Who was the president during the louisana purchase?
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I think it was Jefferson, which was ironic because he was a staunch supporter of strict interpretation of the constitution. The constitution, however, did not give the president the right to buy land for the country.
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John Hanson was the first president after the Treaty of Paris under Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. George Washington was the first president under the Constitution.
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George Washington. easy two points!!!
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Thomas Jefferson was one.
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Sounds like the Whigs.\n\n\n\nEDIT: Yes, it is: William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor. Later, their VP's (John Tyler and Millard Fillmore, respectively) succeeded to the Presidency and finished out the original term.
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Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States.
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Martin Van Buren\nhttp://americanhistory.about.com/library/fastfacts/blffpres8.htm
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Liberia's third President was Daniel Bashiel Warner from 1864-1868. His main concern was how the indigenous people, particularly the natives in the interior, could be brought into the society and become useful citizens.\n\nWarner also wrote the lyrics to the Liberian national anthem.
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Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 N.S. – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and an influential founder of the United States. Major events during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase (1803), the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806), and the failed Embargo Act of 1807.\n\nA political philosopher who promoted Republicanism, sharp limits on the powers of the federal government, and the separation of church and state, he was the author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1779, 1786). He was the eponym of Jeffersonian democracy and the founder and leader of the Democratic-Republican Party, which dominated the First Party System for over a quarter-century. Jefferson served as the wartime Governor of Virginia (1779–1781), first United States Secretary of State (1789–1793), and second Vice President (1797–1801).\n\nA polymath, Jefferson was an agriculturalist, horticulturist, architect, archaeologist, paleontologist, author, inventor, and the founder of the University of Virginia. President John F. Kennedy welcomed forty-nine Nobel Prize winners to the White House in 1962, saying, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent and of human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House -- with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
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It really depends.  A John Hanson was elected President under the Articles of Confederation.  George Washington was elected President under the new Constitution that was drafted years later.   Washington himself called Hanson the President of the United States.  So yes a man named Hanson was indeed the first President of the United States.
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Martin Van Buren, born December 1782,  was the first US President born after the Declaration of Independence.
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February 12, 1809, in Hodgenville, Hardin County, Kentucky \n\ntake a look at http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html for more details if you wish
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The First President of the United States of America was George Washington.
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Yes, it was Thomas Jefferson.\n\n\nhttp://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/jeffworld.html
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Thomas Jefferson, who also happened to be the second Vice President.  If memory serves, he served between 1801-1809.
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George Washington!  He was a tobacco farmer and also the leader of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.\n\nHe had teeth made of ivory too.
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The last President to own slaves during his presidency was Zachary Taylor. The last President to own slaves, though no longer President at the time, was Ulysses Grant.