The first president

Discussion in 'General Lounge' started by bbauer, Jul 29, 2001.

  1. bbauer

    bbauer Banned

    Who was the first President of the United States?

    Can anyone correctly tell me the names of the first 7 Presidents of the United States and the dates during which they served?
     
  2. GEORGE

    GEORGE Well-Known Member

    Vice President is scond name
    1
    1789-1797
    George Washington
    John Adams
    2
    1797-1801
    John Adams
    Thomas Jefferson *
    3
    1801-1809
    Thomas Jefferson
    Aaron Burr, George Clinton
    4
    1809-1817
    James Madison
    George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry
    5
    1817-1825
    James Monroe
    Daniel D Tompkins
    6
    1825-1829
    John Quincy Adams
    John C Calhoun
    7
    1829-1837
    Andrew Jackson
    John C Calhoun +, Martin Van Buren
    8
    1837-1841
    Martin Van Buren
    Richard M Johnson #
    9
    1841
    William Henry Harrison
    John Tyler
    10
    1841-1845
    John Tyler
    None
    11
    1845-1849
    James Polk
    George M Dallas
    12
    1849-1850
    Zachary Taylor
    Millard Fillmore
    13
    1850-1853
    Millard Fillmore
    None
    14
    1853-1857
    Franklin Pierce
    William R King
    15
    1857-1861
    James Buchanan
    John C Breckinridge
    16
    1861-1865
    Abraham Lincoln
    Hannibal Hamlin, Andrew Johnson *
    17
    1865-1869
    Andrew Johnson
    None
    18
    1869-1877
    Ulysses Simpson Grant **
    Schuyler Colfax, Henry Wilson
    19
    1877-1881
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes
    William A Wheeler
    20
    1881
    James Abram Garfield
    Chester A Arthur
    21
    1881-1885
    Chester Alan Arthur
    None
    22
    1885-1889
    Stephen Grover Cleveland
    Thomas Hendricks
    23
    1889-1893
    Benjamin Harrison
    Levi P Morton
    24
    1893-1897
    Grover Cleveland
    Adlai E Stevenson
    25
    1897-1901
    William McKinley
    Garret A Hobart, Theodore Roosevelt
    26
    1901-1909
    Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
    Charles W Fairbanks
    27
    1909-1913
    William Howard Taft
    James S Sherman
    28
    1913-1921
    Thomas Woodrow Wilson
    Thomas R Marshall
    29
    1921-1923
    Warren Gamaliel Harding
    Calvin Coolidge
    30
    1923-1929
    John Calvin Coolidge
    Charles G Dawes
    31
    1929-1933
    Herbert Clark Hoover
    Charles Curtis
    32
    1933-1945
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    John N Garner, Henry A Wallace, Harry S Truman
    33
    1945-1953
    Harry S Truman ##
    Alben W Barkley
    34
    1953-1961
    Dwight David Eisenhower
    Richard M Nixon
    35
    1961-1963
    John (Jack) Fitzgerald Kennedy
    Lyndon B Johnson
    36
    1963-1969
    Lyndon Baines Johnson
    Hubert Humphrey
    37
    1969-1974
    Richard Milhous Nixon +
    Spiro T Agnew +, Gerald Ford %
    38
    1974-1977
    Gerald Rudolph Ford
    Nelson Rockefeller %
    39
    1977-1981
    James (Jimmy) Earl Carter
    Walter Mondale
    40
    1981-1989
    Ronald Wilson Reagan
    George Bush
    41
    1989-1993
    George Herbert Walker Bush
    Dan Quayle
    42
    1993-2001
    William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton
    Al Gore
    43
    2001-
    George W Bush
    Dick Cheney


    ** He was baptised Hiram Ulysses Grant
     
  3. GEORGE

    GEORGE Well-Known Member

    MORE THAN 7, BUT TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT...

    AFTER I DID THE RESEARCH WHICH DIDN'T TAKE MUCH MORE THAN 5 MINUTES...
     
  4. bbauer

    bbauer Banned

    George.

    Nope!

    Wrong answers.

    There were a total of 15 prior to George Washington.

    7 of those have been correctly listed on another post.

    Sorry about that.
     
  5. GEORGE

    GEORGE Well-Known Member

    OK, I WASTED MY TIME...
     
  6. GEORGE

    GEORGE Well-Known Member

    If your into trivia...look at my list I copied and pasted...SOME SAY VP (NONE)...
     
  7. bbauer

    bbauer Banned

    No, George, you didn't waste your time.

    You learned something, and that is never a waste of time.

    No one can berate you because you were wrong.

    It just goes to show how badly history lessons can be wrong because every child in America is taught that George Washington was the first president of the United States of America.

    They also claim he was the father of our country and that can hardly be true either.

    And it also should be a valuable lesson that one should always question what is common knowledge because it also isn't always true.

    One excellent example of that is in dealing with the IRS and other matters. Almost nothing that IRS does is ever legal or correct or done in accordance with the laws of our land.
    Yet almost everyone dares not challenge them over their illegal acts which deprive people of their due process rights as constitutional guarantees.

    Hopefully one day, their reign of terror will be over and nothing more than a black blot upon our history.

    They do not rule by law, but rather by force of power.

    Our system of collections and credit bureaus also reign by power and terror, not by due process of law. Only by being aware of our rights and fighting back can we hope to win.
    We must know our rights under the law and demand that they be observed at all times. It is our duty as good citizens and our duty under the law to do so.


