OUR PRESIDENT'S


GEORGE WASHINGTON
 Born:  February 22, 1732
1st President of the United States
(April 30, 1789 to March 3, 1797)
 Nickname: "Father of His Country"

FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS
The Nation's first chief executive took his oath of office in April
in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wall Street. General Washington had been unanimously elected President by the first electoral college, and John Adams was elected Vice President because he received the second greatest number of votes.

Under the rules, each elector cast two votes. The Chancellor of New York and fellow Freemason, Robert R. Livingston administered the oath of office. The Bible on which the oath was sworn belonged to New York's St. John's Masonic Lodge. The new President gave his inaugural address before a joint session of the two Houses of Congress assembled inside the Senate Chamber.

Four Score & 7 Years Ago
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
 Born:  Feb. 12, 1809
 16th President of the United States
(March 4, 1861 to April 15, 1865)
Nicknames: "Honest Abe" and/or "Illinois Rail-Splitter"

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate-- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it will never forget what they did here. It is for this the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from those honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

OTHER PRESIDENTS OF THE 
UNITED STATES

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 John Adams

2nd President of the United States
(March 4, 1797 to March 3, 1801)
Nickname: "Atlas of Independence"

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Thomas Jefferson

3rd President of the United States
(March 4, 1801 to March 3, 1809)
Nicknames: "Man of the People" and "Sage of Monticello

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 James Madison

4th President of the United States
(March 4, 1809 to March 3, 1817)
Nicknames: "Father of the Constitution"

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James Monroe

5th President of the United States
(March 4, 1817 to March 3, 1825)
Nicknames: "The Last Cocked Hat" 
and "Era-of-Good-Feeling President"

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 John Quincy Adams

 6th President of the United States
(March 4, 1825 to March 3, 1829)
Nickname: "Old Man Eloquent"

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Andrew Jackson

 7th President of the United States
(March 4, 1829 to March 3, 1837)
Nickname: "Old Hickory"

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 Martin Van Buren

 8th President of the United States
(March 4, 1837 to March 3, 1841)
Nicknames: "The Little Magician" and "The Red Fox

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William Henry Harrison

 9th President of the United States
(March 4, 1841 to April 4, 1841)
Nicknames: "Old Tip"

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 John Tyler

 10th President of the United States
(April 6, 1841 to March 3, 1845)
Nicknames: "Accidental President" and 
"His Accidency"

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James Knox Polk

 11th President of the United States
(March 4, 1845 to March 3, 1849)
Nickname: "Young Hickory"

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 Zachary Taylor

 12th President of the United States
(March 5, 1849 to July 9, 1850)
Nickname: "Old Rough and Ready

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Millard Fillmore

 13th President of the United States
(July 9, 1850 to March 3, 1853)
Nickname: "The American Louis Philippe"

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 Franklin Pierce

 14th President of the United States
(March 4, 1853 to March 3, 1857)
Nickname: "Young Hickory of the Granite Hills"

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James Buchanan

 15th President of the United States
(March 4, 1857 to March 3, 1861)
Nickname: "Old Buck"

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 Andrew Johnson

 16th President Abraham Lincoln (See Above)

17th President of the United States
(April 15, 1865 to March 3, 1869)
Nickname: None

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Ulysses Simpson Grant

 18th President of the United States
(March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1877)
Nickname: "Hero of Appo"

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 Rutherford Birchard Hayes

 19th President of the United States
(March 4, 1877 to March 3, 1881)
Nickname: "Dark-Horse President"

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James Abram Garfield

 20th President of the United States
(March 4, 1881 to September 19, 1881)
Nickname: None

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 Chester Alan Arthur

 21st President of the United States
(September 19, 1881 to March 3, 1885)
Nickname: "The Gentleman Boss" and "Elegant Arthur"

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Grover Cleveland

 22nd President of the United States
(March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1889)
Nickname: None

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 Benjamin Harrison

 23rd President of the United States
(March 4, 1889 to March 3, 1893
Nicknames: "Kid Gloves Harrison" and
 "Little Ben"

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Grover Cleveland

 24th President of the United States 
(second time!)
(March 4, 1893 to March 3, 1897)
Nickname: None

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 William McKinley

 25th President of the United States
(March 4, 1897 to September 14, 1901)
Nickname: "Idol of Ohio"

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Theodore Roosevelt

 26th President of the United States
(September 14, 1901 to March 3, 1909)
Nicknames: "TR"; "Trust-Buster"; "Teddy"

