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First president born in a log cabin. [81] First president born to immigrant parents. [u] [82] First president to be inaugurated on the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol, facing the Library of Congress and Supreme Court. [45] First president to pay off the entire National Debt. [83] First president born after the death of his father. [v] [84]
Born on December 5, 1782, Martin Van Buren was the first president born an American citizen (and not a British subject). [2] The term Virginia dynasty is sometimes used to describe the fact that four of the first five U.S. presidents were from Virginia.
The presidency of William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after taking office in 1841, was the shortest in American history. [9] Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest, over twelve years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945. He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. [10]
4. Abraham Lincoln: Boatkeeper. b. 1809 – 1865. President: 1861 – 1865. Honest Abe was born in 1809 in a log cabin with dirt floors in Hardin County, Kentucky, to illiterate parents.
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Topping the list of most forgotten presidents is Rutherford B. Hayes, who was born in Delaware, Ohio and elected as the 19th president, serving one term from 1877 to 1881.
George Washington, widely viewed as the first president, was elected into office in 1789 after leading the Continental Army to victory over Britain in the Revolutionary War.
Born on February 9, 1773, at Berkeley Plantation, the home of the Harrison family of Virginia on the James River in Charles City County, [1] he became the last United States president not born as an American citizen. [2] The Harrisons were a prominent political family of English descent whose ancestors had been in Virginia since the 1630s. [3]