From Washington to Biden: 46 strange facts about the 46 Presidents of the United States

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Ulysses S Grant and his best-selling memoirs​

He was the first US president to write his memoirs, with the intention to leave money to his family, as he was dying of throat cancer. His autobiography was published by Mark Twain and successful with critics and the public alike.

 

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Rutherford B. Hayes is well-remembered in Paraguay​

A somewhat obscure Commander-in-Chief in the United States, the province of Presidente Hayes in Paraguay was named in his honor after ruling in Paraguay’s favor during a border arbitration with Argentina in 1878. It’s the third-largest region in the country!

 

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James Garfield managed the left and the right​

Garfield was ambidextrous, meaning he could write with both hands without any problem. Sometimes he would write in two different languages in each hand at the same time to impress guests!

 

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Chester A. Arthur was a fashionista​

Chester A. Arthur was known in his time for his taste and style, earning him nicknames such as Gentleman Boss and Elegant Arthur. He allegedly owned around 80 pairs of pants and would change clothes several times a day.

 

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Grover Cleveland tied the knot in the White House​

Cleveland so far is the only president to get married in the White House. At 49, He married 21-year-old Frances Folsom who remains to this day the youngest First Lady.

 

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Benjamin Harrison followed the family business​

Harrison came from quite a political dynasty. His great-grandfather signed the Declaration of Independence, his grandfather was President William Henry Harrison and his father was a US Representative from Ohio.

 

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Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th president​

Grover Cleveland is the only US president to serve two non-consecutive terms, which is why he appears on this list twice!

 

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William McKinley and the automobile​

William McKinley (far left) was the first US president to ever ride an automobile and was carried in an ambulance after being shot.

 

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From Washington to Biden​

When George Washington was elected in 1789, France had a king, China was ruled by an emperor and the Holy Roman Empire ruled a good part of Europe. Now, over 230 years later, the world has changed quite a bit, but the office of the President of the United States still remains. Here are 46 fun and curious facts about each person that has held the position so far.

most of them are related....................even Obama thru his mother's side is related...............

 

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Theodore Roosevelt, Nobel Peace Prize laureate​

Teddy Roosevelt was the first American to be granted the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1906. Elected when he was 42 years old, he’s also the youngest person to become US President to date.

 

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William Howard Taft throws a curve​

Taft, the heaviest president in US history, was the first Commander-in-Chief to throw a ceremonial first pitch in a baseball game.

 

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Woodrow Wilson rests in Washington, DC​

Nicknamed the Schoolmaster, he remains the only US president to have a doctorate. Wilson is also the only president buried in Washington, DC, in Washington National Cathedral.

 

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Warren G. Harding and his scandalous love life​

Harding was known for his extramarital affairs. One of them resulted in a tell-all book 4 years after his death, which claimed he had a daughter out of wedlock.

 

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Calvin Coolidge, brevity​

A man of few words, Calvin Coolidge’s last will and testament was only 23 words long. The very same length as this text!

 

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Herbert Hoover spoke to his wife in Mandarin​

Hoover and his wife moved to China in 1899 and lived there for over a year. The couple managed to be fluent in Mandarin to an extent and would talk to each other in that language when they needed some privacy.

 

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt got re-re-relected​

FDR won four presidential elections, a feat impossible today ever since the Twenty-second Amendment was adopted in 1951 as a reaction to Roosevelt’s impressive presidential run.

 

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Harry S Truman and his money problems​

Harry S Truman was allegedly in such a dire financial situation after his administration that was he and his wife had to move in with her mother in Independence, Missouri. A pension for former presidents was approved in 1958 after gossip about his poverty became public.

 

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Dwight Eisenhower, army man​

Although known for his reputation as a military man, Eisenhower never saw active combat. He rose the ranks overseeing military camps across the United States and by the time he was appointed as supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in WWII, he was one of the country’s top generals.

 

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John F. Kennedy faced death on several occasions​

The first Catholic US President, JFK received the last rites a total of four times: When he was diagnosed with Addison’s disease in 1947, when he suffered an extremely high fever in Japan in 1951, after slipping into a coma following back surgery in 1954 and after his assassination, on November 23, 1963.

 

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Lyndon B. Johnson knew how to quit​

LBJ used to have 60 smokes every day until he suffered a near-fatal heart attack in 1955. He gave up the habit until January 20, 1969, the day he left office.