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« on: July 10, 2013, 10:23:44 PM »
« edited: August 01, 2020, 07:28:21 PM by Lincoln Republican »

I have compiled a listing of all the major Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates, that is, those who have actually been nominees, and some not so major, and have listed post secondary education, the military offices these nominees have held, the public offices held by these nominees, the public offices sought by these candidates but for which they were defeated, offices offered to these nominees but which were turned down by the nominee, judicial offices, and post candidacy offices.   Where applicable, I have also included business and executive offices, educational and academic  offices, and ecclesiastical offices.

I have as well made note of certain family members of the candidates, as some of these would have been influential in the public career of the candidates.

Also, I have created a section for each President and for each Vice President of the First Lady and of the Second Lady, as they often get overlooked.  

The moderator of the History board, True Federalist, has kindly agreed to stickie these details.  I believe these details could be a data base and a reference for forum members, and for anyone else who may find these details to be of interest.

My main source of reference, though not my exclusive source of reference, is Wikipedia.  You can of course see these details individually in separate articles, but in the compilation I have made here, these details are all in one place for easy reference, and are concise and address the subject at hand.

I am hoping these details will be of interest, as well as a useful resource.

        

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« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2013, 07:49:24 AM »

John Adams was also U.S. Ambassador to The Netherlands from 1782 to 1788.
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« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2013, 11:53:14 AM »

Winfield, I may be wrong, but I think Andrew Jackson served as a judge for like eight years at one point.
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« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2013, 08:23:02 PM »

Also, as I recal, Jackson was the elected Adjutant General of Tennessee at the time of the War of 1812 which is how he came to be in command.  Used to be that many if not most States elected the head of their armed forces the same way you'd elect a sheriff or  coroner.  Now only South Carolina still elects their adjutant general.
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« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2013, 11:42:34 PM »

Also, will you be attempting to add exact dates to some of these? I know for a lot of these it's very difficult to ascertain, especially with smaller offices. However, with larger offices they're easily attainable, and ourcampaigns.com will give you the term beginning and end dates of certain elections. Also, I've perused some biographies that would provide certain important dates for things like Jefferson's time in VA politics.
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« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2013, 06:26:52 PM »

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William McKinley OH Republican

1861-1865 Rank of Brevet General Civil War, 23rd Ohio Infantry
Last veteran of Civil War to be nominated for President by either major party
1875 Attended Republican convention that nominated Rutherford B Hayes for third term as Governor of OH, campaigned for Hayes in election
1876 Campaigned for Rutherford B Hayes in Presidential election
1877-1883 U.S. House of Representatives OH
1880 OH representative on Republican National Committee
1882 Presented his credentials as member-elect to 48th Congress, session 1883-1885, served March 4 1883-May 27 1884. Succeeded by Jonathan H. Wallace, who successfully contested his election.
1884 Delegate to Republican National Convention  
1885-1891 U.S. House of Representatives OH
1889 Sought election as Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives, lost
1892 Candidate for Republican Party nomination for President U.S., lost to Benjamin Harrison
1892-1896 Governor OH 1892-1896
Mar 4 1897-Sep 14 1901 President U.S., assassinated

I believe McKinley served as Attorney for Stark County back in the early 1870's or something like that. I want to say 1869 to 1871, but those may be his election years (losing 1871) and not his dates in office. I have a book at home I could refer to but I'm at college right now.
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« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2013, 10:32:57 PM »
« Edited: October 11, 2020, 08:14:59 PM by Lincoln Republican »

1788-1789 Election held from December 15, 1788 to January 10, 1789

No political parties existed at the time of the 1788-1789 Presidential Election. Candidates were either Federalists, meaning they supported the ratification of the Constitution, or Anti-Federalists, meaning they opposed ratification.

George Washington VA Nonpartisan (Federalist)

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Grandson of Lawrence Washington, A member of the Virginia House of Burgesses

Son of Augustine Washington Sr, Westmoreland County Justice of the Peace for the county court , took oath of office 1716, and served as County Sheriff

Step father of John Parke Custis, Elected to Virginia House of Burgesses 1778

Step grandfather and adoptive father of George Washington Parke Custis, whose daughter, Mary Anna Randolph Custis, married Robert E Lee, then a Lieutenant of Engineers in the United States Army, 1831. Lee would go on to command the Confederate forces during the American Civil War 1861-1865.
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The death of George Washington's father, Augustine Washington, in 1743,  prevented George Washington from crossing the Atlantic to receive the rest of his education at England's Appleby School, as his older brothers had done. He received the equivalent of an elementary school education from a variety of tutors, and also a school run by an Anglican clergyman in or near Fredericksburg.

Talk of securing an appointment in the Royal Navy for him when he was 15 was dropped when his widowed mother objected

1749 Appointed official surveyor for Culpeper County, VA

Military Service

Allegiance  Great Britain, United States

Service/Branch Virginia Provincial Militia, Continental Army, United States Army

Years of service

Virginia Provincial Militia 1752–1758
Continental Army 1775–1783
United States Army 1798–1799

Ranks held

Major 1752–1754
Lieutenant Colonel 1754–1755
Colonel 1755–1758
Major General 1775–1783
Lieutenant General, Commander-in-Chief of the Armies 1798–1799

General of the Armies, promoted posthumously 1976 by an act of the 94th United States Congress

The General of the Armies of the United States, or more commonly referred to as General of the Armies, is the highest possible rank in the United States Armed Forces. The rank is informally equated to that of a six star General and is the highest possible operational rank of the United States Army.

The rank has only been held twice in history, once by an active duty officer, John J Pershing, with a further posthumous promotion to George Washington in 1976. The rank of General of the Armies is senior to General of the Army, General of the Air Force, and Fleet Admiral.

Commands held

Colonel, Virginia Regiment
General and Commander-in-Chief, Continental Army
Commander-in-Chief, United States Army  
Commands Virginia Colony's regiment, Continental Army, United States Army

1756 Candidate for VA House of Burgesses, defeated

Jul 24 1758-Jun 24 1775 VA House of Burgesses

Sep 5 1774-Oct 26 1774 Delegate VA First Continental Congress
 
May 10 1775-Mar 1 1781  Delegate VA Second Continental Congress
 
Jun 14 1775 Promoted to rank of Major General, elected by Congress to be Commander in Chief of Continental Army  

Jun 14 1775-Dec 23 1783 Commander-in-Chief of Continental Army

Summer of 1787 President of Constitutional Convention

1788-1789 Candidate for President U.S., elected, reelected 1792

Apr 30 1789-Mar 4 1797 1st President U.S.
 
Jul 13 1798-Dec 14 1799 U.S. Senior Officer of the Army

After retiring from the Presidency on March 4 1797, Washington returned to Mount Vernon

By 1798, relations with France had deteriorated to the point that war seemed imminent, and on Jul 4 1798, President John Adams offered Washington a commission as Lieutenant General and Commander-in-Chief of the Armies raised or to be raised for service in a prospective war. He accepted, and served as the senior officer of the United States Army from Jul 13 1798 until his death seventeen months later Dec 14 1799.

One of four Presidents whose likeness appears on Mount Rushmore, along with Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt

First Lady of the United States Martha Washington 1789-1797

On May 15, 1750, at age 18, Martha married Daniel Parke Custis, a rich planter two decades her senior. Martha's husband's death in 1757 left Martha a rich young widow at age 25, with independent control over a dower inheritance for her lifetime, including properties, slaves, and trustee control over the inheritance of her minor children.

Married George Washington 1759.

John Adams MA  Pro-Administration before 1795, Federalist 1795-1826

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Descendant of Mayflower passengers John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden and William Mullins

Son of John Adams Sr, Was a tax collector, was a Selectman, (Town Councilman) of the Town of Braintree MA (now Quincy) for 20 years
 
Father of John Quincy Adams, Minister to Netherlands 1794-1797, Minister to Prussia 1797-1801, U.S. Senate MA 1803-1808, Minister to Russia 1809-1814, Minister to United Kingdom 1814-1817, U.S. Secretary of State 1817-1825, President U.S. 1825-1829, National Republican Party candidate for President U.S., lost, 1828, U.S. House of Representatives MA 1831-1848

Grandfather of Charles Francis Adams Sr, MA State House of Representatives 1841, MA State Senate 1844-1845, Free Soil Party candidate for Vice President U.S. 1848, lost, U.S. House of Representatives MA 1859-1861, U.S. Minister to United Kingdom 1861-1868, Bourbon Democratic Party candidate for Vice President U.S. 1872, lost

Second Cousin of Samuel Adams, Clerk MA State House of Representatives 1766-1774, Delegate from MA to Continental Congress 1774-1781, Signer of Declaration of Independence 1776, MA State Senate 1781-1789, President MA State Senate 1782-1785, 1787-1788, Lieutenant Governor MA 1789-1794, Acting Governor MA 1793-1794, Governor MA 1794-1797, a Democratic-Republican candidate for President U.S., lost to John Adams 1796
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1755 Graduated Harvard College with an A.B. (Bachelor of Arts)

1758 Graduated Harvard College with an A.M. (Master of Arts)

Admitted to Massachusetts bar

Sep 5 1774-Oct 26 1774 Delegate from Province of MA Bay to First Continental Congress

May 10 1775-Jun 27 1778 Delegate from MA to Second Continental Congress

1776 Signed United States Declaration of Independence

Apr 19 1782-Mar 30 1788 U.S. Minister to the Netherlands

Apr 1 1785-Mar 30 1788 U.S. Minister to Great Britain

1788-1789 Candidate for President U.S., lost to George Washington

Apr 21 1789-Mar 4 1797 1st Vice President U.S. under George Washington

1796 Federalist Party candidate for President U.S., elected
 
Mar 4 1797-Mar 4 1801 2nd President U.S.

1800 Federalist Party candidate for reelection President U.S., lost to Thomas Jefferson

Following his 1800 defeat, Adams retired into private life. Depressed when he left office, he did not attend Jefferson's inauguration, making him one of only four surviving Presidents, i.e., those who did not die in office, not to attend his successor's inauguration. Interestingly, one of the other three was his son, John Quincy Adams. The other two were Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon.

In early 1812, Adams reconciled with Thomas Jefferson, after a series of long standing feuds between the two.  Their mutual friend Benjamin Rush, a fellow signer of the Declaration of Independence who had been corresponding with both, encouraged each man to reach out to the other.

Died July 4, 1826, the anniversary of Independence Day.  Thomas Jefferson died on the same day.

Second Lady of the United States Abigail Adams 1789-1797

First Lady of the United States Abigail Adams 1797-1801


On her mother's side she was descended from the Quincy family, a well known political family in the Massachusetts colony. Through her mother she was a cousin of Dorothy Quincy, wife of John Hancock, a signatory to the Declaration of Independence.

John Adams was surprised to learn she knew so much about poetry, philosophy and politics, considered unusual for a woman at the time.

Abigail Adams's life is one of the most documented of the First Ladies. She is remembered for the many letters she wrote to her husband while he stayed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the Continental Congresses. John frequently sought the advice of Abigail on many matters, and their letters are filled with intellectual discussions on government and politics. The letters serve as eyewitness accounts of the American Revolutionary War home front.

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« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2013, 11:31:44 PM »
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1788-1789 Continued

John Jay NY Federalist

1760 Attended King's College, later renamed Columbia College as the undergraduate college of Columbia University. During this time, Jay made many influential friends, including his closest, Robert Livingston, the son of a prominent New York aristocrat and Supreme Court justice. Jay took the same political stand as his father, a staunch Whig. In 1764 he graduated and became a law clerk for Benjamin Kissam, a prominent lawyer, politician, and sought after instructor in the law.

1768 After reading law and being admitted to the bar of New York, Jay, with the money from the government, established a legal practice and worked there until he created his own law office in 1771

1774 Member of the New York Committee of Correspondence, and became its secretary, which was his first public role in the revolution

Sep 5 1774-Oct 26 1774 Delegate from NY First Continental Congress

1774 New York City Committee of Sixty

May 10 1775-May 22 1776 Delegate from NY Second Continental Congress

1777 Delegate Third New York Provincial Congress

1777-1779 Chief Justice New York Supreme Court

Dec 7 1778-Sep 28 1779 Delegate from NY Second Continental Congress

Dec 10 1778-Sep 28 1779 President Continental Congress
 
Sep 3 1783 Signer of the Treaty of Paris

Sep 27 1779-May 20 1782 Minister to Spain

May 7 1784-Sep 26 1789 U.S. Secretary of Foreign Affairs

1788-1789 Federalist Party candidate for President U.S., lost to George Washington

Sep 26 1789-Mar 22 1790 Acting U.S. Secretary of State

Sep 26 1789-Jun 29 1795 Chief Justice U.S.

1792 Federalist candidate for Governor NY, lost

Jul 1 1795-Jun 30 1801 Governor NY

Robert Harrison MD Federalist

Began his legal career in Alexandria, Virginia

Lieutenant Colonel Revolutionary War

1775 Aide-De-Camp to General George Washington

1776-1781 Secretary to General George Washington

1781-1789 Chief Justice General Court of Maryland

1788-1789 Presidential election, Harrison, a de facto member of the Federalist Party, received 6 electoral votes

President Washington nominated Harrison to the U.S. Supreme Court as an Associate Justice on Sep 24, 1789, confirmed by U.S. Senate Sep 26, 1789, and Washington signed Harrison's commission on Sep 28, 1789. Harrison declined to serve, citing health reasons.

John Rutledge SC Federalist

1756 Began to read law under a man named James Parsons. Two years later, Rutledge sailed to England to further his studies at London's Middle Temple. In the course of his studies, he won several cases in English courts.

After finishing his studies, Rutledge returned to Charleston, SC, to begin a fruitful legal career.  Emerged almost immediately as one of the most prominent lawyers in Charleston, and his services were in high demand.

Oct 7 1765-Oct 25 1765 Delegate to Stamp Act Congress

Member SC Colonial Legislature

Sep 5 1774-Oct 26 1774 Delegate from SC to First Continental Congress

1775 Delegate from SC to Second Continental Congress

Jul 4 1776-Mar 7 1778 President SC

Jan 9 1779-Jan 16 1782 Governor SC

1782-1783 Delegate to Continental Congress

1784-1791 SC Court of Chancery

Also Representative from SC to Continental Congress during this time

1788-1789 Federalist Party candidate for President U.S., lost to George Washington

Sep 26 1789-Mar 4 1791 Associate Justice U.S. Supreme Court

Accepted the nomination but never actually sat on the court and resigned the posting

1791-1795 Chief Justice SC Court of Common Plans and Sessions

Jun 30 1795-Dec 28 1795 Chief Justice U.S., recess appointment from President Washington, appointment rejected by U.S. Senate

Recess appointment automatically expired at end of session and he resigned on Dec 18 1795

John Hancock MA Federalist

1750 Graduated from the Boston Latin School

1754 Graduated from Harvard College with a bachelor's degree

1765 One of Boston's five Selectmen

1766 Elected MA House of Representatives re-elected unanimously

Member MA provincial Congress

1774-1775 President of Provincial Congress

1774 Delegate from MA to First Continental Congress

1775 Delegate from MA to Second Continental Congress

May 24 1775-Oct 31 1777 President Continental Congress

1776 Signed United States Declaration of Independence

Remembered for his large and stylish signature on the United States Declaration of Independence, so much so that the term John Hancock has become a synonym in the United States for one's signature

1778 Major General MA militia

1781 Delegate from MA to Continental Congress known as Confederation Congress

Oct 25 1780-Jan 29 1785 Governor MA

1788 President MA Ratifying Convention

May 30 1787-Oct 8 1793 Governor MA

1788-1789 Federalist Party candidate for President U.S., lost to George Washington

Samuel Huntington CT Federalist

His education came from the library of Reverend Ebenezer Devotion and books borrowed from local lawyers

1754 Admitted to Connecticut bar, and moved to Norwich, CT to begin practicing law

CT Board of Selectmen

1764-1774 Representative Lower House of CT Assembly

1768 King's Attorney CT

1773 CT Supreme Court, then CT Superior Court

1775-1784 Representative Upper House of CT Assembly, Governor's Council

1776 Signed United States Declaration of Independence

1775 Delegate Second Continental Congress

Feb 12 1778 Signer of the Articles of Confederation

Sep 28 1779-Jul 10 1781 President Continental Congress

Mar 1 1781-Jul 9 1781 President of the United States in Congress Assembled

That is, the presiding officer of the Congress of the Confederation, the sole governing body of the first central government of the United States of America. His office was not that of today's President of the United States, which is a federal chief executive position created under the later United States Constitution.

