1. OHIO’S GIFT TO THE WHITE HOUSE

2. GREAT MEN MAKE A GREAT NATION. OHIO HAS GIVEN OUR NATION GREAT DOCTORS, INVENTORS, SCIENCTIST, BUT THE GREATEST GIFT IS THE EIGHT PRESIDENTS THAT CAME FROM OUR STATE.

3. OHIO’S PRESIDENTS WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON ULYSSES S. GRANT RUTHERFORD B. HAYES JAMES A. GARFIELD BENJAMIN HARRISON WILLIAM MCKINLEY WILLIAM H. TAFT WARREN G. HARDING

4. WILLIAM HERNY HARRISON 1841

5. BORN IN VIRGINIA 1775 HIS FATHER WAS A MEMBER OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS AFTER SERVING WITH GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE HE MOVED TO NORTH BEND OHIO

6. 1ST GOVERNOR FROM THE NORTH WEST TERITORY GOVERNOR OF THE INDIANA TERRITORY 1800 GENERAL IN THE BATTLE OF TIPPECANOE DIED FROM PNEUMONIA ONE MONTH AFTER TAKING OFFICE HE WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO DIE IN OFFICE

7. ULYSSES S. GRANT 1869-1877

8. BORN IN 1822 WEST POINT GRADUATE HE SERVED TWO TERMS AS PRESIDENT DURING THE CRUCIAL RECONSRTUCTION PERIOD AFTER THE CIVIL WAR

9. SERVED IN THE MEXICAN WAR REJOINED THE ARMY AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE CIVIL WAR HE WAS PLACED IN CHARGE OF THE UNION ARMY IN 1864 GENRAL LEE SURRENDERED TO HIM AT APPAMATOX COURT HOUSE

10. RUTHERFORD B. HAYES 1877-1881

11. ATTENDED KENYON COLLEGE IN GAMBIER STUDIED LAW AT HARVARD ROSE TO THE RANK OF GENERAL DURING THE CIVIL WAR

12. SERVED IN THE U.S. CONGRESS GOVERNOR OF OHIO FOR THREE TERMS TROOPS WERE FINALLY REMOVED FROM THE SOUTH DURING HIS PRESIDENCY

13. JAMES A. GARFIELD 1881

14. ATTENDED HIRAM COLLEGE LATER HE BECAME A PROFFESSOR AT HIRAM COLLEGE SERVED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FOR 18 YEARS

15. HE WAS A GENERAL IN THE CIVIL WAR HE WAS VIRTUALY UNKOWN WHEN HE RAN FOR PRESIDENT FOUR MONTHS AFTER HE WAS ELECTED HE WAS ASSASSINATED BY CHARLES GUITEAU

16. BENJAMIN HARRISON 1889-1893

17. GRANDSON OF WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON GRADUATED FROM MIAMI UNIVERSITY PRACTICED LAW IN INDIANAPOLIS

18. U.S. SENATOR FOR INDIANA SIX NEW STATES WERE ADDED WHILE HE WAS PRESIDENT HE HAD MANY NEW PROGRAMS SUCH AS THE MCKINLEY TARIFF ACT

19. WILLIAM MCKINLEY 1897-1901

20. BORN IN NILES, OHIO, IN 1842 ATTENDED ALLEGHENY COLLEGE IN PENNSYVANIA PRACTICED LAW IN CANTON, OHIO

21. SERVED AS AN OFFICER IN THE CIVIL WAR ELECTED TO THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTITIVES IN 1876 ELECTED GOVERNOR OF OHIO IN 1891 THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR OCCURRED DURING HIS PRESIDENCY HE WAS ASSASSINATED BY LEON CZOLGOSZ IN BUFFALO NY IN 1901

22. WILLIAM H. TAFT 1909-1913

23. BORN IN CINCINNATI IN 1857 ATTENDED YALE UNIVERSITY GOVERNOR OF THE PHILIPPINES IN 1901

24. SERVED AS A STATE AND FEDERAL JUDGE WORKED HARD TO BREAK UP MONOPOLIES WAS NOT REELECTED BECAUSE OF A SPLIT IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN 1921 HE WAS APPOINTED CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT

25. WARREN G. HARDING 1921-1923

26. THERE WAS A LOT OF CORRUPTION DURING HIS TERM HIS SLOGAN WAS A “RETURN TO NORMALALCY” AFTER W.W.II

27. HE WAS ELECTED AS A COMPROMISE CANDIDATE FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HE RAN HIS CAMPAIGN FROM IS HOME IN MARION HE DIED IN 1923 WHILE STILL IN OFFICE, APPARENTLY OF FOOD POISONING