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History of Presidents From Ohio

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Information about the eight presidents from Ohio and their accomplishments.

James A. Garfield

James Abram Garfield was the twentieth President of the United States.

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Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses Simpson Grant was an American military leader and the eighteenth President of the United States. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio.

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Warren G. Harding

Warren Gamaliel Harding was born on November 2, 1865, in Corsica, Ohio. He spent most of his youth at nearby Caledonia, Ohio. Beginning in 1879, Harding attended Ohio Central College. Three years later, he and a friend purchased the Marion Star, a newspaper in Marion, Ohio.

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Benjamin Harrison

President Benjamin Harrison was born on August 20, 1833, in North Bend, Ohio. His great-grandfather was John Cleves Symmes, and his grandfather was President William Henry Harrison.

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William H. Harrison

William Henry Harrison was an American political and military leader and the ninth President of the United States.

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Rutherford B. Hayes

President Rutherford Birchard Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, on October 4, 1822. His parents had moved to Ohio from Vermont in 1817.

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William McKinley Jr.

Ohioan William McKinley, Jr., was President of the United States of America from 1897 to 1901.

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William H. Taft

William Howard Taft was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 15, 1857. His father was Alphonso Taft, who had been President Ulysses S. Grant's secretary of war and then attorney general.

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