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John Tyler was the first vice president to assume the presidency during a presidential term, setting the precedent that a vice president who does so becomes the fully functioning president with a new, distinct administration. [13] Throughout most of its history, American politics has been dominated by political parties. The Constitution is ...
Abraham Lincoln (/ ˈ l ɪ ŋ k ən / LINK-ən; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War , defeating the Confederacy , playing a major role in the abolition of slavery , expanding the power of the ...
March 4, 1825 – Adams becomes the sixth president; Calhoun becomes the seventh vice president; 1825 – Erie Canal is finally completed; 1826 – Former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on the same day, which happens to be on the fiftieth anniversary of the approval of the Declaration of independence.
His Personal Memoirs is considered by historians to be among the best by a U.S. president. Many presidents of the United States have written autobiographies about their presidencies and/or (some periods of) their life before their time in office. Some 19th-century U.S. presidents who wrote autobiographies are James Buchanan and Ulysses S. Grant ...
February 27 – Nicholas Biddle, financier, last president of the Second Bank of the United States (born 1786) February 28 – Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of State from 1843 to 1844 (born 1790) Thomas W. Gilmer, fifteenth Secretary of the Navy (born 1802) March 6 – Gabriel Duvall, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 to 1835 (born 1752)
Four of the earliest presidents were multilingual, with John Quincy Adams and Thomas Jefferson demonstrating proficiency in a number of foreign languages. James A. Garfield and his successor Chester A. Arthur knew Ancient Greek and Latin , but it was Garfield's ambidexterity that would lead to rumors that he could write both at the same time.
1 March 1844 2 days Interim president of the Central Government Junta. Tomás Bobadilla (1785–1871) 1 March 1844 9 June 1844 100 days President of the Central Government Junta. Ousted from office by a coup d'état. Francisco del Rosario Sánchez (1817–1861) 9 June 1844 12 July 1844 33 days President of the Central Government Junta.
This was followed by several later editions during the 19th century, including Max Müller's of 1884, which contains an interlinear literal translation. Much earlier, Sir William Jones encountered the work in 1786 and it was translated into English the following year by Charles Wilkins , who had also made the earliest English translation of the ...