For 2020-21, the Presidents groupings are as follows:
El/Mid: Group B #16-#33 (#16-#24 in the first round, #25-#33 in the second round)
Jr/Sr: Group B #16-#33 in the first round, Group C #28-#45 in the second round
The themes are all divisions will be Occupations and Posts, and Jr/Sr also plays Immigration.
Identify the president from each clue.
Presidents Group B
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
#16-#24
In the first months of my presidency, New York senators Roscoe Conkling and Tom Platt, both members of my party, resigned to protest my removal of their nominees for Federal positions in their state.
I included three major rivals from my party in my cabinet and aimed for geographical balance: William Seward (New York), Salmon Chase (Ohio), and Edward Bates (Missouri).
The first of six children, I went by my middle name rather than my first name, Hiram.
Identify the president from each clue.
Presidents Group B
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
#25-#33
Congress passed the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill. It provided 20-year annual payments to veterans at an overall cost of $2 billion. I vetoed the bill, but Congress overrode my veto.
My First Lady and I moved into Blair House while extensive renovations were done to the White House. While we lived there, two Puerto Rican nationalists made an attempt on my life. They killed one Secret Service agent and injured two others but were unsuccessful in reaching me.
The term “Ohio Gang” was given to a group of my cronies who became part of my most trusted inner circle. Unfortunately, several of them became involved in financial scandals that resulted in prison terms and a suicide.
Identify the president from each clue.
Presidents Group C
28. Woodrow Wilson
29. Warren Harding
30. Calvin Coolidge
31. Herbert Hoover
32. Franklin Roosevelt
33. Harry Truman
34. Dwight Eisenhower
35. John F. Kennedy
36. Lyndon 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
#34-#45
When my mother remarried, she changed my name to my stepfather’s with “Junior” behind it. I never thought about becoming president. My biggest goal was to become Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. However, my party never became the majority party during my 25 years in Congress.
I was born on a lemon ranch, the second of five sons of a Quaker family. When I graduated from high school, I was unable to accept a scholarship to Harvard or Yale because of my family’s limited funds. So I enrolled at Whittier College in my hometown.
Pictures taken from our U-2 spy planes started a crisis that nearly resulted in the United States going to war with the Soviet Union while I was president.
