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Richard Arvin Overton (born in 1906), formerly the oldest living World War II veteran, was a member of this generation. [citation needed]The four Presidents of the United States of the Interbellum Generation were Lyndon B. Johnson (born in 1908), Ronald Reagan (born in 1911), Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford (both born in 1913).
Charles McGee was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on December 7, 1919, to Lewis Allen and Ruth Elizabeth (Lewis) McGee. His grandfather was formerly enslaved and his father served as an Army chaplain in World War I and during the Battle of the Bulge in the Second World War.
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 Silent Generation, also known as the Traditionalist Generation, is the Western demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding the baby boomers. The generation is generally defined as people born from 1928 to 1945. [1] By this definition and U.S. Census data, there were 23 million Silents in the United States as of 2019. [2]
With the start of a new year on Jan. 1, 2025, comes the emergence of a new generation. 2025 marks the end of Generation Alpha and the start of Generation Beta, a cohort that will include all ...
Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln’s home town, was, in 1908, a working-class city of just under 50,000 people – about the same size as its modern counterpart in Ohio.
The social generation is generally defined as people born from 1901 to 1927. [1] They were shaped by the Great Depression and were the primary generation composing the enlisted forces in World War II. Most people of the Greatest Generation are the parents of the Silent Generation and Baby Boomers, and they are the children of the Lost Generation.
Gen Alpha is defined as the group of people born between 2010 and 2024, succeeding Gen Z, who were born between the late 1990s and early 2010s, following millennials.