1783 Delegate from CT to Continental Congress

May 13 1784-May 11 1786 Lieutenant Governor CT

May 11 1786-Jan 5 1796 Governor CT

1788 Presided over CT convention to ratify U.S. constitution

1788-1789 Federalist Party candidate for President U.S., lost to George Washington

John Milton GA Federalist

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Grandfather of John Milton, Served as a Presidential elector for Florida 1848, Florida House of Representatives 1850, Governor Florida 1861-1865

Great-great grandfather of William Hall  Milton U.S. Senator Florida 1908-1909
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Captain Continental Army Revolutionary War

Held as a prisoner and hostage Feb-Nov 1777

A signer to Georgia's ratification of the U.S. Constitution

1777, 1781-1783, 1789 Secretary of State GA

One of the first Mayors of Augusta GA

1788-1789 Federalist Party candidate for President U.S., lost to George Washington

1789 One of Georgia's five Presidential electors

James Armstrong GA Federalist

Major Revolutionary War

1783 Became an original member in the Georgia Society of the Cincinnati

1787, 1790 GA State Assembly

1788 GA Sate Executive Council and was serving on the council when the Electoral College met

1788-1789 Federalist Party candidate for President U.S., lost to George Washington

Benjamin Lincoln MA Federalist

Massachusetts Provincial Militia

Reached rank of Major General

Served in Continental Army, United States Army

1754 Town Constable Hingham MA

1757-1777 Town Clerk Hingham MA

1767-1771 Town Selectman Hingham MA

1772 Provincial Assembly MA

1774 With the arrival of General Thomas Gage as Governor of the colony, the Provincial Assembly was dissolved, but reformed itself into the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. Lincoln continued to win election to this body.
 
1781-1783 1st U.S. Secretary of War

1787 Member MA state convention to ratify U.S. constitution

1788-1789 Federalist Party candidate for President U.S., lost to George Washington

1788-1789 Lieutenant Governor MA

1789-1809 Collector Port of Boston

Edward Telfair GA Anti-Federalist

1775-1776 GA Committee of Safety

1776 GA Provincial Congress

1776 GA Committee of Intelligence

1778, 1780, 1781, 1782 Delegate from GA to Continental Congress

1783 During the Chickamauga Wars, was commissioned to treat with the Chickamauga Cherokee Indians. Telfair was the designated agent, on behalf of Georgia, in talks aimed at settling the northern boundary dispute with North Carolina in February 1783.

Jan 9 1786-Jan 9 1787 Governor GA

1788-1789 Anti-Federalist Party candidate for President U.S., lost to George Washington

Nov 9 1790-Nov 7 1793 Governor GA

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« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2013, 12:21:49 AM »

1896

William McKinley OH Republican

1861-1865 Rank of Brevet General Civil War, 23rd Ohio Infantry
Last veteran of Civil War to be nominated for President by either major party
1875 Attended Republican convention that nominated Rutherford B Hayes for third term as Governor of OH, campaigned for Hayes in election
1876 Campaigned for Rutherford B Hayes in Presidential election
1877-1883 U.S. House of Representatives OH
1880 OH representative on Republican National Committee
1882 Presented his credentials as member-elect to 48th Congress, session 1883-1885, served March 4 1883-May 27 1884. Succeeded by Jonathan H. Wallace, who successfully contested his election.
1884 Delegate to Republican National Convention  
1885-1891 U.S. House of Representatives OH
1889 Sought election as Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives, lost
1892 Candidate for Republican Party nomination for President U.S., lost to Benjamin Harrison
1892-1896 Governor OH 1892-1896
Mar 4 1897-Sep 14 1901 President U.S., assassinated

I believe McKinley served as Attorney for Stark County back in the early 1870's or something like that. I want to say 1869 to 1871, but those may be his election years (losing 1871) and not his dates in office. I have a book at home I could refer to but I'm at college right now.

Cathcon,  thank you, you are correct.  I have made the addition.

McKinley was indeed Prosecuting Attorney for Stark County 1869-1871 and defeated for reelection in 1871.

What an incredible memory you must have to remember these details.

Thank you for following these entries. 

I only have 100 more years to go.  Smiley

Sure man. I pop in from time to time, and McKinley's a subject of interest for me.
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1792

Thomas Jefferson VA Democratic-Republican

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Father in law of Thomas Randolph Jr, VA State Senate 1793-1794, U.S. House of Representatives VA 1803-1807, VA House of Delegates 1819-1820, 1823-1825, Governor VA 1819-1822.  Married to Thomas Jefferson's daughter Martha Jefferson.

Grandfather of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, VA Constitutional Convention 1850, Confederate States Secretary of War 1862, Temporary Chairman Democratic National Convention 1872
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1752 Graduated from College of William and Mary

1767 Admitted to VA bar

1769-1775 VA House of Burgesses

Jun 20 1775-Sep 26 1776 Delegate from VA to Second Continental Congress

1776-1779 VA House of Delegates

1776 Signed United States Declaration of Independence

Jun 1 1779-Jun 3 1781 Governor VA

Nov 3 1783-May 7 1784 Delegate from VA to Congress of the Confederation

1783-1784 Delegate from VA to Continental Congress

May 12 1784-May 11 1786 Minister Plenipotentiary for Negotiating Treaties of Amity and Commerce

May 17 1785-Sep 26 1789 Minister to France

Mar 22 1790-Dec 31 1793 U.S. Secretary of State under George Washington

1792 Democratic-Republican Party candidate for President U.S., lost to George Washington

1796 Democratic-Republican Party candidate for President U.S., lost to John Adams

Mar 4 1797-Mar 4 1801 2nd Vice President U.S. under John Adams

1800 Democratic-Republican Party candidate for President U.S., elected, reelected 1804

Mar 4 1801-Mar 4 1809 3rd President U.S.

In the years following Jefferson's political career he spent most of his time and energy pursuing educational interests, selling his vast collection of books to the Library of Congress, and founding and building the University of Virginia

Summer of 1824 visited by Marquis de Lafayette, French aristocrat and military officer who fought for the United States in the American Revolutionary War, and was a close friend of George Washington. Lafayette was a key figure in the French Revolution of 1789 and the Jul Revolution of 1830, and a friend of Jefferson's when Jefferson was Minister to France.

One of four Presidents whose likeness appears on Mount Rushmore, along with George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt  

Died July 4 1826, the anniversary of Independence Day.  John Adams died on the same day.

Second Lady of the United States 1797—1801

Vacant, Thomas Jefferson was a widower

First Lady of the United States 1801-1809

Martha Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson, died in 1782, nineteen years before Thomas Jefferson became President. Their daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph, assumed the role of White House hostess and unofficial First Lady during his incumbency 1801-1809. When she was unavailable, Jefferson called upon Dolley Madison, wife of his Secretary of State, James Madison.

Aaron Burr NY Democratic-Republican

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Father in law of Joseph Alston, Governor South Carolina during War of 1812, Alston was married to Burr's daughter Theodosia Burr Alston

Father of John Pierre Burr, illegitimate child of Aaron Burr and a mistress, Mary Emmons, an East Indian servant, born in Calcutta, John Pierre Burr was an abolitionist, and an active member of The Underground Railroad in Philadelphia, an organizer of The Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, Chairman of The American Moral Reform Society, with associates, Burr founded the Demosthenian Institute of Philadelphia
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1772 Graduated College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, with B.A. He was a member of the American Whig Society and Cliosophic Society.

After graduation studied theology for an additional year, before rigorous theological training with Joseph Bellamy, a Presbyterian. He changed his career path two years later. At age 19, he moved to Connecticut to study law with his brother-in-law Tapping Reeve.

1775-1779 Lieutenant Colonel in Continental Army

1784-1785 New York State Assembly

Sep 29 1789-Nov 8 1791 NY State Attorney General

1791 Commissioner of Revolutionary War claims

Mar 4 1791-Mar 4 1797 U.S. Senate NY

1792 Democratic-Republican Party candidate for President U.S., lost to George Washington

1798-1801 New York State Assembly

Mar 4 1801-Mar 4 1805  3rd Vice President U.S. under Thomas Jefferson

1804 Candidate for Governor NY, defeated

July 11, 1804, Duel with Alexander Hamilton. Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton met outside Weehawken, New Jersey. Both men fired, Hamilton's shot missed Burr, Hamilton was mortally wounded and died the next day. Burr was charged with multiple crimes, including murder, in New York and New Jersey, but was never tried in either jurisdiction.

By this point all of Burr's hopes for a political comeback had been dashed

Second Lady of the United States 1801-1805

Vacant, Aaron Burr was a widower.

George Clinton NY Anti-Federalist, Democratic-Republican

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Son of Charles Clinton, An Anglo-Irish colonist of Little Britain, New York, and a member of the New York Colonial Assembly

Brother of General James Clinton, A member of the Provincial Convention that assembled in New York City on April 20, 1775

Uncle of Dewitt Clinton, Governor NY 1817-1822, 1825-1828
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1757 At age 18, enlisted in the British Army to fight in the French and Indian War, eventually rising to the rank of Lieutenant

His father's, Charles Clinton's, survey of the New York frontier so impressed the Governor that he was offered a position as sheriff of New York City and the surrounding county in 1748, but declined the offer. After the elder Clinton declined the honor, the Governor later designated George Clinton as successor to the Clerk of the Ulster County Court of Common Pleas, a position he would assume in 1759 and hold for the next 52 years.

1759-1811 County Clerk of Ulster County NY Court of Common Pleas

1763 Read law in New York City under the attorney William Smith, began legal practice in 1764

1765 Became District Attorney  

1768-1776 NY Provincial Assembly for Ulster County, aligned with the anti-British Livingston faction

Mar 25, 1777  Commissioned a Brigadier General in the Continental Army

Jun 1777 Elected at the same time Governor and Lieutenant Governor of New York. Formally resigned the Lieutenant Governor's office and took the oath of office as Governor on Jul 30.

Jul 30 1777-Jun 30 1795 Governor NY

Although he had been elected Governor, he retained his commission in the Continental Army and commanded forces at Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery Oct 6, 1777. Remained in the Continental Army until it was disbanded Nov 3, 1783.

1783 Became an original member of the New York Society of the Cincinnati and served as its president from 1794 to 1795

1784-1787 Acting President Columbia College

1787-1795 Chancellor University of State of New York

1788-1789 Anti-Federalist candidate for President U.S., lost to George Washington

1792 Jeffersonian "Republican" Party candidate for Vice President U.S., lost

1800-1801 NY State Assembly

Jul 1 1801-Jun 30 1804 Governor NY

1802-1804 Chancellor University of State of New York

1804 Democratic-Republican Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with Thomas Jefferson, replacing Aaron Burr, elected

Mar 4 1805-Mar 4 1809 4th Vice President U.S. under Thomas Jefferson

1808 Was an  unwilling candidate for the Democratic-Republican Party nomination for President U.S.,  but was re-nominated for a second term as Vice President U.S.  

Mar 4 1809-Apr 20 1812 4th Vice President U.S. under James Madison, Clinton died in office

Clinton and John C. Calhoun are the only persons to have served as Vice President U.S. under two different Presidents U.S.

In total Vice President U.S. Mar 4 1805-Apr 20 1812

Clinton was the first Vice President U.S. to die in office as well as the first Vice President U.S. to die overall

Second Lady of the United States, 1805-1809, 1809-1812

Vacant, George Clinton was a widower.

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1796

Thomas Pinckney SC Federalist

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Son of Charles Pinckney, who would serve as the Chief Justice of the Province of South Carolina

Son of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, the celebrated planter and agriculturalist

Younger brother of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, member SC State Legislature, Ambassador to France, unsuccessful Federalist candidate Vice President U.S. and President U.S., member U.S. Senate

First cousin of Charles Pinckney, member SC House of Representatives, SC Senate, Delegate SC to Congress of the Confederation, U.S. Senate SC, U.S. Minister to Spain, U.S. House of Representatives SC, Governor SC  
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1775-1783 Major United States Continental Army Revolutionary War

Feb 20 1787-Jan 26 1789 Governor SC

Jan 31 1791-Dec 20 1791 SC House of Representatives

Aug 9 1792-Jul 27 1796 U.S. Minister to Great Britain

1794-1795 Envoy Extraordinary to Spain

(For part of his tenure as Ambassador in Britain, Pinckney also served as Envoy Extraordinary to Spain)

1796 Federalist Party candidate for President U.S., lost to John Adams

Was to be the intended running mate of John Adams. While Adams won the Presidential election, complicated scheming to ensure that Pinckney would not have more Presidential votes than Adams ended up making their opponent Thomas Jefferson Vice President and Pinckney finish in third place in the Presidential race. At the time, there were no distinct electoral votes for President and Vice-President.

Nov 23 1797-Mar 4 1801 U.S. House of Representatives SC

1812-1815 Major General U.S. Army War of 1812

1814 Elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society

1825-1828 President General of the Society of the Cincinnati

Samuel Adams MA Democratic-Republican

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Second Cousin of John Adams, Delegate from MA Bay to First Continental Congress 1774, Delegate from MA to Second Continental Congress 1775-1778, U.S. Envoy to France 1778-1779, U.S. Minister to Netherlands 1782-1788, U.S. Minister to United Kingdom 1785-1788, Vice President U.S. 1789-1797, 2nd President U.S. 1797-1801  

Third Cousin of John Quincy Adams, Minister to Netherlands 1794-1797, Minister to Prussia 1797-1801, U.S. Senate MA 1803-1808, Minister to Russia 1809-1814, Minister to United Kingdom 1814-1817, U.S. Secretary of State 1817-1825, 6th President U.S. 1825-1829, U.S. House of Representatives MA 1831-1848

Related to John Adams Sr, (Father of John Adams) John Adams Sr was a tax collector, was a Selectman, (Town Councilman) of the Town of Braintree MA (now Quincy) for 20 years

Related to Charles Francis Adams Sr, (Grandson of John Adams) Charles Francis Adams Sr MA State House of Representatives 1841, MA State Senate 1844-1845, Free Soil Party candidate for Vice President U.S. 1848, lost, U.S. House of Representatives MA 1859-1861, U.S. Minister to United Kingdom 1861-1868, Bourbon Democratic Party candidate for Vice President U.S. 1872, lost
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1736-1743 Harvard College. His parents hoped that his schooling would prepare him for the ministry, but Adams gradually shifted his interest to politics. After graduating in 1740, Adams continued his studies, earning a master's degree in 1743. His thesis, in which he argued that it was "lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved", indicated that his political views, like his father's, were oriented towards colonial rights.

1747-1756 Clerk of Boston Market

1756-1766 Boston Tax Collector

1765-1774 MA House of Representatives

1766-1774 Clerk of MA House of Representatives

1773 Moderator of Boston Town Meeting

1774 MA Provincial Congress

1774 Committee of Inspection to enforce the Continental Association

1774-1781 Delegate from MA to Continental Congress

1776 Signed United States Declaration of Independence

1781-1789 MA State Senate

1782-1785 President MA State Senate

1787-1788 President MA State Senate

1788 Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, defeated

1789-1794 Lieutenant Governor MA

1793-1794 Acting Governor MA

1794-1797 Governor MA

1796 Democratic-Republican Party candidate for President U.S., lost to John Adams

Oliver Ellsworth CT Federalist

1762 Entered Yale University, but transferred to the College of New Jersey, later Princeton, at the end of his second year. He continued to study theology and, while attending, helped found the American Whig–Cliosophic Society along with Aaron Burr and William Paterson. He received his A.B. degree, Phi Beta Kappa after 2 years. Soon afterward, however, Ellsworth turned to the law. After four years of study, he was admitted to the bar in 1771 and later became a successful lawyer and politician.

1777 CT State Attorney for Hartford County

1777-1783 Representative to Continental Congress

Member of the Committee of the Pay Table

1777 Committee of Appeals (forerunner of Federal Supreme Court)

1779 Committee of Safety

1784 Supreme Court of Errors

1784-1788 CT Superior Court

1787 Delegate to Constitutional Convention

Mar 4 1789-Mar 8 1796 U.S. Senate CT

1796 Federalist Party candidate for President U.S., lost to John Adams

Mar 4 1796-Sep 30 1800 Chief Justice of U.S.

1799-1800 U.S. Envoy Extraordinary to France

1801-1807 CT Governor's Council      

James Iredell NC Federalist

Relatives assisted Iredell in obtaining a position in the customs service as Deputy Collector, or Comptroller, of the port of Edenton, North Carolina

While working at the customs house, Iredell read law under Samuel Johnston, later Governor of North Carolina, began the practice of law and was admitted to the bar in 1771  

1778 Judge Superior Court NC

Jul 8 1779-Apr 22 1782 Attorney General NC

1787 Appointed Commissioner for comparing and revising the laws of NC

1788 Delegate to Hillsborough convention to consider new U.S. constitution

Feb 10 1790-Oct 20 1799 Associate Justice U.S. Supreme Court

1796 Federalist Party candidate for President U.S., lost to John Adams

John Henry MD Democratic-Republican

1769 Graduated from the College of New Jersey, later Princeton University, in 1769. He then studied law at the Middle Temple ,one of the Inns of Court where English barristers are trained, in London. He returned to the United States in 1775 and practiced law in Dorchester County.

1777-1780 MD House of Delegates

1778-1780 Delegate Constitutional Convention

1780-1790 MD Senate

1785-1786 Delegate Constitutional Convention

Mar 4 1789-Jul 10 1797 U.S. Senate MD

1796 Democratic-Republican Party candidate for President U.S., lost to John Adams

Nov 17 1797-Nov 14 1798 Governor MD

Samuel Johnston NC Federalist

Read law in Carolina

Moved to Chowan County and started his own plantation, known as Hayes near Edenton

Admitted to the bar and began the practice of law in Edenton

1759-1775 Colony of NC General Assembly

Delegate to first four provincial congresses

1775-1776 President of third and fourth congresses

In the time after the Royal Governor Josiah Martin abdicated in 1775 Johnston was the highest ranking official in NC until Richard Caswell was elected President of the fifth provincial congress

1779 Cited as having served in NC Senate but this was not confirmed by Senate journals.  He may have been elected but he did not attend.

