Presidential Trivia

[President Johnson]

I noticed that if Kamala Harris one day becomes president, we would have a president being born on the exact same date than another one died. In this case Herbert Hoover. She's born on October 20, 1964. Hoover passed away on this date. Both are also from California.

[President Johnson]

Election trivia: John McCain is the first major party nominee since Hubert Humphrey in 1968 who wasn't alive at the tenth anniversary of his election. Hubert died in January 1978, about nine years after he lost to Nixon. Before that, LBJ had only a little more than eight years after he won in 1964. During his presidency, there was no point in time when he was alive ten years later. Same with Calvin Coolidge, who also took office less than ten years before his death.

[President Johnson]

Supreme Court trivia:

- Jimmy Carter and Andrew Johnson never appointed a Supreme Court judge.
- Fred M. Vinson, who served from 1946 to 1953, is as of today still the last Chief Justice appointed by a Democratic president.