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28(Thomas) Woodrow Wilson
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30.Calvin Goolidge
31.Herbert Clark Houver
32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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34.Dwight David Eisenhower
35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
36.Lyndon Baines Johnson
37.Richard Milhous Nixon
38.Gerald Rudolph Ford
39.Jimmy Carter
40.Ronald Wilson Reagan
41.George Bush
42.Bill Clinton
43. George Bush (the junior)
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| The United States has had over 40 Presidents: Grover Cleveland was elected as the 22nd and the 24th President. The State Department ruled that he must be counted twice. George Bush was the 41st President, he served 2 terms that ended in 1797, when he died he was mourned in the US and abroad as one of the great men of the time. He was buried at his home at Mount Vernon, Virginia. Nine Presidents were elected for 2 terms. The shortest term was served by William Henry Harrison who died one month after his inauguration in 1841.
Four Presidents were killed while in office. The first of these was the 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. He was shot while attending the theatre in Washington. James Garfield was shot a few months after his inauguration and died at the age of 49. William McKinley was killed in Buffalo, New York in 1901.
James Buchanan was the only bachelor to be elected. He was assisted in the social activities of the White House by his niece.
One of the Presidents (Andrew Johnson) was a tailor before he became President. Three of the Presidents - Washington, Grand and Eisenhower were Generals of the Army before they were elected. The 26th President, Theodore Roosevelt was a colonel in the Army before he was elected to serve as Vice-President during William McKinley's term of office. When McKinley was killed, Theodore Roosevelt became President. He became the youngest man to be called upon to fill presidency. He was 42. John Kennedy was the youngest person to be elected to the office. He was 43 at the time he was chosen. The state of Virginia is known as the " Presidents' State". Eight Presidents were born there and seven were born in Ohio.
Franklin D. Roosevelt served three fool terms. He was elected to a fourth term in 1944. he died in 1945, and his term was completed by Harry Truman.
John Kennedy was killed in Texas in 1963.
Some Presidents will be remembered by people as great men of their times.
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