History Buff's Guide to the Presidents (65 page)

Van Buren

Tyler

Garfield

B. Harrison

Taft

Wilson

Ford

Reagan

Rheumatism

J. Adams

Jefferson

Buchanan*

T. Roosevelt

Smallpox

Washington

Jackson

Lincoln

Stroke

J. Q. Adams*

Tyler*

Fillmore*

A. Johnson*

Wilson*

Eisenhower

Nixon*

Ford

Severe Tooth Decay

Washington

Adams

B. Harrison

Wilson

Tuberculosis

Washington

Jackson*

Pierce*

A. Johnson

Typhoid

A. Johnson

Cleveland

Taft

Yellow Fever

Taylor

American Presidential Museum

3107 West Highway 76

Branson, MO 65616

(417) 334-8683

www.americanpresidentialmuseum.com

Hall of Presidents

789 Baltimore Street

Gettysburg, PA 17325

(717) 334-5717

www.gettysburgbattlefieldtours.com

Mount Rushmore History Association

13000 Highway 244, Building 31, Suite 2

Keystone, SD 57751

(800) 699-3142

www.mtrushmorebookstore.com

The Museum of American Presidents

130 North Massanutten Street

Strasburg, VA 22657 (

540) 465-5999

www.waysideofva.com/presidents

The Presidential Museum and Leadership Library

4919 East University

University of Texas Odessa, TX 79761-8144

(432) 363-7737

United States Vice Presidential Museum Dan Quayle Center

815 Warren Street

Huntington, IN 46750

(260) 356-6356

www.quaylemuseum.org

PRESIDENTIAL MONUMENTS, MUSEUMS, AND LIBRARIES

Washington Birthplace National Monument

1732 Popes Creek Road

Washington’s Birthplace, VA 22443

(804) 224-1732

www.nps.gov/gewa

Mary Washington House

1200 Charles Street

Fredericksburg, VA 22401

(540) 373-1569

www.apva.org/marywashingtonhouse

Historic Mount Vernon

Post Office Box 110

3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway Mount Vernon, VA 22121

(703) 780-2000

www.mountvernon.org

Adams National Historic Park

135 Adams Street

Quincy, MA 02169-1749

(617) 773-1177

www.nps.gov/adam/

Thomas Jefferson Foundation

Post Office Box 316

Charlottesville, VA 22902

(434) 984-9822,

www.monticello.org

The James Madison Museum

129 Caroline Street

Orange, VA 22960-1532

(540) 672-1776

www.jamesmadisonmus.org

James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library

908 Charles Street

Fredericksburg, VA 22401

(540) 654-1043

www.umw.edu/jamesmonroemuseum

Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage

4580 Rachel Lane

Hermitage, TN 37076

(615) 889-2941

www.hermitage.org

Martin Van Buren National Historic Site

1013 Old Post Road

Kinderhook, NY 12106

(518) 758-9689

www.nps.gov/mava/home.htm

William Henry Harrison Mansion

3 West Scott Street

Vincennes, IN 47591

(812) 882-2096

www.grouselandfoundation.org

Tippecanoe Battlefield

200 Battle Ground Avenue

Battle Ground, IN 47920

(765) 567-2147

www.tcha.mus.in.us

James K. Polk Memorial Association

301-305 West Seventh Street

Columbia, TN 38402

(931) 388-2354

www.jamespolk.com

President James K. Polk State Historic Site

12031 Lancaster Highway

Box 475

Pineville, NC 28134

(704) 889-7145

www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/polk/

Lincoln Museum and Library

112 North Sixth Street

Springfield, IL 62701

(800) 610-2094

www.nps.gov/abli

The Lincoln Museum

200 East Berry Street

Fort Wayne, IN 46802

(260) 455-3864

www.thelincolnmuseum.org

Abraham Lincoln Museum Lincoln Memorial

University Cumberland Gap Parkway Harrogate, TN 37752

(615) 869-6235

www.lmunet.edu/museum/

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

College & Depot Streets

Post Office Box 1088

Greeneville, TN 37744

(423) 638-3551

www.nps.gov/anjo

General Grant National Memorial: Grant’s Tomb

Riverside Drive and 122nd Street New York, NY 10027

(212) 666-1640

www.nps.gov/gegr/

The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center

Spiegel Grove

Fremont, OH 43420-2796

(419) 332-2081

www.rbhayes.org

James A. Garfield National Historic Site

8095 Mentor Avenue

