- The theme for 2016-17 in all divisions is Presidential Firsts.
- In Junior/Senior, a second theme is Foreign Affairs. Also, Jr/Sr clues for #25-44 may involve U.S. Leaders Group 2: Susan B. Anthony, William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, Eugene Debs, W.E.B. Du Bois, Huey Long, Gloria Steinem
- Note: Elementary/Middle Divisions play presidents #25-44 in 2016-17.
| 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 I started my own law practice at age 23 and two years later was elected to the House of Burgesses. I succeeded Patrick Henry as governor of my native state.
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| 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./24. Grover Cleveland 23. Benjamin Harrison |
#13-24 I rose to the rank of Brigadier General during the Civil War. Later, I argued five cases before the U.S. Supreme Court – the most of any lawyer-president. Then I was elected U.S. Senator and served a full six-year term before becoming Chief Executive. As president, I established the Coast Guard Academy.
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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 |
#25-34 I was a longtime congressman from my native state and a two-term governor. In Congress, I sponsored tariff laws that encouraged domestic manufacturing and sheltered politically critical farm products. I was from the same party as my successor but not my predecessor.
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| 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 |
#35-44 During my first two years in office, I signed into law economic stimulus legislation in response to a severe recession. Another piece of legislation was the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. I signed the New START arms control treaty with Russia and ordered U.S. military involvement in Libya in opposition to Muammar Gaddafi.
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