Party: Republican
Fact One: This president admitted more states than any before him. He welcomed South Dakota, North Dakota (thanks for those two jerkface), Montana, Washington, Wyoming, and Idaho. This led to 12 new Republican senators.
Fact Two: Helped pass the Sherman Antitrust Act…unfortunately his government was too understaffed to actually enforce it, so monopolies maintained their power.
Fact Three: This president decided to standardize the spelling of place names. He dropped the h from Pittsburgh, which was later overturned.
Fact Four: Almost went to war with Chile. Yes, you read that correctly. American sailors were killed in Chile while on shore leave. The captain believed they were attacked by Chilean police without provocation. The president felt the government of Chile owed the United States an apology and that it is the duty of the United States to protect their troops while on foreign soil.
Fact Five: The only president to be the grandson of a former president and is the only president to lose an election to the previous president.
Quotes:
“I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man
or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.”
“Our mission is not to impose our peculiar institutions upon other nations by physical force or diplomatic treachery but rather by internal peace and prosperity to solve the problem of self-government and reconcile democratic freedom with national stability.”
“In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the consciences and liberty-loving instincts of the people. These later years have been full of talk about commerce and dinner pails, but I feel sure that the American conscience and the American love of liberty have not been smothered. They will break through this crust of sordidness and realize that those only keep their liberties who accord liberty to others.”
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