Interesting facts about Presidents

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My favourite interesting factoid is that the only two Catholic Presidents are also the only two who have been elected despite losing both Ohio and Florida.

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Joe Biden became the oldest person ever to be President immediately on the day of his inauguration, beating the record previously held by Reagan on his last day in office by a few months.

Biden and Reagan hold the joint record of being each older than four of their predecessors, while Kennedy holds the opposite record of being younger than four of his successors.

John Adams was the only president to reach 25 years of post-presidency and 90 years of age until Herbert Hoover joined him on both counts more than a century afterwards. In recent decades this is more common: there have been four other nonagenarian presidents - Ford, Carter, Reagan and H. W. Bush - and all of them bar Reagan have had a post-presidency of over a quarter-century.
Jimmy Carter, alive and kicking at 96 years and a former president for more than 40 years, sets a new record in both categories every day.
Bill Clinton is the first two-term president to live for more than 20 years afterwards.

While four Presidents were assassinated in office, no Vice President was. However, at least one of them assassinated someone else in person while in office (the famous Burr - Hamilton duel).

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Here are some interesting presidential "firsts"

- Jackson was the first president to marry a divorced woman
- Hayes was the first president to visit a West Coast state while in office
- McKinley was the first president to campaign by telephone
- Cleveland was the first president to be filmed
- Grant was the first president born after the War of 1812
- Lincoln was the first president to hold a patent
- Pierce was the first president to have a Christmas tree in the White House
- Fillmore was the first president to have a kitchen stove in the White House
- Adams Jr. was the first president to wear pants (not breeches) to his inauguration
- Monroe was the first president to ride on a steamboat

Here are some other presidential "firsts" in the same vein

- Buchanan was the first president to never marry
- F. D. Roosevelt was the first president to appear on television
- Harding was the first president to appear on a radio broadcast
- B. Harrison was the first president to have his voice recorded
- W. H. Harrison was the first president to be photographed
- Van Buren was the first president born after the independence of the USA
- T. Roosevelt was the first president to have his offices in the West Wing
- Taft was the first president to use the Oval Office
- Wilson was the first president to throw a ceremonial first pitch in the World Series
- Eisenhower was the first president to use the call sign Air Force One