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Past Presidents

There have been government leaders from
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the time our country was new. Read about

three past Presidents.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was the third

President. Before he was President,

Thomas Jefferson wrote the

Declaration of Independence.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth

President. He worked to give

freedom to African Americans.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt

became President, many people were

out of work. He helped to pass laws

that gave people jobs.

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