THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS by Genevieve Madeline Ryan



THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTS by Genevieve Madeline Ryan

|America’s president number one, |James Buchanan, fifteen, |Calvin Coolidge, thirty, |

|Founding Father Washington. |The one bach’lor we’ve ever seen. |Taught one and all frugality. |

|John Adams, second president, |Sixteen, Lincoln, “Honest Abe,” |Herbert Hoover, thirty one, |

|The very first White House resident. |Signed the law that freed the slaves. |Oh no! The Depression had begun. |

|Thomas Jefferson, number three, |Seventeen, Andrew Johnson, |Franklin Roosevelt, thirty two, |

|Doubled the size of our country. |Started Reconstruction. |With his “New Deal” the country grew. |

|Then James Madison, number four, |Eighteen, Union General Grant, |Harry Truman, thirty three, |

|Led us through the English war. |Had led his troops with good judgment. |Won with atomic energy. |

|James Monroe is number five, |Nineteen, President R.B. Hayes, |Eisenhower, thirty four, |

|His Monroe Doctrine still survives. |Pursued the South in many ways. |Commanded in the Second World War. |

|Another Adams, John Quincy, |Garfield, number twenty, |Thirty five, John Kennedy, |

|Rose to the sixth presidency. |Killed while in his presidency. |Assassinated in sixty three. |

|Seven, Andrew Jackson, |Chester Arthur, twenty one, |Thirty six, Johnson, Lyndon B., |

|Was a frontier common man. |Sought reform and got it done. |He declared a “War on Poverty.” |

|Number eight, Van Buren, |Grover Cleveland, twenty two, |Thirty seven, Nixon went far, |

|First president born an “American.” |Remember him ‘cause he’s not through. |Opening China and the U.S.S.R. |

|Harrison, nine, passed away, |Twenty three, Harrison, comes again, |Gerald R. Ford, thirty eight, |

|One month after Inaugural Day. |It’s William’s grandson, Benjamin. |Moved the nation forward past Watergate. |

|President Tyler, number ten, |Grover Cleveland, twenty four, |Thirty nine, with all his might, |

|Ended the war with the Indians. |Ran for the White House, elected once more. |Carter fought for human rights. |

|James K. Polk, eleven, |Here’s McKinley, twenty five, |Reagan, forty, from the West, |

|Looked to western expansion. |The Twentieth Century had arrived. |Taught the world that freedom’s best. |

|Taylor, twelve, of the army, |Teddy Roosevelt, twenty six, |Bush, forty one, showed solid form, |

|Nicknamed “Rough and Ready.” |“Speak softly and carry a big stick!” |Freed a nation in “Desert Storm.” |

|Thirteen, Fillmore, in his eyes, |Twenty seven, Taft we see, |Forty two, Bill Clinton, |

|Best for all was a compromise. |Biggest man in the presidency. |President through the Millennium. |

|Fourteen, Franklin Pierce is here, |Woodrow Wilson, twenty eight, |George W. Bush, number forty three, |

|The Civil War is drawing near. |Thought a League of Nations was great. |Strengthened Homeland Security. |

| |Twenty nine, Harding, Post-World War One, |First to be elected of African descent, |

| |“Normalcy” promised to everyone. |Obama our Forty-Fourth President. |

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