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 William Howard Taft

 27th President of the United States
(March 4, 1909 to March 3, 1913)
Nickname: None

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Woodrow Wilson

 28th President of the United States
(March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1921)
Nickname: "Schoolmaster in Politics"

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 Warren Gamaliel Harding

 29th President of the United States
(March 4, 1921 to August 2, 1923)
Nickname: None

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Calvin Coolidge

 30th President of the United States
(August 3, 1923 to March 3, 1929)
Nickname: "Silent Cal"

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 Herbert Clark Hoover

 31st President of the United States
(March 4, 1929 to March 3, 1933)
Nickname: None

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

 32nd President of the United States
(March 4, 1933 to April 12, 1945)
Nickname: "FDR"

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 Harry S. Truman

 33rd President of the United States
(April 12, 1945 to January 20, 1953)
Nickname: "Give 'Em Hell Harry"

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Dwight David Eisenhower

 34th President of the United States
(January 20, 1953 to January 20, 1961)
Nickname: "Ike"

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 John Fitzgerald Kennedy

 35th President of the United States
(January 20, 1961 to November 22, 1963)
Nickname: "JFK"

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Lyndon Baines Johnson

 36th President of the United States
(November 22, 1963 to January 20, 1969)
Nickname: "LBJ"

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 Richard Milhous Nixon

 37th President of the United States
(January 20, 1969 to August 9, 1974)
Nickname: None

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Gerald Rudolph Ford

 38th President of the United States
(August 9, 1974 to January 20, 1977)
Nickname: "Jerry"

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 James Earl Carter, Jr.

 39th President of the United States
(January 20, 1977 to January 20, 1981)
Nickname: "Jimmy"

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Ronald Wilson Reagan

 40th President of the United States
(January 20, 1981 to January 20, 1989)
Nicknames: "The Gipper" and 
"The Great Communicator"

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 George Herbert Walker Bush

 41st President of the United States
(January 20, 1989 to January 20, 1993)
Nickname: "Poppy"

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William Jefferson Clinton

 42nd President of the United States
(January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001)
Nickname: "Bill"

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 George Walker Bush

 43rd President of the United States
(January 20, 2001 to Present)
Nicknames: "W" and "Little George"
Note:  He lost the popular election, however, was anointed by the "Republican" dominated Supreme Court.


Presidential Fun Facts
 

President William Howard Taft was so fat that the White House staff had to install a bigger bathtub.
 

President Ronald Reagan's favorite food was Jelly Beans.
 

When President Madison fled the White House in the War of 1812, First Lady Dolly Madison made sure to save a painting of President George Washington.
 

James Madison and Zachary Taylor were second cousins.
 

Jimmy Carter was first president to be born in a hospital.
 

Herbert Hoover was the president who lived the longest after 
leaving office.
 

Warren Harding first President to ride to his inauguration in an automobile.

 
Ronald Reagan was the president who appointed the first woman 
to the Supreme Court.
 
Martha Randolph was the first woman to give birth in the 
White House.
 
Zachary Taylor's daughter married Jefferson Davis, President 
of the Confederacy.
 
Marine One is the radio call for the President's helicopter
 
Philadelphia, PA was a city that did not have an assassination.
 
William Jefferson Blythe was Bill Clinton's birth name.
 
Andrew Jackson was a prisoner of war.  He was also the only President to service in both the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. His capture by the British during the Revolutionary War contributed to his hate for the British.
 
Leslie Lynch King, Jr. was the birth name given to 
Gerald Rudolph Ford.
 
Claudia was Lady Bird Johnson's real first name.
 
Calvin Coolidge was the only president born on July 4.
 
Herbert Hoover was the only president to give all his federal pay checks (47 years worth) to charity.
 
President Harry S. Truman  was the only president to fire a five star general.
 
Lyndon Baines Johnson was the first president to appoint an African American as a cabinet member.
 
Because Zachary Taylor was a staunch Episcopalian and refused to be sworn in on a Sunday David Atchinson was president for a day.
 
John Q. Adams was the only president to be married to a foreign born first lady.
 
John Tyler was the first president NOT to give an inaugural address.
 
Grover Cleveland was the only one to be married in the
White House.
 
James Garfield was the last president born in a log cabin.
 
President Woodrow Wilson was  the only president buried in Washington D.C. National Cathedral.

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