17. Andrew Johnson; 1865-1869; Republican, Tennessee; succeeded to office. Andrew Johnson of Tennessee was picked for Vice President as a Republican tribute to Southern Democrat Unionists. Since there had actually been massacres of Southern Unionists, as far away as Texas, this was a nice touch...
Assuming the presidency after Richard Nixon's resignation, Ford tried to move the country past the political crisis by granting Nixon a full pardon. Ford won the Republican nomination in 1976, but lost the election. 29. Martin Van Buren (1837-1841) AP Van Buren received low rankings for his...
1:13 minTV-PG Play Featured Advice from the Founding Fathers: Thomas Jefferson Over the course of his life, Thomas Jefferson developed a list of ideas for those wishing to be on their best personal behavior. A Dozen Canons of Conduct in Life, is a list he sent to his granddaughter, Corn...
Building on the 1875 Page Act, which barred Chinese women from entering the country, it was the first total ban on a nation or ethnic group from immigrating to the country. Suffering from poor health, Arthur made only a limited effort to secure the Republican Party's nomination in 1884; ...
for providing no theory and few specifics as to how and why Republican presidents presumably increase infant mortality. The political imagination, however, knows few bounds so a list of plausible mechanisms, including reduced funding for health care, impediments to receiving income transfers, and bad...
Values are typically "Democrat", "Independent", or "Republican". The value typically matches the political party of the legislator on the ballot in his or her last election, although for state affiliate parties such as "Democratic Farmer Labor" we will use the national party name ("Democrat"...
Fillmore was the last Whig president and the last president to not be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties. 7. John F. Kennedy (2 Years, 306 Days) John F. Kennedy Like Warren Harding, President John F. Kennedy was a highly popular president who had just embarked on...
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President Donald Trump, a Republican, is serving his first term in the White House. Hefirst won election in 2016after defeatingDemocrat Hillary Clintonin what was widely portrayed as an upset. Trump was 70 years old at the time ofhis inauguration, making him the oldest person to be elected ...
Throughout American history, nearly a dozen one-term presidents who ran for reelection have been denied by voters; only four of them since World War II. The most recent one-term president wasDonald Trump, a Republican who lost to DemocratJoe Bidenin 2020. Is four years enough time for new...