The Presidents

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George Washington 1789-1797	John Adams 1797-1801	Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809
James Madison 1809-1817	James Monroe 1817-1825	John Quincy Adams 1825-1829
Andrew Jackson 1829-1837	Martin Van Buren 1837-1841	William Harrison 1841-1841
John Tyler 1841-1845	James Polk 1845-1849	Zachary Taylor 1849-1850
Millard Fillmore 1850-1853	Franklin Pierce 1853-1857	James Buchanan 1857-1861
Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865	Andrew Johnson 1865-1869	Ulysses Grant 1869-1877
Rutherford Hayes 1877-1881	James Garfield 1881-1881	Chester Arthur 1881-1885
Grover Cleveland 1885-1889	Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893	Grover Cleveland 1893-1897
William McKinley 1897-1901	Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909	William Taft 1909-1913
Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921	Warren Harding 1921-1923	Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929
Herbert Hoover 1929-1933	Franklin Roosevelt 1933-1945	Harry Truman 1945-1953
Dwight Eisenhower 1953-1961	John Kennedy 1961-1963	Lyndon Johnson 1963-1969
Richard Nixon 1969-1974	Gerald Ford 1974-1977	Jimmy Carter 1977-1981
Ronald Reagan 1981-1989	George H. Bush 1989-1993	Bill Clinton 1993-2001
George W. Bush 2001-present

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Primary Source Documents:

American President: An Online Reference Resource - a comprehensive collection of material about the U.S. Presidents and the history of the presidency. This web site features essays about each President and their lives before, during, and after their presidential terms. It additionally provides information about the First Lady and cabinet officials of each administration.

So much information. You could spend months on this site.

State of the Union Addresses - provides access to the corpus of all the State of the Union addresses from 1790 to 2006. SOTU allows you to explore how specific words gain and lose prominence over time, and to link to information on the historical context for their use. SOTU focuses on the relationship between individual addresses as compared to the entire collection of addresses, highlighting what is different about the selected document.

Amazing in my opinion!!!

State of the Union Addresses - Political Cartoons from 1766-1876. Explanations of the historical context and images of each cartoon, campaign overviews, biographics sketches and a review of the era's major issues.

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