1780, 1781 NC delegate to Constitutional Conventions

Elected first President of the U.S. in Congress Assembled under the Articles of Confederation but declined the office

1783, 1784 elected to NC Senate

Dec 20 1787-Dec 17 1789 Governor NC

1788, 1789 Presided over both conventions called to ratify the constitution

Nov 27 1789-Mar 4 1793 U.S. Senate NC

1787-1788 Grand Master Masons of NC

1789-1792 Grand Master Masons of NC

1796 Federalist Party candidate for President U.S., lost to John Adams

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney SC Federalist

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Son of Charles Pinckney, who would later serve as the Chief Justice of the Province of South Carolina

Brother of Thomas Pinckney, who served as Governor of South Carolina, as a U.S. Representative, and as a George Washington administration diplomat

First cousin of Charles Pinckney, member SC House of Representatives, SC Senate, Delegate SC to Congress of the Confederation, U.S. Senate SC, U.S. Minister to Spain, U.S. House of Representatives SC, Governor SC  
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Studied at Oxford University.  Matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1764, and left to study law at the Middle Temple in 1766. Pinckney was called to the bar in 1769, but he continued his education in France for another year, studying botany and chemistry. He also had a brief stint at the Royal Military College at Caen.

1770 Elected to Colonial Legislature

1773 Regional Attorney General

1775 Member first SC Provincial Congress

During Revolutionary War served in lower house of SC State Legislature and as a member of SC Senate

Brevet Brigadier General in Revolutionary War

1787  Represented SC at the Constitutional Convention

1787 Lower House of SC State Legislature

Offered offices of Secretary of State and Secretary of War by George Washington, declined both

Sep 9 1796-Feb 5 1797 U.S. Minister to France

1796 Federalist Party candidate for President U.S., lost to John Adams

1798 Major General in U.S. Army

1800 Federalist Party candidate for Vice President U.S., lost

1804 Federalist Party candidate for President U.S., lost to Thomas Jefferson

1805-1825 President General of the Society of the Cincinnati

1808 Federalist Party candidate for President U.S., lost to Thomas Jefferson

1813 Elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society  

1800 Candidates included in previous entries

1804 Other candidates included in previous entries

Rufus King NY Federalist

Aattended Harvard College, where he graduated in 1777. Began to read law under Theophilus Parsons, but his studies were interrupted in 1778 when King volunteered for militia duty in the American Revolutionary War. Appointed a Major, he served as an aide to General Sullivan in the Battle of Rhode Island. After the campaign, King returned to his apprenticeship under Parsons. He was admitted to the bar in 1780 and began a legal practice in Newburyport, Massachusetts.  

1783-1785 MA State Assembly

1784-1787 Confederation Conference

1787 Federal Constitutional Convention

Moved to New York City

1788 NY State Legislature

Jul 25 1789-May 23 1796 U.S. Senate NY

Jul 26 1796-May 16 1803 U.S. Minister to Great Britain

1804 Federalist Party candidate for Vice President U.S., defeated

1808 Federalist Party candidate for Vice President U.S., defeated

Mar 4 1813-Mar 4 1825 U.S. Senate NY

Nov 11 1825-May 10 1826 Minister to Great Britain

1816 Candidate for Governor NY, defeated

1816 Federalist Party candidate for President U.S., lost to James Monroe


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1808  

James Madison VA Democratic-Republican

1769-1771 Attended College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, graduating 1771

His studies included Latin, Greek, science, geography, mathematics, rhetoric, and philosophy. Great emphasis also was placed on speech and debate.

Helped found the American Whig Society, in direct competition to fellow student Aaron Burr's Cliosophic Society

After graduation, remained at Princeton to study Hebrew and political philosophy under the university president, John Witherspoon, before returning to Montpelier in the spring of 1772. He became quite fluent in Hebrew. Studied law from his interest in public policy, not with the intent of practicing law as a profession.

After graduation from Princeton, took an increasing interest in the relationship between the American colonies and Britain, which deteriorated over the issue of British taxation.

1774 Took a seat on the local Committee of Safety, a patriot pro-revolution group that oversaw the local militia. This was the first step in a life of public service that his family's wealth allowed him to pursue.

Oct 1775 Was commissioned as the Colonel of the Orange County militia. He would not serve in combat.

1776-1779 VA House of Delegates

1780-1783 Delegate to Continental Congress

Mar 1 1781-Nov 1 1783 Congress of the Confederation VA

1784-1786 VA House of Delegates

Mar 4 1789-Mar 4 1797 U.S. House of Representatives VA

May 2 1801-Mar 3 1809 U.S. Secretary of State under Thomas Jefferson

1808 Democratic-Republican Party candidate for President U.S., elected, reelected 1812

Mar 4 1809-Mar 4 1817  4th President U.S.

1826-1836 Rector (President) University of Virginia

1829 Representative to Constitutional Convention Richmond, VA

First Lady of the United States Dolley Madison 1809-1817

She was noted for her social gifts, which boosted her husband’s popularity as President. In this way, she did much to define the role of the President’s spouse, known only much later by the title First Lady, a function she had sometimes performed earlier for the widowed Thomas Jefferson.

John Langdon NH Democratic-Republican

After finishing his primary education, Langdon served an apprenticeship as a clerk. He and his older brother, Woodbury Langdon, rejected the opportunity to join in their father's successful agricultural pursuits, and went to sea instead, apprenticed themselves to local naval merchants.

Member of NH Committee of Correspondence and a nonimportation Committee

1775-1776 Member Second Continental Congress

Resigned in June 1776 to become agent for the Continental forces against the British and superintended the construction of several warships including the Raleigh, the America, and the Ranger, which was captained by John Paul Jones. In 1777, he equipped an expedition against the British, participating in the Battle of Bennington and commanding Langdon's Company of Light Horse Volunteers at Saratoga and in Rhode Island.

Jun 1 1785-Jun 7 1786 President of New Hampshire

Jun 4 1788-Jan 22 1789 President of the State of New Hampshire

Starting in 1679, the colonial governors had been known as "President of New Hampshire". From 1786 to 1791, "President of the State of New Hampshire" was the official style of the position. The New Hampshire Constitution was amended in 1791 to replace "President" with "Governor".

1787 Member of the Congress of the Confederation

1787 NH delegate to Constitutional Convention

Apr 6 1789-Mar 3 1801 U.S. Senate NH

Apr 6 1789-Aug 9 1789 First President Pro Tempore U.S. Senate

Nov 5 1792-Dec 2 1793 President Pro Tempore U.S. Senate

1801-1805 NH Legislature, last two terms as Speaker

Jun 6 1805-Jun 8 1809 Governor NH

1808 Democratic-Republican Party candidate for Vice President U.S., lost

Jun 5 1810-Jun 5 1812 Governor NH

1812 Declined the nomination to be a candidate for Vice President U.S. with James Madison
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1812

Elbridge Gerry MA Federalist until 1800, Democratic-Republican 1800-1814

Elbridge Gerry is known best for being the namesake of gerrymandering, a process by which electoral districts are drawn with the aim of aiding the party in power, although its initial "G" has softened from the hard "G" of his name

Entered Harvard College shortly before turning fourteen. Graduated with a B.A. in 1762 and with an M.A. in 1765.

After graduating from Harvard College, entered his father's merchant business. By the 1770s the Gerrys numbered among the wealthiest Massachusetts merchants, with trading connections in Spain, the West Indies, and along the North American coast.

1772 General Court of Province of MA

1776 Signed United States Declaration of Independence

1776-1780 Delegate to Continental Congress

1783-1785 Delegate to Continental Congress

1787 Delegate to U.S. Constitutional Convention

Mar 4 1789-Mar 3 1793 U.S. House of Representatives MA

1796 Presidential Elector for John Adams

1797-1798 Member of U.S. Delegation to France

1800 Nominee for Governor MA, defeated

1801 Nominee for Governor MA, defeated

1802 Nominee for Governor MA, defeated

1803 Nominee for Governor MA, defeated

Jun 10 1810-Mar 4 1812 Governor MA

1812  Democratic-Republican Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with James Madison, elected

Mar 4 1813-Nov 23 1814 5th Vice President U.S. under James Madison. Gerry died in office.

Second Lady of the United States Ann Gerry 1813-1814

Educated in Dublin, Ireland, completed her education in the mid-1780s.  

DeWitt Clinton NY Democratic-Republican

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Brother of George Clinton Jr, U.S. House of Representatives NY 1805-1809

Half brother of James G Clinton, U.S. House of Representatives NY 1841-1845

Nephew of George Clinton, Governor NY 1777-1795, 1801-1804, Vice President U.S. 1805-1812  
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Transferred from Princeton University, graduated from King's College, now Columbia University, becoming the first to graduate under the new name of Columbia University

Served as secretary to his uncle George Clinton, Governor of New York

1798 NY State Assembly

1798-1802 NY State Senate

1801-1804 Secretary to NY Governor George Clinton, his uncle

1801 Delegate to NY State Constitutional Convention

1801-1802 Member Council of Appointments

Feb 23 1802-Nov 4 1803 U.S. Senate NY

1803-1807 Mayor New York City, NY

1806-1807 Member Council of Appointments

1806-1811 NY State Senate

1808-1810 Mayor New York City, NY

1808-1825 Regent University of New York

1810-1824 Member of Erie Canal Commission, some of this time as President of the Commission

1811-1813 Lieutenant Governor NY
 
1811-1815 Mayor New York City, NY

1812 Candidate for President U.S. backed  by Federalist Party and a small group of anti-war Democratic-Republicans, lost to James Madison

Jul 1 1817-Dec 31 1822 Governor NY

Jan 1 1825-Feb 11 1828 Governor NY

Jared Ingersoll PA Federalist

1766 Graduated from Yale College, studied law in Philadelphia, admitted to Pennsylvania bar 1773

On his father's advice, he went to London to continue his study of the law at the Middle Temple School, 1773–1776, and to tour extensively through Europe. He spent more than eighteen months in Paris, where he formed the acquaintance of Benjamin Franklin.

1780-1781 Delegate to Constitutional Congress

1789 Member Philadelphia Common Council

Aug 20 1791-May 10 1800 Attorney General PA

1798-1801 City Solicitor Philadelphia

1800-1801 U.S. District Attorney PA

Dec 13 1811-Dec 21 1816 Attorney General PA

1812 Federalist Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with DeWitt Clinton, lost to James Madison

Clinton was backed by the Federalist Party and a small group of anti-war Democratic-Republicans
 
1821-1822 Presiding Judge Philadelphia District Court
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1816

James Monroe VA Democratic-Republican

1774 Enrolled in College of William and Mary

Early 1775 Just one year after his enrollment,  dropped out of college and joined the 3rd Virginia Regiment in the Continental Army where, as a planter, was commissioned as an officer. Never returned to college to earn a degree.

Major Continental Army

1782 VA House of Delegates

Nov 3 1783-Nov 7 1786 Congress of the Confederation

1788 Candidate for first U.S. Congress, defeated

Nov 9 1790-Mar 29 1794 U.S. Senate VA

May 28 1794- Sep 9 1796 Minister to France

Dec 28 1799-Dec 1 1802 Governor VA

1802 Sent to France to assist Robert Livingston to negotiate Louisiana Purchase

Apr 18 1803-Feb 26 1808 Minister to Great Britain

1809-1811 VA House of Delegates

Jan 16 1811-Apr 2 1811 Governor VA

Apr 2 1811-Mar 4 1817 U.S. Secretary of State under James Madison

Sep 27 1814-Mar 2 1815 U.S. Secretary of War under James Madison

Held both posts Secretary of State and Secretary of War Oct 1 1814-Feb 28 1815 under James Madison

1816 Democratic-Republican Party candidate for President U.S., elected,  reelected 1820

Mar 4 1817-Mar 4 1825 5th President U.S.

Fall of 1829 President of Virginia's Constitutional Convention

A member of the American Colonization Society formed in 1816, which members included Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson

First Lady of the United States Elizabeth Monroe 1817-1825

Her father, Lawrence Kortright, was one of the founders of the Chamber of Commerce in 1768.

Elizabeth acquired social graces and elegance at an early age.

Daniel Tompkins NY Democratic-Republican

1795 Graduated from Columbia College, studied law

1797 Admitted to NY bar

1801 Delegate NY to State Constitutional Convention

1804 Elected to U.S. Congress but resigned before the beginning of the term to accept an appointment as Associate Justice of Supreme Court of NY

1804-1807 Associate Justice Supreme Court NY

Jul 1 1807-Feb 24 1817 Governor NY

1816 Democratic-Republican Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with James Monroe, elected

1820 Democratic-Republican Party candidate for reelection Vice President U.S. with James Monroe, reelected

Mar 4 1817-Mar 4 1825 6th Vice President U.S. under James Monroe

1820 Ran as a sitting Vice President for Governor of NY, defeated by DeWitt Clinton

1821 Delegate to NY state Constitutional Convention serving as its' President

Second Lady of the United States Hannah Tompkins 1817-1825

Was the second child of Mangle Minthorne, a prominent Democratic-Republican Party member in New York City. On Feb 20 1798, 16 year-old Hannah married Daniel Tompkins, a 23 year old lawyer of the City. At the time of the marriage, her father was Assistant in the Common Council, and young Tompkins had designs on a political career. Hannah was ill in the year before her husband became Vice President, and did not attend his inauguration.

John Howard MD Federalist

Colonel Continental Army

1788 Member Continental Congress

Nov 24 1788-Nov 14 1791 Governor MD

1791-1795 MD State Senate

1792 Presidential Elector

1796-1797 U.S. House of Representatives MD

Nov 30 1796-Mar 3 1803 U.S. Senate MD

Nov 21 1800-Nov 27 1800 President Pro Tempore U.S. Senate

Offered post of Secretary of War by George Washington, declined

1798 Offered commission to Brigadier General by George Washington, declined

1816 Federalist Party candidate for Vice President U.S.  with Rufus King, defeated

James Ross PA Federalist

Taught at what would become Washington and Jefferson College. Studied law and was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1784 focusing on land law.

1789-1790 Member of convention that drafted a new constitution for PA

1794 Appointed by George Washington to negotiate with the rebels of the Whiskey Rebellion

Apr 24 1794-Mar 4 1803 U.S. Senate PA

Mar 1-Dec 1 1799 President Pro Tempore U.S. Senate

1799, 1802, 1808 Ran unsuccessfully for Governor PA

1816 Federalist Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with Rufus King, defeated

John Marshall VA Federalist

Sent, at age fourteen, about one hundred miles from home to an academy in Washington parish. Among his classmates was James Monroe, the future President.

Served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and was friends with George Washington. 1775-1778 served in Revolutionary War. Reached rank of Lieutenant in Continental Army.

After his time in the Army, read law under the famous Chancellor George Wythe in Williamsburg, Virginia, at the College of William and Mary, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1780. He was in private practice in Fauquier County before entering politics.

1782-1789 VA House of Delegates

1785 Recorder of Richmond City Hustings Court

1788 Delegate to VA Convention

1795 Offered office of Attorney General U.S. by George Washington, declined

1795-1796 VA House of Delegates

1796 Offered Post of Minister to France by George Washington, declined

1796 VA Council of State

1797 Served on three member commission to represent U.S. in France

1798 Offered appointment to U.S. Supreme Court by John Adams, declined

Mar 4 1799-Jun 6 1800 U.S. House of Representatives VA

May 7, 1799 John Adams nominated Marshall as Secretary of War.  Adams withdrew nomination May 12, 1799

Jun 13 1800-Mar 4 1801 U.S. Secretary of State

Jan 31, 1801-Jul 6, 1835 Chief Justice U.S.

1816 Federalist Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with Rufus King, defeated

Robert Harper SC MD Federalist

Joined a volunteer corps of Cavalry and served in the American Revolutionary Army, reaching rank of Major General United States Army

Made a surveying tour through Kentucky and Tennessee in 1783

1785 Graduated from the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University

Studied law in Charleston, South Carolina, teaching school at the same time, and was admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1786. Commenced practice in the Ninety-Sixth District of South Carolina, moving back to Charleston, S.C. in 1789.

1790-1795 SC House of Representatives

Feb 9 1795-Mar 4 1801 U.S. House of Representatives SC

Moved to Maryland

Served in War of 1812 attaining rank of Major General

1815 MD State Senate

Feb 5 1816-Dec 6 1816 U.S. Senate MD

1816 Federalist Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with Rufus King, defeated      



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Richard Stockton NJ Federalist

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Son of Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence

Brother of Lucius Horatio Stockton served as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.

