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AMERICAN Presidents

AMERICAN Presidents

William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) was an American politician and in 1841 he was the ninth President of the United States. After a military career, William Henry Harrison was a member of the House of Representatives from 1816 to 1819 and of the Senate from 1825 to...
AMERICAN Presidents

AMERICAN Presidents

Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) was an American politician. He was the eighth president of the United States from 1837 to 1841. Van Buren was from 1803 a lawyer, from 1821 to 1828 a senator and in 1829 became governor of the state of New York, where he contributed to the...
AMERICAN Presidents

AMERICAN Presidents

Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) was an American politician and officer. From 1829 to 1837, he was the seventh president of the United States. Andrew Jackson was a lawyer in Nashville and in 1796-1797 Tennessee’s first member of the House of Representatives. Then in...
AMERICAN Presidents

AMERICAN Presidents

John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) was an American politician and diplomat. He was the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829 and the son of President John Adams. John Quincy Adams entered the Senate in 1803 as a Federalist, but later supported the...
AMERICAN Presidents

AMERICAN Presidents

James Monroe was an American politician and from 1817 to 1825 the fifth president of the United States. Monroe’s political career began in Virginia, which he represented in the Continental Congress in 1783-1786. From 1790 to 1794 he sat in the Senate, and from...