The Presidents, First Ladies, and Vice

Includes biographies of all of the nation's presidents, first ladies, and vice presidents, with discussions of their early lives and important events that occurred while they were in office.

Preface

vii

Daily Life of the President

1

(24)

White House Life

1

(15)

Protecting the President: The Secret Service

16

(9)

Biographies of the Presidents

25

(116)

George Washington

27

(4)

John Adams

31

(3)

Thomas Jefferson

34

(4)

James Madison

38

(3)

James Monroe

41

(2)

John Quincy Adams

43

(2)

Andrew Jackson

45

(4)

Martin Van Buren

49

(2)

William Henry Harrison

51

(2)

John Tyler

53

(2)

James K. Polk

55

(2)

Zachary Taylor

57

(2)

Millard Fillmore

59

(2)

Franklin Pierce

61

(2)

James Buchanan

63

(2)

Abraham Lincoln

65

(3)

Andrew Johnson

68

(3)

Ulysses S. Grant

71

(3)

Rutherford B. Hayes

74

(2)

James A. Garfield

76

(2)

Chester A. Arthur

78

(2)

Grover Cleveland

80

(2)

Benjamin Harrison

82

(2)

William McKinley

84

(3)

Theodore Roosevelt

87

(3)

William Howard Taft

90

(3)

Woodrow Wilson

93

(3)

Warren G. Harding

96

(2)

Calvin Coolidge

98

(2)

Herbert Hoover

100

(3)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

103

(3)

Harry S. Truman

106

(4)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

110

(3)

John F. Kennedy

113

(2)

Lyndon B. Johnson

115

(3)

Richard Nixon

118

(3)

Gerald R. Ford

121

(3)

Jimmy Carter

124

(2)

Ronald Reagan

126

(4)

George Bush

130

(3)

Bill Clinton

133

(4)

George W. Bush

137

(4)

Biographies of the First Ladies

141

(58)

Martha Washington

145

(1)

Abigail Adams

146

(1)

Dolley Madison

147

(3)

Elizabeth Monroe

150

(1)

Louisa Adams

151

(2)

Anna Harrison

153

(3)

Letitia Tyler

156

(1)

Julia Tyler

157

(1)

Sarah Polk

158

(1)

Margaret Taylor

159

(1)

Abigail Fillmore

159

(1)

Jane Pierce

160

(1)

Mary Lincoln

161

(4)

Eliza Johnson

165

(1)

Julia Grant

166

(1)

Lucy Hayes

167

(1)

Lucretia Garfield

168

(1)

Frances Cleveland

169

(1)

Caroline Harrison

170

(1)

Ida McKinley

171

(1)

Edith Roosevelt

172

(1)

Helen Taft

173

(1)

Ellen Wilson

174

(1)

Edith Wilson

175

(1)

Florence Harding

176

(2)

Grace Coolidge

178

(1)

Lou Hoover

179

(1)

Eleanor Roosevelt

180

(2)

Bess Truman

182

(1)

Mamie Eisenhower

183

(1)

Jacqueline Kennedy

184

(1)

Lady Bird Johnson

185

(2)

Pat Nixon

187

(1)

Betty Ford

188

(1)

Rosalynn Carter

189

(2)

Nancy Reagan

191

(2)

Barbara Bush

193

(1)

Hillary Rodham Clinton

194

(2)

Laura Bush

196

(3)

Biographies of the Vice Presidents

199

(59)

John Adams

201

(1)

Thomas Jefferson

201

(1)

Aaron Burr

202

(1)

George Clinton

203

(2)

Elbridge Gerry

205

(2)

Daniel D. Tompkins

207

(1)

John C. Calhoun

208

(2)

Martin Van Buren

210

(1)

Richard M. Johnson

210

(2)

John Tyler

212

(1)

George M. Dallas

212

(2)

Millard Fillmore

214

(1)

William R. King

214

(1)

John C. Breckinridge

215

(2)

Hannibal Hamlin

217

(1)

Andrew Johnson

218

(1)

Schuyler Colfax

219

(1)

Henry Wilson

220

(1)

William A. Wheeler

221

(2)

Chester A. Arthur

223

(1)

Thomas A. Hendricks

223

(2)

Levi P. Morton

225

(1)

Adlai E. Stevenson

226

(2)

Garret A. Hobart

228

(1)

Theodore Roosevelt

229

(1)

Charles W. Fairbanks

229

(2)

James S. Sherman

231

(1)

Thomas R. Marshall

232

(2)

Calvin Coolidge

234

(1)

Charles C. Dawes

234

(2)

Charles Curtis

236

(1)

John Nance Garner

237

(2)

Henry A. Wallace

239

(1)

Henry S. Truman

240

(1)

Alben W. Barkley

241

(1)

Richard Nixon

242

(1)

Lyndon B. Johnson

243

(1)

Hubert H. Humphrey

243

(2)

Spiro T. Agnew

245

(2)

Gerald R. Ford

247

(1)

Nelson A. Rockefeller

247

(2)

Walter F. Mondale

249

(1)

George Bush

250

(1)

Dan Quayle

251

(2)

Al Gore

253

(2)

Richard Cheney

255

(3)

Illustration Credits and Acknowledgments

258

(1)

Index

259

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The Presidents, First Ladies, and Vice Presidents: White House Biographies, 1789-2001

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