Presidential Middle Names
These two presidents share the middle name Walker; they also share a first and last name, too.
Who are George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush?
The house where Abraham Lincoln died is across the street from this building, which resumed performing plays in 1968.
What is Ford's Theater?
If you’re mailing the president a letter, you’d better send it to this street address.
What is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
In 2028, Harriet Tubman will bump this president from the $20 bill.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
Two Vice Presidents have resigned the office; John C. Calhoun in 1833 and this Marylander in 1973.
Who is Spiro Agnew?
His middle name—a middle initial, really—honors his grandfathers Shipp and Solomon.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
Gutzon Borglum planned to carve three presidents on this mountain; a change in plans added one more to the design.
What is Mount Rushmore?
George Washington never lived in the White House, which meant that its first occupant was this Massachusetts-born president.
Who is John Adams?
A better general than a president, this man still has the honor of appearing on the $50 bill.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The Vice President actually does get to run something; they preside over and break ties in this assembly.
What is the Senate?
Simpsons creator Matt Groening deliberately named this annoying friend of Bart after the middle name of his least favorite president.
Who is Milhouse?
Who is Chester Alan Arthur?
On Valentine’s Day, 1962, 80 million viewers watched a televised tour of the White House led by this First Lady.
Who is Jacqueline Kennedy?
Customers paying in cash at Monticello receive their change in $2 bills, appropriately featuring this president.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
FDR’s first vice president John Nance Garner said that the position “wasn’t worth a warm bucket of” this.
What is spit?
Our only president named Stephen went by this middle name, even though Sesame Street wouldn’t premiere until 72 years after his presidency.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
Once a soldier, always a soldier—this president retired to a farmhouse in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, next to the battlefield.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Visitors to this room can view one of only five handwritten copies of the Gettysburg Address.
What is the Lincoln Bedroom?
After FDR’s death in 1945, Congress approved putting his face on coinage in order to commemorate his founding of this charity.
What is the March of Dimes?
In 1988, George Bush Senior was elected president directly from the Vice Presidency, the first Veep to do so since this New Yorker in 1836.
Who is Martin Van Buren?
This president’s middle name is Birchard; somehow, that’s less awkward than his first name.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
You’ll have to visit the small town of West Branch, Iowa, if you want to see the birthplace of this president, the first one born west of the Mississippi.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This president oversaw the construction of the Oval Office; maybe he should have put in a larger bathtub.
Who is William Howard Taft?
His appearance on the no-longer-circulated $500 bill is the only way I’ll get this Ohio-born president into this game.
Who is William McKinley?
The President lives in the White House; the Vice President lives in this building.
What is the Naval Observatory?