Presidents of the United States Hotlist

James Buchanan had 10 brothers and sisters, yet he never married and had children of his own. John Adams and John Quincy Adams were father and son, William H. Harrison and Benjamin Harrison were grandfather and grandson, James Madison and Zachary Taylor were second cousins, and Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt were fifth cousins. Seven presidents were born in Ohio and eight in Virginia. Martin Van Buren was the first president who was born a United States citizen. Chester A. Arthur, Millard Fillmore, Gerald R. Ford, Andrew Johnson, and John Tyler were never elected president; they became president after the death or resignation of another president.

The following internet sites are a hotlist of resources about the presidents of the United States where you can find out who was the youngest president to leave office (John F. Kennedy at 46), the oldest to leave office (Ronald Reagan at 77), and many other interesting presidential facts.

The Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
http://www.bartleby.com/124/index.html

Full text of the inaugural addresses of the presidents from Washington to Clinton.

The American Experience : The Presidents
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/presidents/indexjs.html

You'll find biographies of each president and timelines of their administrations, accomplishments, and presidential records. There is a teacher's guide with discussion guides and classroom activities.

U.S. Presidents: Lists and Records
http://www.heptune.com/preslist.html

Fun information. Learn which state each president was from and their political affiliation.

American Memory: Library of Congress: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/odmdhtml/preshome.html

Portraits and photos of the presidents and their wives.

The White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/

Biographies of each president from the White House site. Which president had the nickname, Old Rough and Ready?

U.S. Presidential Autographs
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/collect/uspresa.htm

Check out the handwriting of each American president! Ulysses S. Grant's signature is hard to read, and James Polk's signature is fancy.

Dead Presidents
http://starship.python.net/crew/manus/Presidents/

An important site for anyone seriously interested in the study of American presidents. See the actual gravesites of just about every dead president.

The American Presidents : Life Portraits
http://www.americanpresidents.org/

The personal stories of our 41 presidents. It's part of C-SPAN's 20th Anniversary Television Series. Which president was the first president to win the Nobel Peace Prize? He won it for the Russo-Japanese Treaty.

The American Presidency
http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/prescont.html

Part of Grolier Online, there are biographies of each president and first lady.

The Presidents.
http://www.ibiblio.org/lia/president/

Information about each leader plus links to other resources such as some presidents' historic homes or presidential libraries.

The Modern Presidency
http://www.vcsc.k12.in.us/staff/mhutch/modpres/mainpage.htm

Created by high school students, it contains Power Point presentations about different presidents and presidential issues.

Presidents
http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7Eusa/P/

Links to information about each president.

Author: LINDA MOSBACKER - Email linda.mosbacker@slc.k12.ut.us