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Born on December 5, 1782, Martin Van Buren was the first president born an American citizen (and not a British subject). [2] The term Virginia dynasty is sometimes used to describe the fact that four of the first five U.S. presidents were from Virginia.
The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidencies and the number of individuals who have served as president. [5]
Carol Bartz (born 1948), president and chief executive officer of Yahoo! Ernest J. Briskey (1930–2006), vice president, technical and administration of Campbell Soup Company ; William Wallace Cargill (1844–1909), business executive, founder of Cargill (Janesville)
The federal holiday has also become a reason to celebrate the birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, who was born on Feb. 12, 1809. ... These presidents made stops in Wisconsin while holding ...
Graham was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Heather Graham (1970-present), 8,065,418 views. ... The daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney, she represented Wyoming in the U.S. House of ...
President Joe Biden, one of four presidents born in the 1940s, is already one of the 10 longest-living presidents. He turned 82 in November. John F. Kennedy, at 46, and James Garfield, at 49, are ...
Tommy George Thompson (born November 19, 1941) is an American politician from Juneau County, Wisconsin.He served as the 19th United States secretary of Health and Human Services from 2001 to 2005 in the cabinet of President George W. Bush.
Some vice presidents have been born in one state, but are commonly associated with another. New York was the birth state of eight vice presidents, the most of any state: George Clinton, Daniel D. Tompkins, Martin Van Buren, Millard Fillmore, Schuyler Colfax, William A. Wheeler, Theodore Roosevelt, and James S. Sherman.