Fun+Presidential+Facts




 * The tallest President was **Lincoln** at 6'4" at 5'4", President **Madison** was the shortest.
 * The term "first lady" was first used in 1877 in reference to Lucy Ware Webb Hayes. Most first ladies, including Jackie Kennedy are said to have hated the label.
 * Presidents **Adams**, **Jefferson**, and **Monroe** all died on the 4th of July. Coincidentially enough President Coolidge was born on that day.
 * The oldest living former president was **Gerald Ford** who was born on July 14, 1913 and died on December 27th, 2006 at age 93. The second oldest was **Ronald Reagan** who also lived to be 93 years old.
 * The oldest elected president was **Reagan** (at age 69); the youngest was **Kennedy** (at age 43). **Theadore Roosevelt**, however, was the youngest man to become president-he was 42 when he succeeded McKinley, who had been assassinated.
 * Nine presidents never attended college: **Washington**, **Jackson**, **Van Buren**, **Taylor**, **Fillmore**, **Lincoln**, **A. Johnson**, **Cleveland**, and **Truman**.
 * The college that has the most presidetns as alumni (6 in total) is Harvard: **J. Adams**, **J. Q. Adams**, **T. Roosevelt**, **F. Roosevelt**, **Kennedy**, and **G.W. Bush** (business school.) Yale is a close second, with five presidents as alumni: **Taft**, **Ford** (law school), **G.H.W. Bush**, **Clinton** (law school), and **G. W. Bush**.
 * There were two "father and son pairs" **John Adams** and **John Quincy Adams**, most recentally **George H. Bush** and **George W. Bush**.
 * **John Adams** was the first person to live in the white house
 * **John Tyler** fathered 15 children (more than any other president) 8 by his first wife, 7 by his second. **Tyler** was past his seventieth birthday when his 15th child was born.
 * Our 16th President, **Abraham Lincoln** was often seen wearing a tall black stovepipe hat, in which he carried letters, bills and notes within.
 * **George W. Bush** is said to be our 43rd president, but there actually have only been 42 presidents. **President Cleveland** was elected for two non consecutive terms and is counted twice as our 22nd and 24th president.
 * **John Quincy Adams** was the first president to be photographed.
 * **Andrew Johnson's** parents were too poor to send **Johnson** to school, therefore he did not learn to read until he was 17.