OHIOS GIFT

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OHIOS GIFT

• TO THE
• WHITE HOUSE

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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.
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OHIOS PRESIDENTS

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

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WILLIAM HERNY HARRISON

• 1841

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• 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

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• 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

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ULYSSES S. GRANT

• 1869-1877

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• BORN IN 1822
• WEST POINT GRADUATE
• HE SERVED TWO TERMS AS PRESIDENT DURING THE
  CRUCIAL RECONSRTUCTION PERIOD AFTER THE CIVIL WAR

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• 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

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RUTHERFORD B. HAYES

• 1877-1881

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• ATTENDED KENYON COLLEGE IN GAMBIER
• STUDIED LAW AT HARVARD
• ROSE TO THE RANK OF GENERAL DURING THE CIVIL WAR

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• SERVED IN THE U.S. CONGRESS
• GOVERNOR OF OHIO FOR THREE TERMS
• TROOPS WERE FINALLY REMOVED FROM THE SOUTH DURING
  HIS PRESIDENCY

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JAMES A. GARFIELD

• 1881

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• ATTENDED HIRAM COLLEGE
• LATER HE BECAME A PROFFESSOR AT HIRAM COLLEGE
• SERVED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR 18
  YEARS

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• 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

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BENJAMIN HARRISON

• 1889-1893

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• GRANDSON OF WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON
• GRADUATED FROM MIAMI UNIVERSITY
• PRACTICED LAW IN INDIANAPOLIS

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• 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

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WILLIAM MCKINLEY

• 1897-1901

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• BORN IN NILES, OHIO, IN 1842
• ATTENDED ALLEGHENY COLLEGE IN PENNSYVANIA
• PRACTICED LAW IN CANTON, OHIO

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• 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

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WILLIAM H. TAFT

• 1909-1913

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• BORN IN CINCINNATI IN 1857
• ATTENDED YALE UNIVERSITY
• GOVERNOR OF THE PHILIPPINES IN 1901

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• 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

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WARREN G. HARDING

• 1921-1923

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• THERE WAS A LOT OF CORRUPTION DURING HIS TERM
• HIS SLOGAN WAS A RETURN TO NORMALALCY AFTER
  W.W.II

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• 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