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| P: 11/23/2003 10:03:35 PM | |
AGBF Ideal Rock Total Posts: 8,036 Last Post: 11/20/2009 Member Since: 1/26/2003 |
Presidents and First Ladies of the United States of America 1789-1797 George Washington Martha Washington 1797-1801 John Adams Abigail Adams 1801-1809 Thomas Jefferson Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson 1809-1817 James Madison Dolley Madison 1817-1825 James Monroe Elizabeth Kortright Monroe 1825-1829 John Quincy Adams Louisa Catherine Adams 1829-1837 Andrew Jackson Rachel Jackson 1837-1841 Martin Van Buren Hannah Hoes Van Buren 1841 William Henry Harrison Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison 1841-1845 John Tyler Letitia Christian Tyler and Julia Gardiner Tyler 1845-1849 James K. Polk Sarah Childress Polk 1849-1850 Zachary Taylor Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor 1850-1853 Millard Fillmore Abigail Powers Fillmore 1853-1857 Franklin Pierce Jane M. Pierce 1857-1861 James Buchanan (never married) 1861-1865 Abraham Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln 1865-1869 Andrew Johnson Eliza McCardle Johnson 1869-1877 Ulysses S. Grant Julia Dent Grant 1877-1881 Rutherford Birchard Hayes Lucy Webb Hayes 1881 James A. Garfield Lucretia Rudolph Garfield 1881-1885 Chester Alan Arthur Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur 1885-1889 Grover Cleveland Frances Folsom Cleveland 1889-1893 Benjamin Harrison Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison Mary Lord Harrison [Harrison's second wife, but never a first lady] 1893-1897 Grover Cleveland Frances Folsom Cleveland 1897-1901 William McKinley Ida Saxton McKinley 1901-1909 Theodore Roosevelt Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt 1909-1913 William H. Taft Helen Herron Taft 1913-1921 Woodrow Wilson Ellen Axson Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt Wilson 1921-1923 Warren G. Harding Florence Kling Harding 1923-1929 Calvin Coolidge Grace Goodhue Coolidge 1929-1933 Herbert Hoover Lou Henry Hoover 1933-1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt 1945-1953 Harry S. Truman Bess Wallace Truman 1953-1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower Mamie Doud Eisenhower 1961-1963 John F. Kennedy Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1963-1969 Lyndon B. Johnson Lady Bird Johnson 1969-1974 Richard M. Nixon Pat Nixon 1974-1977 Gerald R. Ford Betty Ford 1977-1981 Jimmy Carter Rosalynn Carter 1981-1989 Ronald Reagan Nancy Reagan 1989-1993 George Bush Barbara Bush 1993-2001 Bill Clinton Hillary Rodham Clinton 2001- George W. Bush Laura Bush A Girl's Best Friend |
| Posted: 11/23/2003 10:03:35 PM | |
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| P: 11/24/2003 9:14:27 PM | |
winyan Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,144 Last Post: 11/1/2006 Member Since: 5/9/2003 |
Deb
I thought Jefferson's wife was deceased, and his daughter functioned in the 'First Lady' capacity? Also, Jane Wyman Reagan was Ronnie's first wife, but never a 'First Lady'.
