Starting with the election of 1840, candidate General William Henry Harrison was easily elected as the celebrated military hero of the most recent Indian Wars. The hero over the Indians at the battle of Tippencanoe, became president and John Tyler became vice president. During his inauguration ceremony the weather was cold and rainy. The new President contracted pneumonia and died only one month into his term.

In 1860, candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected President and had to preside over America's greatest crisis. He was reelected in 1864 and

saw the Civil War come to a successful conclusion. At his second inaugural address, Lincoln said "with malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; bind up the nations wounds." Shortly after the war's end, a fanatical Confederate sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth, assassinated him.

In 1880, Ohio Congressman James A. Garfield won the election despite a very slim lead in popular votes, however, won easily in electoral votes. He was in office less than four months when President Garfield was fatally shot by a disappointed office seeker. His Vice President, Chester A. Arthur, succeeded him.

In 1920, Senator Warren G. Harding captured the public mood with his promise of a "return to normalcy." An easygoing man, Harding possessed a limited understanding of national problems. President Harding was an honest but pilable man who, like President Grant was unable to protect his postwar administration from sca

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