Pets
Named his dog "Satan"
John Adams
Was the first sitting president to take an airplane flight.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Known for playing the saxophone, played with a high school band called "Three Blind Mice".
Bill Clinton
At age 19,_______________ and two friends bought a struggling local paper, the Marion Star, for $300. He successfully turned it into a profitable publication and continued as its editor until his presidency.
Warren G. Harding
Once kept a 1,400-pound block of cheddar cheese in the White House lobby for two years. He eventually held a public reception where people ate the entire thing in two hours.
Andrew Jackson
This president and his wife had a pet raccoon named Rebecca
Calvin Coolidge
Was the first president to ride in an automobile.
William McKinley
Owned over 80 pairs of pants and changed clothes multiple times a day
Chester A. Arthur
worked as a court crier—essentially shouting for a living—to announce court proceedings for $2.50 a day.
Benjamin Harrison
Had the first telephone installed in the White House in 1877 the phone number was simply "1"
Rutherford B. Hayes
Was gifted two tiger cubs, which he wanted to keep as pets before Congress intervened.
Martin Van Buren
The only president to resign from office
Richard Nixon
Was a tailor who made his own clothes and didn't learn to read or write until his wife taught him
Andrew Johnson
Is the only licensed bartender to become president. He co-owned a drinking establishment called Berry and _________ in New Salem, Illinois.
Abraham Lincoln
This Presidents wife, a strict Presbyterian, banned dancing at the White House
James K. Polk’s
Taught his pet parrot, Poll, how to curse; the bird reportedly had to be removed from this President's funeral for swearing uncontrollably.
Andrew Jackson
Sent the first email from the White House to astronaut John Glenn in 1994.
Bill Clinton
Spoke Mandarin Chinese with his wife in the White House to keep their conversations private.
Herbert Hoover
Appeared in 53 Hollywood movies.
Ronald Reagan
Was a male fashion model who appeared on the cover of Cosmopolitan in 1942.
Gerald Ford
Kept a pet alligator in a White House bathtub, often using it to scare guests.
John Quincy Adams
Gave the longest inaugural address (nearly 2 hours) and had the shortest presidency (31 days).
William Henry Harrison
Could write in Latin with one hand and Greek with the other simultaneously.
James Garfield
Is the longest-living president, while Jimmy Carter
became the first to reach his 100th birthday in 2024.
Gerald Ford
This president lost a set of official White House china in a poker game.
Warren Harding