win "... (Corporations) have all the benefits of voters, without the guidance of a conscience. ... Corporations they will bring this country down." |
| Posted: 11/24/2003 9:14:27 PM | |
| P: 11/25/2003 12:23:35 AM | |
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AGBF Ideal Rock Total Posts: 8,036 Last Post: 11/20/2009 Member Since: 1/26/2003 |
---------------- That's what you get for copying things off the 'net willy nilly! A bunch of nonsense! Glad you caught some of it, win! (I don't think I ever knew that Martha Jefferson was not a First Lady. My daughter is a Presidential trivia buff and has shared a lot of things with me...but nothing on that!) Keep up the good work, win! A Girl's Best Friend |
| Posted: 11/25/2003 12:23:35 AM | |
| P: 12/8/2003 12:06:30 AM | |
song Rough Rock Total Posts: 51 Last Post: 12/25/2003 Member Since: 4/19/2003 |
President Abram Garfield was born in a log cabin in Orange, Buyahoga County, Ohio Nov. 19, 1830. He was inaugurated March 4, 1881 was shot and lingered for 90 days before passing on September 19, 1881 in terrible pain but he never once complained. Prior to death, all the brightest doctors of the time were summoned. They performed operations, without sterile conditions or the use of latex gloves. Instead, they put their hands into the hole where the bullet entered to try to feel around for it. As time went by, the hole increased to a huge gash. Alexander Graham Bell was summoned to his side. He had invented an apparatus that would pick up the metal sound of the bullet but it failed. Few people were aware of the fact spring mattress were invented that year and it fooled the gaget he was using. Had he put President Garfield on the floor for the exam, they likely would have found the bullet. I find this particular President's story fascinating. He is a relative on my Grandfather's side and I have been busy trying to track down any other living relatives. That's my history lesson for today lol. ~song
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| Posted: 12/8/2003 12:06:30 AM | |
| P: 12/8/2003 8:09:54 AM | |
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AGBF Ideal Rock Total Posts: 8,036 Last Post: 11/20/2009 Member Since: 1/26/2003 |
Wow, song, that is *fascinating*! What is the source of the information? Is it available on the 'net? I am going to have to pass it along to my daughter. I learned a lot of wild things as she learned about presidents. One of them didn't wear a coat to his inauguration, caught a cold, and died a few (9? 19?) days later. Was it one of the Harrisons? "I shall look it up"!!! (It would pain my daughter to see how little information I retain!) Deborah A Girl's Best Friend |
| Posted: 12/8/2003 8:09:54 AM | |
| P: 12/8/2003 8:19:03 AM | |
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AGBF Ideal Rock Total Posts: 8,036 Last Post: 11/20/2009 Member Since: 1/26/2003 |
It was William Henry Harrison (the first of the Harrisons to be President). This short biography is from the official White House site. More colorful descriptions of his speech are available elsewhere :-). Deborah William Henry Harrison "Give him a barrel of hard cider and settle a pension of two thousand a year on him, and my word for it," a Democratic newspaper foolishly gibed, "he will sit ... by the side of a 'sea coal' fire, and study moral philosophy. " The Whigs, seizing on this political misstep, in 1840 presented their candidate William Henry Harrison as a simple frontier Indian fighter, living in a log cabin and drinking cider, in sharp contrast to an aristocratic champagne-sipping Van Buren. Harrison was in fact a scion of the Virginia planter aristocracy. He was born at Berkeley in 1773. He studied classics and history at Hampden-Sydney College, then began the study of medicine in Richmond. Suddenly, that same year, 1791, Harrison switched interests. He obtained a commission as ensign in the First Infantry of the Regular Army, and headed to the Northwest, where he spent much of his life. In the campaign against the Indians, Harrison served as aide-de-camp to General "Mad Anthony" Wayne at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, which opened most of the Ohio area to settlement. After resigning from the Army in 1798, he became Secretary of the Northwest Territory, was its first delegate to Congress, and helped obtain legislation dividing the Territory into the Northwest and Indiana Territories. In 1801 he became Governor of the Indiana Territory, serving 12 years. His prime task as governor was to obtain title to Indian lands so settlers could press forward into the wilderness. When the Indians retaliated, Harrison was responsible for defending the settlements. The threat against settlers became serious in 1809. An eloquent and energetic chieftain, Tecumseh, with his religious brother, the Prophet, began to strengthen an Indian confederation to prevent further encroachment. In 1811 Harrison received permission to attack the confederacy. While Tecumseh was away seeking more allies, Harrison led about a thousand men toward the Prophet's town. Suddenly, before dawn on November 7, the Indians attacked his camp on Tippecanoe River. After heavy fighting, Harrison repulsed them, but suffered 190 dead and wounded. The Battle of Tippecanoe, upon which Harrison's fame was to rest, disrupted Tecumseh's confederacy but failed to diminish Indian raids. By the spring of 1812, they were again terrorizing the frontier. In the War of 1812 Harrison won more military laurels when he was given the command of the Army in the Northwest with the rank of brigadier general. At the Battle of the Thames, north of Lake Erie, on October 5, 1813, he defeated the combined British and Indian forces, and killed Tecumseh. The Indians