2. Progressive Presidents Hayes 19 th to Wilson 28 th

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5. Rutherford B. Hayes 19th Elected President by one electoral vote after the highly disputed election of 1876 Losing the popular vote to his opponent, Samuel Tilden Hayes was the only president whose election was decided by a congressional commission.

6. James A. Garfield 20th Garfield was the second U.S. President to be assassinated President Garfield, a Republican, had been in office a scant four months when he was shot and fatally wounded on July 2, 1881. He lived until September 19, having served for six months and fifteen days.

7. Chester A. Arthur 21st He was the twentieth vice president under James Garfield. Garfield did not die until September 19 at which time Arthur was sworn in as president, serving until March 4, 1885.

8. Grover Cleveland 22 nd (and 24 th ) Cleveland is the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885–1889 and 1893– 1897) and thus is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents He opposed imperialism, taxes, subsidies and inflationary policies, and as a reformer he worked against corruption, patronage, and bossism.

9. Benjamin Harrison 23rd He was the first, and to date only, president from the state of Indiana. His presidential administration is best known for its economic legislation, – including the McKinley Tariff and –the Sherman Antitrust Act –and annual federal spending reached one billion dollars for the first time.

10. Grover Cleveland 24 Only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later.

11. William McKinley 25th The last veteran of the American Civil War to be elected. As president, he fought the Spanish-American War. He annexed the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam, as well as Hawaii Was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, and succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.

12. Theodore Roosevelt 26th In 1901, as Vice President, the 42-year-old Roosevelt succeeded President William McKinley. He distrusted wealthy businessmen and dissolved forty monopolistic corporations as a trust buster He was the first U.S. president to call for universal health care and national health insurance.

13. George Washington Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln Teddy Roosevelt

14. William Howard Taft 27th His presidency was characterized by trust-busting, strengthening the Interstate Commerce Commission expanding the civil service, establishing a better postal system promoting world peace Split with TR making TR run on a third party ticket called Bull Moose party.

15. Woodrow Wilson 28th He served as President of Princeton University and then became the Governor of New Jersey in 1910 A two term president His second term centered on World War I.