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George H.W. Bush
41st president of the United StatesGeorge H.W. Bush was a politician and businessman who was vice president of the United States (1981–89) and the 41st president of the United States (1989–93). As president,...
Calvin Coolidge
30th president of the United StatesCalvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States (1923–29). Coolidge acceded to the presidency after the death in office of Warren G. Harding, just as the...
Lyndon B. Johnson
36th president of the United StatesLyndon B. Johnson was the 36th president of the United States (1963–69). A moderate Democrat and vigorous leader in the United States Senate, Johnson was elected vice...
Joe Biden
46th president of the United StatesJoe Biden is the 46th president of the United States (2021–25) and was the 47th vice president of the United States (2009–17) in the Democratic administration of Pres....
Andrew Johnson
17th president of the United StatesAndrew Johnson was the 17th president of the United States (1865–69), who took office upon the assassination of Pres. Abraham Lincoln during the closing months of the...
Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician and government official who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since 2012 and as the president of the People’s Republic of China...
Theodore Roosevelt
26th president of the United StatesTheodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States (1901–09) and a writer, naturalist, and soldier. He expanded the powers of the presidency and of the federal...
Martin Van Buren
8th president of the United StatesMartin Van Buren was the eighth president of the United States (1837–41) and one of the founders of the Democratic Party. He was known as the “Little Magician” to his...
Joyce Banda
Joyce Banda is a Malawian politician who served as vice president (2009–12) and president (2012–14) of Malawi. She was the first woman to serve as head of state anywhere in Southern Africa. Banda’s official...
Richard Nixon
37th president of the United StatesRichard Nixon was the 37th president of the United States (1969–74), who, faced with almost certain impeachment for his role in the Watergate scandal, became the first...
Al Gore
45th vice president of the United StatesAl Gore is an American politician and environmental activist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States (1993–2001) in the Democratic administration...
John C. Calhoun
7th vice president of the United StatesJohn C. Calhoun was an American political leader who was a congressman, the secretary of war, the seventh vice president (1825–32), a senator, and the secretary of...
John Adams
2nd president of the United StatesJohn Adams was an early advocate of American independence from Great Britain, a major figure in the Continental Congress (1774–77), the author of the Massachusetts constitution...
Chester A. Arthur
21st president of the United StatesChester A. Arthur was the 21st president of the United States. Elected vice president on the Republican ticket of 1880, Arthur became president after the assassination...
Thomas Jefferson
3rd president of the United StatesThomas Jefferson was the draftsman of the Declaration of Independence of the United States and the nation’s first secretary of state (1789–94) and second vice president...
Gerald Ford
38th president of the United StatesGerald Ford was the 38th president of the United States (1974–77), who, as 40th vice president, had succeeded to the presidency on the resignation of President Richard...
Nicolás Maduro
Nicolás Maduro is a Venezuelan leader who won the special election held in April 2013 to choose a replacement to serve out the remainder of the term of Venezuelan Pres. Hugo Chávez, who had died in March....
Harry S. Truman
33rd president of the United StatesHarry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States (1945–53), who led his country through the final stages of World War II and through the early years of the...
vice president of the United States of America
Vice president of the United States of America, officer next in rank to the president of the United States, who ascends to the presidency on the event of the president’s death, disability, resignation,...
Aaron Burr
3rd vice president of the United StatesAaron Burr was the third vice president of the United States (1801–05), who killed his political rival, Alexander Hamilton, in a duel (1804) and whose turbulent political...
Goodluck Jonathan
Goodluck Jonathan is a Nigerian zoologist and politician who served as vice president (2007–10) and president (2010–15) of Nigeria. Jonathan, of the Ijo (Ijaw) ethnic group and a Christian, was born and...