Progressive Presidents Hayes 19 th to Wilson 28

Progressive Presidents Hayes 19 th to Wilson 28 th

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Rutherford B. Hayes 19 th • Elected President by one electoral vote after the highly disputed election of 1876 • Losing the popular vote to his opponent, Samuel Tilden • Hayes was the only president whose election was decided by a congressional commission.

James a. Garfield 20 th • Garfield was the second U. S. President to be assassinated • President Garfield, a Republican, had been in office a scant four months when he was shot and fatally wounded on July 2, 1881. • He lived until September 19, having served for six months and fifteen days.

Chester A. Arthur 21 st • He was the twentieth vice president under James Garfield. • Garfield did not die until September 19 at which time Arthur was sworn in as president, serving until March 4, 1885.

Grover Cleveland 22 nd (and 24 th) • Cleveland is the only President to serve two non -consecutive terms (1885– 1889 and 1893– 1897) and thus is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents • He opposed imperialism, taxes, subsidies and inflationary policies, and as a reformer he worked against corruption, patronage, and bossism.

Benjamin Harrison 23 rd • He was the first, and to date only, president from the state of Indiana. • His presidential administration is best known for its economic legislation, – including the Mc. Kinley Tariff and – the Sherman Antitrust Act – and annual federal spending reached one billion dollars for the first time.

Grover Cleveland 24 • Only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later.

William Mc. Kinley 25 th • The last veteran of the American Civil War to be elected. • As president, he fought the Spanish-American War. • He annexed the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam, as well as Hawaii • Was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, and succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.

Theodore Roosevelt 26 th • In 1901, as Vice President, the 42 -year-old Roosevelt succeeded President William Mc. Kinley. • He distrusted wealthy businessmen and dissolved forty monopolistic corporations as a trust buster • He was the first U. S. president to call for universal health care and national health insurance.

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William Howard Taft 27 th • His presidency was characterized by • trust-busting, • strengthening the Interstate Commerce Commission • expanding the civil service, • establishing a better postal system • promoting world peace • Split with TR making TR run on a third party ticket called Bull Moose party.

Woodrow Wilson 28 th • He served as President of Princeton University and then became the Governor of New Jersey in 1910 • A two term president • His second term centered on World War I.