to have a pilot’s license.
Only president to parachute out of an airplane, including once on his 75th birthday and again on his 80th birthday.

* 42nd President

William Jefferson Clinton
(1993-2001)
b. 1946 Hope, Arkansas (William Jefferson Blythe IV)

Our first president to have been a Rhodes Scholar and the first president to use the line-item veto.

* 43rd President

George Walker Bush
(2001-2009)
b. 1946 New Haven, Connecticut

September 11, 2001: Al-Qaeda terrorists attacked the United States by hijacking four passenger airliners and crashing them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania, killing thousands of innocent people.
”In our grief and anger, we have found our mission and our moment.”