President Family Tree

President Family Tree

1.) George Washington

Toothaches bothered him for years. When he was 57, he had all his teeth pulled. From then on, he wore ivory false teeth set in a silver plate.

2.) John Adams

3.) Thomas Jefferson

4.) James Madison

He is known as the father of the Bill of Rights and famous for presiding over the War of 1812 with Britain

Adams drafted the Massachusetts Constitution, which was approved by voters in 1780 and is still in effect today. The document’s structure of chapters, sections and articles served as a model for the United States Constitution, and its Declaration of Rights itemized individual liberties such as freedom of the press and freedom of worship that were later enshrined in the federal Bill of Rights.

Jefferson was a Bachelor President. Jefferson married Martha Wayles Skelton when he was twenty-nine. Her holdings doubled Jefferson's wealth. Only two of his children lived to maturity. His wife died ten years after being married before Jefferson became the president. While president, his two daughters along with James Madison's wife Dolley served as the unofficial hostesses for the White House.

5.) James Monroe

6.) John Quincy Adams

7.) Andrew Jackson

Married America's Only Foreign Born First Lady. Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams was the daughter of an American merchant and an Englishwoman. She grew up in London and France. Sadly their marriage was marked by unhappiness.

President Thomas Jefferson recalled Monroe to diplomatic duty when he made him a special envoy to France to help negotiate the Louisiana Purchase. After this, he was sent to Great Britain to be the minister there from 1803-1807 as a means to try and stop the downward spiral in relations that would eventually end in the War of 1812.

Jackson’s parents emigrated from Ireland.

Both of Jackson’s parents, Andrew and Elizabeth, were born in Ireland’s Country Antrim (in present-day Northern Ireland), and in 1765 they set sail with their two sons, Hugh and Robert, from the port town of Carrickfergus for America. The Jacksons settled with fellow Scotch-Irish Presbyterians in the Waxhaws region that straddled North and South Carolina.

8.) Martin Van Buren

9.) William Henry Harrison

10.) John Tyler

Dropped Out of Medical School

Originally, Harrison wanted to be a doctor and actually attended the Pennsylvania Medical School. However, he could not afford the tuition and dropped out to join the military.

His presidency was marred by a serious economic depression that led to bank failures and food riots known as the "Panic of 1837."

Had 14 Children Who Survived to Adulthood. Rare at the time, Tyler had fourteen children who lived to maturity. Five of his children served in the Confederacy during the US Civil War including his son, John Tyler Jr., as Assistant Secretary of War.

17.) Andrew Johnson

19.) Rutherford B. Hayes

12.) Zachary Taylor

13.) Millard Fillmore

16.) Abraham Lincoln

15.) James Buchanan

14.) Franklin Pierce

18.) Ulysses S. Grant

11.) James K. Polk

His Career was a military officer. Taylor never attended college, having been taught by a number of tutors. He joined the military and served from 1808-1848 when he became president.

Fillmore was born into extreme poverty. His family didn't have a lot of money. he had to work on the family land.

He adopted two African American boys. He adopted them during the Creek War in 1813 and 1814. Theodore died later in 1814 and Lyncoya died in 1828 of tuberculosis.

He was a Alcoholic President.

Pierce was criticized during the campaign and his presidency for his alcoholism. During the used election of 1852, the Whigs mocked Pierce as the "Hero of Many a Well-Fought Bottle."

He Fought in the War of 1812.

Buchanan began his professional career as a lawyer but decided to volunteer for a company of dragoons to fight in the War of 1812. He was involved in the March on Baltimore. He was honorably discharged after the war.

Hayes was sworn in secret

,because of the bitter controversy of Hayes’ election, the Republicans were worried that the opposing party may try to derail his inauguration. He became the first president to be given the oath of office inside the White House. This occurred in a secret ceremony in the Red Room. Later that same day, he took the oath publicly on the East Portico of the Capitol.

James K. Polk was a sickly child who suffered from gallstones until he was seventeen. At that point, he had them surgically removed without anesthesia or sterilization. At the age of ten, he moved with his family to Tennessee. He only began his formal education once he turned eighteen in 1813. By 1816, he was accepted at the University of North Carolina. He graduated from there two years later with honors.

He served in the Mexican War.

After graduating from West Point, Grant was part of the military occupation of Texas. He served during the Mexican War with Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott, proving himself a valuable officer. He participated in the capture of Mexico City. By the end of the war he was promoted to be first lieutenant.

Lincoln supported women’s rights.

Abraham Lincoln was the first major political figure to suggest extending the right to vote to women. Twelve years before the first woman’s rights convention occurred, Lincoln, then a state legislator, made a statement to an Illinois paper supporting “female suffrage”.

