- 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 When I ran for president, I was arguably the most famous living American. Nevertheless, I lost that election. However, I won the next two. I was definitely anti-establishment, to use a much later term. My inauguration drew a crowd that turned unruly.
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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 At age 19, I worked on a flatboat that journeyed down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans. I became interested in law and started attending court sessions. I tried to make up for a lack of formal education by reading every book I could get my hands on.
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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 My father, who served in the Civil War, was a storekeeper, postmaster, notary public, and justice of the peace in the small town of Plymouth Notch where I was born. Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen led the first air expedition to the North Pole while I was president.
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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 I suffered from chronic laryngitis and was allergic to dust, mold, pollen, cats, and certainly greenery, especially Christmas trees. My daughter was in eighth grade when we moved into the White House.
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