Rudolph Hartmann

Rudolph Hartmann
 		
5th President of the United States 		
Term: March 4, 1813 - March 4, 1817 		
Vice President: Thomas McKean 		
Preceded By: Amo Gus 		
Succeeded By: John Quincy Adams 		
Personal Details 		
Born: October 2, 1775 		
Death: March 8, 1817 (42) 		
State: New York 		
Party: Democratic-Republican 1799-1815 / Democratic 1815-1817		
Alma Mater: Military Academy of New York 		
Military Service 		
Allegiance: United States 		
Branch/Service: U.S. Military 		
Years of Service: 1797-1813 		
Rank: Brigadier General 		
Battles/Wars:
2nd American Civil War: 
*7 Days Campaign
*Battle of Hartmann's Ridge		
Rudolph Hartmann was the 5th President of the United States. Hartmann was also a well known war hero at the time, serving as a Colonel in the 7 Days Campaign, being a core frontline unit, earning a promotion to Brigadier General.
==Military Service==
=== Second Civil War ===
Hartmann was a Colonel going into the 1800s, and soon enough he'd be swept up in the middle of the Second American Civil War. Hartmann, the top graduate of his class, was placed in the vanguard during Benckendorf's 7 Days Campaign. Hartmann for his valor was promoted to Brigadier General, being sent out west into Kentucky for a long while, having little to nothing to do for most of the war. In a long stretch of pause in 1803, Hartmann would hold in a defensive victory in southern Kentucky at the Battle of Hartmann's Ridge, on what is now known as Hartmann's Ridge. Following this Hartmann would take control of many small Tennessee towns, seeing little action at the end of the war in 1804.
== Presidency ==
Rudolph Hartmann had been a popular, yet relatively unknown war hero, being regarded as one of the skilled yet unaccomplished Generals. Despite being relatively unknown, the Democratic-Republican Party was looking for a war hero to put on their ticket. While many war heroes were still alive post-Civil War, many had been Constitutional Democrats, and with little to choose from, the Democratic-Republicans chose the uncontroversial Rudolph Hartmann over Henry Dearborn, who had recently cozied up to the Constitutional Democratic administrations. Going into the Election of 1812, Hartmann was seen as the biggest competitor to incumbent Amo Gus, and indeed he was, winning multiple key states, and later being selected by Congress in the Contingent Election.
Under Hartmann the War of 1813 occurred, a war in which would be a general slump on his legacy, especially in 1815 when Washington D.C. was burned to the ground after a botched defense. Though the treaty was made on losing terms, Secretary of War Henry Erler was able to win the Second Battle of New Orleans before it was over, giving a sense of victory and patriotism to the average citizen's mind. 
In the span of Hartmann and Gus's Presidencies, they had gathered large amounts of debt, especially in the war. Hartmann's later Presidency was haunted by such debt, with little chance to be able to pay it off with the tax system.
== Post-Presidency ==
Rudolph Hartmann has the shortest post-Presidency in US history, dying just 4 days after leaving office. On March 8, 1817 marauders from the Davidson Rebellion stormed the Capital, while Hartmann had been sworn out of the Presidency, he had not yet left the city. Davidson's men were very hyper-partisan, being Gus Supporters from 1812, and they would storm his hotel that morning, lynching him from a balcony. Later that day the Davidson Rebellion was put down.
==Personal Life==
Rudolph Hartmann was born on October 2, 1775 in upstate New York to John Hartmann and Elizabeth Hartmann, a family of poor farmers.