This month’s theme: Events in February 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: I was elected president by the U.S. House of Representatives after none of the four candidates won a majority of the electoral college. Although I didn’t win the most electoral votes, I won in the house after Henry Clay told his supporters to vote for me. |
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#13-24: On February 22 of my last full year in the White House, the American or “Know Nothing” Party, meeting in Philadelphia, nominated former President Millard Fillmore as their candidate for president. |
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 |
#25-34: On my second February 27 in office, the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, providing for women’s suffrage, was declared constitutional by a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court. I was happy since women had been instrumental in my victory in their first opportunity to vote for president. |
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#35-44: A little over a month after taking office, I attended the funeral of Showa Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo. Three days later, I became the first president to speak live on Chinese television. |
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 |
Note: Elementary/Middle Divisions play presidents #25-44 in 2012-13.