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Article Gallery: Presidential Biographies

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Browse this gallery of short biographies on every U.S. President.

1. George Washington


2. John Adams


3. Thomas Jefferson


4. James Madison


5. James Monroe


6. John Quincy Adams


7. Andrew Jackson


8. Martin Van Buren


9. William Henry Harrison


10. John Tyler


11. James Knox Polk


12. Zachary Taylor


13. Millard Fillmore


14. Franklin Pierce


15. James Buchanan


16. Abraham Lincoln


17. Andrew Johnson


18. Ulysses S. Grant


19. Rutherford Birchard Hayes


20. James Abram Garfield


21. Chester Alan Arthur


22/24. Grover Cleveland


23. Benjamin Harrison


25. William McKinley


26. Theodore Roosevelt


27. William Howard Taft


28. Woodrow Wilson


29. Warren G. Harding


30. Calvin Coolidge


31. Herbert Hoover


32. Franklin D. Roosevelt


33. Harry S. Truman


34. Dwight D. Eisenhower


35. John F. Kennedy


36. Lyndon B. Johnson


37. Richard M. Nixon


38. Gerald R. Ford


39. Jimmy Carter


40. Ronald Reagan


41. George H. W. Bush


42. William Jefferson Clinton


43. George W. Bush


44. Barack H. Obama



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