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 |
Friday, July 30, 2010
James Monroe
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
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
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
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.
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