- Elementary/Middle Divisions play presidents #1-24 in 2017-18. President #45 will be added for Junior/Senior.
- The theme for 2017-2018 in all divisions is First Ladies.
- In Junior/Senior, a second theme is Election Opponents. Also, Junior/Senior clues for #1-24 may involve U.S. Leaders Group 1: Clara Barton, Jefferson Davis, Frederick Douglass, Robert E. Lee, Lucretia Mott, Sitting Bull, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Tecumseh, and Sojourner Truth.
This month’s quiz theme: Presidential Elections
| 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 defeated Charles C. Pinckney and George Clinton to win the presidency. Then, I bested Clinton again for reelection in the first year that Louisianans could vote for president.
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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 John C. Fremont, the Republican candidate, provided strong opposition. He won 114 electoral votes but I got sixty more. Although a Northerner, I swept every Southern state and also won California’s four electoral votes.
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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 pulled off what historians consider the biggest upset in U.S. presidential history despite losing four Southern states to the States’ Rights Democratic Party candidate, J. Strom Thurmond. I crossed the country with my "whistle-stop" campaign, speaking to crowds from the back of a railroad car.
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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 45. Donald Trump |
#35-45 The best times of my presidency were the weeks I spent on my ranch in my native state. Dressed like a cowboy with the Western-style hat and boots, I gave visitors a tour of the ranch, driving my Lincoln convertible or an old fire truck I kept on the premises. I drove the Secret Service agents crazy trying to keep up with me.
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See this and all of the other AGLOA Presidents Quizzes here. |
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