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THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AT W • 
 
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 .vjiw York in 1789. Removed to Phil- 
 
 adelphia in 1790 AND FROM THERE TO WASHINGTON, ITS PRESENT LOCATION IN 180O. I 
 
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 PRESIDENTS 
 
 UNITED STATES 
 
 AMERICA 
 
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 MELVILLE WRIGHT 
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 GEORGE WASHINGTON. (MRS. MARTHA CUSTIS) BORN ^ ^''^'' ^^^Y'^' "L'^I^^^^Z^^I 
 MORELAND COUNTY, VA. ELECTED BY THE FEDERALISTS I789-I793. RK-ELECTED I793-I797- 
 DIED DECEMBER 14th, 1799- BURIED AT MOUNT VERNON, \ A. 
 
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Thomas Jefferson. (Mrs. Martha .Skelton) Born April 13th, 1743, at Shadwell, 
 Va. Elected by the Democrats 1801-1805. Re-elected 1805-1809. Died July 4th, 
 1826. Buried at Monticello, Va. 
 
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 James Madison. (Mrs. Dorothy Todd) Born March i6, 1751, at Port Conway, Va. 
 Elected by the Democrats 1809-1813. Re-elected 1S13-1817. Died June 28th, 1836. 
 Buried at Montpelier, Vt. 
 
Andrew Jackson. (Mrs. Rachel Robards) Born March 15th, 1767, in Mecklenburg 
 County, N. C. Elected by the Democrats 1829-1S33. Re-elected 1833-1837. Died 
 June 8th, 1845. Buried at Hermitage, Tenn. 
 
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 James K. Polk. (Miss Sarah Childress) Born November 2d, 1795, at Mecklenburg, 
 N. C. Elected by the Democrats 1845-1849. Died June 15th, 1849. Buried at Nash- 
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 Zachary Taylor. (Miss Margaret Smith) Born November 24th, 1784, in OraN( 
 County, Va. Elected by the Whigs 1849 Died July 9th, 1850. Buried first 
 Washington then removed to Louisville, Ky., and in i8.s8 to Frankfort, Ky. 
 
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 Millard Fillmore, (ist, Miss A. Power. 2d, Mrs. C. McIntosh) Born January 7th, 
 1800, at Summer Hill, N. Y. Klected Vice-President by the Whigs 1849. Presi- 
 dent AFTER death OF Z. TaYLOR, JULY 9th, 1850-1853. DIED MARCH 9th, I874. BURIED 
 
 AT Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
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 Franklin Pierce. (Miss Jane M. Appleton) Born November 23d, 1804, at Hillsboi 
 OUGH, N. H. Elected by the Democrats 1853-1857. Died October 8th, 1869. Burie 
 AT Concord, N. H. 
 
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 James Buchanan. (Unmarried) Born April 23d. 1791, in Franklin County Pa 
 E.KCXEDBVXHE DEMOCRATS :857-86:. DiEnJ.NLKst, /S6S. BukieoaxT.nc:sxer.p:: 
 
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 Abraham Lincoln. (Miss Mary Todd) Born February 12th, 1S09, in La Rue Count-! 
 Ky. Elected by the Republicans 1861-1865. Re-elected 1865. Shot by J. W. Boot 
 IN Ford's Theater, Washington, Friday evening, April 14th, 1865, and died th 
 
 NEXT morning. BURIED AT SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 
 
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 Andrew Johnson. (Miss Eliza McCardle) Born December 29th, 180S, at Raleigh, 
 N. C. Elected Vice-President by the Republicans 1865. President after death 
 OF A. Lincoln. April 15th, 1865-1S69. Died July -,ist, 1S75. Buried at C, 
 Tenn. 
 
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 Ulysses S. Grant. (Miss Julia Dent) Born April 27th, 1822, at Point Pleasant, 
 Ohio. EJlected by the Republicans 1869-1873. Re-elected 1873-1877. Died July 
 23d, 1SS5. Buried at Riverside Park, New York City. 
 
Rutherford B Hayes. (Miss I.ucy Ware Webb) Born October 4th, 1822. at Dela- 
 ware, Ohio. Elected by the Republicans 1877-18S1, Died January 17th, 1893 
 Buried at Fremont. Ohio. 
 
James A. Garfield. (Miss Lucretia Randolph) Born November 19th, 1831, in 
 Orangk Tp., Ohio. Elected by the Republicans 1881. Shot by C. J. Guiteau, 
 July 2d, 1881, in B. & P. Depot at Washington. Died at Elberon, N. J., September 
 19th, 1881. Buried at Cleveland, Ohio. 
 

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 Benjamin Harrison. (Miss Caroline I^. Scott) Born August 20th, 1S33, at North 
 Bend, Ohio. Elected by the Republicans 1889-1893. Residence, Indianapolis, Ind. 
 
William McKinley. (Miss Ida Saxton) Born January 29'h, 1843, at Niles, Ohio. 
 Elected by the Republicans 1897. Residence, Canton, Ohio. 
 
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