Father of Commodore Robert Field Stockton, Military Governor of California, U.S. Senator from New Jersey

Father of Anne Stockton, was married to U.S. Senator New Jersey John Renshaw Thomson
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1779 Graduated from the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University

Studied law, was admitted to New Jersey bar in 1784 and commenced practice in Princeton

1789-1791 First U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey

1796 Elected to U.S. Senate NJ to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Frederick Frelinghuysen

Nov 12 1796-Mar 4 1799 U.S. Senate NJ

Declined to be a candidate for reelection

1801, 1803, 1804 Unsuccessful candidate for Governor NJ

Mar 4 1813-Mar 3 1815 U.S. House of Representatives NJ

Declined to be a candidate for renomination

After leaving Congress resumed the practice of law

1820 Federalist Party candidate for Vice President U.S., which did not nominate a candidate for President, lost  

Daniel Rodney DE Democratic-Republican

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Son of Caesar Rodney, an American lawyer and politician, an officer of the Delaware militia during the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, President of Delaware during most of the American Revolution
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1793-1806 Served as a Judge in the Court of Common Pleas, during roughly the same time as Trustee of the Poor

A trustee of Wilmington College

1810 Candidate for Governor DE, defeated

Jan 18 1814-Jan 21 1817 Governor DE

1820 Federalist Party candidate for Vice President U.S., lost

Dec 2 1822-Mar 4 1823 U.S. House of Representatives DE

Dec 4 1826-Jan 23 1827 U.S. Senate DE

Richard Rush PA Democratic-Republican

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Son of Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence
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Entered the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, at the age of 14, and graduated in 1797 as the youngest member of his class

Admitted to Pennsylvania bar in 1800, when he was 20 years old, and studied law at the office of William Draper Lewis

1811 Attorney General PA, after refusing to become a candidate for U.S. Congress

1811 Comptroller of the Treasury

Feb 10 1814-Nov 12 1817 Attorney General of U.S. under James Madison  

Was offered choice of Secretary of the Treasury or Attorney General U.S.  Chose Attorney General.

Mar 10- 1817-Sep 22 1817 Acting U.S. Secretary of State

Nov 12 1817-Mar 7 1825 Minister to Great Britain

1820 Democratic-Republican Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with James Monroe, lost

Mar 7 1825-Mar 5 1829 Secretary of the Treasury under John Quincy Adams

Rush wanted to become Secretary of the Navy but Adams nominated him Secretary of the Treasury, which he accepted

1828 National Republican candidate for Vice President U.S. with Joh Quincy Adams, lost

1828 Sent to England and the Netherlands by the cities of Georgetown and Alexandria to negotiate a large loan for the cities.  Mission met with success.

1836 Sent by Andrew Jackson to England as Commissioner to secure for the U.S. the legacy left the government by James Smithson
  
Was successful in bringing to the U.S. funds which would eventually be used to establish the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.

Later became one of the Regents of the Smithsonian

Sep 15 1846-Oct 8 1849 Minister to France

1824

John Quincy Adams MA Federalist Before 1808, Democratic-Republican 1808-1830,
National Republican 1830-1834, Anti-Masonic 1834-1838, Whig 1838-1848

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Descendant of Mayflower passengers John and Priscilla (Mullins) and William Mullins

Grandson of John Adams Sr, Was a tax collector, was a Selectman, (Town Councilman) of the Town of Braintree MA (now Quincy) for 20 years

Son of John Adams, Delegate from MA Bay to First Continental Congress 1774, Delegate from MA to Second Continental Congress 1775-1778, U.S. Envoy to France 1778-1779, U.S. Minister to Netherlands 1782-1788, U.S. Minister to United Kingdom 1785-1788, Candidate for President U.S.1788-1789, lost, Vice President U.S. 1789-1797, President U.S. 1797-1801, Federalist Party candidate for reelection President U.S. 1800, lost

Father of Charles Francis Adams Sr, MA State House of Representatives 1841, MA State Senate 1844-1845, Free Soil Party candidate for Vice President U.S. 1848, lost, U.S. House of Representatives MA 1859-1861, U.S. Minister to United Kingdom 1861-1868, Bourbon Democratic Party candidate for Vice President U.S. 1872, lost

Third Cousin of Samuel Adams, Clerk MA State House of Representatives 1766-1774, Delegate from MA to Continental Congress 1774-1781, Signer of Declaration of Independence 1776, MA State Senate 1781-1789, President MA State Senate 1782-1785, 1787-1788, Lieutenant Governor MA 1789-1794, Acting Governor MA 1793-1794, Governor MA 1794-1797 , A Democratic-Republican candidate for President U.S., lost to John Adams 1796  
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As a child, accompanied his father on diplomatic missions

Acquired an education at institutions such as Leiden University. Matriculated in Leiden 1781. For nearly three years, at age 14, accompanied Francis Dana as a secretary on a mission to Saint Petersburg, Russia, to obtain recognition of the new United States. Spent time in Finland, Sweden, Denmark.   During these years overseas, became fluent in French and Dutch and became familiar with German and other European languages.

Mainly through the influence of his father, John Adams, excelled in classical studies and reached high fluency of Latin and Greek

Attended Harvard College, graduated 1787 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Phi Beta Kappa.  Earned M.A. from Harvard 1790.

Apprenticed as an attorney with Theophilus Parsons in Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1787-1789

Gained admittance to the bar 1791 and began practicing law in Boston

Nov 6 1794-Jun 20 1797 Minister to the Netherlands

1796 Minister to Portugal

1796 Berlin Legation

Dec 5 1797-May 5 1801 Minister to Prussia

1801 Appointed a Commissioner of Monetary Affairs in Boston by a Federal District Judge.  Appointment rescinded by Thomas Jefferson.

May 4 1803-Jun 8 1808 U.S. Senator MA

Nov 5 1809-Apr 28 1814 Minister to Russia

1814 Chief Negotiator of U.S. Commission for the Treaty of Ghent

Apr 28 1814-Sep 26 1817 Minister to Great Britain

Sep 22 1817-Mar 4 1825 U.S. Secretary of State under John Monroe

1824 One of four Democratic-Republican Party candidates for President U.S., won

Mar 4 1825-Mar 4 1829 6th President U.S.

The 1824 election was decided by the U.S. House of Representatives under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution after no candidate secured a majority of the electoral vote. It was the first Presidential election in which the candidate who received the most electoral votes, Andrew Jackson, did not become President, a source of great bitterness for Jackson and his supporters, who proclaimed the election of Adams a corrupt bargain.

1828 National Republican Party candidate for President U.S., lost to Andrew Jackson

Mar 4 1831-Feb 23 1848 U.S. House of Representatives MA, died in office

1833  Candidate for Governor MA, defeated

First Lady of the United States Louisa Adams 1825-1829

Born in London, England, the first First Lady to be born outside the United States.



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Andrew Jackson TN Democratic-Republican Before 1828, Democratic 1828–1845

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Uncle of Andrew Jackson Donelson, U.S. Charge d'Affairs TX 1844-1845, U.S. Envoy Prussia 1846-1849, unsuccessful American Party (Know Nothing) candidate for Vice President U.S. 1856

Uncle of Daniel Smith Donelson, TN House of Representatives 1841-1843, TN House of Representatives 1855-1861, Speaker TN House of Representatives 1859-1861
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Taught school and studied law in Salisbury, North Carolina. In 1787, was admitted to the bar, and moved to Jonesborough, in what was then the Western District of North Carolina. This area later became the Southwest Territory, 1790, the precursor to the state of Tennessee.

During Revolutionary War, at age thirteen, informally helped the local militia as a courier.  He and his brother Robert were captured by the British and held as prisoners.

Military Service

Allegiance
  United States

Branch/Service
  United States Army

Rank
  Major General (United States Army)
  Major General (United States Volunteers)
  Major General (Tennessee Militia)

Battles/Wars

American Revolutionary War
  Battle of Hanging Rock

Creek War
  Battle of Talladega
  Battles of Emuckfaw and
  Enotachopo Creek
  Battle of Horseshoe Bend

War of 1812
 Battle of Pensacola
 Battle of New Orleans

First Seminole War
 Conquest of Florida
  Battle of Negro Fort
  Siege of Fort Barrancas

Began his legal career in Jonesborough, now northeastern Tennessee. Though his legal education was scanty, he knew enough to be a country lawyer on the frontier. Since he was not from a distinguished family, he had to make his career by his own merits; soon he began to prosper in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier law. Most of the actions grew out of disputed land-claims, or from assault and battery.

Rank of Major General U.S. Army.  Served in Revolutionary War, War of 1812, First Seminole War

1788 Appointed Solicitor (Prosecutor) of the Western District and held the same position in the government of the Territory South of the Ohio River after 1791

1796 Delegate to TN Constitutional Convention

Dec 4 1796-Sep 26 1797 U.S. House of Representatives TN

Sep 26 1797-Apr 1 1798 U.S. Senate TN

1798-1804 Judge TN Supreme Court

1801 Appointed commander of TN militia with rank of Colonel

1802 Elected Major General of TN militia

Mar 10 1821-Nov 12 1821 Military Governor of Florida

Mar 4 1823-Oct 14 1825 U.S. Senate TN

1824 One of four Democratic-Republican Party candidates for Pesident U.S., lost to John Quincy Adams

1828 Democratic-Republican Party candidate for President U.S., elected, reelected 1832, defeating John Quincy Adams

Mar 4 1829-Mar 4 1837 7th President U.S.

1828 A founder of Democratic Party

Remained influential in both national and state politics after retiring in 1837

Remained a firm advocate of the federal union of the states, and rejected any talk of secession

First Lady of the United States

Rachel Jackson, wife of Andrew Jackson, died on December 22, 1828, three months before Andrew Jackson became President, therefore, she never served as First Lady.

Rachel Jackson's father, John Donelson, was a co-founder of Nashville, Tennessee.    

Andrew Jackson's niece, Emily Donelson, assumed the role of White House hostess until her death on December 19, 1836. Jackson's daughter in law, Sarah Yorke Jackson, was also brought into the White House to serve as White House hostess on November 26, 1834. She remained at the White House until Jackson's term expired on March 4, 1837.

John C Calhoun SC Democratic-Republican Before 1828, Nullifier 1828-1839, Democratic 1839-1850

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Father in law of diplomat Thomas Green Clemson, who was married to Calhoun's daughter, Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson. Clemson became a high ranking diplomat to the Kingdom of Belgium. The Clemson family remained overseas from 1844–1852.
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Calhoun was one of the "Great Triumvirate" or the "Immortal Trio" of Congressional leaders, along with his Congressional colleagues Daniel Webster and Henry Clay.

In 1857, a Senate Committee selected Calhoun as one of the five greatest U.S. Senators of all time. Calhoun "was a public intellectual of the highest order...and a uniquely gifted American politician," and "probably the last American statesman to do any primary political thinking."

When his father became ill, 17-year-old John Calhoun quit school to work on the family farm. With his brothers' financial support, he later returned to his studies, earning a degree from Yale College, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1804. He was also a noted member of the debating Society of Brothers in Unity at Yale College.

After studying law at the Tapping Reeve Law School in Litchfield, Connecticut, was admitted to the  South Carolina bar 1807

Mar 4 1811-Nov 3 1817 U.S. House of Representatives SC

Dec 8 1817-Mar 4 1825 Secretary of War under John Monroe

Mar 4 1825-Mar 4 1829 7th Vice President U.S. under John Quincy Adams

Mar 4 1829-Dec 28 1832 7th Vice President U.S. under Andrew Jackson
 
Dec 28 1832 Calhoun resigned from the office of Vice President U.S., the first Vice President U.S. to do so. Resigned as Vice President U.S. in order to become U.S. Senator for SC.  

In total Mar 4 1825-Dec 28 1832 7th Vice President U.S.

Dec 29 1832-Mar 4 1843 U.S. Senate SC

Apr 1 1844-Mar 10 1845 U.S. Secretary of State under John Tyler

Nov 26 1845-Mar 31 1850 U.S. Senate SC, died in office

Calhoun and George Clinton are the only persons to have served as Vice President U.S. under two different Presidents U.S.

Second Lady of the United States Floride Calhoun 1825-1829, 1829-1832  

A niece of Rebecca Colhoun Pickens, wife of Andrew Pickens, U.S. House of Representatives SC 1793-1795.

During her tenure as Second Lady, she took the lead in a social war against Margaret O'Neill Eaton, the wife of Secretary of War John Eaton, in what became known as the Petticoat affair.

According to historian Daniel Howe, the revolt against Eaton and the President led by Floride Calhoun influenced the emergence of feminism.

William H Crawford GA Democratic-Republican

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Cousin of George W. Crawford, Secretary of War under Zachary Taylor
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As a young man, worked as a farmer and a schoolteacher for about 10 years, then began to practice law in Lexington, Georgia, in 1799

1803-1807 GA State House of Representatives

Nov 7 1807-Mar 23 1813 U.S. Senate GA

Mar 24 1812-Mar 23 1813 President Pro Tempore U.S. Senate

Aug 1 1815-Oct 22 1816 Secretary of War under John Monroe

Oct 22 1816-Mar 6 1825 Secretary of the Treasury under John Monroe

Mar 23 1813-Aug 1 1815 Minister to France

1824 One of four Democratic-Republican Party candidates for President U.S., lost to John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson
 
1825 State Supreme Court Judge GA

During the 1820s, was a member of the prestigious society Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, who counted among their members former presidents Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams and many prominent men of the day, including well-known representatives of the military, government service, medical and other professions. Crawford also served as a Vice President in the American Colonization Society from its formation in 1817 until his death.

Nathaniel Macon NC Democratic-Republican

Attended College of New Jersey, now Princeton University

Mar 4 1791-Dec 13 1815 U.S. House of Representatives NC

Dec 7 1801-Mar 4 1807 Speaker U.S. House of Representatives

Dec 15 1815-Nov 14 1828 U.S. Senate NC

1824 Democratic-Republican candidate for Vice President U.S., lost

May 20 1826-Dec 2 1827 President Pro Tempore U.S. Senate

Henry Clay KY Democratic-Republican 1803-1825, National Republican 1825-1833, Whig 1833-1852

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Father of Thomas Clay, U.S. Ambassador to Honduras and Nicaragua

Father of Henry Clay Jr, Kentucky State House of Representatives 1835-1837

Father of James Clay, became a Democrat, U.S. Ambassador to Portugal 1849-1850, U.S. House of Representatives KY 1857-1859, did not run for renomination in 1858 and declined an appointment by President James Buchanan to a mission to Germany, served as a member of the Peace conference of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., an attempt to prevent the impending American Civil War
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Clay was one of the "Great Triumvirate" or the "Immortal Trio" of Congressional leaders, along with his Congressional colleagues Daniel Webster and John C Calhoun  

His stepfather secured Clay employment in the office of the Virginia Court of Chancery, where the youth displayed an aptitude for law. There he became friends with George Wythe. Hampered by a crippled hand, Wythe chose Clay as his secretary. After Clay was employed as Wythe's amanuensis for four years, the chancellor took an active interest in Clay's future; he arranged a position for him with the Virginia Attorney General, Robert Brooke. Clay read law by working and studying with Wythe, Chancellor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, also a mentor to Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall, among others, and Brooke. Clay was admitted to Kentucky bar to practice law in 1797.

1803-1806 KY General Assembly

Dec 29 1806-Mar 4 1807 U.S. Senate KY

Jan 4 1810-Mar 4 1811 U.S. Senate KY

Mar 4 1811-Jan 19 1814 U.S. House of Representatives KY

Mar 4 1811-Jan 19 1814 Speaker U.S. House of Representatives

Mar 4 1815-Mar 3 1821 U.S. House of Representatives KY

Mar 4 1815-Dec 28 1820 Speaker U.S. House of Representatives

1816 Helped establish and became President of American Colonization Society

Mar 4 1823-Mar 4 1825 U.S. House of Representatives KY

Mar 4 1823-Mar 4 1825 Speaker U.S. House of Representatives

1824 One of four Democratic-Republican Party candidates for President U.S., lost to John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H Crawford

Mar 4 1825-Mar 4 1829 U.S. Secretary of State under John Quincy Adams

Nov 10 1831-Mar 31 1842 U.S. Senate KY

1832 National Republican Party candidate for President U.S., lost to Andrew Jackson

1840 Candidate for Whig Party nomination for President U.S., lost to William Henry Harrison

1844 Whig Party candidate for President U.S., lost to James K Polk

1848 Candidate for Whig Party nomination for President U.S., lost to Zachary Taylor

Mar 4 1849-Jun 29 1852 U.S. Senate KY, died in office

Nathan Sanford NY Democratic-Republican

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Father of Edward Sanford NY State Senator

Father-in-law of Peter Gansevoort NY State Senator
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Studied law, admitted to New York bar, commenced practice in New York City

1802 United States commissioner in bankruptcy

1803-1815 District Attorney District of NY

1808-1809 NY State Assembly

1809 Speaker NY State Assembly

1811 NY State Assembly

1811 Elected Speaker NY State Assembly Jan 12 but could not attend session after Feb 10 due to  ill health

1812-1815 NY State Senate

Ma 4 1815-Mar 3 1821 U.S. Senate NY

1821 Delegate to NY State Constitutional Convention

1823-1826 Chancellor of NY (At the time a Court of Appeal, highest judicial officer in the state, jurisdiction on cases of equity in the state)

1824 Democratic-Republican candidate for Vice Presidential U.S. with Henry Clay, lost

1826-1831 U.S. Senate NY    

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1828 Other candidates included in previous entries

William Smith SC Democratic

Attended several private academies, studied law and was admitted to SC bar in 1784

Settled in Pinckneyville, SC, and later in Yorkville, now York, SC, and practiced law

1802-1808 Member SC State Senate

1806-1808 President SC State Senate

1808-1816 Judge SC Circuit Court

Dec 4 1816-Mar 4 1823 U.S. Senate SC

1823 The legislature declined to re-elect him when his term expired

Nov 29 1826-Mar 4 1831 U.S. Senate SC

1828 Democratic Party candidate for Vice President U.S., lost

1832 moved to Louisiana

1836 moved to Alabama

1836 Democratic Party candidate for Vice President U.S., lost

1836-1840 AL State Legislature

1837 Nominated to U.S. Supreme Court by Andrew Jackson, confirmed by Senate, declined to serve

1832

Martin Van Buren NY Democratic

Was the first President born a citizen of the United States, as all previous Presidents were born before the American Revolution

His native language was Dutch, and to date, he is the only U.S. President who has spoken English as a second language

His formal education ended before he reached 14, when he began studying Law at the office of Peter Silvester and his son Francis, prominent Federalist attorneys in Kinderhook. After six years under the Silvesters, he spent a final year of apprenticeship in the New York City office of William P Van Ness, a political lieutenant of Aaron Burr. Van Buren was admitted to the bar in 1803.

