Winfield Scott - Great General of USA

Winfield Scott was a United States Army general, and unsuccessful presidential applicant of the Whig Party in 1852. Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army," he serve on active duty as a general longer than any further man in American history and many historians rate him the ablest American commander of his time. Over the course of his forty seven year career, he commanded forces in the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Black Hawk War, the Second Seminole War, and, in brief, the American Civil War, conceiving the Union strategy known as the Anaconda Plan that would be used to beat the Confederacy.

He served as superior General of the United States Army for twenty years, longer than any other holder of the office. A national hero after the Mexican American War, he served as military governor of Mexico City. Such was his stature that, in 1852, the United States Whig Party passed over its own incumbent President of the United States, Millard Fillmore, to suggest Scott in the United States presidential election. Scott lost to Democrat Franklin Pierce in the common election, but remained a popular national figure, receiving a brevet promotion in 1856 to the rank of lieutenant general, suitable the first American since George Washington to hold that rank.

Nickname	Old Fuss and Feathers, Grand Old Man of the Army
Date of Birth	June 13, 1786
Place of Birth	Dinwiddie County, Virginia
Service/branch	United States Army, Union Army
Rank	Brevet Lieutenant General
Commands held	United States Army
Other work	Lawyer, Military governor of Mexico City, Whig candidate for President of the United States
Place of Death	West Point, New York
Date of Death	May 29, 1866

Benjamin Harrison

Benjamin Harrison was served as the 23rd President of the United States. In the American Civil War Harrison served as a Brigadier General in the XX Corps of the Army of the Cumberland. After the war he unsuccessfully ran for the governorship of Indiana, but was later allotted to the U.S. Senate from that state. He is the one and only president from the state of Indiana. His presidential administration is most remembered for its financial legislation, including the McKinley Tariff and the Sherman Antitrust Act, and for annual federal expenses that reached one billion dollars for the first time. He remarried, wrote a book, and later represented the Republic of Venezuela in an international case beside the United Kingdom.

Born	August 20, 1833
Birth Place	North Bend, Ohio
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison
Occupation	Lawyer
Religion	Presbyterian
Died	March 13, 1901
Death Place	Indianapolis, Indiana

James A. Garfield

Born	November 19, 1831
Birth Place	Moreland Hills, Ohio
Birth name	James Abram Garfield
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Lucretia Rudolph Garfield
Occupation	Lawyer,
	Educator,
	Minister
Religion	Church of Christ
Died	September 19, 1881
Death Place	Elberon, New Jersey

James Abram Garfield was served as the 20th President of the United States. Garfield served as a major common in the United States Army during the American Civil War and fought at the Battle of Shiloh. Garfield became the Republican Party nominee for the 1880 Presidential Election and successfully beaten Democrat Winfield Hancock. Due to expenses so little time as President, Garfield accomplished very little. In his inaugural address, Garfield outlined a desire for Civil Service improvement which was eventually passed by his successor Chester A. Arthur in 1883 as the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act. His presidency was cut short after he was shot by the psychologically disturbed Charles J. Guiteau while entering a railroad station in Washington D.C. on July 2, 1881. He was the second United States President to be assassinated.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Born	October 4, 1822
Birth Place	Delaware, Ohio
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Lucy Hayes
Occupation	Lawyer
Religion	Methodist
Died	January 17, 1893
Death Place	Fremont, Ohio

Rutherford Birchard Hayes was served as the 19th President of the United States. He served in the American Civil War, upward to the rank of major-general in 1864. Hayes controlled federal troops to suppress The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 and ended Reconstruction by removing troops from the South. By removing federal troops, Hayes gave White Southerners the power to methodically disenfranchise African Americans, creating the Jim Crow South. On administrative dealings he began gradual civil service reforms and advocated the repeal of the Tenure of Office Act. In 1880 he kept his pledge not to run for a second term and retired silently to his home in Fremont, Ohio. Afterward in life he became the form for the post-presidency, using his prestige to advocate for charity and education.

Andrew Johnson

Born	December 29, 1808
Birth Place	Raleigh, North Carolina
Nationality	American
Political party	Democratic National Union
Spouse(s)	Eliza McCardle Johnson
Occupation	Tailor
Religion	Christian with no denominational affiliation
Died	July 31, 1875
Death Place	Elizabethton, Tennessee

Andrew Johnson was served as the 17th President of the United States. Johnson presided over the rebuilding era of the United States in the four years after the American Civil War. He became the mainly prominent War Democrat from the South and supported Lincoln's military policies through the American Civil War of 1861–1865. In 1862, Lincoln selected Johnson military governor of occupied Tennessee. His conciliatory policies towards the South, his rush to reincorporate the former Confederate states back into the union, and his vetoes of civil rights bills embroiled him in a bitter argument with Radical Republicans. He did not identify with the two main parties although he did try for the Democratic nomination in 1868 and so while President he attempted to make a party of loyalists under the National Union label.