Presidents' Day

Who's your favorite President?

Here are three of those frequently highest on popularity lists.

George Washington (February 22, 1732 December 14, 1799) was the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and the first President of the United States of America (1789–1797). For his central role in the formation of the United States, he is often referred to as "the father of his country".


Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery. Before his election in 1860 as the first Republican president, Lincoln had been a country lawyer, an Illinois state legislator, a member of the United States House of Representatives, and twice an unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. Senate. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States,^[1][2] Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. His tenure in office was occupied primarily with the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Six days after the large-scale surrender of Confederate forces under General Robert E. Lee, Lincoln became the first American president to be assassinated.





Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919); was the 26th President of the United States. He is well remembered for his energetic persona, his range of interests and achievements, his leadership of the Progressive Movement, his model of masculinity, and his "cowboy" image. He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912. Before becoming President (1901–1909) he held offices at the municipal, state, and federal level of government. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician.
President T. Roosevelt and family. Alice, (standing, in white hat) was from his first wife, Alice Lee, who died hours after their daughter's birth--February 14th, 1884. Sadly, just a few hours prior, and also in T.R.'s house, TR's mother died. "The light has gone out of my life," was all he wrote in his journal that day. Happier days came years later, as pictured above; much thanks to his second wife, Edith, shown seated.

** Did you know that T.R. did not like to be called Teddy? Some speculate that it was because his first wife, Alice, had called him by that name... he never really recovered from her early passing. ** Did you know that T. Roosevelt's first official act he signed as President was the Reclamtion Act? Thanks to that signature, Glen Canyon Dam was eventually built.
** Did you know that he is the only President to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Although nominated in 1898, it was not awarded until January 16th, 2001, by President Bill Clinton.