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19th-century presidents of the United States
- Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln was born into poverty on the 12th of February 1809, in a log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky.
- William McKinleyWilliam McKinley Jr. stood in the ranks of the Poland Guards on a June day in 1861, holding a rifle and wearing a uniform that had not yet been issued to his…
- Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson entered the world on the 13th of April 1743, at Shadwell Plantation in Virginia. His father Peter Jefferson was a planter and surveyor who…
- Ulysses S. GrantHiram Ulysses Grant was born on the 27th of April 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio. His father Jesse Root Grant worked as a leather merchant and held strong Whig…
- Benjamin HarrisonBenjamin Harrison was born on the 20th of August 1833, on a farm by the Ohio River in North Bend, Ohio. He was the second of ten children born to John Scott…
- Rutherford B. HayesRutherford Birchard Hayes entered the world on the 4th of October 1822 in Delaware, Ohio. His father Rutherford Ezekiel Hayes Jr.
- James A. GarfieldJames Abram Garfield was born on the 19th of November 1831 inside a log cabin in Orange Township, Ohio. His father Abraham had traveled from Worcester, New…
- Andrew JacksonAndrew Jackson was born on the 15th of March 1767 in the Waxhaws region of the Carolinas. His parents were Scots-Irish colonists who had emigrated from…
- Andrew JohnsonAndrew Johnson was born in a two-room shack in Raleigh, North Carolina, on the 29th of December 1808. His parents Jacob and Mary were illiterate tavern…
- James BuchananJames Buchanan Jr. entered the world on the 23rd of April 1791 inside a log cabin called Stony Batter near Cove Gap in the Allegheny Mountains of southern…