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 October 22 of the year I was elected president, while I was serving as vice president, Sam Houston was sworn in as the first president of the Republic of Texas. He later became a U.S. senator from the state of Texas. |
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#13-24: In October of my first year in office, the war with the Nez Perce Indians ended when federal troops captured Chief Joseph and evacuated the Indians to a reservation. On October 15 of the second of my four years in the White House, the first electric light company was formed. It was the Edison Electric Light Company in New York City. |
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: In my last year in the White House, the New York Yankees swept the St. Louis Cardinals in four straight game to win the 25th annual World Series. The previous October, the first talking motion picture, The Jazz Singer, was released. |
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#35-44: Speaking from the Treaty Room of the White House, I announced the commencement of military action in Afghanistan, an operation named “Enduring Freedom.” |
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.