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« Reply #125 on: March 06, 2008, 05:11:58 PM »
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« Reply #126 on: March 08, 2008, 11:34:22 AM »
How many Presidents have presided over a body of Congress?
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« Reply #127 on: March 09, 2008, 04:39:22 PM »
The correct answer is 15, the 14 VP's and Polk as Speaker.
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« Reply #128 on: March 09, 2008, 07:35:34 PM »
Quote from: Vice-Chairman Xahar on March 09, 2008, 07:04:48 PM
What do Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, John Breckinridge, and John Bell have in common?

They all received EV's in 1860?
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« Reply #129 on: March 12, 2008, 07:43:35 PM »
When was the last election in which both major candidates came from the same state?
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« Reply #130 on: March 14, 2008, 03:28:31 PM »
I was looking for 1944 as the correct answer.
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« Reply #131 on: March 15, 2008, 06:22:28 PM »
FDR and JFK?
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« Reply #132 on: March 15, 2008, 08:37:41 PM »
Carter?
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« Reply #133 on: March 17, 2008, 12:03:12 AM »
Who was the last President to not win a majority of the Presidential primaries in which they entered?
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« Reply #134 on: March 19, 2008, 07:05:11 PM »
Wilhelm Frick, for William Jennings Bryan
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« Reply #135 on: March 19, 2008, 09:08:15 PM »
James Buchanan
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« Reply #136 on: March 22, 2008, 10:48:11 AM »
Who was the last President to serve in the House of Representatives?
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« Reply #137 on: March 25, 2008, 02:58:51 PM »
For Hoover, the Cardinals.
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« Reply #138 on: March 30, 2008, 11:19:48 AM »
How many Presidents have served as diplomats?
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« Reply #139 on: April 01, 2008, 09:07:55 PM »
Grant?
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« Reply #140 on: April 03, 2008, 06:34:35 PM »
Quote from: True Democrat on April 03, 2008, 06:32:39 PM
Quote from: Joe Republic on April 03, 2008, 02:32:10 PM
Quote from: Southern Patriot on April 03, 2008, 02:17:30 PM
Give the next 3 names to this list:

Abigail
Jane
Harriet

Mary
Eliza
Julia

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Who was the first president born in a hospital?

Jimmy Carter.

Who is the only President to be married in the White House? (sorry if this has been done before)

Grover Cleveland
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« Reply #141 on: April 06, 2008, 12:27:38 PM »
Quote from: Fmr Gov. Polnut on April 06, 2008, 08:57:04 AM
In spite of personal differences what recreation was shared between Washington, Jefferson and Adams?

The opera?
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« Reply #142 on: April 07, 2008, 07:35:39 AM »
Richard M. Johnson, in 1836.
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« Reply #143 on: April 07, 2008, 03:07:56 PM »
Nixon and Eisenhower
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« Reply #144 on: April 07, 2008, 04:24:13 PM »
How many Presidents have graduated from Ivy League schoold?
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« Reply #145 on: April 08, 2008, 08:33:46 PM »
Quote from: Southern Patriot on April 07, 2008, 06:00:05 PM
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John Adams, Harvard
John Quincy Adams, Harvard
Rutherford B. Hayes, Harvard Law School
Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard
William Howard Taft, Yale
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harvard
John F. Kennedy, Harvard
Gerald R. Ford, Yale Law School
George HW Bush, Yale
Bill Clinton, Yale Law School
George W Bush, Yale
James Madison, Princeton
Woodrow Wilson, Princeton

14 if you count FDR, Columbia (completed requirements but did not officially graduate)

Those are the people I got (and I did not include FDR).
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« Reply #146 on: April 10, 2008, 07:36:25 AM »
Quote from: Douglas Hordern on April 09, 2008, 07:58:41 PM
Bringing Richard Henry Lee into this seems a bit unfair.

Which Presidents have also served as the senior officer of one of the Armed Forces?

Washington, Harrison, Grant, and Eisenhower.
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« Reply #147 on: April 10, 2008, 06:58:29 PM »
Madison and Taylor?
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« Reply #148 on: April 25, 2008, 07:37:46 AM »
I was thinking, could somebody sticky this thread?  It seems like it deserves it.
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« Reply #149 on: April 28, 2008, 02:55:26 PM »
Quote from: Southern Patriot on April 28, 2008, 02:54:19 PM
In 1948 when the "Dixiecrats" walked out of the Democratic Party Convention, which 1968 Presidential Candidate stepped in as an alternate?

George Wallace
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