Interesting facts about Presidents

[Samof94]

Every President before Lincoln except Filmore and Pierce was alive at the same time as George Washington for at least part of their lifespan.
The other FF(excluding him) Presidents were all alive during the war of 1812.
Biden is the first and almost certainly only “Silent Generation” President.
Mike Pence is the only person to hold national office born in the 1950’s.
Hoover lived to see Cuba turn communist(and was born during Reconstruction).

[TDAS04]

Every President before Lincoln was alive at the same time as George Washington for at least part of their lifespan.

Fillmore and Pierce?

[Bootes Void]

- Ronald Reagan was old enough to see the creation and the collapse of the Soviet Union
- when Joe Biden was born, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, FDR, Hitler were leaders of their country and WW2 was going on
-Technically not a president but Harriet Tubman was alive during Thomas Jefferson's and Ronald Reagan's life respectively
- Joe Biden is the only 2nd Catholic president( interesting, how it's happens)
- Trump is the first president to lose reelection after his party only controlled the WH for only 1 term( he also didn't face a primary challenger within his party as well)
- Joe Biden was the first dem president since Kennedy to get elected on a year that's end with a 0.

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George Washington started World War Zero, also known as the Seven Year's war.

[brucejoel99]

Nixon is the only President to have been both the only living President, from Jan. 1973-Aug. 1974, & then 1 of 6 living former & sitting Presidents - which is still tied for the most there've been at any one time - from Jan. 1993-Apr. 1994.

[TDAS04]

-Joe Biden’s older at the start of his presidency than the next oldest POTUS, Ronald Reagan, was at the end of his.
-5 out of the first 6 Republican presidents had beards.  The other one, Chester Arthur, also had facial hair.

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Nixon is the only President to have been both the only living President, from Jan. 1973-Aug. 1974, & then 1 of 6 living former & sitting Presidents - which is still tied for the most there've been at any one time - from Jan. 1993-Apr. 1994.

Hoover was the only living President when he left office and did live to see 5 more Presidents, but FDR and JFK didn't live as long.

Hoover didn't attend JFK's inauguration, but it was the first event to have 6 Presidents, counting future Presidents with Truman, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, and Ford all present. It had a total of 8 first ladies.

[brucejoel99]

Of the 6 elected VPs-turned-Presidents, Biden is the only one who didn't immediately run following his term as VP.

That is, of the 15 VPs who went on to become President, 9 of them did so by directly succeeding to the job as a result of their predecessor's death or resignation, & the remaining 6 having came to the presidency via election itself. Of those 6, Biden is the only one who didn't run immediately following his term as VP. Yes, he's the 2nd President - after Nixon - ever to be elected not immediately following his term as VP, but Nixon at least ran at the end of his vice presidency, in 1960. Biden didn't even run for President when his vice presidency was ending in 2016, which makes him the 1st (&, thus far, the only) elected VP-turned-President who didn't even run for the presidency immediately following the end of his term as VP.

[TheReckoning]

- Trump is the first president to lose reelection after his party only controlled the WH for only 1 term( he also didn't face a primary challenger within his party as well)

Carter?

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

- Trump is the first president to lose reelection after his party only controlled the WH for only 1 term( he also didn't face a primary challenger within his party as well)

Carter?

You beat me to it. It'd be nice if Trump had this distinction, but he doesn't. Off the top of my head, this is true of Cleveland 1.0 and Benjamin Harrison as well.

What Trump is unusual in is managing to lose all elements of a trifecta for his party in just one term. I don't know enough about party Congressional control in the Gilded Age to know if he's unique in this, but he's definitely unique in the modern (post-McKinley/TR-era) presidency.

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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.

[Earthling]

- Trump is the first president to lose reelection after his party only controlled the WH for only 1 term( he also didn't face a primary challenger within his party as well)

Carter?

You beat me to it. It'd be nice if Trump had this distinction, but he doesn't. Off the top of my head, this is true of Cleveland 1.0 and Benjamin Harrison as well.

What Trump is unusual in is managing to lose all elements of a trifecta for his party in just one term. I don't know enough about party Congressional control in the Gilded Age to know if he's unique in this, but he's definitely unique in the modern (post-McKinley/TR-era) presidency.

Polk as well.

[Vosem]

- Trump is the first president to lose reelection after his party only controlled the WH for only 1 term( he also didn't face a primary challenger within his party as well)

Carter?

You beat me to it. It'd be nice if Trump had this distinction, but he doesn't. Off the top of my head, this is true of Cleveland 1.0 and Benjamin Harrison as well.