    Better luck next time, George.
     
  8. matty61184

    matty61184 Well-Known Member

    What are you referring to? Are you trying to say that you feel the founding fathers should be counted as the "presidents" of the country because they established it. And yes, I am 17 and learnt even in my senior gov't class that Washington was the first president. It was in my history book about U.S. Presidents from when I was 8 years old. Maybe I'll call the White House to confirm this one.
     
  9. bbauer

    bbauer Banned

    I'm not trying to say anything at all.

    Just trying to see if people know their history and their government.

    Some do and some don't.

    It's also obvious that our schools don't always teach the truth either.

    A for instance is the story of the battle of Montezuma.

    The story taught by the Mexicans to their school children and their people is far different that that taught to ours.

    I often wonder if Japenese school children are taught that Japan started the 2nd world war by bombing Pearl Harbor?
     
  10. Erica

    Erica Well-Known Member

    Isn't there a place for this sort of thing on another forum in this website?
     
  11. GEORGE

    GEORGE Well-Known Member

    IS THERE A HISTORYTALK.COM???????????
     
  12. bbauer

    bbauer Banned

    George:

    I know that there are, especially in the newsgroups.

    Lots of them.

    But few discuss history in terms of how it affects the law

    Most history buffs are into the Civil War and other major events, not the law, although there are a few I am quite sure.
     
  13. GEORGE

    GEORGE Well-Known Member

  14. Erica

    Erica Well-Known Member

    Actually what I was referring to is the general talk forum on this website.
     
  15. GEORGE

    GEORGE Well-Known Member


    CLICK ON GENERAL TALK ON THIS WEB SITE......
     
  16. Erica

    Erica Well-Known Member

    George,

    I know that, I was merely suggesting that threads like this belong there, not in the credit section. Sorry for the confusion.

    :)
     
  17. numnuts20

    numnuts20 Well-Known Member

    in response to GEORGE's comment:


    "If your into trivia...look at my list I copied and pasted...SOME SAY VP (NONE)..."


    here is related info:

    Presidents at least temporarily without vice-presidents
    John Tyler - He had been William Henry Harrison's VP, and the position was not filled when Tyler assumed the presidency.
    Millard Fillmore - He had been Zachary Taylor's VP, and the position was not filled when Fillmore assumed the presidency.
    Franklin Pierce - William Rufus DeVane King was elected VP, but died before assuming office, and was not replaced.
    Andrew Johnson - He had been Abraham Lincoln's VP, and the position was not filled when Johnson assumed the presidency.
    Ulysses Grant - His second-term VP, Henry Wilson, died in office and was not replaced, leaving Grant without a VP for more than a year.
    Chester Arthur - He had been James Garfield's VP, and the position was not filled when Arthur assumed the presidency.
    Grover Cleveland - His first-term VP, Thomas Hendricks, was not replaced after dying nine months into his term.
    William McKinkey - His first VP, Garret Hobart, died in office in 1899, and was not replaced until March 1900 by Theodore Roosevelt.
    William Taft - His VP, James Sherman, died shortly before the end of Taft's term and was not replaced.
    Calvin Coolidge - He had been Warren Harding's VP, and the position was not filled until Coolidge was elected for his own term in 1924.
    Harry Truman - He had been Franklin Roosevelt's last VP, and the position was not filled until Truman was elected for his own term in 1948.
    Lyndon Johnson - He had been John Kennedy's VP, and the position was not filled until Johnson was elected for his own term in 1964.


    Maybe PBM will relegate this thread to the "general forum"
     
  18. dave

    dave Well-Known Member

    George Washington was not the first president. He was the first under the constitution but there were seven other presidents who served under the Articles of Confederation adopted in 1781. The first was John Hanson- chosen by unanimous vote of Congress in 1781.
    Then: Elias Boudinot (1783), Thomas Mifflin (1784), Richard Henry Lee (1785), Nathan
    Gorman (1786), Arthur St. Clair (1787), and Cyrus Griffin (1788) - all prior to Washington taking office.

    A section of U.S. 50 from Washington, DC to Annapolis, MD is named after Hanson. Don't know if there are any other memorials to him.
     
  19. bbauer

    bbauer Banned

    John Hanson was the 9th president.

    Here is the official list from the Biographical Directory of the Congress, 1774-1949

    1 Peyton Randolph. Va.1774
    2. Henry Middleton S.C. 1774
    3. Peyton Randolph Va. 1775
    4. John Hancock. Mass. 1775-6
    5. Henry Laurens S.C. 1777
    6. John Jay N.Y. 1778
    7. Samuel Huntington Conn 1779-80
    8. Thomas McKean Del. 1781
    9 John Hanson Md. 1781
    10 Elias Boudinot N.J. 1782
    11. Thomis Mifflin Pa. 1783.
    12 Richard Henry Lee. Va. 1784-5
    13. Nathaniel Gorham Mass. 1786
    14. Arthur St. Clair Pa. 1787
    15 Cyrus Griffin Va. 1788

    That's the official list exactly as printed.
     
  20. dave

    dave Well-Known Member

    Before the Articles of the Confederation (1981), there was no organized government that called itself the United States of America. I have trouble then with the idea that we had presidents evern before the declaration of independence. These people may have been presidents of the continental congresses, but not presidents of the US which did not yet exist. It is true that the office of the presidency was very weak under the Articles. Essentially, the president was the chief officer of a congressional committee carrying out executive duties when the Congress was not in session.
     

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