America's first vice president was not, it seems, all that high on his new No. 2 gig. "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me," John Adams told …
Why Isn't William McKinley a More Famous President? Plus Other Political History
William McKinley was popular, successful, re-elected and assassinated. Why isn't the 25th president better know? Plus, a vice president who despised his role and a president who keeps getting dug up.
He was a senator and a diplomat, but William Rufus DeVane King is probably best known as the 13th vice president of the United States. He was also …
When you think of important U.S. Presidents, names such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy come to mind. …
Visit the Tennessee State Capitol building in Nashville and you'll see two towering statues of former presidents who hailed from the Volunteer State: …
Only one U.S. president has an entire era named after him. And it's not Washington, Kennedy, Roosevelt or Lincoln. The man who holds that distinction …