APPENDICES
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THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES—THEIR BIOGRAPHIES IN BRIEF
(Compiled for The World Almanac from published memoirs, newspaper records, and personal correspondence with the families of the ex-Presidents.)
| No. | Full Name | Paternal Ancestry |
Parentage—Father | Father's Vocation | Parentage—Mother |
| 1. | George Washington | English | Augustine Washington | Planter | Mary Ball. |
| 2. | John Adams | English | John Adams | Farmer | Susanna Boylston. |
| 3. | Thomas Jefferson | Welsh | Peter Jefferson | Planter | Jane Randolph. |
| 4. | James Madison | English | James Madison | Planter | Nelly Conway. |
| 5. | James Monroe | Scotch | Spence Munroe | Planter | Eliza Jones. |
| 6. | John Quincy Adams | English | John Adams | Lawyer | Abigail Smith. |
| 7. | Andrew Jackson | Scotch-Irish | Andrew Jackson | Farmer | Elizabeth Hutchinson. |
| 8. | Martin Van Buren | Dutch | Abraham Van Buren | Farmer | Maria Hoes. |
| 9. | William Henry Harrison | English | Benjamin Harrison | Statesman | Elizabeth Bassett. |
| 10. | John Tyler | English | John Tyler | Jurist | Mary Armistead. |
| 11. | James K. Polk | Scotch-Irish | Samuel Polk | Farmer | Jane Knox. |
| 12. | Zachary Taylor | English | Richard Taylor | Planter | Sarah Strother. |
| 13. | Millard Fillmore | English | Nathaniel Fillmore | Farmer | Phebe Millard. |
| 14. | Franklin Pierce | English | Benjamin Pierce | Farmer | Anna Kendrick. |
| 15. | James Buchanan | Scotch-Irish | James Buchanan | Merchant | Elizabeth Speer. |
| 16. | Abraham Lincoln | English | Thomas Lincoln | Farmer | Nancy Hanks. |
| 17. | Andrew Johnson | English | Jacob Johnson | Sexton and Constable | Mary McDonough. |
| 18. | Ulysses Simpson Grant | Scotch | Jesse Root Grant | Tanner | Harriet Simpson. |
| 19. | Rutherford Birchard Hayes | Scotch | Rutherford Hayes | Merchant | Sophia Birchard. |
| 20. | James Abram Garfield | English | Abram Garfield | Farmer | Eliza Ballou. |
| 21. | Chester Alan Arthur | Scotch-Irish | William Arthur | Clergyman | Malvina Stone. |
| 22, 24. | Grover Cleveland | English | Richard Falley Cleveland | Clergyman | Anna Neal. |
| 23. | Benjamin Harrison | English | John Scott Harrison | Farmer | Elizabeth F. Irwin. |
| 25. | William McKinley | Scotch-Irish | William McKinley | Iron Manufacturer | Nancy C. Allison. |
| 26. | Theodore Roosevelt | Dutch | Theodore Roosevelt | Merchant | Martha Bullock. |
| 27. | William Howard Taft | English | Alphonso Taft | Lawyer | Louise M. Torrey. |
| 28. | Woodrow Wilson | English | Joseph R. Wilson | Clergyman | Jessie Woodrow. |
