This month’s theme: Events in January of the president’s term
| 1. George Washington 2. John Adams 3. Thomas Jefferson 4. James Madison 5. James Monroe 6. John Quincy Adams 7. Andrew Jackson 8. Martin Van Buren 9. William Henry Harrison 10. John Tyler 11. James Polk 12. Zachary Taylor |
#1-12: On January 27 of my third year in the White House, Sen. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts (pictured) spoke this memorable line in a debate: “Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!” Webster argued that the Union was stronger than the separate states and that its acts could not be nullified by them, as was being proposed by Senator Robert Hayne of South Carolina. |
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#13-24: In the mid-term elections of my first term as president, the Republicans kept control of both houses of Congress. When the new Congress opened in January, my party enjoyed a 39-12 majority in the Senate and 103-80 majority in the House. Three years later, on January 15, I received word that troops had taken over Fort Fisher, NC. |
13. Millard Fillmore 14. Franklin Pierce 15. James Buchanan 16. Abraham Lincoln 17. Andrew Johnson 18. Ulysses S. Grant 19. Rutherford Hayes 20. James Garfield 21. Chester A. Arthur 22. Grover Cleveland 23. Benjamin Harrison 24. Grover Cleveland |
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| 25. William McKinley 26. Theodore Roosevelt 27. William Taft 28. Woodrow Wilson 29. Warren Harding 30. Calvin Coolidge 31. Herbert Hoover 32. Franklin Roosevelt 33. Harry Truman 34. Dwight Eisenhower |
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#25-34: My second inauguration was the first one ever held on January 20 following ratification of the 20th Amendment. |
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#35-44: On January 16 of my fourth year in office, the Dallas Cowboys defeated the Miami Dolphins 24-3 in Super Bowl VI in New Orleans. A year later, on January 30, two former members of my reelection campaign, James W. McCord and G. Gordon Liddy, were convicted of breaking into and illegally wiretapping the Democratic Party headquarters. Five others involved had earlier pleaded guilty. |
35. John F. Kennedy 36. Lyndon B. Johnson 37. Richard Nixon 38. Gerald Ford 39. Jimmy Carter 40. Ronald Reagan 41. George H.W. Bush 42. Bill Clinton 43. George W. Bush 44. Barack Obama |
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Note: Elementary/Middle Divisions play presidents #25-44 in 2012-13.
Want to learn more about the 57th Presidential Inaguaration? Visit the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies website.