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John Quincy Adams (1825–1829) was the first U.S. president to have notable facial hair, with long sideburns. [3] But the first major departure from the tradition of clean-shaven chief executives was Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865), [4] [5] [6] who was supposedly (and famously) influenced by a letter received from an eleven-year-old girl named Grace Bedell, to start growing a beard to improve ...
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]
List of bibliographies on American history; List of autobiographies by presidents of the United States This page was last edited on 4 March 2024, at 19:51 (UTC). ...
A book called "9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America" attempts to answer that very question. Author Brion McClanahan takes a new look back at American history, stating that the nation's current ...
The premier modern biography was Honest John Adams, a 1933 biography by the noted French specialist in American history Gilbert Chinard, who came to Adams after writing his acclaimed 1929 biography of Jefferson. For a generation, Chinard's work was regarded as the best life of Adams, and it is still an important text in illustrating the themes ...
As part of C-SPAN's third Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership, almost 100 historians and biographers rated the 43 former presidents on ten qualities of presidential leadership: Public ...
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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 ...