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OHIO’S GIFT
TO THE
WHITE HOUSE
GREAT MEN MAKE A GREAT NATION. OHIO HAS GIVEN
OUR NATION GREAT DOCTORS, INVENTORS, SCIENCTIST, BUT THE GREATEST GIFT IS THE
EIGHT PRESIDENTS THAT CAME FROM OUR STATE.
OHIO’S PRESIDENTS
• WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON• ULYSSES S. GRANT• RUTHERFORD B. HAYES• JAMES A. GARFIELD• BENJAMIN HARRISON• WILLIAM MCKINLEY• WILLIAM H. TAFT• WARREN G. HARDING
WILLIAM HERNY HARRISON
• 1841
• BORN IN VIRGINIA 1775
• HIS FATHER WAS A MEMBER OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
• AFTER SERVING WITH GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE HE MOVED TO NORTH BEND OHIO
• 1ST GOVERNOR FROM THE NORTH WEST TERITORY
• GOVERNOR OF THE INDIANA TERRITORY 1800
• GENERAL IN THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE
• DIED FROM PNEUMONIA ONE MONTH AFTER TAKING OFFICE
• HE WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO DIE IN OFFICE
ULYSSES S. GRANT
• 1869-1877
• BORN IN 1822• WEST POINT
GRADUATE• HE SERVED TWO
TERMS AS PRESIDENT DURING THE CRUCIAL RECONSRTUCTION PERIOD AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
• SERVED IN THE MEXICAN WAR
• REJOINED THE ARMY AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR
• HE WAS PLACED IN CHARGE OF THE UNION ARMY IN 1864
• GENRAL LEE SURRENDERED TO HIM AT APPAMATOX COURT HOUSE
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
• 1877-1881
• ATTENDED KENYON COLLEGE IN GAMBIER
• STUDIED LAW AT HARVARD
• ROSE TO THE RANK OF GENERAL DURING THE CIVIL WAR
• SERVED IN THE U.S. CONGRESS
• GOVERNOR OF OHIO FOR THREE TERMS
• TROOPS WERE FINALLY REMOVED FROM THE SOUTH DURING HIS PRESIDENCY
JAMES A. GARFIELD
• 1881
• ATTENDED HIRAM COLLEGE
• LATER HE BECAME A PROFFESSOR AT HIRAM COLLEGE
• SERVED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR 18 YEARS
• HE WAS A GENERAL IN THE CIVIL WAR
• HE WAS VIRTUALY UNKOWN WHEN HE RAN FOR PRESIDENT
• FOUR MONTHS AFTER HE WAS ELECTED HE WAS ASSASSINATED BY CHARLES GUITEAU
BENJAMIN HARRISON
• 1889-1893
• GRANDSON OF WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
• GRADUATED FROM MIAMI UNIVERSITY
• PRACTICED LAW IN INDIANAPOLIS
• U.S. SENATOR FOR INDIANA
• SIX NEW STATES WERE ADDED WHILE HE WAS PRESIDENT
• HE HAD MANY NEW PROGRAMS SUCH AS THE MCKINLEY TARIFF ACT
WILLIAM MCKINLEY
• 1897-1901
• BORN IN NILES, OHIO, IN 1842
• ATTENDED ALLEGHENY COLLEGE IN PENNSYVANIA
• PRACTICED LAW IN CANTON, OHIO
• SERVED AS AN OFFICER IN THE CIVIL WAR
• ELECTED TO THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTITIVES IN 1876
• ELECTED GOVERNOR OF OHIO IN 1891• THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
OCCURRED DURING HIS PRESIDENCY• HE WAS ASSASSINATED BY LEON
CZOLGOSZ IN BUFFALO NY IN 1901
WILLIAM H. TAFT
• 1909-1913
• BORN IN CINCINNATI IN 1857
• ATTENDED YALE UNIVERSITY
• GOVERNOR OF THE PHILIPPINES IN 1901
• SERVED AS A STATE AND FEDERAL JUDGE
• WORKED HARD TO BREAK UP MONOPOLIES
• WAS NOT REELECTED BECAUSE OF A SPLIT IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
• IN 1921 HE WAS APPOINTED CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT
WARREN G. HARDING
• 1921-1923
• THERE WAS A LOT OF CORRUPTION DURING HIS TERM
• HIS SLOGAN WAS A “RETURN TO NORMALALCY” AFTER W.W.II
• HE WAS ELECTED AS A COMPROMISE CANDIDATE FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
• HE RAN HIS CAMPAIGN FROM IS HOME IN MARION
• HE DIED IN 1923 WHILE STILL IN OFFICE, APPARENTLY OF FOOD POISONING