Van Buren had been active in politics from at least the age of 17 when he attended a party convention in Troy, New York where he worked to secure the Congressional nomination for John Van Ness. However, once established in his practice, he became wealthy enough to increase his focus on politics. He was an early supporter of Aaron Burr. He allied himself with the Clintonian faction of the Democratic-Republican Party, and was surrogate of Columbia County, New York from 1808 until 1813, when he was removed.

1808-1813 Surrogate of Columbia County, NY

1813-1820 NY State Senate

1815-1819 NY State Attorney General

1817 Leading figure in the Albany Regency

1817 Member NY state Constitutional Convention

1820 Presidential Elector

Mar 4 1821-Dec 20 1828 U.S. Senate NY

Jan 1 1829-Mar 5 1829 Governor NY

Mar 28 1829-May 23 1831 U.S. Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson

Aug 8 1831-Apr 4 1832 U.S. Minister to Great Britain

1832 Democratic Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with Andrew Jackson, elected

Mar 4 1833-Mar 4 1837 8th Vice President U.S. under Andrew Jackson

1836 Democratic Party candidate for President U.S., elected

Mar 4 1837-Mar 4 1841 8th President U.S.

1840 Democratic Party candidate for President U.S., lost to William Henry Harrison

1844 Candidate for Democratic Party Presidential nomination, lost to James K Polk

1848 Freesoil Party candidate for President U.S., lost to Zachary Taylor, Lewis Cass

Second Lady of the United States, 1833-1837

Vacant, Martin Van Buren was a widower.

First Lady of the United States

Hannah Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren, died on February 5, 1819, eighteen years before Martin Van Buren became President. Angelica Singleton Van Buren, Martin's daughter-in-law, assumed the role of White House hostess during his incumbency, 1837-1841.

William Wilkins PA Democratic-Republican

Attended the Pittsburgh Academy, the forerunner of the University of Pittsburgh, read law in 1801 and graduated from Dickinson College in 1802. He was in private practice in Pittsburgh from 1801 to 1806, then in Lexington, Kentucky from 1806 to 1807, and again in Pittsburgh from 1808 to 1815.

1816-1819 President Pittsburgh City Council

1819-1820 PA State House of Representatives

1820-1824 Judge Fifth Judicial District

May 12 1824-Apr 14 1831 Judge Western District Court for the Western District of PA

1829 U.S. House of Representatives PA, resigned before qualifying

Mar 4 1831-Jun 30 1834 U.S. Senate PA

1832 Democratic-Republican Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with Andrew Jackson, defeated

Mar 4 1843-Feb 14 1844 U.S. House of Representatives PA

Feb 15 1844-Mar 4 1845 Secretary of War under John Tyler

1855-1857 PA State Senate

John Sergeant PA National Republican

University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. Graduated from Princeton College in 1795. Became a lawyer and, after being admitted to the bar in 1799, practiced law for fifty years.

1800 Deputy Attorney General for Philadelphia

1801 Commissioner for Bankruptcy for PA

1808-1810 PA State House of Representatives

Mar 4 1815-Mar 4 1823 U.S. House of Representatives PA

1825 President PA Board of Canal Commissioners

1826 Envoy to Panama Congress

Mar 4 1827-Mar 4 1829 U.S. House of Representatives PA

1829 Legal Counsel to the Bank of the U.S.

1832 National Republican candidate for Vice President U.S. with Henry Clay, lost

Mar 4 1837-Mar 4 1841 U.S. House of Representatives PA

1838 President PA Constitutional Convention

John Floyd VA Independent Democrat

Attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania at the age of thirteen. Became a member of the Union Philosophical Society in 1797. Although he matriculated with the class of 1798, he had to withdraw due to financial troubles. His guardian had failed in his payments.

When his step-father, Alexander Breckinridge, died in 1801, he was able to return, but had to withdraw again due to a lung illness. He moved to Philadelphia and was placed under the care of Dr. Benjamin Rush, an experience that influenced his decision to pursue a medical career. After an apprenticeship in Louisville, Kentucky, Floyd enrolled in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1804 and became an honorary member of the Philadelphia Medical Society and a member of the Philadelphia Medical Lyceum. Floyd was graduated in 1806.  He moved to Lexington, Virginia and then to the town of Christiansburg, Virginia.

1807 Served as Justice of the Peace

1807-1812 Surgeon with the rank of Major in Virginia State Militia  

1814 Brigadier General VA Militia

1814-1815 VA House of Delegates

Mar 4 1817-Mar 3 1829 U.S. House of Representatives VA

Mar 4 1830-Mar 31 1834 Governor VA

1832 Independent (Nullifier) candidate for President U.S., lost to Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay

Henry Lee MA Independent Democrat

Political Economist

Writings were popular in England. Advocated free trade and opposed the tariff.

1832 Independent candidate for Vice President U.S. with John Floyd, lost

William Wirt VA Anti-Masonic

Ninian Edwards, later Governor of Illinois, had been Wirt's schoolmate, and Edwards' father, Benjamin Edwards, later a member of congress from Maryland, thought Wirt had more ordinary natural ability and invited him to reside in his family as tutor,  offering him also the use of his library for his own studies. Wirt accepted the offer and stayed twenty months, teaching, pursuing his own classical and historical studies, writing, and preparing for the bar.

1792 Admitted to Virginia bar

1795 Moved to Pen Park, VA, where he made the acquaintance of many persons of eminence, including Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe

1799 Clerk, VA House of Delegates

1799 Chancellor eastern district of VA

1807 Appointed by Thomas Jefferson to be the Prosecutor in Aaron Burr's treason trial

1808 VA  House of Delegates

1816 District Attorney

Mar 13 1817-Mar 4 1829 U.S. Attorney General under John Monroe and John Quincy Adams
Has the record for the longest tenure in history of any U.S. Attorney General

1832 Anti-Masonic candidate for President U.S., lost to Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John Floyd

Amos Ellmaker PA Anti-Masonic

Studied law at Princeton College in New Jersey. Attended Litchfield Law School, and continued his legal studies under the tutelage of James Hopkins, the same Lancaster attorney who trained James Buchanan. Ellmaker completed his studies in the Harrisburg office of Thomas Elde.

1808 Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar, and began practicing law in Harrisburg

1809 Deputy Attorney General Dauphin County, PA

1813-1814 PA General Assembly

1814 Elected U.S. House of Representatives PA but never took office

1815-1816 President Judge of Twelth Judicial District of PA

1816-1819 PA State Attorney General

Declined offer from James Monroe to become U.S. Secretary of War

Twice turned down offers to become Secretary of the Commonwealth of PA

Twice turned down offers to become a Justice of the Supreme Court of PA

1828-1829 Attorney General PA

1832 Anti-Masonic candidate for Vice President U.S. with William Wirt, lost

1834 Candidate for U.S. Senate PA, finishing second to James Buchanan


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Richard Mentor Johnson KY Democratic

Entered Transylvania University Lexington, KY. By 1799, was studying law (reading the law) as a legal apprentice with George Nicholas and James Brown. They were professors of law at the University in addition to being in private practice.

Admitted to Kentucky bar 1802, opened his office at Great Crossing

United States Army 1812-1814, rank of Colonel, fought in War of 1812

1804-1806 KY State House of Representatives

Mar 4 1807-Mar 3 1819 U.S. House of Representatives KY

Aug 1819-Dec 1819 KY State House of Representatives

Dec 6 1819-Mar 3 1829 U.S. Senate KY

Seriously considered by James Monroe for Secretary of War

Mar 4 1829-Mar 3 1837 U.S. House of Representative KY

1836 Democratic Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with Martin Van Buren, elected

Mar 4 1837-Mar 4 1841 9th Vice President U.S. under Martin Van Buren

1840 Democratic Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with Martin Van Buren, defeated

1841-1843 KY State House of Representatives

1842 Candidate for U.S. Senate KY, defeated

1844 Candidate for Democratic Party Presidential nomination, defeated

1848 Candidate for Governor KY, defeated

1850 KY State House of Representatives for 2 weeks, died in office

Second Lady of the United States 1837-1841

Vacant, Richard Mentor Johnson was unmarried.

William Henry Harrison OH Whig

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Son of Benjamin Harrison V, Delegate to Continental Congress, 1774–1777, who signed the Declaration of Independence, Governor VA 1781-1784, during and after the American Revolutionary War

Brother of Carter Bassett Harrison, Member VA House of Delegates, 1784–1786 and 1805–1808, member U.S. House of Representatives VA 1793-1799

Father of John Scott Harrison, U.S. House of Representatives OH 1853-1857

Father of Carter Basset Harrison, Delegate to Whig Party convention that put forward the name of William Henry Harrison for President U.S. 1828. Harrison did not receive the nomination.

Grandfather of Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, IN City Attorney appointed 1856, Reporter Indiana Supreme Court appointed 1860, Republican Party candidate for Governor IN, dropped out of election, 1876, Mississippi River Commission 1879, U.S. Senate IN 1881-1887, Lost bid for reelection U.S. Senate IN 1886, President U.S. 1889-1893, Republican Party candidate for reelection President U.S., lost, 1892  
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1787-1790 Presbyterian Hampden-Sydney College. Attended the school until 1790, becoming well versed in Latin and basic French.

Briefly attended a boys' academy in Southampton County, allegedly influenced by anti-slavery Quakers and Methodists at the school

1790-1791 University of Pennsylvania, studied medicine.  Shortly after Harrison started these studies, his father died in 1791, leaving him without funds for further schooling.

1791-1798, 1811 United States Army

1812-1814 Indiana Territory Militia

Rank of Major General

Northwest Indian War
Tecumseh's War
War of 1812
 
Jun 28 1798-Oct 1 1799 Secretary of the Northwest Territory, frequently acting as Governor during the absences of Governor Arthur St. Clair

Mar 4 1799-May 14 1800 First Territorial Congressional delegate from the Northwest Territory

Jan 10 1801-Dec 28 1812 Governor Indiana Territory

1804-1805 Governor District of Louisiana

1814 Appointed by James Madison Commissioner to negotiate two treaties with the Indian tribes of the Northwest

Oct 8 1816-Mar 3 1819 U.S. House of Representatives OH

1819-1821 OH State Senate

1820 Presidential Elector for Ohio for James Monroe

1824 Presidential Elector for Ohio for Henry Clay

Mar 4 1825-May 20 1828 U.S. Senate OH

1828 Harrison's name was put forward as a Whig Party candidate for President U.S. at the Whig Party national convention. Harrison did not receive the nomination.

May 24 1828-Sep 26 1829 U.S. Minister Plenipotentiary to Colombia

1836 One of four Whig Party candidates for President U.S., lost to Martin Van Buren

1840 Whig Party candidate for President U.S., elected, defeating Martin Van Buren

Mar 4 1841-Apr 4 1841 9th President U.S., died in office of complications of pneumonia    

Had the shortest tenure of any President in U.S. history, and was the first President to die in office

The last President born as a British subject before American Independence

First Lady of the United States 1841

Anna Harrison, President William Henry Harrison's wife, was too sick to travel with William to Washington D.C. for his inauguration, and asked their daughter-in-law Jane Irwin Harrison to accompany him and act as hostess until her proposed arrival in May. William Henry Harrison died after serving only 31 days in office, and Anna never made the trip to the White House.

Anna Harrison

Her father, John Cleves Symmes, was a Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, deputy to the Provincial Congress of New Jersey 1775-1776, the Chairman of the Sussex County Committee of Safety during the Revolution, and a New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress 1785-1786.

She received an unusually broad education for a woman of the times. She attended Clinton Academy at Easthampton, Long Island, and the private school of Isabella Graham in New York City.

Francis Granger NY National Republican, Whig, Anti-Masonic

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Son of Gideon Granger, Postmaster General U.S. 1801-1814

Cousin of Amos P Granger U.S. House of Representatives NY 1855-1859
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Pursued classical studies at and graduated from Yale College 1814. Moved with his father to Canandaigua, NY 1814 where he studied law, was admitted to the bar 1816 and commenced practice.  

1826-1828 NY State Assembly

1828 Candidate for Lieutenant Governor NY, lost

1830 Candidate for Governor NY, lost

1830-1832 NY State Assembly

1832 Candidate for Governor NY, lost

Mar 4 1835-Mar 3 1837 U.S. House of Representatives NY

1836 Whig Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with William Henry Harrison, lost

Mar 4 1839-Mar 3 1841 U.S. House of Representatives NY

Mar 6 1841-Sep 18 1841 U.S. Postmaster General under William Henry Harrison, John Tyler

Nov 27 1841-Mar 3 1843 U.S. House of Representatives NY

A supporter of the Compromise of 1850, led the pro-Fillmore group.  This faction would remain in conflict with the anti-Compromise Sewardites until the collapse of the Whig Party in the state in 1855.

1856-1860 Chairman Whig Party National Executive Committee

1860 Joined in the call for the convention of the Constitutional Union Party that was held in May 1860

1861 Member of the peace convention of 1861 in Washington, D.C. in an effort to devise means to prevent the Civil War

Hugh Lawson White TN Democratic-Republican, Democratic, Whig

Studied law in Lancaster, PA under James Hopkins, admitted to the bar 1796

1801-1807 Judge Superior Court TN

1807-1809 TN State Legislature

1809-1815 Judge State Court of Errors and Appeals (replaced Superior Court as highest court)

1815-1817 TN State Senate

1821 Appointed by James Madison to a commission to settle claims against Spain following the Adams-Onis treaty in which Spain sold Florida to the U.S.

Oct 28 1825-Jan 13 1840 U.S. Senate TN (Chosen by TN State Legislature to replace Andrew Jackson)

1831 Turned down offer by Andrew Jackson to become Secretary of War

1836 One of four Whig Party candidates for President U.S., lost to Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison

Dec 3 1832-Dec 15 1833 President Pro Tempore U.S. Senate

John Tyler VA Democratic-Republican, Democratic, National Democratic-Republican, Whig, Independent

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Son of John Tyler, Sr., commonly known as Judge Tyler, a friend and college roommate of Thomas Jefferson and served in the VA House of Delegates, the lower house of the VA General Assembly, alongside Benjamin Harrison V, father of William Henry Harrison. The elder Tyler served four years as Speaker of the VA House of Delegates before becoming a state court judge. He subsequently served as Governor of VA, 1808-1811 and as a judge on the U.S. District Court at Richmond.

Father of David Gardiner Tyler, VA State Senate 1892-1893, 1900-1903, U.S. House of Representatives VA 1893-1897, Circuit Court Judge 1904-1927

Father of John Alexander Tyler, appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes  as a surveyor for the United States Department of the Interior
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At age twelve, entered preparatory branch of elite College of William and Mary. Graduated from the school's collegiate branch 1807

His political opinions were shaped by Bishop James Madison, the college's president and a cousin to the future President of the United States by the same name

After graduation studied law with his father, who was a state judge, and later with former United States Attorney General Edmund Randolph. Admitted to bar at age 19, in violation of the rules. The judge who examined him neglected to ask his age.

1811-1816 VA House of Delegates

1816 VA Governor's Council of State

Dec 17 1816-Mar 3 1821 U.S. House of Representatives VA

1823-1825 VA House of Delegates

Dec 10 1825-Mar 4 1827 Governor VA

Mar 4 1827-Feb 29 1836 U.S. Senate VA

1830 Delegate to VA State Constitutional Convention

Mar 3 1835-Dec 6 1835 President Pro Tempore U.S. Senate

Is the only President Pro Tempore U.S. Senate to also become President U.S.

1836 Whig Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with Hugh L White, defeated

1838 VA House of Delegates

1840 Whig Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with William Henry Harrison, elected

Mar 4 1841-Apr 4 1841 10th Vice President U.S.

President Harrison's death Apr 4 1841, one month after his inauguration, made Tyler the first Vice President to succeed to the Presidency without being elected to the office of President. To forestall constitutional uncertainty, Tyler immediately took the oath of office, moved into the White House, and assumed full Presidential powers, a precedent that would govern future successions and eventually become codified in the Twenty-fifth Amendment.

Apr 4 1841-Mar 4 1845 10th President U.S.

