Presidents 1-14

Question 1

George Washington

Answer 1

1732-99 1st President (1789-97) y general, from Westmoreland County, VA

• Spouse: Martha Dandridge Washington; No children; Lived at Mount Vernon
• Commander in Chief of Continental Army (1775-83); Delegate to Continental Congress (1774)
• Died of bloodletting at age 67

Question 2

John Adams

Answer 2

1735-1826 2nd President (1797-1801 - Federalist) y lawyer from Braintree (now Quincy), MA

• Spouse: Abigail Smith Adams; Children: 6, incl. John Quincy; 1st to live in the White House; College: Harvard
• Minister to UK (1785-88); Minister to Netherlands (1782-88); Delegate to 2nd Continental Congress (1785-88); 1st Vice-President (1789-97)
• Died at age 90 on same day as Thomas Jefferson, 7/04/1826, 50th anniversary of USA

Question 3

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 3

1743-1826 3rd President (1801-09), from Shadwell, VA

• Spouse: Martha Wayles (died 1782); 6 children; College of William and Mary
• 1st Sec of State (1790-93); Minister to France (1785-89); Gov of VA (1779-81)
• Founded the University of VA
• Died at age 83 on same day as John Adams, 7/04/1826, 50th anniversary of USA

Question 4

James Madison

Answer 4

1751-1835 4th President (1809-17), from Port Conway, VA

• Spouse: Dolly Payne Todd; No children; Princeton University; Lived at Montpelier Plantation
• Sec of State (1801-09); House of Reps (VA-1789-97)
• Considered the Father of the Constitution y the Bill of Rights; Co-wrote the Federalist Papers (1788 - with Hamilton y John Jay)
• Died of heart failure at age 85

Question 5

James Monroe

Answer 5

1758-1831 5th President (1817-25) from Westmoreland, VA

• Spouse: Elizabeth Kortright; Children: 3; College of William and Mary
• Senator (VA-1790-94); Minister to France (1794-96); Minister to UK (1803-08); Governor of VA (1799-1802); Secretary of State (1811-17); Secretary of War (1814-15)
• Died on July 4 of heart failure at age 73

Question 6

John Quincy Adams

Answer 6

1767-1848 6th US President (1825-29) - From Braintree, MA; son of John Adams

• Spouse: Louisa Johnson Adams (m. 1797); 4 children, incl. George, John, y Charles; Harvard University
• US Minister to Netherlands, Prussia, Russia, y the UK; Senator y Rep from MA; Secretary of State (1817-25)
• Elected by a vote in the House of Reps, after no candidate won a majority in the 1824 election; served under the Democratic-Republican party, but later joined both the Anti-Masonic y Whig parties
• Served as a Rep for MA after presidency, y died at age 78 after collapsing on the floor of Congress from a cerebral hemmorage

Question 7

Andrew Jackson

Answer 7

1767-1845 7th US President (1829-37) - From the Waxhaws region of the Carolinas

• Spouse Rachel Donelson Jackson (m. 1794) - 3 adopted sons - No formal education, self-taught as an attorney
• US Army Major General, fought in Revolutionary War, War of 1812, y First Seminole War; Senator y Rep from TN; Military Governor of FL (1821)
• After working as a frontier lawyer y congressman, he became a wealthy plantation owner at his home The Hermitage - Only president to pay off the national debt - Signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830
• Died at age 78 of heart failure

Question 8

John Tyler

Answer 8

1790-1862 10th President (1841-45 - Whig) y lawyer, from Charles City County, VA

• Spouses: Letitia Christian (died 1842) y Julia Gardiner (married 1844, 30 years her senior); Children: 15; College of William and Mary
• Governor of VA (1825-27); Senator (1827-36)
• First VP to succeed to the presidency, after death of WH Harrison - Conflicted with Whig congress y acheived little - Elected to Confederate Congress shortly before his death
• Died from a stroke at age 71, y given a grand funeral by Jefferson Davis