BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: America's Presidents

DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: America's Presidents:

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1. SIPGPR_121215_10.JPG: William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841 This deathbed scene, a format popular in the mid-nineteenth century, marks the passing of President William Henry Harrison, who caught pneumonia while giving a long inaugural address in bad weather. The words written on the paper -- "Sir I wish you to understand the true principles of government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more" -- were reputedly Harrison's final instructions to Vice President John Tyler. In office only a month, the Whig Party's Harrison had alienated the most powerful Whig in the Senate, Henry Clay, by selecting Clay's rival, Daniel Webster, to be secretary of state. Harrison had quickly called Congress into session to consider a number of Whig proposals, but Clay, determined to dominate from the Senate, never acted on them. On assuming the presidency, Tyler, a Democrat from Virginia chosen as Harrison's running mate to win southern support, opposed Harrison's program. (Interestingly, neither Clay nor Tyler are depicted here.) Henry R. Robinson, 1841
2. SIPGPR_121215_31.JPG: The Great Match at Baltimore This cartoon highlights the candidacy of Stephen A. Douglas (1813–1861) in the tumultuous 1860 presidential election. The contest -- portrayed as a cockfight -- is between the Democratic Party's southern and northern branches. Douglas, from the North, stands on former president Buchanan, crowing that he can beat Abraham Lincoln and "Old Kentucky too." Vice President John C. Breckinridge (1821–1875), a Kentuckian who represented the South, is being placed into the ring. The Pennsylvania-born president James Buchanan (1791–1868 ) sided with Southern Democrats and excluded Douglas -- the only man who might have avoided the party's rupture -- from his cabinet. Buchanan had hoped to defuse sectional tensions; instead, his failures intensified animosities and split the Democratic Party. At the 1860 Democratic convention in Charleston, South Carolina, Buchanan supporters joined with southerners to prevent Douglas's nomination, and instead selected Breckinridge. Northern delegates bolted and held a convention in Baltimore, nominating Douglas. With the Democrats divided, the Republican Lincoln won the election. Currier & Ives Lithography Company, 1860
3. SIPGPR_121215_40.JPG: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Wheeler and the Court Fight. In February 1937 President Franklin Roosevelt proposed legislation that would increase the number of federal judges, including those on the Supreme Court, which had struck down many of his New Deal programs. The bill would allow the president to add judges for each incumbent who was seventy or older, which would give him up to six nominations for the Supreme Court. To the left stands Homer Cummings, Roosevelt's attorney general. Senator Burton K. Wheeler, a Democrat from Montana, led the opposition, using as his weapon a letter by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (represented here by the bowling ball) that expressed opposition to Roosevelt's plan. Although Congress utterly rejected Roosevelt's "court-packing" strategy, within a year the Court began judging his legislation more favorably, and a vacancy on there allowed him to appoint a new justice. Clifford Kennedy Berryman, 1937
4. SIPGPR_121215_53.JPG: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882-1945 Franklin Roosevelt's haughty expression in Aurelius Battaglia's caricature conveys his aristocratic background. The Roosevelts settled in America in the mid-seventeenth century. By the time of the American Revolution they enjoyed the status of landed gentry in New York's Hudson River Valley, occupying leading roles in the state's commercial, civic, and social life. Roosevelt was drawn -- as were many from the upper-middle or upper class -- to public service and politics. He was also fascinated by the example of his famous fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, whom Franklin declared "the greatest man I ever knew." By the time this drawing was made, Franklin Roosevelt had served in the New York State Senate and as assistant secretary of the navy under President Woodrow Wilson; been James M. Cox's running-mate in the 1920 presidential election; contracted polio in 1921; and served as governor of New York. Aurelius Battaglia, c 1928-32
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Description of Subject Matter: The nation’s only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House, this exhibition lies at the heart of the Portrait Gallery’s mission to tell the American story through the individuals who have shaped it. Visitors will see an enhanced and extended display of multiple images of 42 presidents of the United States, including Gilbert Stuart’s “Lansdowne” portrait of George Washington, the famous “cracked plate” photograph of Abraham Lincoln and whimsical sculptures of Presidents Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon and George H. W. Bush by noted caricaturist Pat Oliphant. Presidents Washington, Andrew Jackson, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt will be given expanded attention because of their significant impact on the office. Presidents from FDR to Bill Clinton are featured in a video component of the exhibit.
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