U.S. Presidents and States

George Washington, the first president, was inaugurated in 1789 after a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. William Henry Harrison spent the shortest time in office with 32 days in 1841. Franklin D. Roosevelt spent the longest with over twelve years, but died shortly into his fourth term in 1945. John F. Kennedy has been the only president of Roman Catholic faith, and the current president, Barack Obama, is the first president of recent African descent.

The United States Congress may admit new states on an equal footing with existing ones; this last happened in 1959 with the admission of Alaska (Jan. 3) and Hawaii (Aug. 21). The U.S. Constitution is silent on the question of whether states have the power to leave, or secede from, the Union, but the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unilateral secession to be unconstitutional, a position driven in part by the outcome of the American Civil War. As of January 2014, there are four living former presidents: Jimmy Carter (age 89), George H. W. Bush (age 89), Bill Clinton (age 67) and George W. Bush (age 67).

In this application you will find:

•mapping history of creation U.S. States and election U.S. Presidents 

•navigation from your actual position to location of the event

•share the application by Facebook, Twitter or Email

•possibility of adding a new event on the map

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