American Presidential Facts - Interesting and Fun Facts that is...

• 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.
• John F. Kennedy was the first president 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 Taylor 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.
• 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.
• Jimmy Carter was the first president born in a hospital.
• BARACK OBAMA is the 44th president, but there actually have only been 43 presidents: Cleveland was elected for two nonconsecutive terms and is counted twice, as our 22nd and 24th president.
• THE OLDEST president inaugurated was Reagan (age 69); the youngest was Kennedy (age 43). Theodore Roosevelt, however, was the youngest man to become president——he was 42 when he succeeded McKinley, who had been assassinated.
• THE TALLEST president was Lincoln at 6'4"; at 5'4", Madison was the shortest.
• JAMES BUCHANAN was the only president never to marry. Five presidents remarried after the death of their first wives——two of whom, Tyler and Wilson, remarried while in the White House. Reagan was the only divorced president. Six presidents had no children. Tyler——father of fifteen——had the most.
• PRESIDENTS Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy were assassinated in office.
• ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS were made on the lives of Jackson, T. Roosevelt, F. Roosevelt, Truman, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, G. H. W. Bush, Clinton, and G. W. Bush.
• EIGHT PRESIDENTS died in office: W. Harrison (after having served only one month), Taylor, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Harding, F. Roosevelt, and Kennedy.
• PRESIDENTS ADAMS, Jefferson, and Monroe all died on the 4th of July; Coolidge was born on that day.
• John Quincy Adams named one of his sons George Washington.
• Andrew Jackson was the only president to have been a prisoner of war.
• William Henry Harrison gave the longest inaugural address - one hour 45 minutes and served for the shortest period of time - 30 days.
• Barack Obama does not like ice cream as a result of working at an ice cream shop as a teenager.
• William Clinton was nicknamed Bubba as a child.
• Ronald Reagan was a Hollywood actor before becoming involved in politics;He made more than 50 movies.