• Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt, en 1933.

     

    Franklin D. Roosevelt was famous as the thirty-second President of the United States of America and the only President to serve more then two terms. He led the nation out of the Great Depression and towards victory in World War II. He was born on January 30, 1882 in New York. And died on April 12, 1945 in Georgia. His life was full of actions, in 1933 he became for the first time president of the USA and stayed president until is death : 1945. He'll stay in the memory of all the american as the winner of  the second world war. He did lots of things for his country to make it go out of the crises, before is election, 12 millions americans were unemployed and 2 million didn't even had a house. America was also a isolationist country who didn't want to take part in the second world war but he still prepared america to war a give lots of materiel to england to help them defend themself against the German. To recapitulate his life I would say that he's one of the greatest president that USA ever had, he make them winn the war and make usa go out of the crises.

     

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  • John Quincy Adams

    John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) ,was elected for a term from 1825 to 1829.

    John Quincy Adams , sixth president of the United States was born in Braintree in Massachussetts in 1767.

    He studied at Havard University and then became a lawyer at the age of 26 years.

    He was appointed ambassador to the Netherlands in 1794 , with Portugal in 1796 and Prussia in 1797.

    Elected to the Massachussetts Senate in 1802 , it will

    also be in the Senate of the United States where he served from 1803 to 1808 to the Federalist Party. He left the training to integrate the Democratic Republican party. He is a member of  the comission that negociated the Treaty of Ghent in 1814 , and Minister of foreign Affairs in the cabinet of President James Monroe between 1817 and 1825.

    November 2, 1824 presidential election was the first where popular votes were aggregated to the national level. John Quincy Adams came in second behind General Jackson. It alsogets the best score for the vote of the Electoral College , but because of the presence of three other candidates , he does not get a majority. This is the House of Representatives , to general surprise, finally vote on December 1 in favor of Adams.

    John Quincy Adams continued his political career after 1828 : first the anti-Masonic Party and the Whig Party , which he helped found to 1833-1834. Electe to the House of Representatives in 1831 , he remained there until his death , February 23, 1848. He also ran for the governorship of Massachussetts in 1834 but can not get it. In 1841, he defended the case of African Spanish ship La Amistad which took control when they were transported as slaves illegal before the Supreme Court.

    Threatened with deportation to Spain , they will enventually be released.

    In 1848 , he collapsed on the floor of the House a stroke and was carried to the Room of the Presidency , where two days later he died. He was buried : just like his father , his mother and his wife.

     


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  • Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States of America



















    Born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United States (1977-81).
    In 1962, he was elected Governor of Georgia. He attracted attention by emphasizing ecology, efficiency in government, and the removal of racial barriers.
    Carter announced his candidacy for President in December 1974 and began a two-year campaign that gradually gained momentum. Carter campaigned hard against President Gerald R. Ford, debating with him three times. In 1977, he become the 39th president of the United States with 297 electoral votes for him, to 241 for Ford.
    In 1978, he helped bring amity between Egypt and Israel. He succeeded in obtaining ratification of the Panama Canal treaties.
    In November 1979, radical Iranian students seized the United States Embassy in Tehran, taking 66 Americans hostage. The negociations were very difficult. The hostages were held for 444 days before finally being released on the day Carter left office.
    The next president is the former actor, Ronald Reagan.
    Jimmy Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.




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    John Tyler, the 10th President of the United States

     

    John Tyler was born in 1790, the 29th March in Virginia. He's the son of a couple of farmers who directed Greenway plantation. We have to know that Tyler was a fragile child because he was thin and victim of many deseases, and this is why he dead in 1862. He was a very good student and did very good studies in the College of William and Mary. Few at few, he becames an important man for the United States: He was a legislator, governor, representant, senator in 1841, and to finih, he becomes the 10th president of United States the 4th Avril 1841 until March 1845.

    Because of diseases during his life, Tyler John dead the January 18th 1862.

    BONUS: Particularity of this President ? He has his 2 grown sons again in live today, they have 81 and 90 years old. It's the first and old president who has his grown sons again in live !


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