Friday, July 30, 2010

James Monroe

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Born

April 28, 1758


Birth Place

Westmoreland County, Virginia


Nationality

American


Political party

Democratic-Republican


Spouse(s)

Elizabeth Kortright Monroe


Occupation

Lawyer Farmer/Planter


Religion

Episcopal


Died

July 4, 1831


Death Place

New York, New York



James Monroe served was the fifth President of the United States. He was the last Founding Father of the United States, the last one from the Virginia family and the Republican Generation to become the U.S. President. Monroe fought in the American radical War. He gained knowledge as an executive as the Governor of Virginia and rose to national prominence when as a envoy in France he helped negotiate the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. During the War of 1812 Monroe held the dangerous roles of Secretary of State and the Secretary of War under President James Madison. Monroe was plagued by financial difficulties.

Martin Van Buren

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Born

December 5, 1782


Birth Place

Kinderhook, New York


Political party

Democratic-Republican,


Democratic, and Free Soil


Spouse(s)

Hannah Van Buren


Occupation

Lawyer


Religion

Dutch Reformed


Died

July 24, 1862


Death Place

Kinderhook, New York



Martin Van Buren was serves as the eighth President of the United States also the 10th Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson.He was a key manager of the Democratic Party. He was the first president to be born an American resident. He is the only president not to have speak English as his first language, having grown up speaking Dutch. He was the initial president from New York. He also was one of the central figures in rising modern political organizations. He is one of only two people, the extra being Thomas Jefferson, to serve as Secretary of State, Vice President and President.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

John Quincy Adams - American President

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Born
July 11, 1767

Birth Place
Braintree,

Province of Massachusetts Bay,

British America

Political party
Federalist

Democratic-Republican

National Republican

Anti-Masonic

Whig

Spouse(s)
Louisa Catherine Johnson

Occupation
Lawyer

Religion
Unitarianism

Died
February 23, 1848

Death Place
Washington, D.C.


John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States. Adams was son of the President John Adams and Abigail Adams. Adams is best known as a diplomat who formed American's foreign policy in line with his deeply conservative and passionately nationalist commitment to America's republican values. Adams was elected a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts after exit office, the only president ever to do so, helping for the last 17 years of his life with far better success than he had achieved in the presidency. Adams properly predicted the dissolution of the Union on the issue, though the progression of bloody slave insurrections he foresaw never came to pass.

John Adams

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Born

October 30, 1735


Birth Place

Braintree,


Province of Massachusetts Bay,


British America


Political party

Federalist


Spouse(s)

Abigail Smith Adams


Occupation

Lawyer


Religion

Unitarian


Died

July 4, 1826


Death Place

Quincy, Massachusetts, USA



John Adams was an American politician and political philosopher and the 2nd President of the United States, past being the first Vice President of the United States for two terms. He was one of the most powerful Founding Fathers of the United States. As a representative of Congress in Europe, he was a major negotiator of the eventual peace treaty with Great Britain, and primarily responsible for obtaining significant loans from Amsterdam bankers. He encountered vicious attacks by the Jeffersonian Republicans, as well as the leading faction in his own Federalist Party led by his bitter enemy Alexander Hamilton. The major achievement of his presidency was his peaceful resolution of the Quasi-War in the face of Hamiltonian opposition.