Presidential Trivia
George Washington was the only president elected unanimously by the electoral college.
2nd and 3rd Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on the same day, exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
James Madison was the smallest president – he was only 5-foot-4 and weighed less than a hundred pounds.
John Quincy Adams customarily took a nude swim each morning in the Potomac River.
Andrew Jackson raised 11 children – none of them his own.
Martin Van Buren was the first president born as a U.S. citizen.
William Henry Harrison was the first president to die in office. He delivered the longest inaugural speech and served the shortest term – exactly one month.
Assuming the presidency on Harrison’s death was John Tyler – he was on his knees playing marbles when he was told he was now president.
James Polk thought having fun meant wasting time and he didn’t like wasting time.
When the Library of Congress burned in 1851, Millard Fillmore and his cabinet helped to fight the fire.
Franklin Pierce was the first president to put a Christmas tree in the white house.
James Buchanan ordered mashed potatoes and sauerkraut to be served at all his White House receptions.
Did you know Abraham Lincoln liked to wrestle?
Ulysses S. Grant was a track star at West Point and set a high jump record that lasted for 25 years.
Rutherford B. Hayes had the first telephone installed in the White House.
James Garfield was the second president to be assassinated. He lived for 11 weeks before he died of his wound.
Grover Cleveland was the first president to have a child born in the White House and the Baby Ruth candy bar was named after her.
William McKinley liked to wear a lucky red carnation in his lapel.
Teddy Roosevelt was the first president to ride in a car and an airplane.
Howard Taft had a bathtub installed in the White House that was so big that four men could fit into it.
Woodrow Wilson was the only president with a PhD.
Warren Harding was the first president to use loudspeakers at his inauguration.
Calvin Coolidge was the first president to give a speech on the radio.
Herbert Hoover required white house servants to be “invisible”. When he or his wife entered a room, servants would jump into a closet to avoid being seen.
FDR holds the record for most presidential press conferences – 998.
Harry Truman was a talented piano player. He considered a career in music before going into politics.
Dwight Eisenhower enjoyed eating TV dinners while watching westerns on TV at the White House.
John Kennedy was the youngest man elected president and the first Roman Catholic.
Lyndon Johnson enjoyed giving electric toothbrushes as gifts.
Richard Nixon was the first president to visit all 50 states and claimed he never had a headache in his life.
A giant peanut-shaped balloon was part of Jimmy Carter’s inauguration day parade.
Ronald Reagan was the oldest man elected president.
George Bush’s entire family stayed at the White House after his inauguration. 
