OHIO’S GIFT TO THE WHITE HOUSE
GREAT MEN MAKE A GREAT NATION. OHIO HAS GIVEN OUR NATION GREAT DOCTORS, INVENTORS, SCIENCTIST, BUT THE GREATEST GIFT IS THE EIGHT PRESIDENTS THAT CAME FROM OUR STATE.
OHIO’S PRESIDENTS WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON ULYSSES S. GRANT RUTHERFORD B. HAYES JAMES A. GARFIELD BENJAMIN HARRISON WILLIAM MCKINLEY WILLIAM H. TAFT WARREN G. HARDING
WILLIAM HERNY HARRISON 1841
BORN IN VIRGINIA 1775 HIS FATHER WAS A MEMBER OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS AFTER SERVING WITH GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE HE MOVED TO NORTH BEND OHIO
1ST GOVERNOR FROM THE NORTH WEST TERITORY GOVERNOR OF THE INDIANA TERRITORY 1800 GENERAL IN THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE DIED FROM PNEUMONIA ONE MONTH AFTER TAKING OFFICE HE WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO DIE IN OFFICE
ULYSSES S. GRANT
BORN IN 1822 WEST POINT GRADUATE HE SERVED TWO TERMS AS PRESIDENT DURING THE CRUCIAL RECONSRTUCTION PERIOD AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
SERVED IN THE MEXICAN WAR REJOINED THE ARMY AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR HE WAS PLACED IN CHARGE OF THE UNION ARMY IN 1864 GENRAL LEE SURRENDERED TO HIM AT APPAMATOX COURT HOUSE
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
ATTENDED KENYON COLLEGE IN GAMBIER STUDIED LAW AT HARVARD ROSE TO THE RANK OF GENERAL DURING THE CIVIL WAR
SERVED IN THE U.S. CONGRESS GOVERNOR OF OHIO FOR THREE TERMS TROOPS WERE FINALLY REMOVED FROM THE SOUTH DURING HIS PRESIDENCY
JAMES A. GARFIELD 1881
ATTENDED HIRAM COLLEGE LATER HE BECAME A PROFFESSOR AT HIRAM COLLEGE SERVED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR 18 YEARS
HE WAS A GENERAL IN THE CIVIL WAR HE WAS VIRTUALY UNKOWN WHEN HE RAN FOR PRESIDENT FOUR MONTHS AFTER HE WAS ELECTED HE WAS ASSASSINATED BY CHARLES GUITEAU
BENJAMIN HARRISON
GRANDSON OF WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON GRADUATED FROM MIAMI UNIVERSITY PRACTICED LAW IN INDIANAPOLIS
U.S. SENATOR FOR INDIANA SIX NEW STATES WERE ADDED WHILE HE WAS PRESIDENT HE HAD MANY NEW PROGRAMS SUCH AS THE MCKINLEY TARIFF ACT
WILLIAM MCKINLEY
BORN IN NILES, OHIO, IN 1842 ATTENDED ALLEGHENY COLLEGE IN PENNSYVANIA PRACTICED LAW IN CANTON, OHIO
SERVED AS AN OFFICER IN THE CIVIL WAR ELECTED TO THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTITIVES IN 1876 ELECTED GOVERNOR OF OHIO IN 1891 THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR OCCURRED DURING HIS PRESIDENCY HE WAS ASSASSINATED BY LEON CZOLGOSZ IN BUFFALO NY IN 1901
WILLIAM H. TAFT
BORN IN CINCINNATI IN 1857 ATTENDED YALE UNIVERSITY GOVERNOR OF THE PHILIPPINES IN 1901
SERVED AS A STATE AND FEDERAL JUDGE WORKED HARD TO BREAK UP MONOPOLIES WAS NOT REELECTED BECAUSE OF A SPLIT IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN 1921 HE WAS APPOINTED CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT
WARREN G. HARDING
THERE WAS A LOT OF CORRUPTION DURING HIS TERM HIS SLOGAN WAS A “RETURN TO NORMALALCY” AFTER W.W.II
HE WAS ELECTED AS A COMPROMISE CANDIDATE FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HE RAN HIS CAMPAIGN FROM IS HOME IN MARION HE DIED IN 1923 WHILE STILL IN OFFICE, APPARENTLY OF FOOD POISONING