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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.
Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison served as the first four presidents; Adams and Jefferson were the nation's first two vice presidents; [15] Jay was the nation's first chief justice; [16] Hamilton was the first secretary of the treasury; [17] Jefferson was the first secretary of state; [18] [19] and Franklin was America's most senior ...
Notable best presidents include George Washington at No.2, Thomas Jefferson at No. 7, and Barack Obama at No. 12.
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]
[6] [7] Along with being the first U.S. president who was not born a British subject, Van Buren was also the first U.S. president not of British ancestry; he was of entirely Dutch descent. [8] [9] Abraham Van Buren had been a Patriot during the American Revolution, [10] [11] and he later joined the Democratic-Republican Party. [12]