A House select committee, headed by John Quincy Adams, condemned the President's use of the veto. While the committee's report did not formally recommend impeachment, it clearly established the possibility. In Aug 1842, by a vote of 98–90, the House endorsed the committee's report. Adams sponsored a constitutional amendment to change both houses' two-thirds requirement, for overriding vetoes, to a simple majority, but neither house passed such a measure. The Whigs were unable to pursue further impeachment proceedings in the subsequent 28th Congress, as in the elections of 1842 they retained a majority in the U.S. Senate but lost control of the U.S. House.

May 27 1844 Nominated as National Democratic-Republican Party candidate for President U.S. No Vice Presidential running mate was designated. Aug 20 1844 Dropped out of Presidential race. His supporters then backed the Democratic Party Presidential nominee James K Polk.

Feb 1861 Sponsor and chairman of VA Peace Convention Washington, D.C. in an effort to devise means to prevent a war

Feb 1861 Delegate to Provisional Confederate Congress

Jan 1862 House of Representatives Confederate States of America Congress VA, died before Congress opened

Second Lady of the United States Letitia Tyler 1841

First Lady of the United States


Letitia Tyler, wife of John Tyler, died Sep 10, 1842, while her husband, John Tyler, was still in office. Their daughter-in-law, Priscilla Cooper Tyler acted as White House hostess until John Tyler married Julia Gardiner on June 26, 1844. Julia Tyler becoming First Lady until 1845.

Letitia Tyler

Avoided the limelight during her husband's political rise, preferring domestic responsibilities to those of a public wife.

Was the first First Lady to die in the White House.

Julia Tyler

Her father, David Gardiner, was a prominent landowner and New York State Senator 1824-1828.  

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Willie Person Mangum NC Whig

1815 Graduated from University of North Carolina

Mar 4 1823-Mar 18 1826 U.S. House of Representatives NC

1826-1831? Superior Court Judge

Mar 4 1831-Nov 26 1836 U.S. Senate NC (1831-1834 Democratic, 1834-1836 Whig)

1836 One of four Whig candidates for President U.S., lost to Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, Hugh L White, Daniel Webster

Nov 25 1840-Mar 4 1853 U.S. Senate NC

May 31 1842-Mar 4 1845 President Pro Tempore U.S. Senate during a vacancy in the Vice Presidency, becoming "acting" Vice President

Also became next in line in succession to the Presidency May 23 1842-May 4, 1845

1852 Refused offer to become Vice Presidential candidate on the Whig national ticket

Daniel Webster NH MA Whig

Webster was one of the "Great Triumvirate" or the "Immortal Trio" of Congressional leaders, along with his Congressional colleagues Henry Clay and John C Calhoun

Recognized as one of the most effective orators of his time, and was one of the highest regarded courtroom lawyers of the era, and shaped several key U.S. Supreme Court cases that established important constitutional precedents that bolstered the authority of the federal government

Chosen Fourth of July orator in Hanover, the college town, in 1800, and in his speech appears the substance of the political principles for the development of which he is chiefly famous

1797-1801 Dartmouth College

After he graduated from Dartmouth, Phi Beta Kappa, was apprenticed to the lawyer Thomas W Thompson in Salisbury. When his older brother Ezekiel's studies required Webster's support, the young man resigned from the law office and worked as a schoolteacher, as young men often did then, when public education consisted largely of subsidies to local schoolmasters. In 1802 Webster began as the headmaster of the Fryeburg Academy, Maine, where he served for one year. When Ezekiel's education could no longer be sustained, Webster returned to his apprenticeship.

1804 left New Hampshire and got a position in Boston under the prominent attorney Christopher Gore. Clerking for Gore, who was involved in international, national, and state politics, Webster learned about many legal and political subjects and met numerous New England politicians. In 1805 Webster was admitted to the bar.

1812 Delegate to Rockingham Convention

Mar 4 1813-Mar 3 1817 U.S. House of Representatives NH

1820 Delegate MA Constitutional Convention

Mar 4 1823-May 30 1827 U.S. House of Representatives MA

Jun 8 1827-Feb 22 1841 U.S. Senate MA

1836 One of four Whig candidates for President U.S., lost to Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, Hugh L White

1840 Ran for Whig Presidential nomination, lost to William Henry Harrison

1840 Offered Whig Vice Presidential nomination, declined

Mar 6 1841-May 8 1843 U.S. Secretary of State under William Henry Harrison, John Tyler

Mar 4 1845-Jul 22 1850 U.S. Senate MA

Jul 23 1850-Oct 24 1852 U.S. Secretary of State under Millard Fillmore, Webster died in office

1852 Ran for Whig Presidential nomination, lost to Winfield Scott

1852 Union Party candidate for President U.S., lost to Franklin Pierce

1840

Littleton W. Tazewell VA Democratic-Republian, Democratic, Jacksonian Republican

1791 Graduated from the College of William and Mary

Studied law, was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1796, and commenced practice in James City County, Virginia

1798-1800 VA House of Delegates

Nov 26 1800-Mar 3 1801 U.S. House of Representatives VA

1804-1806 VA General Assembly

1816-1817 VA House of Delegates

1821 One of the commissioners of claims under the treaty with Spain ceding Florida

Dec 7 1824-Jul 16 1832 U.S. Senate VA

Jul 9 1832-Jul 16 1832 President Pro Tempore U.S. Senate

Mar 31 1834-Apr 30 1836 Governor VA

1840 Democratic candidate for Vice President U.S. with Martin Van Buren, lost

First Lady of the United States Sarah Polk 1845-1849

Was well educated for a woman of her time and place, attending the exclusive Moravians' Salem Academy in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1817, one of the few institutions of higher learning available to women in the early 19th century.

James G Birney KY, AL, MI Liberty Party

1808 Entered the College of New Jersey at age seventeen, which was the name of Princeton University at that time. He studied political philosophy, logic and moral philosophy, and became known as a proficient debater. Among his classmates, he became particularly good friends with George M. Dallas. He studied under the president of the school, Samuel Stanhope Smith, who was both a logician and author that held weak anti-slavery sentiments. He believed that slavery was morally wrong, but upheld the citizens' right of ownership. Birney graduated from Princeton on September 26, 1810.

May 1814 Took up the practice of law, becoming the acting attorney for the local bank. He handled both civil and criminal lawsuits in Danville and other outlying counties of Kentucky. The economy of Kentucky was rather poor at this time, as the War of 1812 had caused a schism in trade within the state. Having trouble making ends meet, Birney made his living at this time primarily as a claims adjuster.

1810 Worked on campaign of Henry Clay

1815 Again worked for the successful campaign of Henry Clay, who was running for U.S. Congress.
Also campaigned for George Madison, who was running for Kentucky Governor and won.

1815-1816 Member Danville, KY Town Council

1816 KY General Assembly (KY House of Representatives)

1819 AL House of Representatives

1823-1825 Solicitor AL fifth Congressional District

1826 Joined American Colonization Society

1828 Presidential Elector on the John Quincy Adams Richard Rush ticket

1829-1831 Mayor Huntsville, AL

1837-1840 Officer American Anti-Slavery Society, NY

1840 Liberty Party candidate for President U.S., lost to William Henry Harrison

1840 Delegate World Anti-Slavery Convention London

1844 Liberty Party candidate for President U.S., lost to James K Polk

1845 Candidate Governor MI, lost

Thomas Earle PA Liberty Party

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Descendant of Ralph Earle, one of the original petitioners of King Charles I to found the state of Rhode Island

His great grandson was George Howard Earle III, Governor of Pennsylvania
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Educated at Leicester academy

1817 Moved to Philadelphia, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits for a few years, but subsequently studied law and practiced his profession. He became distinguished also as a journalist

He lost his popularity with the Democratic Party by advocating the extension of the right of suffrage to African Americans

1837 he took an active part in calling the Constitutional convention of Pennsylvania, of which he was a prominent member, and it is supposed that he made the original draft of the new constitution

He lost his popularity with the Democratic Party by advocating the extension of the right of suffrage to African Americans

1837-1838 Delegate to the convention to revise Pennsylvania's constitution. There he was one of the strongest defenders of black voting rights, along with Thaddeus Stevens.

His defense of black voting rights was, however, unsuccessful. The new constitution included the word "white", formally disenfranchising blacks for the first time.

1840 Liberty Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with James G Birney, lost

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James K Polk TN Democratic

1814 Attended an academy in Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Jan 1816 Transferred and was admitted into the University of North Carolina as a second-semester sophomore. The Polks had connections with the university, then a small school of about 80 students. Sam Polk was their land agent for Tennessee, and his cousin, William Polk, was a trustee. While there, Polk joined the Dialectic Society where he regularly took part in debates and learned the art of oratory. His roommate, William Dunn Moseley, later became the first Governor of Florida. Polk graduated with honors in May 1818. The University later named the lower quad on its main campus, Polk Place.

After graduation, Polk traveled to Nashville to study law under renowned Nashville trial attorney Felix Grundy. Grundy became Polk's first mentor. Polk was admitted to the bar in June 1820.

1822 Joined the Tennessee militia as a Captain in the cavalry regiment of the 5th Brigade. He was later appointed a Colonel on the staff of Governor William Carroll, and was afterwards often referred to or addressed by his military title.

1819-1822 Clerk TN State Senate

1823-1825 TN State Legislature

Oct 1823 Voted for Andrew Jackson to become the next United States Senator from Tennessee. Jackson won and from then on Polk was a firm supporter of Jackson.

1824 Unsuccessful candidate for Democratic Party Presidential nomination

Mar 4 1825-Mar 4 1839 U.S. House of Representatives TN

Dec 7 1835-Mar 4 1839 Speaker U.S. House of Representatives

Oct 14 1839-Oct 15 1841 Governor TN

1840 Democratic Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with Martin Van Buren, lost

1841 Democratic Party candidate for Governor TN, lost

1843 Democratic Party candidate for Governor TN, lost

1844 Democratic Party candidate for President U.S., elected

Mar 4 1845-Mar 4 1849 11th President U.S.

Polk had the shortest retirement of all Presidents at 103 days

First Lady of the United States Sarah Polk 1845-1849

Was well educated for a woman of her time and place, attending the exclusive Moravians' Salem Academy in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1817, one of the few institutions of higher learning available to women in the early 19th century.

During his political career, Polk assisted her husband with his speeches, gave him advice on policy matters, and played an active role in his campaigns.

George M Dallas PA Democratic

Educated privately at Quaker-run preparatory schools, before studying at the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, from which he graduated with highest honors in 1810. While at College, participated in several activities, including the American Whig–Cliosophic Society. Afterwards, he studied law, and was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1813.

Wanted to fight in the War of 1812, a plan that he dropped due to his father's objection

1814 Private Secretary to Envoy to Russia

1814 Envoy to Great Britain
 
1814-1816 Remitter of the Treasury

1816-1817 Counsel to Second Bank of the United States

1817-1820 Deputy Attorney General of Philadelphia

1828-1829 Mayor of Philadelphia

1829-1831 District Attorney Eastern District of PA

Dec 13 1831-Mar 4 1833 U.S. Senate PA

Oct 14 1833-Dec 1 1835 Attorney General PA

Mar 7 1837-Jul 29 1839 U.S. Minister to Russia

1844 Democratic Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with James K Polk, elected

Mar 4 1845-Mar 4 1849 11th Vice President U.S. under James K Polk

Apr 4 1856-May 16 1861 Minister to United Kingdom

Second Lady of the United States Sophia Dallas 1845-1849

Granddaughter of Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Province of Pennsylvania 1774–1777.

Henry Clay Whig Party candidate for President U.S. See 1824

Theodore Frelinghuysen NJ Whig

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Uncle of Frederick T. Frelinghuysen,  Attorney General NJ 1861-1867, U.S. Senate NJ 1871-1877,  U..S. Secretary of State 1881-1885

Great-great-grandfather of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr, U.S. Senator MA 1947-1953, U.S. Ambassador to United Nations 1953-1960, unsuccessful Republican candidate Vice President U.S. 1960, U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam 1965-1967, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany 1968-1969, Personal Representative of the President to the Holy See 1970-1977

Rodney Frelinghuysen, NJ General Assembly 1984-1995, U.S. House of Representatives NJ assumed office 1995, is a descendant
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1804 Graduated from the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University

Studied law under his brother John Frelinghuysen, and later, Richard Stockton. He was admitted to the bar as an attorney in 1808 and as a counselor in 1811, and set up a law practice in Newark during this time period.

War of 1812, was a captain of a company of volunteers

1817-1829 Attorney General NJ

Turned down appointment to NJ Supreme Court

1826-1861 Vice President of American Sunday School Union

Mar 4 1829-Mar 4 1835 U.S. Senate NJ

1837-1838 Mayor Newark NJ

1839-1850 President New York University

1841-1857  President of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

1842-1846 President of American Tract Society
 
1844 Whig Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with Henry Clay, lost

1846-1862 President of American Bible Society

1850-1862 President Rutgers University  

Vice President American Colonization Society

James G Birney Liberty Party candidate for President U.S. See 1840

Thomas Morris OH Democratic, Liberty Party

1793 Enlisted as a Ranger to fight the Indians

1804 Began practicing law in Bethel, Ohio

May 12, 1806, shortly after the beginning of the 1806–1807 term of the Ohio House of Representatives, Morris contested the election of David C. Bryan and was awarded the seat from Clermont County

1806-1807 OH State House of Representatives

1808 OH State House of Representatives

1809 Justice OH Supreme Court

1813-1815 OH State Senate

1820-1821 OH State House of Representatives

1821-1823 OH State Senate

1825-1829 OH State Senate

1831-1833 OH State Senate

Mar 4 1833-Mar 4 1839 Democrat U.S. Senate OH

1844 Liberty Party candidate Vice President U.S. with James G Birney, lost  

Joseph Smith Jr IL Independent

Apr 6 1830-Jun 27 1844 President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Dec 16 1840-Jun 27 1844 Lieutenant General Nauvoo (IL) Legion

May 19 1842-Jun 27 1844 Mayor Nauvoo IL

Joseph Smith Jr left Nauvoo for Washington, D.C., with Sidney Rigdon, Elias Higbee, and Orrin Porter Rockwell “to lay before the Congress of the United States, the grievances of the Saints while in Missouri.” Joseph Smith Jr and Judge Higbee met with President Martin Van Buren on November 29, 1839. At first Van Buren was inconsiderate of Joseph Smith Jr's plea. However, as the discussion progressed, the President promised to reconsider his position and “felt to sympathize with the Mormons, on account of their sufferings.”

After their visit with President Van Buren, Joseph Smith Jr and Elias Higbee stayed two months in the East, trying to gain support from Senators and Representatives who might be willing to espouse their cause. They met with President Van Buren again in February 1840. By this time, Van Buren had lost any sympathetic feelings he might have had for the Church. According to Joseph Smith, the President treated them rudely and declared: “Gentlemen, your cause is just, but I can do nothing for you. If I take up for you I shall lose the vote of Missouri.”

November 4, 1843, Joseph Smith Jr wrote letters to John C. Calhoun, Lewis Cass, Richard M Johnson, Henry Clay, and Martin Van Buren, the five leading candidates for the Presidency of the United States, to gauge their feelings towards the Mormon community.  The responses had been non-committal. Interestingly enough, Smith did not write to James K Polk, eventual winner of the election, who was not a frontrunner in 1843.

January 29 1844 Joseph Smith Jr announced his candidacy as an Independent candidate  for President of the United States for the 1844 Presidential election

1844 Independent candidate for President U.S.

Jun 27 1844 Assassinated before election

The 1844 Presidential campaign is historically notable, in part, as it was the first Presidential campaign in which a Presidential candidate was assassinated during the campaign

Sidney Rigdon PA Independent

Mar 8 1832-Mar 18 1833 Second Counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Mar 18 1833-Jun 27 1844 First Counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

1844 Independent candidate for Vice President U.S. with Joseph Smith Jr

Jun 27 1844 Joseph Smith Jr assassinated before election

Apr 6 1845-Apr 1847 President Church of Christ (Rigdonites)

Mar 1856-Jul 14 1876 President Church of Jesus Christ of the Children of Zion

Reorganized in 1862 under the name of The Church of Jesus Christ
 
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1848

Zachary Taylor LA Whig

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Descendant of Mayflower passengers Isaac Allerton and William and Mary Brewster

Taylor was a descendant of Elder William Brewster, the Pilgrim colonist leader of the Plymouth Colony, a Mayflower immigrant, and one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact, and Isaac Allerton Jr, a colonial merchant and Colonel who was the son of Mayflower Pilgrim Isaac Allerton and Fear Brewster. Taylor's second cousin through that line was James Madison, the fourth President U.S.

Father of Sarah Knox Taylor, Married to Jefferson Davis, an officer in the United States Army at the time, who would go on to become President of the Confederate states of America.  Sarah Taylor died from illness three months after the marriage.

Father of Mary Elizabeth Taylor, 1848 married William Wallace Smith Bliss, an army officer who had served with her father. 1849 President Taylor appointed William Bliss as his Presidential Secretary.

