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Twenty-one states have the distinction of being the birthplace of a president. One president's birth state is in dispute; North and South Carolina (British colonies at the time) both lay claim to Andrew Jackson, who was born in 1767 in the Waxhaw region along their common border. Jackson himself considered South Carolina his birth state.
Wilson Swain Caldwell (1841-1898) was a distinguished Civil War -era African American. Born into slavery on February 27, 1841, his mother, Chaney Atwater, was most likely the wife of November since 1833. His father was November 'Doctor' Caldwell, a slave of Helen Hogg Hooper, daughter of the Signer of the Declaration of Independence and the ...
Charles A. Halleck, U.S. Congressman (Rensselaer) Lee H. Hamilton, U.S. Congressman (Bloomington) Clifford Hardin, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (Knightstown) Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States. William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States and Governor of Indiana Territory.
He was born on born Aug. 7, 1975. The Duke University and University of Georgia School of Law alum is a former Georgia state senator. He served from 2010 to 2015.
Pop art, Hard-edge painting. Robert Indiana (born Robert Clark; September 13, 1928 – May 19, 2018) was an American artist associated with the pop art movement. His iconic image LOVE was first created in 1964 in the form of a card which he sent to several friends and acquaintances in the art world. In 1965, Robert Indiana was invited to ...
Note: The official portraits for Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama were painted by artists who were not employed by the federal government at the time. These images are not in the public domain, and as such, are not included in this gallery.
The most common ancestry of U.S. presidents is English, due to its origins as a group of former English colonies. With the exception of Martin Van Buren and possibly Dwight D. Eisenhower, [1] every president has ancestors from the British Isles; Van Buren was of Dutch (New Netherlander) lineage and Eisenhower was of German (Pennsylvania Dutch ...
John Caldwell Calhoun (/ kælˈhuːn /; [ 1 ] March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. Born in South Carolina, he adamantly defended American slavery and sought to protect the interests of white Southerners.