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page 119th-century United States representatives

Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederate States and playing a major role in the abolition of slavery.
John Quincy Adams
President of the United States from 1825 to 1829

James A. Garfield
James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot in July. A preacher, lawyer, and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president. Before he ran for president, the Ohio General Assembly had elected him to the U.S. Senate, a position he declined upon becoming president-elect.
Andrew Johnson
President of the United States from 1865 to 1869
James Buchanan
president of the United States from 1857 to 1861
James K. Polk
President of the United States from 1845 to 1849 (1795–1849)
John Tyler
president of the United States from 1841 to 1845

William McKinley
William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Republicans largely dominant in the industrial states and nationwide for decades. McKinley successfully led the U.S. in the Spanish–American War and oversaw a period of American expansionism, with the annexations of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, and American Samoa.
Millard Fillmore
president of the United States from 1850 to 1853
William Henry Harrison
president of the United States in 1841
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865 (1808–1889)
Joseph Pulitzer
Hungarian-American newspaper publisher and politician (1847-1911)
John C. Calhoun
vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832 (1782–1850)
Sam Houston
American statesman, politician, and soldier (1793-1863)
Charles Curtis
vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933
Hannibal Hamlin
Vice President of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (1809–1891)
William R. King
vice president of the United States from March to April 1853 (1786–1853)
Richard Mentor Johnson
vice president of the United States from 1837 to 1841

John C. Breckinridge
vice president of the United States from 1857 to 1861 (1821–1875)
William A. Wheeler
vice president of the United States from 1877 to 1881
Levi P. Morton
vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893 (1824–1920)

Davy Crockett
American frontiersman and politician (1786–1836)
Schuyler Colfax
Vice President of the United States from 1869 to 1873 (1823–1885)
Thomas A. Hendricks
American politician (1819–1885)
William Jennings Bryan
American politician (1860–1925)
Adlai Stevenson I
American politician (1835–1914); Vice President of the United States from 1893 to 1897
James S. Sherman
vice president of the United States from 1909 to 1912 (1855–1912)
Daniel Webster
14th and 19th United States Secretary of State (1782–1852)

Henry Clay
American politician from Kentucky (1777-1852)
Horace Greeley
American politician and publisher (1811–1872)

Horace Mann
American politician (1796-1859)
James G. Blaine
American politician (1830–1893)

Stephen A. Douglas
American politician and lawyer (1813–1861)
Joseph E. Johnston
Confederate general (1807-1891)

Alexander H. Stephens
vice president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865 (1812–1883)

Edward Everett
American politician, pastor, educator, diplomat and orator (1794–1865)

Albert Gallatin
Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)

Robert M. La Follette
American progressive politician from Wisconsin (1855–1925)

Timothy Pickering
American statesman (1745-1829)

Henry Cabot Lodge
American statesman (1850–1924)
Hamilton Fish
American politician (1808–1893)
Edward Livingston
American jurist and statesman (1764-1836)
Benjamin Franklin Butler
American general and politician (1818–1893)
Louis McLane
American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland (1786-1857)
Thaddeus Stevens
American statesman (1792–1868)
John Forsyth
American politician (1780–1841)
Elihu B. Washburne
American politician and diplomat (1816–1887)

Charles Francis Adams Sr.
American historical editor, politician and diplomat from Massachusetts (1807–1886)
William Wyatt Bibb
first Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama (1781-1820)
Sterling Price
American politician and Confederate States Army general in the Civil War (1809–1867)

William Magear Tweed
American politician (1823-1878)
Nathaniel P. Banks
American politician of Massachusetts and general of the Union Army (1816-1894)
William Rosecrans
American diplomat, politician and army officer (1819–1898)
Ignatius Loyola Donnelly
American politician (1831-1901)
Thomas Hart Benton
State Senator from Tennessee, Senator and U.S. Representative from Missouri (1782–1858)
George S. Boutwell
United States politician (1818–1905)
Caleb Cushing
American politician (1800-1879)
Charles Pinckney
American politician (1757-1824)
Joseph Story
American jurist (1779–1845); US Supreme Court justice from 1812 to 1845
William Windom
American politician (1827-1891)