Mentor, OH, 44060

(440) 255-8722

www.nps.gov/jaga/

President Benjamin Harrison Home

1230 North Delaware Street

Indianapolis, IN 46202

317) 631-1888

www.presidentbenjaminharrison.org

William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum

800 McKinley Monument Drive NW

Canton, OH 44708

(330) 455-7043

www.mckinleymuseum.org

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

20 Sagamore Hill Road

Oyster Bay, NY 11771-1807

(516) 922-4788

www.nps.gov/sahi/home.htm

William Howard Taft National Historic Site

2038 Auburn Avenue

Cincinnati, OH 45219

(513) 684-3262

www.nps.gov/wiho/

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library

18-24 North Coalter Street

Post Office Box 24

Staunton, VA 24402-0024

(540) 885-0897

www.woodrowwilson.org

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum

210 Parkside Drive

West Branch, IA 52358

(319) 643-5301

hoover.archives.gov

Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum

Forbes Library

20 West Street

Northampton, MA 01060

(413) 587-1014

www.forbeslibrary.org

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum

4079 Albany Post Road

Hyde Park, NY 12538

1-800-FDR-VISIT

www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu

Truman Presidential Library and Museum

500 West US Highway 24

Independence, MO 64050

(816) 268-8200

www.trumanlibrary.org

Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum

200 Southeast Fourth Street

Abilene, KS 67410

(877) RINGIKE

www.dwightdeisenhower.com/library-museum

Eisenhower National Historic Site

250 Eisenhower Farm Lane

Gettysburg, PA 17325

(717) 338-9114

www.nps.gov/eise

John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

Columbia Point

Boston, MA 02125

(866) JFK-1960

www.jfklibrary.org

The Sixth Floor Museum

411 Elm Street, Suite 120

Dallas, TX 75202-3301

(888) 485-4854 ext. 6681 or 6682

www.jfk.org

LBJ Library and Museum

2313 Red River Street

Austin, TX 78705

(512) 721-0200

www.lbjlib.utexas.edu

Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace

18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard

Yorba Linda, CA 92886

(714) 93-5075

www.nixonfoundation.org

Gerald R. Ford Museum

303 Pearl Street NW

Grand Rapids, MI 49504-5353

(616) 254-0400

www.ford.utexas.edu/museum

Jimmy Carter Library and Museum

441 Freedom Parkway

Atlanta, GA 30307-1498

(404) 865-7131

www.jimmycarterlibrary.org

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

40 Presidential Drive

Simi Valley, CA 93065

(800) 410-8354

www.ronaldreaganmemorial.com

George H. W. Bush Library and Museum

1000 George Bush Drive

W College Station, TX 77845

(979) 691-4000

www.bushlibrary.tamu.edu

Clinton Presidential Library and Museum

1200 President Clinton Avenue Little Rock, AR 72201

(501) 374-4242

www.clintonfoundation.org

Full bibliographic data can be found in the bibliography.

1
. Of those presidents not included in this list, Millard Fillmore established a militia unit after his presidency, when the Civil War began, and James Buchanan was a private (not an officer) in the Pennsylvania militia.

2
. Sievers,
Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Statesman
, 2:361.

3
. Kane, Podell, and Anzovin,
Facts About the Presidents
, 583. See also Gross,
America’s Lawyer-Presidents
.

4
. Binkley,
President and Congress
, 381–82.

5
. DeGregorio,
The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents
, 673–74.

6
. Ford,
A Time to Heal
, 66–67, 96.

7
. Johnson quoted in Bush and Gold,
Looking Forward: An Autobiography
, 101.

8
. Barry Burden, “United States Senators as Presidential Candidates,”
Political Science Quarterly
117, no. 1 (2002): 81, 86.

9
. Adams quoted in Walch,
At the President’s Side: The Vice Presidency in the Twentieth Century
, 1; Garner quoted in Reeves,
The Life of Chester A. Arthur
, 45.