Interesting facts about Presidents

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

Fillmore and Pierce?

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-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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Joe Biden is the only president born during the FDR administration.

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John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, and George H. W. Bush were the only sitting Vice Presidents ever to be elected President.  Nixon and Biden were elected as former VPs.  Nixon in 1960 was the first sitting VP to be a major party presidential nominee since Breckinridge in 1860, if he counts.

No one has ever served 8 years as Vice President AND 8 years as President (even though Nixon was elected twice to each).  Could Biden be the first?

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Depending on whether you count Missouri as Northern or Southern, either FDR or Truman was the last Democratic president to be Northern, white, and Protestant.  Mondale was the last Northern, white, Protestant male to be the Democratic presidential nominee.