American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

William McKinley (January 29, 1843-September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States, 1897-1901, being assassinated shortly after re-election. He won the Spanish-American War, 1898; annexed Guam, Puerto Rico, the Hawaiian Islands, the Philippine Islands, under Admiral George Dewey; defeated the Spanish in Cuba under Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and the "Roughriders"; put down the Boxer Rebellion in China, 1900; arranged the permanent lease of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, 1901; planned the Panama Canal. He was Governor of Ohio, 1892-96; Ohio delegate to the Republican National Convention, 1892, 1888, 1884; U.S. Representative, 1876-83, 1885-91, being Chairman of the House...

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837-June 24, 1908) served as both the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, 1885-89 and 1893-97; trustee of Princeton University, 1901; married Frances Folsom, 1886; the Governor of New York, 1882-85; the Mayor of Buffalo, N.Y., 1881-82; Sheriff of Erie County, 1870-73; Assistant District Attorney of Erie County, 1863-70; Ward Supervisor, 1862; admitted to the bar, 1859; and teacher at the New York Institute for the Blind, 1853. He was a direct descendant of Moses Cleveland, the founder of Cleveland, Ohio, whose ancestors came from England to Massachusetts in 1635; and was the...

Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1830-November 18, 1886) was the 21st President of the United States, 1881-85; Vice-President under James A. Garfield, 1881, assuming the Presidency upon Garfield's assassination; Collector of Customs at the Port of New York, 1871-78, appointed by President Grant; Counsel to the New York City Tax Commission, 1869; Quartermaster General of New York State during the Civil War, 1861-62; Inspector General of Union Troops, 1862; married Ellen Lewis Herndon, 1859; participated in first Republican State convention at Saratoga, 1856; abolitionist lawyer, 1853-61, earning publicity for defending the rights of Blacks; admitted to bar, 1853; Principal in...

James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831-September 19, 1881) was the 20th President of the United States, 1881-81, being assassinated after serving only four months. He was the fourth President to die in office. He had been elected U.S. Senator, 1880, but declined to serve as he was nominated to run for President. He was a U.S. Representative, 1863-80, taking the position at the request of Abraham Lincoln; House Minority Leader, 1876; Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, 1871; Republican Chairman; Major General in the Union Army, 1863, fighting the Confederate forces at Chickamauga; Brigadier General, commanding brigade at Shiloh, 1862;...

Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822-January, 17, 1893) was the 19th President of the United States, 1877-81; Governor of Ohio, 1868- 72, 1876-77; U.S. Representative, 1864-67; Brigadier General during the Civil War, 1864; Lieutenant Colonel, 1861, wounded in the Battle of South Mountain, 1862; Major in the 23rd Ohio Volunteers, 1861; City Solicitor of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1858-61; delegate to the Ohio Republican Convention, 1855; married Lucy Ware Webb, 1852; graduated from Harvard Law School and admitted to bar, 1845; and graduated from Kenyon College, Ohio, 1842. Rutherford B. Hayes requested that his Presidential Inauguration be moved to Monday, March 5, rather than...