Progressive Presidents

Hayes 19th to Wilson 28th

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Rutherford B. Hayes 19th

• Elected President by one electoral vote after the highly disputed election of 1876

• Losing the popular vote to his opponent, Samuel Tilden

• Hayes was the only president whose election was decided by a congressional commission.

James A. Garfield 20th• Garfield was the

second U.S. President to be assassinated

• President Garfield, a Republican, had been in office a scant four months when he was shot and fatally wounded on July 2, 1881.

• He lived until September 19, having served for six months and fifteen days.

Chester A. Arthur 21st

• He was the twentieth vice president under James Garfield.

• Garfield did not die until September 19 at which time Arthur was sworn in as president, serving until March 4, 1885.

Grover Cleveland 22nd (and 24th)

• Cleveland is the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893–1897) and thus is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents

• He opposed imperialism, taxes, subsidies and inflationary policies, and as a reformer he worked against corruption, patronage, and bossism.

Benjamin Harrison 23rd• He was the first, and to

date only, president from the state of Indiana.

• His presidential administration is best known for its economic legislation,– including the McKinley

Tariff and

– the Sherman Antitrust Act

– and annual federal spending reached one billion dollars for the first time.

Grover Cleveland 24

• Only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later.

William McKinley 25th

• The last veteran of the American Civil War to be elected.

• As president, he fought the Spanish-American War.

• He annexed the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam, as well as Hawaii

• Was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, and succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.

Theodore Roosevelt 26th

• In 1901, as Vice President, the 42-year-old Roosevelt succeeded President William McKinley.

• He distrusted wealthy businessmen and dissolved forty monopolistic corporations as a trust buster

• He was the first U.S. president to call for universal health care and national health insurance.

George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

Abraham Lincoln

Teddy Roosevelt

William Howard Taft 27th

• His presidency was characterized by

• trust-busting, • strengthening the

Interstate Commerce Commission

• expanding the civil service,

• establishing a better postal system

• promoting world peace

• Split with TR making TR run on a third party ticket called Bull Moose party.

Woodrow Wilson 28th• He served as

President of Princeton University and then became the Governor of New Jersey in 1910

• A two term president

• His second term centered on World War I.