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19th-century United States representatives
- 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…
- 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 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…
- Joseph E. JohnstonJoseph Eggleston Johnston entered the world on the 3rd of February 1807 at Longwood House in Cherry Grove near Farmville Virginia.
- Jefferson DavisJefferson F. Davis was born on the 3rd of June 1808 at a family homestead in Davisburg, Kentucky. He was the youngest of ten children born to Jane and Samuel…
- Horace GreeleyHorace Greeley was born on the 3rd of February 1811 in Amherst, New Hampshire. He could not breathe for the first twenty minutes of his life.
- Benjamin ButlerBenjamin Franklin Butler was born on the 5th of November 1818 in Deerfield, New Hampshire. He grew up as the sixth and youngest child of John Butler and…
- Howell CobbHowell Cobb entered the world on the 7th of September 1815 in Jefferson County, Georgia. He grew up in Athens and studied at the University of Georgia.
- Nathaniel P. BanksNathaniel Prentice Banks was born at Waltham, Massachusetts, on the 30th of January 1816. His father worked in the textile mill of the Boston Manufacturing…
- John C. BreckinridgeJohn Cabell Breckinridge entered the world on the 16th of January 1821 at Thorn Hill. This estate sat near Lexington in Kentucky.
- Sterling PriceSterling Price was born on the 20th of September 1809 in Prince Edward County, Virginia. His parents owned twelve slaves and were described as moderately…
- William RosecransWilliam Starke Rosecrans was born on a farm near Little Taylor Run in Kingston Township, Delaware County, Ohio. He grew up as the second of five sons to…