What Trump is unusual in is managing to lose all elements of a trifecta for his party in just one term. I don't know enough about party Congressional control in the Gilded Age to know if he's unique in this, but he's definitely unique in the modern (post-McKinley/TR-era) presidency.

This is true of Cleveland 2.0 and of B. Harrison. It is not true of Polk, who was brought up as an example earlier; after Democrats took the Senate in the 1844 cycle, they did not lose it until 1860.

There is a weird sense in which it can be said to be true of W.H. Harrison; the Whigs had a trifecta in 1840, but the Democrats had a trifecta in 1844. Still, he doesn't seem to count, since he died and the Whigs didn't actually hold a trifecta at any point except the month he was in office.

Going back even earlier, if you consider Washington to have been an independent rather than a
Federalist (which is standard historiography but is kind of questionable), then this is true of John Adams, Sr.

There aren't many examples of this because it is unusual for a party to hold the White House for only a single term; the only time this happened at all in the 20th century was the Carter term!

[vitoNova]

John Adams had a dog named Satan.

I learned that from Rachel Maddow when she went on Colbert.

[President Johnson]

88% of presidents were above average height of their era. However, it's insane that Abraham Lincoln was never surpassed at a height of 6'4 (Lyndon Johnson sometimes is listed at 6'4, while some sources say 6'3.5. However, LBJ was definitely much heavier than Lincoln). If elected, John Kerry would have been of the same height. I wonder whether there will be a taller president any time soon.

However, I'm not sure some official data of heights is accurate. Donald Trump is definitely not 6'3 as officially listed. Both Gavin Newsom and Jeb Bush are of that height, and both appear considerably taller than Trump on several photos. He's 6'1 at best, since Obama is close to 6'2 and he looks a bit taller on photos from the 2017 inauguration. Furthermore, Gerald Ford was probably taller than 6'0, because he's either as tall as Ronald Reagan or slightly taller. And Reagan is 6'1 according to sources and some other comparisons.

-Joe Biden’s older at the start of his presidency than the next oldest POTUS, Ronald Reagan, was at the end of his.
-5 out of the first 6 Republican presidents had beards.  The other one, Chester Arthur, also had facial hair.

It's crazy that Joe Biden is older today than a lot of presidents even lived. At the time he became vice president, twelve years ago, he was already older than Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson at the time of their deaths. This is really stunning, especially given how old and tired FDR looked in 1945. Joe Biden at 78 still makes a more vital impression than Roosevelt at 63.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Most of the presidents, even the ones that were assassinated, lived longer or nearly than the average life expectancy for a man at the time they were born.

No president has been born in the 1810's, 1930's, or 1950's.

Every president since Andrew Johnson has been alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover.

[President Johnson]

Most of the presidents, even the ones that were assassinated, lived longer or nearly than the average life expectancy for a man at the time they were born.

No president has been born in the 1810's, 1930's, or 1950's.

Every president since Andrew Johnson has been alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover.

If Kamala Harris becomes president, she'd be born the same day Herbert Hoover died: October 20, 1964.

Millard Fillmore missed Hoover by a few months before.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Despite being the last president to own slaves while in office, Zachary Taylor was against the expansion of slavery and the Fugitive Slave Act that Fillmore eventually signed.

[Samof94]

The Titanic and 9/11 both occurred in Reagan’s lifetime.
Clinton was the first Cold War President and the first one born after WWII.
Hoover was alive before Hitler was born and after he died in his bunker.
Florida, if you exclude Trump because he moved there as President, is the largest state to have never had a President.

[Calthrina950]

The Titanic and 9/11 both occurred in Reagan’s lifetime.
Clinton was the first Cold War President and the first one born after WWII.
Hoover was alive before Hitler was born and after he died in his bunker.
Florida, if you exclude Trump because he moved there as President, is the largest state to have never had a President.

Moreover, Hoover was born in the same year (1874) as Winston Churchill. Hoover was the elder of the two by three months (he was born in August, while Churchill was born in November). They also died three months apart; Hoover in October 1964 and Churchill in January 1965.

[Samof94]

That is quite true indeed. The British empire crumbled during Churchill’s lifetime.

[Sir Mohamed]

What I find beyond hilarious is that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died the same day, July 4, 1826, which was also the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Can't make this up.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Over 20 presidents have suffered from depression, including both Adam's, TR, Lincoln, L. Johnson, Harding, Coolidge, Nixon, and most recently Reagan.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

There are more books about Lincoln than every other president combined, and the only historical figure with more books about him is Jesus.

[Samof94]

There are more books about Lincoln than every other president combined, and the only historical figure with more books about him is Jesus.

True, quite true. So much has been written about him as one of the most famous users of the English language.