State Capitals Named After Presidents

Posted on December 04, 2011 by Admin
State Capitals Named After Presidents

State Capitals Named After Presidents

Do you know the Presidents? Which President was nicknamed “Honest Abe?” Which had the middle name of Rudolph? Which President oversaw the building of the Panama Canal? Which one helped pass child labor laws? There are many fascinating facts about our American Presidents.

Candidates for the office of President must be at least thirty-five and an American citizen who has lived in the country for fourteen years or more. Presidents are elected for terms of four years. Article XXII of the Constitution, passed in 1951, says a President may not be elected to more than two terms.

The American Presidents (in order and with years of office)

  1. George Washington 1789-1797
  2. John Adams 1797-1801
  3. Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809
  4. James Madison 1809-1817
  5. James Monroe 1817-1825
  6. John Quincy Adams 1829-1837
  7. Andrew Jackson 1829-1837
  8. Martin Van Buren 18-1841
  9. William Henry Harrison 1841
  10. John Tyler 1841-1845
  11. James Knox Polk 1845-1849
  12. Zachary Taylor 1849-1850
  13. Milliard Fillmore 1850-1853
  14. Franklin Pierce 1853-1857
  15. James Buchanan 1857-1861
  16. Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865
  17. Andrew Johnson 1865-1869
  18. Ulysses Simpson Grant 1869-1877
  19. Rutherford Birchard Hayes 1877-1881
  20. James Abram Garfield 1881
  21. Chester Alan Arthur 1881-1885
  22. Grover Cleveland 1885-1889
  23. Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893
  24. Grover Cleveland (second term)1893-1897
  25. William McKinley 1897-1901
  26. Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909
  27. William Howard Taft 1909-1913
  28. Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921
  29. Warren Gamaliel Harding 1921- 1923
  30. Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929
  31. Herbert Hoover 1929-1933
  32. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933-1945
  33. Harry S Truman 1945-1953
  34. Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961
  35. John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1961-1963
  36. Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963-1969
  37. Richard Milhous Nixon 1969-1974
  38. Gerald Rudolph Ford 1974-1977
  39. Jimmy (James Earl) Carter 1977-1981
  40. Ronald Wilson Reagan 1981-1989
  41. George Herbert Walker Bush 1989-1993
  42. Bill (William Jefferson Blythe) Clinton 1993-2001
  43. George Walker Bush 2001-2008
  44. ????????????? (In 2008 voters will be electing a new President. He will be number forty-four.)

Inauguration Oath

When taking office on January 20th of the year after election, or when taking over the office from the vice-presidential office, the President must swear to the oath of office: “ I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.”