Father of Richard Scott Taylor, Was active in Democratic Party politics, interceded on behalf of former Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis, then still held in Fortress Monroe, and was a leading political opponent of Northern Reconstruction policies
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There were no formal schools on the Kentucky frontier, and Taylor had a sporadic formal education

May 3, 1808, Joined the U.S. Army, receiving a commission as a First Lieutenant of the Seventh Infantry Regiment

Achieved rank of Major General United States Army

Years of service

1808-1849

Commands

Army of Occupation

Battles/Wars

War of 1812
Siege of Fort Harrison

Black Hawk War

Second Seminole War
Battle of Lake Okeechobee

Mexican–American War
Battle of Palo Alto
Battle of Resaca de la Palma
Battle of Monterrey

1841-1848 Commander Second Department of Army's Western Division

General Zachary Taylor of Louisiana, an attractive candidate because of his successes on the battlefield, but who had never voted in an election himself, was openly courted by both the Democratic and Whig parties. Taylor ultimately declared himself a Whig, and easily took their nomination. Defeated for the Whig Presidential nomination, Henry Clay, Winfield Scott, Daniel Webster and others. After Webster turned down the Vice Presidential candidacy, Millard Fillmore received the party's nomination for Vice President, defeating, among others, Abbott Lawrence, a Massachusetts politician whose mild opposition to slavery led him to be dubbed a "Cotton Whig".

1848 Whig Party candidate for President U.S., elected

Mar 4 1849-Jul 9 1850 12th President U.S., died in office of complications of a stomach ailment

First Lady of the United States Margaret Taylor 1849-1850

Daughter of Walter Smith, a prosperous Maryland planter and veteran officer of the American Revolution.

A semi-invalid, she remained in seclusion on the second floor of the White House, leaving the duties of official hostess to her daughter Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Bliss.

Millard Fillmore NY Anti-Masonic before 1832, Whig 1832-1855, American Party (Know Nothing) 1855-1856

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Father of Millard Powers Fillmore, who served as his father's, President Millard Fillmore's, private secretary during his Presidency. After practicing law in Buffalo, New York, he was appointed a federal court clerk.
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Struggled to obtain an education living on the frontier and attended New Hope Academy for six months in 1819

1819 Began to clerk and study law under Judge Walter Wood of Montville.  Left Judge Wood, and moved to Buffalo, where he continued his studies in the law office of Asa Rice and Joseph Clary. Admitted to the bar in 1823 and began his law practice in East Aurora, New York.

1820s and 1830s Was a member of the New York Militia serving as Inspector of New York's 47th Brigade with the rank of Major

1829-1831 NY State Assembly

Mar 4 1833-Mar 3 1835 U.S. House of Representatives NY

1834 Was not re-nominated as a candidate for U.S. House of Representatives NY

1834 Formed a law partnership, Fillmore and Hall, which became Fillmore, Hall and Haven in 1836, with close friend Nathan K Hall who would later serve in his cabinet as Postmaster General. It would become one of western New York's most prestigious law firms, and exists to this day as Hodgson Russ LLP.

Mar 4 1837-Mar 3 1843 U.S. House of Representatives NY

1844 Candidate for Governor NY, lost

1846 Helped found the private University of Buffalo, which today is the public University at Buffalo, the largest school in the New York state university system

1846-1874 First Chancellor of University of Buffalo

Jan 1 1848-Feb 20 1849 NY State Comptroller

1848 Whig Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with Zachary Taylor, elected

The 1848 Whig National Convention nominated General Zachary Taylor, a slaveholder from Louisiana, for President. This upset supporters of Henry Clay and "Conscience Whigs" opposed to slavery in territories gained in the Mexican–American War. A group of Whig pragmatists sought to balance the ticket, and the convention nominated Fillmore for Vice President. Fillmore came from a free state, had moderate anti-slavery views, and could help carry the populous state of New York.

Mar 4 1849-Jul 9 1850 12th Vice President U.S. under Zachary Taylor

Jul 9 1850–Mar 4 1853 13th President U.S.

Became President upon the death of Zachary Taylor

As the election of 1852 approached, Fillmore remained undecided whether to seek the Whig Party Presidential nomination, and to run for a full term as President. Fillmore eventually decided to run, with the nomination being won by Franklin Pierce.    
1856 American Party (Know Nothing) candidate for President U.S., lost  to James Buchanan, John C Fremont

1860-1865 Commanded the Union Continentals, a corps of home guards of males over the age of 45 from Upstate NY area

Second Lady of the United States Abigail Fillmore 1849-1850

First Lady of the United States Abigail Fillmore 1850-1853


In 1819, she took a teaching post at the new academy in New Hope, where her oldest pupil was 19-year-old Millard Fillmore, whom she married in 1826.

With a special appropriation of $2,000 from Congress, she spent hours selecting books for a White House library.

When her husband was away he missed her and wrote her letters about politics, and she would write back offering him advice and counsel on political matters.  

As First Lady Abigail Fillmore left a legacy of women and work. As First Lady, the public was aware that she was educated and had worked as a teacher. They also knew about the library she created and that teaching is an honorable profession. Abigail paved the way for future women and future First Ladies to receive an education and become teachers.

Lewis Cass OH, MI Democratic

1806-1807 OH State House of Representatives

1807 U.S. Marshall OH

1808 Masonic Grand Master Grand Lodge OH

1813-1814 Brigadier General U.S. Army of Michigan, served in War of 1812

Oct 13 1813-Aug 1 1831 Territorial Governor MI

During his time as Territorial Governor of Michigan he was frequently absent, and several territorial secretaries often acted as Governor in his place
 
1817 One of two Commissioners negotiating Treaty of Fort Meigs

1817 Turned down offer to serve as Secretary of War under James Monroe

1820 Led expedition to modern day Minnesota to map region and discover source of Mississippi River

1826 Masonic Grand Master Grand Lodge MI

Aug 1 1831-Oct 4 1836 U.S. Secretary of War under Andrew Jackson

Oct 4 1836-Nov 12 1842 U.S. Ambassador to France

1844 Unsuccessful candidate for Democratic Presidential nomination, lost to James K Polk

Mar 4 1845-May 29 1848 U.S. Senate MI

1848 Democratic Party candidate for President U.S., lost to Zachary Taylor

Mar 4 1849-Mar 4 1857 U.S. Senate MI

Dec 4 1854-Dec 5 1854 President Pro Tempore U.S. Senate

Mar 6 1857-Dec 14 1860 U.S. Secretary of State under James Buchanan

William O Butler KY Democratic

1812 Graduated from Transylvania University
 
Began the study of law with Robert Wickliffe, but his education was interrupted by the War of 1812

When the War of 1812 began, volunteered as a private to fight the British and the Indians

After the end of the War of 1812, returned to Kentucky, resumed his legal studies, and attained admission to the bar. From 1817 to 1844, he practiced law in Carrollton.

1817-1818 KY State House of Representatives

Mar 4 1839-Mar 3 1843 U.S. House of Representatives KY

1844 Democratic Party candidate for Governor KY, lost

Major General U.S. Army

1846 Mexican War, commanded Army of Mexico Occupation

1848 Commanding General American Army in Mexico City

1848 Democratic Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with Lewis Cass, lost
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Martin Van Buren NY Free Soil Party candidate for President U.S. See 1832

Charles Francis Adams SR MA Whig, Free Soil Party, Republican, Democratic  

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Great Grandson of John Adams Sr, Was a tax collector, was a Selectman, (Town Councilman) of the Town of Braintree MA (now Quincy) for 20 years

Grandson of John Adams, Delegate from MA Bay to First Continental Congress 1774, Delegate from MA to Second Continental Congress 1775-1778, U.S. Envoy to France 1778-1779, U.S. Minister to Netherlands 1782-1788, U.S. Minister to United Kingdom 1785-1788, Vice President U.S. 1789-1797, 2nd President U.S. 1797-1801, Federalist Party candidate for President U.S., lost, 1800

Son of John Quincy Adams, Minister to Netherlands 1794-1797, Minister to Prussia 1797-1801, U.S. Senate MA 1803-1808, Minister to Russia 1809-1814, Minister to United Kingdom 1814-1817, U.S. Secretary of State 1817-1825, 6th President U.S. 1825-1829, National Republican Party candidate for President U.S., lost, 1828, U.S. House of Representatives MA 1831-1848

Fourth Cousin of Samuel Adams, Clerk MA State House of Representatives 1766-1774, Delegate from MA to Continental Congress 1774-1781, Signer of Declaration of Independence 1776, MA State Senate 1781-1789, President MA State Senate 1782-1785, 1787-1788, Lieutenant Governor MA 1789-1794, Acting Governor MA 1793-1794, Governor MA 1794-1797, A Democratic-Republican candidate for President U.S. lost to John Adams 1796    
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Attended Boston Latin School and Harvard College, where he graduated in 1825. He then studied law with Daniel Webster, and practiced in Boston. He wrote numerous reviews of works about American and British history for the North American Review.

1840-1843 MA State General Court (Legislature)

1841 MA State House of Representatives

1844-1845 MA State Senate

1848 Free Soil candidate Vice President U.S. with Martin Van Buren, lost

Mar 4 1859-May 1 1861 U.S. House of Representatives, MA

May 16 1861-May 13 1868 U.S. Minister to Great Britain

1868 Declined Presidency of Harvard University

1869 Served as an Overseer of Harvard University

1870 Built the first Presidential library in the United States,  Adams National Historical Park, to honor his father John Quincy Adams, library built in Quincy, MA

1871 Negotiated Civil War damage claims against Great Britain

1871-1872 Served as U.S. arbiter on the international commission of five arbitrators, to settle the "Alabama" claims that met in Geneva, Switzerland, negotiating Civil War damages. He is considered one of the main contributors on this seminal work in forwarding the concept of world law through arbitration.

1874 Chairman Board of Overseers Harvard University

1876 Democratic candidate Governor MA, lost

1876 During the 1876 Electoral College controversy, Adams sided with Democrat Samuel J Tilden over Republican Rutherford B Hayes for the Presidency

Gerrit Smith NY Free Soil Party, Liberty Party

1818 Graduated from Hamilton College

About 1828 Became an active temperance campaigner, and in his hometown of Peterboro, he built one of the first temperance hotels in the country. He became an abolitionist in 1835, after attending an anti-slavery meeting in Utica, which had been broken up by a mob.

1840 Leading role in organization of Liberty Party

1840 Candidate for Governor NY on anti-slavery platform, lost

1848 Liberty Party candidate for President U.S., lost to Zachary Taylor

Mar 4 1853-Aug 7 1854 U.S. House of Representatives NY, Free Soil

1856 National Liberty Party candidate for President U.S., lost to James Buchanan

1858 Candidate for Governor NY on anti-slavery platform, lost

1860 Liberty (Union) Party candidate for President U.S., lost to Abraham Lincoln

Charles C Foote MI Liberty Party, American Party

1840 Graduated from Oberlin College

Presbyterian minister, abolitionist, temperance activist

1848 Liberty Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with Gerrit Smith, lost

1854 Moved to Detroit, Michigan and served as a traveling fundraising agent of the Refugee Home Society, which purchased land for former slaves in Ontario, where slavery was outlawed. Stayed in this position until the American Civil War ended and slavery was outlawed, at which time he became an agent in the Freedmen's Aid Society.

1882 Candidate for Governor Michigan as the American Party nominee, lost

David Rice Atchison MO Democratic

Atchison is best known for the claim that for one day, Sunday, March 4, 1849, he may have been Acting President of the United States. Historians, scholars and biographers all dismiss this claim.

Educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, where his classmates included five future Democratic senators, Solomon Downs of Louisiana, Jesse Bright of Indiana, George W. Jones of Iowa, Edward Hannegan of Indiana, and Jefferson Davis of Mississippi

Atchison was admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1829

Practiced law in Liberty, Clay County, MO

1834 Elected to Missouri state House of Representatives

1838 Reelected to Missouri state House of Representatives

1841 Appointed a circuit court judge for the six-county area of the Platte Purchase

1843 Named a county commissioner in Platte County

Oct 1843 Appointed to U.S. Senate MO to fill the vacancy left by the death of Lewis F. Linn. He thus became the first Senator from western Missouri. At age 36, he was the youngest senator from Missouri up to that time. Later in 1843, Atchison was appointed to serve the remainder of Linn's term and was re-elected in 1849.

Oct 14 1843–Mar 3 1855 U.S. Senate MO

Aug 8 1846–Dec 2, 1849 President Pro Tempore U.S. Senate

Dec 20 1852-Dec 4 1854 President Pro Tempore U.S. Senate

Mar 4 1855 Senate term expired, sought election to another term, but the Democrats in the Missouri legislature were split between him and Thomas Hart Benton, while the Whig minority put forward their own man. No Senator was elected until January 1857, when James S. Green was chosen.

1860-1861 Major General in Missouri State Guard

1861-1862 General Confederate States of America, Missouri, American Civil War

Atchison, owner of many slaves and a plantation, was a prominent pro-slavery activist and Border Ruffian leader, deeply involved with violence against abolitionists and other free-staters during the "Bleeding Kansas" events

"President For One Day"

Atchison himself never claimed that he was technically President of the United States for one day, Sunday, March 4, 1849. Outgoing President James K. Polk's term ended at noon on March 4, 1849, which was a Sunday. His successor, Zachary Taylor, refused to be sworn into office on Sunday. As President Pro Tempore, and therefore Acting Vice President, under the Presidential succession law in place at the time, Atchison was believed by some to be Acting President.

In an interview with the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Atchison revealed that he slept through most of the day of his alleged Presidency: "There had been three or four busy nights finishing up the work of the Senate, and I slept most of that Sunday."

Despite this, a museum exhibit opened in his honor, in which its owner claims it to be the country's smallest Presidential Library. Although it is not recognized as such by the U.S Government, it opened in February 2006 as the Atchison County Historical Museum in Atchison, Kansas.

Historians, constitutional scholars and biographers all dismiss the claim. They point out that Atchison's Senate term had ended on March 4 as well, and he also was not sworn in for another term, or re-elected President pro tempore, until March 5. Furthermore, the Constitution doesn't require the President-elect to take the oath of office to hold the office, just to execute the powers. As Atchison never swore the oath either, that did not make him Acting President. Most historians and scholars assert that as soon as the outgoing President's term expires, the President-elect automatically assumes the office. Some claim instead that the office is vacant until the taking of the oath. Snopes.com rates the claim "false" and concludes: "it's difficult to find one valid reason why David Rice Atchison should be considered to have served as President for a Day, but it's not hard to find several valid reasons why he shouldn't."

Atchison discussed the claim in a September 1872 issue of the Plattsburg Lever:

It was in this way: Polk went out of office on 3 March 1849, on Saturday at 12 noon.

(Polk's term as President actually expired on 4 March 1849, on Sunday at 12 noon)

The next day, the 4th, occurring on Sunday, General Taylor was not inaugurated. He was not inaugurated till Monday, the 5th, at 12 noon. It was then canvassed among Senators whether there was an interregnum, a time during which a country lacks a government. It was plain that there was either an interregnum or I was the President of the United States being chairman of the Senate, having succeeded Judge Mangum of North Carolina. The judge waked me up at 3 o'clock in the morning and said jocularly that as I was President of the United States he wanted me to appoint him as Secretary of State. I made no pretense to the office, but if I was entitled in it I had one boast to make, that not a woman or a child shed a tear on account of my removing any one from office during my incumbency of the place. A great many such questions are liable to arise under our form of government.

Atchison was 41 years and 6 months old at the alleged time of the One-Day Presidency, younger than any official President. Theodore Roosevelt, the youngest to serve, was 42 years and 11 months old when he was sworn in following the death of William McKinley in 1901, and John F. Kennedy, the youngest to be elected, was 43 years and 7 months old when he was inaugurated in 1961.



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Franklin Pierce NH Democratic

1820-1824 Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME

After briefly reading law with former New Hampshire Governor Levi Woodbury, a family friend, in Portsmouth, spent a semester at Northampton Law School in Northampton, Massachusetts, followed by a period of study in 1826 and 1827 under Judge Edmund Parker in Amherst, New Hampshire

Late 1827 Admitted to NH bar and began to practice law in Hillsborough

Held rank of Brigadier General U.S. Army in Mexican-American War

Held a central position in NH Democratic Party

Member of Concord Leadership Group

1829-1833 NH Lower House General Court (NH House of Representatives)

1832-1833 Speaker NH Lower House General Court (NH House of Representatives)

Mar 4 1833-Mar 3 1837 U.S. House of Representatives NH

Mar 4 1837-Feb 28 1842 U.S. Senate NH

1845-1847 Appointed U.S. Attorney for District of NH

1850 President of State Constitutional Convention NH

1852 Democratic Party candidate for President U.S., elected

Mar 4 1853-Mar 4 1857 14th President U.S.

1856 Candidate for Democratic re-nomination for President U.S., lost to James Buchanan

Pierce is the only standing President in history to have sought but not receive the nomination of his political party for a second term as President

Refused Democratic nomination for Governor NH

Declined appointment as U.S. Attorney General offered by James K Polk

1860 Declined to run for Democratic Presidential nomination

1864 Declined to run for Democratic Presidential nomination

First Lady of the United States Jane Pierce 1853-1857

She did not enjoy the role of First Lady.

For nearly two years, she remained in the upstairs living quarters of the White House. She left the social chores to her aunt Abby Kent-Means and her close friend Varina Davis, wife of Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. Pierce made her first official appearance as First Lady at a New Year's Day reception in 1855 and thereafter served as White House hostess intermittently.

