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Seven Presidents Served In the 20 Years Before the Civil War
The Challenge of Keeping the United States Together Proved Impossible
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by Robert McNamara Updated August 31, 2017
In the 20 years before the Civil War, seven men served presidential terms ranging from difficult to disastrous. Of those seven, two Whig presidents died in office, and the other five only managed to serve a single term.
American was expanding, and in the 1840s, it fought a successful, though controversial, war with Mexico. But it was a very rough time to serve as president, as the nation was slowly coming apart, split by the enormous issue of slavery.
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