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President Lyndon B. Johnson continued the longstanding commitment of the United States to Southeast Asian security by providing increasing amounts of support to anti-communist South Vietnam. A former congressman from Texas and vice-president since 1960, Johnson took office in 1963 upon the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
11. James K. Polk (March 4, 1845—March 4, 1849). Democratic. Polk had served as Speaker of the House from 1835 to 1839 and Governor of Tennessee from 1839 to 1841 before defeating Henry Clay for president in 1844 with his promise to annex Texas. He was also a prominent leader of Jacksonian Democracy.
United States of America / Estados Unidos de América Chronology of Presidents Cronología de Presidentes. ... 1969: Lyndon Baines Johnson: Democrat: 1961 - 1963 ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt. 4,422 days. (1933–1945) William Henry Harrison. 31 days. (1841) This is a list of presidents of the United States by time in office. The listed number of days is calculated as the difference between dates, which counts the number of calendar days except the last day. The length of a full four-year presidential term of ...
In the 1960 campaign, Lyndon B. Johnson was elected Vice President as John F. Kennedy’s running mate. On November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was assassinated, Johnson was sworn in as the 36th United ...
The President in the year 1960 was Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was the 34th President of the United States. He took office on January 20, 1953 and left office on January 20, 1961. He was followed by John F. Kennedy.
Personal website. Richard Milhouse Nixon (b. January 9, 1913, in Yorba Linda, California) was the 37th President of the United States. He served from 1969 until 1974. Nixon remains the only president in American history to resign in office, which he did in the wake of the Watergate scandal. He was then succeeded by Vice President Gerald Ford in ...