32.) Franklin D. Roosevelt

30.) Calvin Coolidge

29.) Warren G. Harding

22.) Grover Cleveland

31.) Herbert Hoover

24.) Grover Cleveland

21.) Chester A. Arthur

28.) Woodrow Wilson

27.) William Howard Taft

25.) William McKinley

23.) Benjamin Harrison

26.) Theodore Roosevelt

20.) James A. Garfield

William McKinley was a Methodist.

He was the only President to serve three terms.

Some careers of Grover Cleveland are Lawyer, Politician, Statesman

In 1906, Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role of negotiator in the Russo-Japanese War. He was the first American to win the Nobel Prize.

Grover Cleveland is the only president who served two non-consecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893–1897) and so is the only person to be featured twice in the counting of the presidents.

Harrison had ice in his veins. Harrison was known by some as the “human iceberg” because he was often very formal and stiff when dealing with people.

At over 330 pounds, Taft was the heaviest president. Once, he got stuck in the White House bath tub and required six aides to pull him free. The tub was replaced with a new one large enough to hold four men.

He officially ended World War 1. Harding was a strong opponent to the League of Nations that was part of the Treaty of Paris that ended World War I. Because of his opposition, the treaty was not ratified which meant that World War I had not officially ended. Early in his term, a join resolution was passed which officially ended the war.

Wilson was president throughout World War I. He attempted to keep America out of the war and even won reelection with the slogan "He kept us out of war." Nonetheless, after the sinking of the Lusitania, continued run-ins with German submarines, and the release of the Zimmerman Telegram, America became involved. with the Lusitania, the continued harassment of American ships by German submarines, and the release of the Zimmerman Telegram meant that America joined the allies in April, 1917.

He became an orphan at nine. When Hoover was 6 years old, his father died of a heart attack while suffering a bout of pneumonia. A little more than three years later, Hoover’s mother, Hulda, died from pneumonia and typhoid fever, which left young “Bertie” and his older brother and younger sister parentless. The three children were separated to live with Hulda’s various relatives. When Hoover was 11, he was put on a westbound Union Pacific train to live with Hulda’s brother John Minthorn in Newburg, Oregon.

He was a quiet and serious young man. John Calvin Coolidge was born on July 4, 1872, in the small village of Plymouth Notch, Vermont. His father, also named John Calvin Coolidge (1845-1926), was a hardworking and frugal businessman who ran a general store and post office. His mother, Victoria Josephine Moor Coolidge (1846-85), died when her son was just 12 years old. He was raised to be honest, industrious and conservative, with a deep respect for business.

He was a skilled fisherman.

Arthur belonged to the Restigouche Salmon Club, a group of fishermen from New York who traveled to Canada to fish. A skilled fisherman, he once reportedly caught an eighty pound bass off the coast of Rhode Island.

He fought in the U.S. Civil War.

When the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) broke out, Garfield joined the Union army and served as a lieutenant colonel with the 42nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Despite a lack of military experience, he proved to be an effective leader. In November 1861, his brigade drove Confederate forces out of eastern Kentucky at Paintsville and Prestonsburg.

34.) Dwight D. Eisenhower

36. Lyndon B. Johnson

35.) John F. Kennedy

40. Ronald Reagan

39. Jimmy Carter

33.) Harry S. Truman

37. Richard Nixon

43. George W. Bush

38.) Gerald Ford

41. George H. W. Bush

44. Barack Obama

42. Bill Clinton

Prior to becoming a politician Ronald Reagan had been a radio broadcaster and actor

Bush graduated from Yale in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975, working in oil businesses after.

Ford was assigned vice president when Spiro Agnew resigned during Richard Nixon’s administration.

According from himself he was from Hawaii.

Before his service as the 34th U.S. President, Eisenhower was a five-star general in the U.S. Army.

Carter was the 39th President of the U.S. and the only to receive a Nobel Peace Prize (in 2002) after leaving office.

President Nixon was the only president to resign from office.

At age 43 Kennedy was the second youngest president ever when elected, after Theodore Roosevelt.

Clinton was elected into office at 46, making him the 3rd youngest president.

Before becoming the 41st President of the U.S., George H. W. Bush served as the 43rd Vice President, an ambassador, a congressman, and Director of Central Intelligence.

President Lyndon Johnson was one in four presidents to have served in all four federal offices of the U.S. government (President, Vice President, Representative, and Senator).

Truman served as President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s third vice president and succeeded him on April 12, 1945 when he died less than three months of his fourth term.