Fun Facts
Was the shortest president of the United States
James Madison
The first known president to go on record as seeing a UFO
James Earl “Jimmy” Carter
Would often skinny dip in the Potomac River
John Quincy Adams
The only U.S. president to also serve as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
William Howard Taft
The first president to ever be photographed at his inauguration
Abraham Lincoln
Every member of __ family owned a pair of stilts, including the first lady
Teddy Roosevelt’s
It was so cold at __ presidential inauguration that the canaries that were supposed to sing at the inaugural ball froze to death
Ulysses S. Grant’s
The first president to be born in a hospital
James Earl “Jimmy” Carter
He served as commander in chief during the American Revolution and afterward presided over the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
George Washington
Holds the record for the longest inauguration speech in history
William Henry Harrison
Would press all the buttons on the President’s desk and hide and watch his staff run in
Calvin Coolidge
Had more children than any other president. He had eight by his first wife and seven by his second.
John Tyler
The only bachelor president.
James Buchanan
In 1945, Congress voted to commemorate the work __ did for the March of Dimes by putting his profile on the coin
FDR
The only president to serve in both WWI and WWII.[
Dwight David Eisenhower
The only U.S. president who was also a licensed bartender
Abraham Lincoln
The shortest presidency on record
William Henry Harrison
Was reportedly involved in over 100 duels
Andrew Jackson
Created the multi-billion-dollar Marshall Plan to rebuild war-torn Europe
Harry S. Truman
The first President to win a Nobel Peace Prize
Roosevelt
The youngest president elected at the age of 43
JFK
After a brilliant war victory, a nation of well wishers sent him more than 10,000 cigars
Ulysses S. Grant
Gave his White House servants strict orders to hide from him whenever he passed by
Herbert Clark Hoover
The first U.S. Democratic president to win re-election since FDR
William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton
Made the shortest inauguration speech on record
George Washington
Won the Most Nearly Perfect Male Figure Award from the University of California in 1940
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Was an orphan whose first job was picking bugs off potato plants
Herbert Hoover
Could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other hand simultaneously
James Garfield
Several milestones in the civil rights movement took place during __ term, including the
Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education in 1954
Dwight Eisenhower's
The only President with four names
George Herbert Walker Bush
“Teddy Bears” were so named when
Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt (1858-1919) refused to shoot a small bear cub one day
Was the largest president in American history and often got stuck in the White House bathtub
William Howard Taft
Three presidents died on July 4th
Thomas Jefferson (1826), John Adams (1826), and James Monroe (1831)
Quietly but consistently bought slaves in Washington, D.C., and then set them free in Pennsylvania
James Buchanan
The only president to have been born on the Fourth
Calvin Coolidge