US presidents/politicians Flashcards
presidential library Abilene Kansas
Eisenhower
Truman home state
Missouri
Lincoln’s first love
Ann Rutledge
Harvard law dean, solicitor general, female SCOTUS justice
Elena Kagan
Jefferson instrument
violin
1970s black congresswoman from Texas
Barbara Jordan
1872 first woman to run for president
Victoria Woodhull
JFK’s brother in law, head of Peace Corps
Sargent Shriver
George McGovern’s second VP
Sargent Shriver
McGovern’s first VP, resigned for depression
Eagleton
Gerald Ford burial city
Grand Rapids Michigan
long-serving Texan speaker of the house
Sam Rayburn
last president who didn’t graduate college
Truman
first black woman elected to the Senate
Carol Moseley Braun
female Illinois senator/house member and ambassador to New Zealand
Carol Moseley Braun
type of gun that killed Lincoln
44 caliber Derringer
River of Doubt president
Theodore Roosevelt
president “Dutch” childhood nickname
Reagan
California governor became chief justice 1953
Earl Warren
Massachusetts governor stopped Boston police strike 1919
Coolidge
Dan Quayle party and state
Republican, Indiana
Ross Perot party, state
Reform, Texas
Chicago’s first black mayor
Harold Washington
governor of Michigan and Nixon’s HUD secretary
George Romney
Carter’s secretary of state, resigned over Iran
Cyrus Vance
FDR’s VP said the job was worthless
John Nance Garner
“Have you no sense of decency” speaker
Joseph Welch
