Stupid Facts: Presidential Facts

• Martin Van Buren was the first president born in the new United States.
  
  
• James Buchanan was the only bachelor president.
  
  
• James Garfield was the first left-handed president.
  
  
• William Taft was the largest president at 6 feet 2 inches tall and 326 pounds.
  
  
• James Madison was the shortest president at 5 feet 4 inches.
  
  
• Theodore Roosevlet was the youngest president at 42 years old.
  
  
• Ronald Reagan was the oldest leaving office at 77 years old.
  
  
• Herbert Hoover was the first president born west of the Mississippi.
  
  
• John F. Kennedy was the first president elected to be born in the 20th century (May 29, 1917)
  
  
• John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4th, 1826.
  
  
• John Quincy Adams swam daily in the Potomac River.
  
  
• John Tyler was the first to become president through death of the current president.
  
  
• William Henry Harrison died one month after delivering the longest inaugural speech at 1 hour 45 minutes.
  
  
• Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated.
  
  
• Grover Cleveland was the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms.
  
  
• James Garfield could write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other simultaneously.
  
  
• Benjamin Harrison was the only grandson of a president to become president.
  
  
• John Quincy Adams was the only former president to serve in the House of Representatives.
  
  
• Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson were the only former presidents to serve in the Senate.
  
  
• The teddy bear was named for Theodore Roosevelt because he refused to shoot a bear cub while hunting.
  
  
• Woodrow Wilson kept sheep to trim the White House lawn.
  
  
• At 4 terms, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to more terms than any other president.
  
  
• Richard Nixon was the only president to resign.
  
  
• Gerald Ford was the only president not elected into office.
  
  
• Jimmy Carter was the first president born in a hospital.