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The 25th President of the United States (1897-1901).
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William McKinley
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The 29th President of the United States (1921-1923).
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Warren G. Harding
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The 30th President of the United States (1923-1929).
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Calvin Coolidge
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The 26th President of the United States (1901-1909).
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Was a committed non-interventionist, declining to continue foreign policy initiatives begun by his predecessors.
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Grover Cleveland
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In his “Swing Around the Circle” campaign speaking tour in 1866, he compared himself to Jesus Christ, argued with hecklers and threatened to fire Cabinet secretaries who disagreed with him.
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Andrew Johnson
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In 1878, mediated a territorial dispute between Argentina and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco region. The territory was awarded to Paraguay, who renamed a city and a department in the President’s honor.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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Upon discovery of a tumor in his mouth, a secret surgery was performed in 1893, during which parts of his upper left jaw and hard palate were removed.
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Grover Cleveland
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Sought to renegotiate the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty to allow the U.S. to construct a canal through Panama without British involvement and to attempt to reduce British influence in the strategically located Kingdom of Hawai’i.
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James A. Garfield
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His most disastrous political miscalculation was to veto the Civil Rights Act of 1866 on the grounds that it conferred citizenship on the freedmen at a time when 11 out of 36 states were unrepresented in the Congress, and that it discriminated in favor of African Americans and against whites. (Congress overrode his veto.)
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Andrew Johnson
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Assassinated in Washington, D.C., in 1865.
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Abraham Lincoln
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His Secretary of the Interior, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, caused railroads to forfeit about 81 million acres of land for failing to extend their rail lines according to agreements with the government.
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Grover Cleveland
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His veto of the Volstead Act, designed to enforce Amendment XVIII (prohibition), was overridden by Congress.
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Woodrow Wilson
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Oklahoma (1907) was admitted to the Union during his presidency.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Assassinated in 1901 by an anarchist in Buffalo, N.Y.
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William McKinley
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The 20th President of the United States (1881).
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James A. Garfield
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Became the first President to help settle a labor dispute (the Coal strike of 1902).
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Sent troops to occupy Haiti (1915) and the Dominican Republic (1916), and authorized interventions in Cuba, Panama and Honduras, despite having criticized his predecessors’ foreign policies as being too imperialistic.
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Woodrow Wilson
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Investigated and prosecuted corruption in the Indian Service, General Land Office and Post Office Department.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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His address to Congress in 1923 was the first to be broadcast over the radio.
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Calvin Coolidge
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