The President Poem

America’s president number one, Founding Father Washington.

Adams, second president, Very-first White House resident.

Thomas Jefferson, number three, Doubled the size of our country.

Madison, James, number four, Led us through the English war.

James Monroe is number five, Monroe Doctrine still survives.

Another Adams, John Quincy, Rose to the sixth presidency.

Seven, Andrew Jackson, Was a frontier common man.

Number eight, Van Buren, First president born “American.”

Harrison, nine, passed away, One month after Inaugural Day.

President Tyler, number ten, Ended war with the Indian.

James K. Polk, number eleven, Looked to western expansion.

Taylor, twelve, of the army, Nicknamed “Rough and Ready.”

Thirteen, Fillmore, in his eyes, anything for compromise.

Fourteen, Franklin Pierce is here, The Civil War is drawing near.

James Buchanan is fifteen, only bachelor ever seen.

Sixteen, Lincoln, “Honest Abe,” Signed the law that freed the Slave.

Seventeen, Andrew Johnson, Started Reconstruction.

Eighteen, Union General Grant, Led his troops with good judgment.

Nineteen, President R.B. Hayes, gave freedom to the KKK's.

Garfield, number twenty, Killed while in his presidency.

Chester Arthur, twenty one, Sought reform and got it done.

Grover Cleveland, twenty two, Remember him ‘cause he’s not through.

Twenty three, Harrison, comes again, It’s William’s grandson, Benjamin.

Grover Cleveland, twenty four. Ran again and won once more.

Here’s McKinley, twenty five. Twentieth Century doth arrive.

Teddy Roosevelt, twenty six. Softly spoke but with big sticks.

Twenty seven, Taft we see, Biggest manwe all agree.

Woodrow Wilson, twenty eight. Thought the League of Nations great.

Harding W, twenty-nine. Rather dull, but looked just fine.

Calvin Coolidge; he was thirty. Taught one and all frugality.

Herbert Hoover, thirty one, Oh no! The Depression had begun.

Franklin Roosevelt, thirty two, With his “New Deal” the country grew.

Harry Truman, thirty three, Won with atomic energy.

Eisenhower, thirty four, Commanded in the Second World War.

Thirty five, John Kennedy, Assassinated in sixty three.

Thirty six, Johnson, Lyndon B., He declared a “War on Poverty.”

Thirty seven, Nixon went far, Opening China and the U.S.S.R.

Gerald R. Ford, thirty eight, Moved the nation forward past Watergate.

Thirty nine, with all his might, Carter fought for human rights.

Reagan, forty, from the West, Taught the world that freedom’s best.

Bush, forty one, showed solid form, Freed a nation in “Desert Storm.”

Forty two, Bill Clinton, President through the Millennium.

George W. Bush, number forty three, Strengthened Homeland Security.

First to be elected of African descent, Obama our Forty-Fourth President.