Happy Presidents Day!

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Some things you might not have known about our Presidents......


Millard Fillmore and his cabinet members helped fight the Library of Congress fire.

Calvin Coolidge refused to use the telephone during his presidential term.

Herbert Hoover donated his salary to charity.

 

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<<<<<<-----------I did not have wooden teeth.

Did George Washington have wooden teeth? — Ask HISTORY — History Q&amp;A

 

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George Washington made whiskey.

Gerald Ford was a fashion model and a park ranger in Yellowstone before becoming President.

Franklin Pierce gave his 3,319-word inaugural address from memory, without the aid of notes.

Barack Obama collects Spiderman and Conan the Barbarian comic books.

 

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Jimmy Carter is a speed reader, having been recorded reading 2,000 words per minute.

James Buchanan was the president that never married

John Adams was the first president to live in the White House, moving in November, 1800 while the paint was still wet.

 

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Theodore Roosevelt was the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize. He was awarded the prize in 1906 for his role as peacemaker in the Russo-Japanese War.

Lyndon B. Johnson rejected his official portrait painting, saying it was the ugliest thing he ever saw.

Grover Cleveland was the only president married in a ceremony at the White House, June 2, 1886

Martin Van Buren was the first U.S. President born in the United States. The Presidents preceding Van Buren were born in colonies that later became states. Van Buren was the first to be born after the adoption of the U.S. Constitution

 

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John Adams was the first president to live in the White House, moving in November, 1800 while the paint was still wet.

Ruined his best pair of pants too.

 

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Andrew Jackson had no teeth. His wife, Rachel, smoked a corncob pipe. She died from a heart attack right after he was elected and never lived in the White House.

 

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Andrew Jackson had no teeth. His wife, Rachel, smoked a corncob pipe. She died from a heart attack right after he was elected and never lived in the White House.

Yikes, what was she smoking?

 

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Obama takes selfies and dunks cookies in milk

 

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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender. He was the part owner of a saloon in Springfield, Illinois, called Berry and Lincoln.

Andrew Johnson was trained as a tailor, and made his own suits even after becoming president.

Grover Cleveland served as an executioner when he was sheriff in Erie County, New York.

Harry S. Truman didn't actually have a middle name, just a middle initial.

 

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Dwight D. Eisenhower was a qualified and licensed pilot.

Richard Nixon was the first president to visit all 50 states.

James Madison was Princeton University's first graduate student.

John Tyler had 15 children, more than any other president.

 

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Bill Clinton lost the Nuclear Launch Codes (They went missing for months).

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And no... they weren't recovered hidden away in a blue dress.

 

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Benjamin Harrison was the sitting president when electricity was first installed in the White House. However, he was scared of being electrocuted and refused to touch the light switches.

Grover Cleveland is the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms.

After leaving office, William Taft became the only ex-president to serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, effectively becoming the only person to serve as the head of two branches of government. In doing so, he swore in both Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover to the presidency. (On an unrelated note, he also lost 150 pounds after leaving office.)

To date, Woodrow Wilson is the only president to hold a doctorate degree, making him the highest educated president in the history of the United States. He was awarded the degree in Political Science and History from Johns Hopkins University. He also passed the Georgia Bar Exam despite not finishing law school.

John F. Kennedy's application to study at Harvard was fairly unimpressive by today's standards. Not only that, but his own father, a Harvard alum, gave him a pretty underwhelming recommendation, saying that young Jack was "careless and lacks application."

 

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John Tyler had 15 children, more than any other president.

You wouldn't have thought he'd had so many, what with his tippy canoe and all........

 

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In 1954, Ronald Reagan's acting career was going so badly that he took a gig as a Las Vegas stand-up comic for a few weeks.

In high school, George H.W. Bush was the captain of both the varsity baseball and soccer teams, and he played as a forward on the school's basketball team.

Bill Clinton is a two time Grammy winner.

As a high school student, in addition to playing baseball, George W. Bush was the school's head cheerleader. He would often organize exuberant pep talks and skits during weekly assemblies.

 

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You wouldn't have thought he'd had so many, what with his tippy canoe and all........

Maybe that's why he had so many.....

 

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Maybe that's why he had so many.....

If the canoe's a rockin don't come a knockin!! Sounds like a Bill Clinton slogan.......

 

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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson went to see William Shakespeare’s home in 1786. They then chipped off a piece of Shakespeare’s chair with a knife to take with them as a memento.

When James K. Polk was 17, he had surgery to remove gallstones without any anesthesia or antiseptic.

James Garfield was ambidextrous, and could write Greek with his right hand while simultaneously writing Latin with his left

The only U.S. president who has been divorced is Ronald Reagan. He divorced actress Jane Wyman in 1948, and married Nancy Davis in 1952.

 

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Franklin Pierce refused to swear his oath of office when he became the 14th president of the U.S., opting instead to "affirm" his oath, reportedly due to a crisis of faith in the aftermath of the death of his son.

George Washington is the only American president to be unanimously elected.

The Presidential election of 1800 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson was one of only two elections that resulted in the House of Representatives deciding who would be President of the United States. It was also the only time where there was a tie for President in the Electoral College. Although it wasn't a tie, the House of Representatives also had to decide the President in the election of 1824, between Adams son John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson, when no candidate reached the required majority of electoral votes.

Jimmy Carter was the first president born in a hospital