William Henry Harrison
9th president March 4-April 4, 1841
Whig
came to Ohio early 1790's to fight Indians
Represented Ohio in House of Representatives 1816-1819
Served as Ohio senator in U. S. Senate 1825-1828
"Keep the ball rolling" "Tippecanoe and Tyler too"
First president to die in office (shortest term)
Record for longest inaugural speech (one hour 45 minutes)
Grandfather of a president
Ohio - 7 - Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Howard Taft, Warren Harding
Ulysses Simpson Grant
18th president - March 4, 1869 - March 3, 1877
Republican
Born in Pt. Pleasant, Ohio
First president to run against a woman (Victoria Claflin Woodhull from Ohio - nominated by the Equal Rights Party for 1872 election)
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
19th president - March 4, 1877 - March 3 188
Republican
Born in Delaware, Ohio
First president to use oval office desk (gift of Queen Victoria)
James Abram Garfield
20th president March 4 - September 19, 1881
Republican
Born in Orange, Ohio
Could write Greek with one hand at same time he wrote Latin in other
Brigadier general in the Civil War
Shot July 2, 1881, and died Sept 19 from infection and internal hemorrhage
Benjamin Harrison
23rd president - March 4, 1889 - March 4, 1893
Republican
Born in North Bend, Ohio
Grandson of William Henry Harrison
Only president to be preceded and followed by same person (Cleveland)
Had first Christmas tree in White House (1889)
First to have electricity in White House (1891)
William McKinley
25th president - March 4, 1897 - Sept 14, 1901
Born in Niles, Ohio
First president to campaign by phone (1896)
Foreign policy dominated administration
Assassinated by deranged anarchist at Buffalo Pan-American Exposition
William Howard Taft
27th president March 4, 1909 - March 3, 1913
Republican
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio
Largest US president (6'2" 333 lbs.
Started tradition of president opening baseball season
ONLY PRESIDENT TO BECOME CHIEF JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT (appointed by Harding 1921)
Warren Gamaliel Harding
29th president
Republican
Born in Corsica, Ohio
Newspaper publisher
First presidential election where women voted nationwide
First president who could drive a car
Died while in office - heart attack in San Francisco
Massachusetts - 4 - John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John F. Kennedy, George H. W. Bush
New York - 4 - Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt
North Carolina - 2 - James Polk, Andrew Johnson
Texas - 2 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson
Vermont - 2 - Chester A. Arthur, Calvin Coolidge
Fourteen states - 1 - Arkansas Bill Clinton; California Richard M. Nixon; Connecticut George W. Bush; Georgia Jimmy Carter; Hawaii Barack Obama; Illinois Ronald Reagan; Iowa Herbert Hoover; Kentucky Abraham Lincoln; Missouri Harry S. Truman; Nebraska Gerald Ford; New Hampshire Franklin Pierce; New Jersey Grover Cleveland; Pennsylvania James Buchanan; South Carolina Andrew Jackson
source The Columbus Dispatch January 25, 2009
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