Who's the 100th President?

John Calvin Coolidge Jr. Plymouth Notch, Vermont, U.S.
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Who was the 200th president?

His Presidency was impactful, but cut short after 200 days when he was assassinated. As the last of the log cabin Presidents, James A. Garfield attacked political corruption and won back for the Presidency a measure of prestige it had lost during the Reconstruction period. He was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1831.
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Who is the 50th President of the United States?

Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas. He is the son of William Jefferson Blythe Jr., a traveling salesman who had died in an automobile accident three months before his birth, and Virginia Dell Cassidy (later Virginia Kelley).
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Who is the most forgotten president?

Harrison is one of the least well-known presidents among the general public; a 2012 article in New York selected Harrison as the "most forgotten president." Polls of historians and political scientists have generally ranked Harrison as a below-average president.
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What president did nothing?

The political genius of President Coolidge, Walter Lippmann pointed out in 1926, was his talent for effectively doing nothing: “This active inactivity suits the mood and certain of the needs of the country admirably.
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Who is the richest president?

The richest president in history is believed to be Donald Trump, who is often considered the first billionaire president.
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Who is the 44th President?

Barack Obama served as the 44th President of the United States. His story is the American story — values from the heartland, a middle-class upbringing in a strong family, hard work and education as the means of getting ahead, and the conviction that a life so blessed should be lived in service to others.
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What is the 69th President?

Benjamin Harrison | The White House.
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Who is the real first President?

On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States.
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Who was the 21st President?

The son of a Baptist preacher who had emigrated from northern Ireland, Chester A. Arthur was America's 21st President (1881-85), succeeding President James Garfield upon his assassination. Dignified, tall, and handsome, with clean-shaven chin and side-whiskers, Chester A.
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Who was the 26th President?

With the assassination of President William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, became the 26th and youngest President in the Nation's history (1901-1909).
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Who was President for 1 day?

President for One Day may refer to: David Rice Atchison, a 19th-century U.S. Senator best known for the claim that he served as Acting President of the United States on March 4, 1849.
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Who was the youngest President?

The youngest to become president by election was John F. Kennedy, who was inaugurated at age 43. The oldest person to assume the presidency was Joe Biden, who took the presidential oath of office 61 days after turning 78. Assassinated at age 46, John F.
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Who was the 40th President?

Ronald Reagan, originally an American actor and politician, became the 40th President of the United States serving from 1981 to 1989. His term saw a restoration of prosperity at home, with the goal of achieving “peace through strength” abroad.
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Who was 3rd President?

Thomas Jefferson, a spokesman for democracy, was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States (1801–1809).
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How many presidents are still alive 2021?

He was, and remains, the only U.S. president never affiliated with a political party. As of May 2022, there are five living former presidents: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.
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Who were the 8 presidents before George Washington?

The Eight Presidents Before George Washington
  • John Hanson (1721-1783)
  • Elias Boudinot (1782-83)
  • Thomas Mifflin (1783-84)
  • Richard Henry Lee (1784-85)
  • John Hancock (1785-86)
  • Nathan Gorman (1786-87)
  • Arthur St. Clair (1787-88)
  • Cyrus Griffin (1788-89)
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Who was the 39 President of the United States?

Jimmy Carter served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for work to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.
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Who was the best president?

Abraham Lincoln has taken the highest ranking in each survey and George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt have always ranked in the top five while James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Franklin Pierce have been ranked at the bottom of all four surveys.
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Do presidents get paid for life?

Former presidents receive a pension equal to the salary of a Cabinet secretary (Executive Level I); as of 2020, it is $219,200 per year. The pension begins immediately after a president's departure from office.
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Who is the richest woman in the world?

or the second year in a row on Forbes' list of the World's Billionaires, the planet's richest woman is L'Oréal heiress Françoise Bettencourt Meyers of France. Worth an estimated $74.8 billion, Bettencourt Meyers is an estimated $1.2 billion richer than a year ago, making her the fourteenth richest person in the world.
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