Thomas Jefferson

T. Jefferson was the third President of United States. He founded the University of Virginia, designed
his home, Monticello. Thomas Jefferson wrote Declaration of Independence, which is masterpiece of
political writing. Jefferson and other Founding Fathers established a nation that brought together
many people. Unfortunately, these differences in option later exploded into civil war.

Abraham Lincoln
A. Lincoln was born in 1809 in the backwoods of Kentucky. His political career began in the US House
of Representatives in 1847. In 1860 he candidate as a Republican presidential and beat the pro-
slavery candidate Stephen Douglas. In 1861, the Civil War began. In 1863, Lincoln issued the
Emancipation Proclamation, which declared all of the slaves free and made it very clear that in the
future slavery would not be tolerated in the US. HIS strong leadership during the war kept the nation
together and enabled the North to be victorious. Unfortunately, Lincoln did not live long to enjoy the
victory. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865, by John Wilkes Booth.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Roosevelt is the only President of the US elected to four terms in office. He was so respected that
even the press kept this information from the public, and was careful never to be seen in wheelchair
in public. When Roosevelt took office in early 1933, the US was in the middle of the Great
Depression. Roosevelt introduced a program he called the New Deal. In this program many people
got jobs with government, building roads and dams and other improvements. In the 1940s, the very
popular Roosevelt was elected to an unprecedented third and fourth term. During the war he
worked closely with Churchill to create strategy, and to plan the post-war world. Franklin Delano
Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, just as World War II was coming to an end.