OHIO’S GIFT

TO THE

WHITE HOUSE

GREAT MEN MAKE A GREAT NATION. OHIO HAS GIVEN

OUR NATION GREAT DOCTORS, INVENTORS, SCIENCTIST, BUT THE GREATEST GIFT IS THE

EIGHT PRESIDENTS THAT CAME FROM OUR STATE.

OHIO’S PRESIDENTS

• WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON• ULYSSES S. GRANT• RUTHERFORD B. HAYES• JAMES A. GARFIELD• BENJAMIN HARRISON• WILLIAM MCKINLEY• WILLIAM H. TAFT• WARREN G. HARDING

WILLIAM HERNY HARRISON

• 1841

• BORN IN VIRGINIA 1775

• HIS FATHER WAS A MEMBER OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

• AFTER SERVING WITH GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE HE MOVED TO NORTH BEND OHIO

• 1ST GOVERNOR FROM THE NORTH WEST TERITORY

• GOVERNOR OF THE INDIANA TERRITORY 1800

• GENERAL IN THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE

• DIED FROM PNEUMONIA ONE MONTH AFTER TAKING OFFICE

• HE WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO DIE IN OFFICE

ULYSSES S. GRANT

• 1869-1877

• BORN IN 1822• WEST POINT

GRADUATE• HE SERVED TWO

TERMS AS PRESIDENT DURING THE CRUCIAL RECONSRTUCTION PERIOD AFTER THE CIVIL WAR

• SERVED IN THE MEXICAN WAR

• REJOINED THE ARMY AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR

• HE WAS PLACED IN CHARGE OF THE UNION ARMY IN 1864

• GENRAL LEE SURRENDERED TO HIM AT APPAMATOX COURT HOUSE

RUTHERFORD B. HAYES

• 1877-1881

• ATTENDED KENYON COLLEGE IN GAMBIER

• STUDIED LAW AT HARVARD

• ROSE TO THE RANK OF GENERAL DURING THE CIVIL WAR

• SERVED IN THE U.S. CONGRESS

• GOVERNOR OF OHIO FOR THREE TERMS

• TROOPS WERE FINALLY REMOVED FROM THE SOUTH DURING HIS PRESIDENCY

JAMES A. GARFIELD

• 1881

• ATTENDED HIRAM COLLEGE

• LATER HE BECAME A PROFFESSOR AT HIRAM COLLEGE

• SERVED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR 18 YEARS

• HE WAS A GENERAL IN THE CIVIL WAR

• HE WAS VIRTUALY UNKOWN WHEN HE RAN FOR PRESIDENT

• FOUR MONTHS AFTER HE WAS ELECTED HE WAS ASSASSINATED BY CHARLES GUITEAU

BENJAMIN HARRISON

• 1889-1893

• GRANDSON OF WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON

• GRADUATED FROM MIAMI UNIVERSITY

• PRACTICED LAW IN INDIANAPOLIS

• U.S. SENATOR FOR INDIANA

• SIX NEW STATES WERE ADDED WHILE HE WAS PRESIDENT

• HE HAD MANY NEW PROGRAMS SUCH AS THE MCKINLEY TARIFF ACT

WILLIAM MCKINLEY

• 1897-1901

• BORN IN NILES, OHIO, IN 1842

• ATTENDED ALLEGHENY COLLEGE IN PENNSYVANIA

• PRACTICED LAW IN CANTON, OHIO

• SERVED AS AN OFFICER IN THE CIVIL WAR

• ELECTED TO THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTITIVES IN 1876

• ELECTED GOVERNOR OF OHIO IN 1891• THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

OCCURRED DURING HIS PRESIDENCY• HE WAS ASSASSINATED BY LEON

CZOLGOSZ IN BUFFALO NY IN 1901

WILLIAM H. TAFT

• 1909-1913

• BORN IN CINCINNATI IN 1857

• ATTENDED YALE UNIVERSITY

• GOVERNOR OF THE PHILIPPINES IN 1901

• SERVED AS A STATE AND FEDERAL JUDGE

• WORKED HARD TO BREAK UP MONOPOLIES

• WAS NOT REELECTED BECAUSE OF A SPLIT IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

• IN 1921 HE WAS APPOINTED CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT

WARREN G. HARDING

• 1921-1923

• THERE WAS A LOT OF CORRUPTION DURING HIS TERM

• HIS SLOGAN WAS A “RETURN TO NORMALALCY” AFTER W.W.II

• HE WAS ELECTED AS A COMPROMISE CANDIDATE FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

• HE RAN HIS CAMPAIGN FROM IS HOME IN MARION

• HE DIED IN 1923 WHILE STILL IN OFFICE, APPARENTLY OF FOOD POISONING