PRESIDENTS AND WANNABEES TO PEORIA

    PRESIDENTS AND WANNABEES TO PEORIA

                           NORMAN   V.  KELLY

 

1832  future  presidents   came to Peoria   1832  we were not a town until 1835  and a city in 1845

ABRAHAM   LINCOLN      ZACHARY  TAYLOR

JEFFERSON    DAVIS

 

1842     Martin  Van Burean

Abe   Lincoln  17 times   never as the president

 

1894           BENJAMIN  HARRISON
 

1895     1899    William  McKinnley   Came here and appeared at the TABERNACLE…AND WAS HERE TO DEDICATE THE Civil War Memorial in 1899.

THEODORE  ROOSEVELT  HERE 1900  HE WAS A CANDIDATE FOR Vice  President.  Returned  1907      WMBD  world’s Most Beautiful drive   

 

WILLIAM  HOWARD  TAFT   HERE 1911  ATR THE COLLISEUM     27^TH PRESIDENT

 

FRANKLIN ROOSEVE,T       HERE 1920 AS A RUNNING MATE OF  Governor Cox    here   1920

 

John   CALVIN  COOLIDGE   1922  JUST before  HE BECAME PRESIDENT

 

HERBERT HOOVER     1932 SPOKE FROM THE BACK OF A TRAIN  HE returned  IN 1940  TO SPEAK  at the R G Letourneau  plant

HARRY  S. TRUMAN   WAS HERE TWICE   1942   AND

1945…GOT VERY LITTLE ATTENTION OF COURSE Peorians did not know that he would become President  in 1945.

DWIGHT  DAVID  EISENHOWER  He was here at the BU field house    First National speech  IKE WAS THE FIRSST

SITTING PRESIDENT TO COME HERE SINCE   1932

JOHN  F KENNEDY   1960   At THE Courthouse  very exciting  hundreds and hundreds of People…

LYNDON  JOHNSON  HERE As president   spoke at the courthouse 1964  and at the Armory   just 5 blocks away

RICHARD NIXON  IN OUR AREA AT LEAST 8 TIMES

Sixty’s and 70’s

GERALD  FORD    HERE 1974  AT Robertson Memorial

He stayed at the Pere’  Marquette and there was talk in Peoria that he did not leave a tip.

RONALD RAEGAN WAS HERE A LOT SINCE HE WENT TO COLLEGE IN Eureka…  He was here in 1980 and came with Ford once   with BUSH  1982