scattered, never again to offer serious resistance in what was then called the Northwest. Thereafter Harrison returned to civilian life; the Whigs, in need of a national hero, nominated him for President in 1840. He won by a majority of less than 150,000, but swept the Electoral College, 234 to 60. When he arrived in Washington in February 1841, Harrison let Daniel Webster edit his Inaugural Address, ornate with classical allusions. Webster obtained some deletions, boasting in a jolly fashion that he had killed "seventeen Roman proconsuls as dead as smelts, every one of them." Webster had reason to be pleased, for while Harrison was nationalistic in his outlook, he emphasized in his Inaugural that he would be obedient to the will of the people as expressed through Congress. But before he had been in office a month, he caught a cold that developed into pneumonia. On April 4, 1841, he died--the first President to die in office--and with him died the Whig program. President's Day U.S. Presidents: United in Service Take a look at presidential biographies made by kids and videos about service from the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation. Ninth President 1841 Born: February 9, 1773 in Charles City County, Virginia Died: April 4, 1841. He died in Washington D.C. of pneumonia a month after taking office. He was the first president to die in office. Married to Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison A Girl's Best Friend |
| Posted: 12/8/2003 8:19:03 AM | |
| P: 12/8/2003 2:25:39 PM | |
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song Rough Rock Total Posts: 51 Last Post: 12/25/2003 Member Since: 4/19/2003 |
Very interesting AGBF! Your daughter would be equally miffed at my ability to retain information. Without the material in print and close at hand, I'd be hard pressed to quote most of the information I have been gathering about Pres. Garfield. lol The info. I posted is indeed available on the internet. http://www.jamesgarfield.org Although I got his birthdate wrong, he was born November 19, 1831, not 1830 it's a good read. It is fascinating because he also attended Williams college (which is another relative, although I don't see any mention of the affiliation in the articles I have.) My late grandmother, who was the family historian, had all of the documentation and it was divided up between 2 families when she passed away. I do know eventually I'll be in possession of the entire history but I do regret not taking more of an interest in our background when she was alive. I have been in touch with the authors of the link above and they were kind enough to send me all the information they currently have on Garfield. I haven't had the time to delve into that info yet, but a quick scan of the first two pages of documentation tells me most of it is already published on their website. I am also trying to locate other descendants which could fill in some of the gaps although this is not an easy task. No laughing allowed... I even wrote the White House, but in return they forwarded an auto-responder thanking me for the letter to Mr. Bush and sent me yet another link where I can leave a message. Ack! President Garfield was laid to rest in Cleveland Ohio in the country's first true mausoleum. It serves as both a crypt and memorial for Garfield and his wife Lucretia, their daughterMolly and her husband Joseph Stanley-Brown. Interesting stuff. ~song
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| Posted: 12/8/2003 2:25:39 PM | |
| P: 12/8/2003 9:33:39 PM | |
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winyan Ideal Rock Total Posts: 1,144 Last Post: 11/1/2006 Member Since: 5/9/2003 |
Yes, Deborah it wasn't the first time the American people elected a murderer as President.
I'm very glad today, that Bill Jankelow, the former governer of South Dakota and current US Congressman, was found guilty of manslaughter. He should have been convicted of rape 30 years ago after raping his teen age baby sitter. It's also not the first time he murdered someone via vehicular homicide.
win
"... (Corporations) have all the benefits of voters, without the guidance of a conscience. ... Corporations they will bring this country down." |
| Posted: 12/8/2003 9:33:39 PM | |
| P: 12/9/2003 12:45:02 PM | |
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AGBF Ideal Rock Total Posts: 8,036 Last Post: 11/20/2009 Member Since: 1/26/2003 |
---------------- I wonder how many of our Presidents were *not* murderers if, by murderer, we include all those who took a life...including in times of war. I know that you are attempting to point out that this particular massacre of Native Americans was murder...but that was not the only unjust war in which the United States (and its predecessors) took part. Some would argue that our first President, George Washington, who turned on his own countrymen, was a murderer. If one argues that the war with Great Britain was a fair fight, not a massacre, there remain many other massacres in history to which we might refer. Here in Cos Cob, Connecticut peaceful Indians were surrounded and burned. More recently, there was Vietnam. My Lai is only *one* massacre that took place there. Speak to any Vietnam vet and you will hear that our soldiers couldn't tell the "enemies" from the "allies" and shot anyone who looked Vietnamese! (My plumber was a Navy Seal who said, when I asked what he did in Vietnam, "kill people". He opposed the war in Iraq, attending demonstrations, because he said he knew how it would end up: frightened American soldiers would shoot everyone who looked Iraqi!) (A lot of people in Iraq look Iraqi :-(. ) A Girl's Best Friend |
| Posted: 12/9/2003 12:45:02 PM | |
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