George Washington was the first President of the United States of America and served for two terms. He rose to prominence for his leadership during the Revolutionary War. Can you name everyone who followed him in office?
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Founding Father and American statesman John Adams served as the second U.S. president after two terms as vice president. See Thomas Jefferson in the next image.
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The third president of the United States was Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence.
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James Madison was the fourth president. He is known as the Father of the Constitution and also co-wrote the "The Federalist Papers" with John Jay and Alexander Hamilton.
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James Monroe followed Madison as fifth president of the United States of America. The next photo shows the first president to be related to another president.
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Like father like son: John Quincy Adams, the sixth to lead the United States, was the son of John Adams, the second president. Next, see the president who was nicknamed "Old Hickory."
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Andrew Jackson was seventh president of the United States. He served two terms after an illustrious military career.
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Martin Van Buren helped to establish the Democratic Party. He also served as Secretary of State and as vice president from 1833 - 1837 before rising to president. Read about the shortest-lived president next.
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William Henry Harrison served for only one month before dying of pneumonia. His grandson Benjamin Harrison became the 23rd president.
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U.S. statesman John Tyler was vice president to William Henry Harrison, and became president when Harrison died. Tyler later presided over the annexation of Texas in 1845.
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James Knox Polk, eleventh president of the United States, served from 1845 to 1849, and was the first president to not seek a second term. See another president who died in office in the next picture.
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President Zachary Taylor dies at home, surrounded by his wife and son and his colleagues and friends. One of those standing by his bedside is his vice president and successor, Millard Fillmore.
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President Millard Fillmore assumed office after the death of Zachary Taylor. He was the last president to serve from the Whig Party. See one of the most-criticized presidents next.
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Franklin Pierce was the 14th president of the United States and came under fire over the question of slavery in the West. See the only unmarried president in the next photo.
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James Buchanan served as president on the eve of the Civil War, when issues like the Dred Scott case and Bleeding Kansas were causing turmoil.
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Abraham Lincoln led the Union during the Civil War years. Five days after this portrait was taken, President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth while attending a performance at Ford's Theater.
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Andrew Johnson was the 17th president of the United States and took office after Lincoln's assassination. A famous Civil War hero followed him in office.
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Ulysses S. Grant was a popular Union general whose renown helped him become the 18th president. The next president was the only one whose election was decided by commission.
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Rutherford B. Hayes came to office after a major dispute over electoral votes. The Electoral Commission vote was eventually won by Rutherford and the Republican party, but a similar controversy would resurface in the 2000 election.
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President James A. Garfield, 20th president of the United States, was the second president to be assassinated -- after only six months in office in 1881.
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Chester A. Arthur ascended from the vice presidency following the assassination of James A. Garfield. He served until 1885 and is known for ending the spoils system in government.
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Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and the 24th president -- who split his terms?
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Benjamin Harrison, grandson of former President William Henry Harrison, defeated Grover Cleveland to become the 23rd president, but Cleveland came back again after Harrison's term ended.
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Grover Cleveland assumed office again in 1893. Despite his popularity, he would refuse invitation to run for a third term.
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Newly sworn President William McKinley delivers his first Inaugural Address, while outgoing President Grover Cleveland looks on. McKinley became the third presidential victim of assassination.
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President Theodore Roosevelt exhorts this crowd during a campaign in 1905, in the middle of his two terms in office. The next president also served on the Supreme Court.
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President William Howard Taft throws out the first ball ever to open the 1911 baseball season in April in Washington, D.C. Taft served on the Supreme Court for nearly a decade after his presidency ended.
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British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau and American President Woodrow Wilson on their way to the Versailles Peace Conference that ended World War I. The next president was the first to visit Alaska.
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President Warren G Harding poses for a goofy photo. See another presidential candid on the next page.
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President Calvin Coolidge displays a catch during a fishing expedition, circa 1925. See the next president, also enjoying the great outdoors, in the next photo.
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President Herbert Hoover pours a jug and smokes a cigar in a wooded area. Hoover presided over the beginnings of the Great Depression.
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The leaders of the Allies in World War II were Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain, President Franklin Roosevelt of the United States, and Premier Josef Stalin of the USSR. Here they meet at a palace on the Black Sea at Yalta.
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Harry S Truman is shown here at a press conference. Vice President Truman became President Truman after the death of Franklin Roosevelt in 1945.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower served as president after years of leadership in the military. This veteran was succeeded by one of the youngest presidents in American history.
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President John F. Kennedy poses for a picture here in April 1954, while he was still a Senator. Kennedy was the fourth president to be assassinated.
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President Lyndon B Johnson sits for a formal portrait in Washington, D.C. He presided over a number of new social programs, civil rights progress and also the Vietnam War.
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Richard M. Nixon flashes the V for victory sign during the Republican National Convention in Miami, Florida in 1968. He would gain the presidency in 1969 and resign in 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal and his impeachment.
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President Gerald Ford assumed office after Nixon's resignation. He is the only president to have never stood for national election.
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Jimmy Carter campaigns for the presidency in New York in 1976. While not universally popular while in office, he would go on to win the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Ronald Reagan poses for a portrait in his Los Angeles, California offices during the 1980 presidential campaign. Reagan was elected 40th president of the United States and served two terms.
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President George Herbert Walker Bush delivers his State of the Union Address from the Capitol, Washington, D.C., January 28, 1992. Bush served as vice president and also as director of the CIA before becoming president.
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President Bill Clinton gestures as he delivers a speech in front of the presidential seal in Washington, D.C., 1998. He is one of only two presidents to be impeached.
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President George W. Bush speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House. Bush has served two terms in office. See the most recently elected candidate next
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Barack Obama waves during his victory rally on November 4, 2008 after he was elected the 44th U.S. President.
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