American Presidents

The men who have become America's Presidents have always had a knowledge of or relationship with the Upper Mississippi Mineral District and the Tri-State area. Dubuque and Iowa have garnered special presidential attention since Jimmy Carter first won the Iowa Caucus  in 1976.

With the presidency of Joe Biden, there have been 46 presidential administrations and 45 men in 232-plus years of our current form of Constitutional government. There have been 11 U.S. Presidents in the lifetime of historian John T. Pregler (b. 1968.) Because Pregler lives in Iowa and due to the Iowa Caucuses going back to 1976, John has personally seen six of the eleven men right before, during, or immediately after their presidency. Presidents Carter, G.W. Bush, and Obama while still in office; Clinton after office; G.W. Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden before office. Pregler has also seen sitting Vice Presidents Al Gore and Joe Biden, introducing Biden to a Dubuque crowd on June 27, 2012.

Photographs & Images

LJTP 100.004 - President Abraham Lincoln by Phil. Photographic Co. - c.1864

LJTP 100.009 - President Abraham Lincoln CDV 2

LJTP 100.010 - President Andrew Johnson CDV

LJTP 100.012 - Abraham Lincoln by Mathew Brady - c.1860

LJTP 100.013 - Abraham Lincoln by Anthony Berger – Embossed - c.1864

LJTP 100.016 - Lt. General U.S. Grant by Mathew Brady - c.1864

LJTP 100.017 - Lt. General U.S. Grant by Fred. Gutekunst - 1865

LJTP 100.019 - President Lincoln Lithograph - J.D. Fowler - c.1861

LJTP 100.024 - Abraham Lincoln collage with those who voted for the 13th Amendment in the U.S. Congress - 1865

LJTP 100.041 - President James Garfield

LJTP 100.042 - President and Mrs. William McKinley -

LJTP 100.043 - President William McKinley

LJTP 100.044 - President Lincoln reading to son Tad - 1864

LJTP 100.045a - President Lincoln Photogravures - 1861

LJTP 100.047 - U.S. Senator Jefferson Davis (D-MS) - c.1858-1860

LJTP 100.056 - President Lincoln reading to son Tad - 1864

LJTP 100.060 - President Lincoln – The Union Forever – Large - 1864

LJTP 100.062 - President Lincoln – The Union Forever – Medium - 1864

LJTP 100.064 - Abraham Lincoln Engraving of Mathew Brady - 1865

LJTP 100.066 - Abraham Lincoln Memorial CDV - circa 1865

LJTP 100.110 - President Garfield & President Lincoln - circa 1882

LJTP 100.351 - Abraham Lincoln CDV by Brady - FW Ingire - Springfield IL - 1865

Letters & Documents

LJTP 200.017 - U.S. Senator James W. Grimes to U.S. Sec. of Interior O.H. Browning - May 26, 1868

LJTP 200.022 - U.S. Senator William B. Allison to President Arthur - 1881

LJTP 200.025 - The White House to U.S. Senator Louis Murphy - 1933

LJTP 200.051 - Rawlins - Vandever - Lincoln Signed Orders - Feb 1863

Misc. Artifacts

LJTP 700.005 - General U.S. Grant Presidential Campaign Ribbon - 1868

LJTP 700.006 - President Zachary Taylor Memorial Ribbon - 1850

LJTP 700.007 - William McKinley for President - 1896

LJTP 700.016 - President Kennedy Inauguration Ribbon - 1961

LJTP 700.038 - Blue Obama 2008 Presidential Button - 2008

LJTP 700.039 - White Obama 2008 Presidential Button - 2008

LJTP 700.040 - 1980 Iowa Democratic Presidential Debate - 1980

Autographs & Signatures

LJTP 800.012 - U.S. Grant - Signature - c.1866

LJTP 800.012 - U.S. Grant - Signature - c.1866

LJTP 800.015 - General Grant Jo Davies County Monument Certificate - 1865

Books & Periodicals

LJTP 600.008 - Official Program Inauguration of Woodrow Wilson - 1917