May 7, 2018 -
The first Democratic candidate elected after the Civil War, Grover Cleveland was the only President to leave the White House and return for a second term four years later. One of nine children of a Presbyterian minister, Cleveland was born...
January 8, 2021 -
In 2004 and 2005, the U.S. Mint commemorated the bicentennials of the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition with the Westward Journey Nickel Series. The Louisiana Purchase/Peace Medal Nickel is the first of four coins in the series....
November 2, 2016 -
Sales Period The coin was available for purchase from the U.S. Mint from January 2, 1998, through December 31, 1998. Commemoration The coin was authorized to commemorate the life and work of Robert F. Kennedy, former Senator and Attorney General...
May 7, 2018 -
The son of an Irish-born Baptist minister who had immigrated to the U.S., Chester Arthur was born in Fairfield, Vermont, in 1829. He graduated from Union College in 1848, taught school, was admitted to the bar and practiced law in...
May 7, 2018 -
Grandson of former President William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison was born in 1833 on a farm by the Ohio River below Cincinnati. He attended Miami University in Ohio and studied law in Cincinnati, later moving to Indianapolis, where he practiced....
May 7, 2018 -
Born in 1822, Ulysses S. Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point and fought in the Mexican War under General Zachary Taylor. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Grant was appointed to command...
May 7, 2018 -
Born in Ohio in 1822, Rutherford B. Hayes was educated at Kenyon College and Harvard Law School. He fought in the Civil War and was wounded in action. While he was still in the Army, Cincinnati Republicans nominated him for...
December 7, 2017 -
Authorized Mintage Not more than 100,000 gold five dollar coins and not more than 200,000 silver dollar coins. Availability Coins were available for sale between August 16, 1997 and August 16, 1998.
May 7, 2018 -
James Garfield was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1831. He later graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts and returned to the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (later Hiram College) in Ohio as a classics professor and then its president. He...
May 7, 2018 -
Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1808, Andrew Johnson grew up in poverty. He was apprenticed to a tailor as a boy and later opened a tailor shop in Greeneville, Tenn., married Eliza McCardle and participated in debates at the...
