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ALL THE PRESIDENTSby Sarah Bates

We’ve gotten so many great responses to our

Presidents’ Tidbits that we’d like to share a bit

more information on our nation’s highest office

and the men who were elected to it.

• George Washington was a second cousin twice

removed to Queen Elizabeth II.

• Washington was the only President to win a

unanimous electorate vote.

• John Adams was the first President to live in

the White House.

• James Madison was the first President to wear

trousers instead of knee breeches.

• James Madison and Zachary Taylor were

second cousins.

• John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James

Madison all died on the 4th

of July.

• The tallest President was Abraham Lincoln at

6’4”. The shortest President was James

Madison at 5’4”.

• John Quincy Adams was the first President to

be photographed.

• Andrew Jackson was the first President to

travel by locomotive.

• Martin Van Buren was the first President born

in the United States. All prior Presidents had

been born in the Colonies.

• John Tyler had fifteen children, the most of

any President.

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• President Tyler was the first Vice President to

ascend to the Presidency when William

Henry Harrison passed away.

• William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia

after only thirty-two days in office.

• The first annual White House Thanksgiving

celebration was hosted by President James

Polk and his wife.

• Millard Fillmore was the last President to be

born in the 18th

Century.

• President Franklin Pierce was the first to have

a Christmas tree in the White House.

• James Buchanan was the only President to

never marry.

• Abraham Lincoln was the first President to

wear a beard.

• Andrew Johnson was never formally educated.

His wife Eliza taught him reading, writing

and arithmetic.

• Ulysses S. Grant finished his memoirs just

weeks before his death. The book earned his

family $450,000.

• Rutherford B. Hayes held the first annual

Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn.

• James Garfield was the last President to be

born in a log cabin.

• Grover Cleveland was the only President to be

married in the White House.

• Grover Cleveland also dedicated the Statue of

Liberty in 1886.

• Benjamin Harrison was the first President to

use electricity in the White House. He had it

installed in 1891.

• William McKinley was the first President to

ride in an automobile.

• President McKinley’s inauguration was the

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• Theodore Roosevelt was the first President to

call his home the White House – before it

was referred to as the Executive Mansion.

• Theodore Roosevelt was the first American to

win the Nobel Peace Prize (1906).

• Theodore Roosevelt, at forty-two, was the

youngest to assume office after President

McKinley was assassinated. The youngest

President to be elected was John F. Kennedy

at age forty-three.

• William Howard Taft was the first President

to own a car.

• Woodrow Wilson was the first President to

earn a Ph.D.

• Warren G. Harding was the first President to

speak over the radio.

• President Harding wore a size fourteen shoe,

the largest of any President.

• Calvin Coolidge lit the first National

Christmas tree on the White House lawn on

December 24, 1923.

• Herbert Hoover was the first President to be

born west of the Mississippi River.

• President Hoover approved the “Star-Spangled

Banner” as the National Anthem and donated

all of his Presidential salary to charity.

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt was paralyzed in

1921 at the age of 39 and served his entire

Presidency without the use of his legs. He

also founded the March of Dimes in 1938.

• Harry S. Truman was the first President to

give a speech on television.

• President Truman used to get up each morning

at 5 a.m. to practice the piano for two hours.

• Dwight D. Eisenhower was the only President

to serve in both WWI and WWII and was the

last WWI veteran to serve as President.

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• John F. Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic

to hold the office of President.

• Born in 1917, President Kennedy was the first

President elected that was born in the 20th

Century. Lyndon Johnson was born in 1908

but did not become President until after

Kennedy’s assassination.

• Lyndon B. Johnson was the first President to

name an Africa-American to his cabinet.

• President Nixon was the first President to visit

all fifty states.

• The longest-lived President was Gerald Ford,

who lived to be ninety-three. Reagan was a

close second, also ninety-three.

• President Ford worked briefly as a fashion

model in the 1940s.

• Jimmy Carter was the first President to be

born in a hospital.

• The oldest President to assume office was

Ronald Reagan at age sixty-nine.

• President Reagan was TIME magazine’s Man

of the Year two times.

• George H.W. Bush was the first former Vice

President to be later elected as President

since Martin Van Buren.

• President Clinton was born William Jefferson

Blythe III. He took his stepfather’s last name

when he was in high school.

• George W. Bush was the first son of a

President to become a President himself

since John and John Quincy Adams.

• President Obama is our 44th

President but

only the 43rd

man to hold the office. Grover

Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms

in office and was the 22nd

and 24th

President.

• President Obama was born in Hawaii, making

him the first President to be born outside the

Continental U.S.

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