President #13, C-SPAN historians ranking #37 Yes, I Was President For a job that has only had 43 different men in it, it seems to hard to believe that some people to hold the office could be as obscure as Millard Fillmore. America’s 13th President, an amiable politician from Buffalo, somehow managed to work his [...]
Filed under: Antebellum presidents | Tagged: Anti-Masonic Party, Guys Henry Clay Liked, Know Nothing Party, New York, Representative, Vice Presidents, Whig Party | 9 Comments »
President #16, C-SPAN Historians Ranking #1 The Standard Back when I was in eighth grade, I entered an American history essay contest at a local prep school. The winner would receive a partial scholarship to the school. It was actually a timed test in a classroom setting and we didn’t know what the question would [...]
Filed under: Mount Rushmore Presidents | Tagged: Assassinated, Face on paper money, Guys who really liked Henry Clay, Illinois, Kentucky, Representative, Republicans, Whig Party | 4 Comments »
President #36, C-SPAN Historians’ Ranking #11 In Treatment Lyndon Baines Johnson was President for just a little over five years. However, if you try to read some of the biographies that have written about him, you may feel like you need five years to get through all of them. Robert Caro has written three volumes [...]
Filed under: Cold War presidents | Tagged: Democrats, Representative, Senate Majority Leader, Senator, Texas, Vice Presidents, World War II veteran | 7 Comments »
President #25, C-SPAN Historians’ Ranking #16 The War With Spain Starts Mainly With the Maine While many kids grew up with toy soldiers, my childhood featured a set of plastic toy Presidents. (And much to my glee, a complete set is on display at the Smithsonian now. It includes an intact Lyndon Johnson. Our LBJ [...]
Filed under: Gilded Age presidents, Progressive Era Presidents | Tagged: Assassinated, Civil War veteran, Died in office, Governors, Ohio, Representative, Republicans, Spanish-American War | 5 Comments »
President #17, C-SPAN Historians’ ranking #41 You Cannot Stop Reading This Unless You Have Prior Approval of the U.S. Senate Andrew Johnson’s story could have been one of the most inspiring in American history. Here was a man born in to extreme poverty, with no formal education at all, and, through very hard work and [...]
Filed under: Reconstruction Presidents | Tagged: Civil War, Democrats, Governors, Impeachment, Military Governors, North Carolina, Representative, Senator, Tennessee, Union Party, Vice Presidents | 7 Comments »
