Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States of America and served his tenure from 1853-1857. Belonging to the Democratic Party, he defeated Winfield Scott of the Whig Party by a slender margin of votes in the 1952 Presidential Elections.
Franklin Pierce was born on 23rd November 1804 at Hillsborough in New Hampshire. His father, Benjamin […]
James Buchanan was born in the year 1791 in an affluent family of Pennsylvania. Graduating from Dickinson College, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, James Buchanan was later shifted to Lancaster where he studied Law for the next three years and joined the bar in the year 1812. James Buchanan strongly opposed the War of 1812 and like a dedicated Federalist believed that it […]
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. or Gerald Ford born in July 14, 1913 was the 38th President of United States(1974-1977), and also the 40th Vice President (1973-1974) of the United States.
Under the terms of the 25th Amendment, Gerald Ford was the first person appointed to post of the vice president. Ford was the only person to hold that office without having been elected […]
Martin Van Buren, the first American by birth to become the US president, is also considered the first professional politician to hold the office. He was called ‘the Fox’ for his crafty political stratagem.
William Henry Harrison had kept a billy goat at the White House. Unfortunately, Harrison couldn’t stay in the White House […]
George H.W. Bush was the 41st President of the United States of America. Belonging to the Republican Party, President Bush was in office from 1989-1993. He competed against Michael Dukakis of the Democratic Party and won the Presidential Elections of 1988. He died at the age 94 in Houston, on November 30, 2018. At the time, he was […]
Harry Truman born on May 8, 1884 was the thirty-third President of the United States from1945-1953 and as Vice President ascended the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In home affairs, Truman faced too many challenges related to the economy marked by severe shortages and many strikes. the Taft-Hartley Act over his veto was the greatest challenge […]
Andrew Johnson assumed the role of the American President after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865. A strong supporter of Democrat Party, he took hold of the office and continued in it till 1869.
The 17th President of the United States, Andrew Johnson was also the 16th Vice President of the country. He […]
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States of America. His tenure as the President commenced from 1889 and continued till 1893. He was elected as the President for only one term. A prominent Republican of his time, Harrison won the Presidential contest against Grover Cleveland of the Democrats and Clinton B. Fisk of […]
Barack Hussein Obama II, popularly known as Barack Obama, served as the forty-fourth President of the United States. He was born on August 4, 1961. He is the first African-American who became the president of the country.
Before getting elected as the President, he served as a senator from Illinois from January 3, 2005 to November […]
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) became the seventh President of USA in 1829. He received a very irregular education and at the tender age of 13, joined a local regiment during the American Revolutionary War. Andrew Jackson was the last US President, who had been a serviceman of the American Revolution. He was imprisoned during the war. […]