William R King NC, AL Democratic

1803 Graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

1806 Admitted to NC bar after reading the law with Judge William Duffy of Fayetteville, North Carolina, began to practice law in Clinton

1807-1809 NC House of Commons

1810 City Solicitor Wilmington NC

Mar 4 1811-Nov 4 1816 U.S. House of Representatives NC

Secretary to the delegation to William Pinkney at Naples, Italy and later at St. Petersburg, Russia

Delegate to convention which organized Alabama state government

Dec 14 1819-Apr 15 1844 U.S. Senate AL

Jul 1 1836-Mar 4 1841 President Pro Tempore U.S. Senate

Apr 9 1844-Sep 15 1846 U.S. Minister to France

Jul 1 1848-Dec 20 1852 U.S. Senate AL

May 6 1850-Dec 20 1852 President Pro Tempore U.S. Senate

Because of the vacancy in the Vice Presidential office, due to succession rules he was first in line of succession to U.S. Presidency

1852 Democratic Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with Franklin Pierce, elected

Mar 4 1853-Apr 18 1853 13th Vice President U.S. died in office of tuberculosis

By a special act of of Congress, King took the oath of office on Mar 24, 1853 in Cuba, twenty days after he became Vice President U.S. He had gone to John Chartrand's La Ariadne plantation in Matanzas because of ill health, and the unusual inauguration took place on foreign soil because it was believed that King, then known to be terminally ill with tuberculosis, would not live much longer.

Although he did not take the oath of office until 20 days after inauguration day, he was legally considered to be Vice President U.S. during those three weeks

Shortly afterward, King returned to his Chestnut Hill, NC plantation where he died within two days

King never came to Washington, D.C. or carried out any duties of the office during his term as Vice President U.S.

King was the only Vice President U.S. to have been sworn into office on foreign soil

Second Lady of the United States 1853

Vacant, William R King was unmarried.

Winfield Scott NJ Whig

Briefly attended the College of William and Mary, studied law in the office of a private attorney, and served as a Virginia militia cavalry corporal near Petersburg in 1807

Scott's long career in the United States Army began when he was commissioned as a Captain in the Light Artillery in May 1808, shortly before his 22nd birthday

Jul 5 1841-Jul 21 1861 Commanding General U.S. Army.  Held position longer than any other holder of this office.

Commanded forces

War of 1812
Mexican-American War
Blackhawk War
Second Seminole War

Brevet Major General

Lieutenant General, first person since George Washington to hold this rank

1848 Military Governor Mexico City after Mexican-American War

1852 Whig Party candidate for President U.S., lost to Franklin Pierce

When the American Civil War began in the spring of 1861, Scott was 74 years old and suffering numerous health problems. He was also extremely overweight and unable to mount a horse or review troops.

As Scott could not lead an army into battle, he offered the command of the Federal army to Colonel Robert E Lee on April 17, 1861.  However, Virginia left the Union on that same day. Lee, though disapproving of secession, was hesitant at the possibility of taking up arms against his home state and asked if he could keep out of the war. Scott replied "I have no place in my army for equivocal men." Lee then resigned and went south to join the Confederacy.

Although Scott was born and raised in Virginia, he remained loyal to the nation that he had served for most of his life and refused to resign his commission

The command of the Federal troops at Washington was given to Brigadier General Irwin McDowell

At this time, public opinion throughout the North called for an immediate campaign to crush the rebellion quickly. Scott considered this wrong-headed and probably impossible. Instead, he drew up a plan to defeat the Confederacy by blockading Southern ports and sending an army down the Mississippi Valley. Scott's scheme was derided as the "Anaconda Plan", intended to crush the Confederacy slowly. Eventually the actual Union victory followed its broad outlines.

William Alexander Graham NC Whig

Graduated from Pleasant Retreat Academy and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Studied law, admitted to the bar in 1825, and commenced practice in Hillsborough

1833-1840 NC House of Commons, serving twice as Speaker

Nov 25 1840-Mar 4 1843 U.S. Senate NC

Jan 1 1845-Jan 1 1849 Governor NC

1849 Declined appointment as U..S. Ambassador to Spain and Russia

Aug 2 1850-Jul 25 1852 Secretary of the Navy, under Millard Fillmore

1852 Whig Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with Winfield Scott, lost

1854-1866 NC State Senate

Feb 18 1864-May 10 1865 Confederate States of America Senate NC

1866 Elected to U.S. Senate from NC but because NC had not yet been readmitted to the Union he did not present his credentials

1867-1875 Member Board of Trustees of Peabody Fund which provided financial assistance to Post Civil War South

1873-1875 Arbitrator in the boundary line dispute between Virginia and Maryland

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John P Hale NH Democratic, Free Soil, Oppositionist, Republican

Attended Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated in 1827 from Bowdoin College, where he was a prominent member of the Athenean Society, a literary society.

Began his law studies in Rochester with Jeremiah H. Woodman, and continued them with Daniel M. Christie in Dover, where, after passing the bar examination there in 1830, Hale lived and practiced law.

1832-1838 NH State House of Representatives, Democratic

Mar 4 1843-Mar 3 1845 U.S. House of Representatives NH, Democratic

1844 Recommended for House seat 1844 election but could not support Democratic policy favoring Texas annexation on anti-slavery grounds, ran as an Independent

Mar 4 1847-Mar 3 1853 U.S. Senate NH, Free Soil

1852 Free Soil candidate for President U.S., lost to Franklin Pierce, Winfield Scott

Jul 30 1855-Mar 13 1865 U.S. Senate NH

       -1862 Chair of Republican Conference

Mar 10 1865-Jul 29 1869 U.S. Minister to Spain

George Washington Julian IN Whig, Free Soil, Republican

Began a short lived career as a school teacher

1839 Expressed his disinterest in teaching to a friend who suggested he practice law instead. Studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1840 and practiced out of Greenfield, Indiana.

1845 IN State House of Representatives, Whig

1848 Helped found Free Soil Party, delegate to convention Buffalo, NY

Mar 4 1849-Mar 3 1851 U.S. House of Representatives, Free Soil

1852 Free Soil candidate for Vice President U.S. with John P Hale, lost

1856 Delegate to Republican National Convention

Mar 4 1861-Mar 3 1871 U.S. House of Representatives, Republican

1872 Joined Liberal Republicans, supported Horace Greeley for President

1872 A National Union Party candidate for Vice President U.S., lost

May 1885-Sep 1889 Surveyor General New Mexico, appointed by Grover Cleveland

Daniel Webster Union Party candidate for President U.S. see 1836

Charles J Jenkins GA Union Party

Attended the University of Georgia in Athens at a young age, his exact dates of attendance are not known. Left the university before graduating and finished his education in 1824 at Union College in Schenectady, New York.

1831-1834 Attorney General GA

Author of Georgia Platform, a proclamation by a special state convention that endorsed the Compromise of 1850

1852 Union Party candidate for Vice President U.S. with Daniel Webster, lost

During Civil War appointed as a Justice of Supreme Court of GA

Dec 14 1865-Jan 13 1868 Governor GA, during reconstruction

1872 A Democratic Party candidate for President U.S., lost to Ulysses S. Grant

Jacob Broom PA Native American Party

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Studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1832 and started practicing law in Philadelphia

1840 Appointed Deputy Auditor PA

1848-1852 Clerk Philadelphia, PA Orphan's Court

1852 Native American Party candidate for President U.S., lost to Franklin Pierce

Mar 4 1855-Mar 3 1857 U.S. House of Representatives PA, American Party

1856 Unsuccessful candidate for renomination U.S. House of Representatives

1858 Unsuccessful candidate for election U.S. House of Representatives

Reynell Coates NJ Native American Party

Physician, scientist, teacher, poet

At an early age, he became proficient in mathematics and languages, and studied medicine and surgery at Pennsylvania Hospital, where at age fifteen he became an apprentice of Dr. Benjamin Rush. He was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1823.

1844 Author of National Address of Native American Party

1847 Originator of the patriotic order Sons of America

1852 Native American Party candidate for Vice President U.S. on ticket first with Daniel Webster then with Jacob Broom, lost

George Troup GA Democratic-Republican, States Rights (Southern Rights) Party

Born to plantation owners and supported slavery throughout his career

Graduated from the College of New Jersey, later Princeton University, in 1797. Read the law with an established firm and two years later was admitted to the bar in Savannah, Georgia.

1803-1805 GA State General Assembly

Mar 4 1807-Mar 3 1815 U.S. House of Representatives GA

Nov 13 1816-Sep 23 1818 U.S. Senate GA

1819 Candidate for Governor GA, lost

Nov 7 1823-Nov 7 1827 Governor GA

Nar 4 1829-Nov 8 1833 U.S. Senate GA, Jacksonian Democrat

1852 States Rights (Southern Rights) candidate for President U.S., lost to Franklin Pierce

John A Quitman MS Whig, Democratic, States Rights (Southern Rights) Party

Studied Classics at Hartwick Seminary, graduating in 1816. Was an instructor at Mount Airy College, Pennsylvania, but decided to study law.

Admitted to the bar in 1820, and moved to Chillicothe, Ohio. The following year, he moved south to Natchez, Mississippi. He purchased Monmouth Plantation in 1826, and it would remain in his family for the next 100 years.

1826-1828 MS State House of Representatives

1826-1838 Grand Master MS Masons

1828 Chancellor MS

1832 Served on MS Constitutional Convention

1835 MS State Senate

1836 President MS State Senate

Dec 3 1835-Jan 7 1836 Acting Governor MS

1838 Became Judge on High Court of Errors and Appeal MS

1840-1845 Grand Master MS Masons

1846 Brigadier General of Volunteers Mexican-American War

1847 Major General Mexican-American War

1847 Appointed Military Governor Mexico City during occupation

1847 Original member Aztec Club

Jan 10 1850-Feb 3 1851 Governor MS

1852 States Rights (Southern Rights) candidate for Vice President U.S. with George Troup, lost

Mar 4 1855-Jul 17 1858 U.S. House of Representatives MS, Democratic
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James Buchanan PA Federalist, Democratic

Attended the village academy (Old Stone Academy) and later Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, graduating with honors, 1809. Later that year, he moved to Lancaster, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1812.

1814-1816 Private Pennsylvania Militia

A dedicated Federalist, he initially opposed the War of 1812 because he believed it was an unnecessary conflict. When the British invaded neighboring Maryland, he joined a volunteer light dragoon unit as a Private and served in the defense of Baltimore. Buchanan is the only President with military experience who did not, at some point, serve as an officer.

1814-1816 PA State House of Representatives, Federalist

An active Freemason, he was the Master of Masonic Lodge in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and a District Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania

Mar 4 1821-Mar 3 1831 U.S. House of Representatives PA

Jan 4 1832-Aug 5 1833 Minister to Russia

Dec 6 1834-Mar 5 1845 U.S. Senate PA

1845 Declined nomination by James K Polk for U.S. Supreme Court

Mar 10 1845-Mar 7 1849 U.S. Secretary of State, under James K Polk

1852-1866 President Board of Trustees Franklin & Marshall College Lancaster, PA

Aug 23 1853-Mar 15 1856 Minister to United Kingdom

1856 Democratic Party candidate for President U.S., elected

Mar 4 1857-Mar 4 1861 15th President U.S.

The Civil War erupted within two months of Buchanan's retirement. He supported it.

Buchanan spent most of his remaining years defending himself from public blame for the Civil War, which was even referred to by some as "Buchanan's War". He began receiving angry and threatening letters daily, and stores displayed Buchanan's likeness with the eyes inked red, a noose drawn around his neck and the word "TRAITOR" written across his forehead. The Senate proposed a resolution of condemnation which failed, and newspapers accused him of colluding with the Confederacy. His former cabinet members, five of whom had been given jobs in the Lincoln administration, refused to defend Buchanan publicly.

Buchanan finally began defending himself in October 1862, in an exchange of letters between himself and Winfield Scott, the unsuccessful Presidential candidate of the Whig Party in 1852, that was published in the National Intelligencer newspaper

He soon began writing his fullest public defense, in the form of his memoir, Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of Rebellion, which was published in 1866

He is, to date, the only President from Pennsylvania and the only President to remain a lifelong bachelor. He was the last President born in the 18th century.

First Lady of the United States

Vacant.  James Buchanan was a life-long bachelor. His niece Harriet Lane acted as First Lady 1857-1861.

John C Breckinridge KY Democratic

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Grandson of John Breckenridge, Virginia House of Delegates 1781, 1783-1784, Attorney General Kentucky 1795-1797, Kentucky State House of Representatives 1798-1800, U.S. Senate Kentucky 1801-1805, U.S. Attorney General 1805-1806

Grandson of Samuel Stanhope Smith, who founded Hampden–Sydney College in 1775

Great grandson of John Witherspoon, a signer of the Declaration of Independence

Son of Joseph Breckenridge, Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives, Kentucky Secretary of State

Father of Clifton R Breckenridge, Alderman Pine Bluff, Arkansas City Council, U.S. House of Representatives Arkansas 1883-1894  
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After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in September 1838, he spent the winter of 1838–1839 as a "resident graduate" at the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University

Returning to Kentucky in mid 1839, he read law with Judge William Owsley. In November 1840, he enrolled in the second year of the law course at Transylvania University in Lexington, where his instructors included two members of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, George Robertson and Thomas A. Marshall. On Feb 25, 1841, he received a bachelor of laws degree and was licensed to practice law the next day.

1844 Campaigned for Democratic Presidential nominee James K Polk

1844 Declined to run for County Clerk for Scott County, KY

1845 Declined to run for U.S. House of Representatives

1847-1848, United States Army, rank of Major, served in Mexican-American War

1849 Delegate to KY State Constitutional Convention

1849-1851 KY State House of Representatives

1851 Declined to run for re-election to KY State House of Representatives

1851 Delegate to state Democratic Convention

Mar 4 1851-Mar 3 1855 U.S. House of Representatives KY

Refused to allow his name to stand for Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives

1856 Initially declined to let his name stand for Democratic Party Vice Presidential nomination at Democratic Convention

1856 Accepted Democratic Party nomination for Vice President U.S. when his nomination became inevitable, on the ticket with James Buchanan, elected

Mar 4 1857-Mar 4 1861 14th Vice President U.S. under James Buchanan

At age 36, became the youngest ever Vice President U.S.

1860 Southern Democratic candidate for President U.S., lost to Abraham Lincoln  
 
Mar 4 1861-Dec 4 1861 U.S. Senate KY

1861-1865 Confederate States Army, rank of Major General, served in American Civil War

Feb 6 1865-May 10 1865 Confederate States of America Secretary of War under Jefferson Davis

1868 on Refused all requests, including one from President Ulysses S Grant, to return to politics

Remains the only Senator of the United States convicted of treason against the United States of America by the U.S. Senate

The only Vice President U.S. ever to take up arms against the government of the United States

Second Lady of the United States Mary Breckenridge 1857-1861

John C Fremont CA Republican

1829 entered Charleston College. Continued at Charleston College, while teaching at intervals in the countryside. Was expelled from the college for irregular attendance in 1831. Did not graduate, but he had been grounded in mathematics and natural sciences.

After attending Charleston College 1829-1831, was appointed a teacher of mathematics aboard the sloop USS Natchez

July 1838 Appointed a Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Topographical Engineers, and assisted and led multiple surveying expeditions through the western territory of the U.S. and beyond. In 1838 and 1839 he assisted Joseph Nicollet in exploring the lands between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. In 1841 with training from Nicollet, Frémont mapped portions of the Des Moines River.

1841 Married Jessie Benton, daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton from Missouri. Benton, Democratic Party leader for more than 30 years in the U.S. Senate, championed the expansionist movement, a political cause that became known as Manifest Destiny. The expansionists believed that the North American continent, from one end to the other, north and south, east and west, should belong to the citizens of the United States. They believed it was the nation's destiny to control the continent. This movement became a crusade for politicians such as Benton and his new son-in-law. Benton pushed appropriations through Congress for national surveys of the Oregon Trail, the Oregon Country, the Great Basin, and Sierra Nevada Mountains to California. Through his power and influence, Senator Benton obtained for Frémont the leadership of each expedition.

Jan 4 1847-Mar 1 1847 Military Governor CA

Sep 9 1850-Mar 3 1851 U.S. Senate CA

1856  Republican Party candidate for President U.S., first Republican Party candidate for President U.S., also nominated by North American Party, lost to James Buchanan

Initially Frémont was asked to be the Democratic candidate by former Virginia Governor John B Floyd and the powerful Preston family. Frémont announced that he was for Free Soil Kansas and was against the enforcement of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law. Republican leaders Nathaniel P Banks, Henry Wilson, and John Bigelow were able to get Frémont to join their political party. The Republican campaign used the slogan "Free Soil, Free Men, and Frémont" to crusade for free farms (homesteads) and against the Slave Power.

May 1861-Nov 1861 Commanded U.S. Army's Department of the West

1861-1862 Served in Civil War with rank of Major General U.S. Army

1864 Radical Republican (Radical Democracy) Party candidate for President U.S., abandoned campaign Sep 1864 after he brokered a political deal in which President Lincoln removed Postmaster General Montgomery Blair from office

Oct 16 1878-Oct 11 1881 Territorial Governor AZ

Assisted in and led multiple surveying expeditions to Western Territory of U.S.

Held rank of Lieutenant Colonel of California Batallion


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