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APPENDICES
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. | President |
|
Vocation | College | Year of Grad.[1] | |||||
| In Early Life |
When Elected | |||||||||
| 1. | Washington | Feb. 22, 1732 | Near Bridges Creek, Westmoreland Co., Va. | Surveyor | Planter | None | ||||
| 2. | J. Adams | Oct. 30, 1735 | Quincy, Norfolk Co., Mass. | Teacher | Lawyer | Harvard | 1755 | |||
| 3. | Jefferson | April 13, 1743 | Shadwell, Albemarle Co., Va. | Lawyer | Lawyer | William and Mary | 1762 | |||
| 4. | Madison | March 16, 1751 | Port Conway, King George Co., Va. | Lawyer | Lawyer | Princeton | 1771 | |||
| 5. | Monroe | April 28, 1758 | Head of Monroe's Creek, Westmoreland Co., Va. | Lawyer | Statesman[2] | William and Mary | 1776 | |||
| 6. | J. Q. Adams | July 11, 1767 | Quincy, Norfolk Co., Mass. | Lawyer | Lawyer | Harvard | 1787 | |||
| 7. | Jackson | March 15, 1767 | Near Cureton's Pond, Union Co., N. C.[3] | Lawyer | Lawyer | None | ||||
| 8. | Van Buren | Dec. 5, 1782 | Kinderhook, Columbia Co., N. Y. | Lawyer | Lawyer | None | ||||
| 9. | Harrison | Feb. 9, 1773 | Berkeley, Charles City Co., Va. | Soldier | Farmer | Hampden-Sydney | 1790 | |||
| 10. | Tyler | March 29, 1790 | Greenway, Charles City Co., Va. | Lawyer | Lawyer | William and Mary | 1807 | |||
| 11. | Polk | Nov. 2, 1795 | Near Pineville, Mecklenburg Co., N. C. | Lawyer | Lawyer | Uni. of N. Carolina | 1818 | |||
| 12. | Taylor | Nov. 24, 1784 | Near Orange C. H., Orange Co., Pa. | Soldier | Soldier | None | ||||
| 13. | Fillmore | Jan. 7, 1800 | Summerhill, Cayuga Co., N. Y. | Tailor | Lawyer | None | ||||
| 14. | Pierce | Nov. 23, 1804 | Hillsborough, Hillsborough Co., N. H. | Lawyer | Lawyer | Bowdoin | 1824 | |||
| 15. | Buchanan | April 23, 1791 | Cove Gap, Franklin Co., Pa. | Lawyer | Lawyer | Dickinson | 1809 | |||
| 16. | Lincoln | Feb. 12, 1809 | Near Hodgenville, Larue Co., Ky. | Farm-hand | Lawyer | None | ||||
| 17. | Johnson | Dec. 29, 1808 | Raleigh, Wake Co., N. C. | Tailor | Statesman | None | ||||
| 18. | Grant | April 27, 1822 | Point Pleasant, Clermont Co., O. | Soldier | Soldier | West Point | 1843 | |||
| 19. | Hayes | Oct. 4, 1822 | Delaware, Delaware Co., O. | Lawyer | Lawyer | Kenyon | 1842 | |||
| 20. | Garfield | Nov. 19, 1831 | Orange Township, Cuyahoga Co., O. | Teacher | Lawyer | Williams | 1856 | |||
| 21. | Arthur | Oct. 5, 1830 | Fairfield, Franklin Co., Vt. | Teacher | Lawyer | Union | 1848 | |||
| 22, 24. | Cleveland | March 18, 1837 | Caldwell, Essex Co., N. J. | Teacher | Lawyer | None | ||||
| 23. | B. Harrison | Aug. 20, 1833 | North Bend, Hamilton Co., O. | Lawyer | Lawyer | Miami University | 1853 | |||
| 25. | McKinley | Jan. 29, 1843 | Niles, Trumbull Co., O. | Lawyer | Lawyer | None | ||||
| 26. | Roosevelt | Oct. 27, 1858 | 28 E. 20th St., New York City, N. Y. | Publicist | Public official | Harvard | 1880 | |||
| 27. | Taft | Sept. 15, 1857 | Cincinnati, O. | Lawyer | Lawyer | Yale | 1878 | |||
| 28. | Wilson | Dec. 28, 1856 | Staunton, Va. | Teacher | Statesman | Princeton | 1879 | |||
- ↑ Or of departure from college.
- ↑ Monroe abandoned the profession of law when a young man, and was afterward, and until his election, always holding public office.
- ↑ Jackson called himself a South Carolinian, and his biographer, Kendall, recorded his birthplace in Lancaster Co., S. C.; but Parton has published documentary evidence to show that Jackson was born in Union Co., N. C., less than a quarter mile from the South Carolina line.
