Features a biography of the fifteenth president of the United States including his early years, education at Dickinson College, his early career as a lawyer, and key events from President Buchanan's administration.

Features a biography of the nineteenth president of the United States including his childhood, education at Kenyon College and Harvard Law School, his early career as a lawyer, and key events from President Haye's administration.

Features a biography of the seventh president of the United States including his early years, his early career as a lawyer, and key events from President Jackson's administration.

Features a biography of the seventeenth president of the United States including his early years, his early career as a tailor, and key events from President Johnson's administration.

Features a biography of the forty-third president of the United States including his childhood, education at Yale University, and his career in the oil business and as part owner of the Texas Rangers, and key events from President Bush's administration.

Features a biography of the sixth president of the United States including his early years, education at Harvard College, his career as a lawyer, and key events from President Adams's administration.

Features a biography of the twentieth president of the United States including his early years, education at Western Reserve Eclectic Institute or Hiram College, and Williams College, his early career as a canal worker, teacher, professor, college president, and lawyer, and key events from President Garfield's administration.

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Features a biography of the thirtieth president of the United States including his early years, education at Amhurst College, his early career as a lawyer, and key events from President Coolidge's administration.

Features a biography of the twenty-fifth president of the United States including his early years, education at Allegheny College and Albany Law School, his early career as a teacher and lawyer, and key events from President McKinley's administration.