Presidential Trivia

[Smid]

It's easy, but when was the last time a third party won more EVs and higher popular vote in a Presidential Election, than one of the major parties?

[True Democrat]

It's easy, but when was the last time a third party won more EVs and higher popular vote in a Presidential Election, than one of the major parties?

1912

Which Vice Presidents have been elected by the Senate?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Richard M. Johnson, in 1836.

[Joe Republic]

Didn't I get Joe's question right on New Yorkers and the Presidency of the United States?

Sorry, yes you did. 

[Joe Republic]

Richard M. Johnson, in 1836.

To my knowledge, he was the only one.

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The daughter of one President married the grandson of another President.  Which Presidents were they?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Nixon and Eisenhower

[Joe Republic]

Correct.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

How many Presidents have graduated from Ivy League schoold?

[DWPerry]

13

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)

[Kaine for Senate '18]

13

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).

[DWPerry]

How many Presidential candidates that have served as a State Governor & "First Spouse" of a State.

[Robespierre's Jaw]

How many Presidential candidates that have served as a State Governor & "First Spouse" of a State.

The only one I can think of is George Wallace, considering his wife Lurleen was Governor from 1967 to 1968 (me thinks).

[DWPerry]

How many Presidential candidates that have served as a State Governor & "First Spouse" of a State.

The only one I can think of is George Wallace, considering his wife Lurleen was Governor from 1967 to 1968 (me thinks).

Correct, she died barely 1 year into her term

[Joe Republic]

Who is the only President to have thus far been buried in Washington DC?

[DWPerry]

Who is the only President to have thus far been buried in Washington DC?

Woodrow Wilson


Name the only 2 people to serve as both President Pro Tempore of the Senate & President of the United States.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

John Tyler was the only one to do so, altho some claim that David Rice Atchison was President for a day.

[DWPerry]

John Tyler was the only one to do so, altho some claim that David Rice Atchison was President for a day.

I'm not including Atchison. The other person was a President under the Articles of Confederation.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

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?

[J. J.]

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?

Define "senior officer?"

[Kaine for Senate '18]

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.

[J. J.]

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.

If you are defining the senior most officer Harrison was not.  If you are talking about being the ranking officer in a branch, Eisenhower was not.

[Platypus]

Which president signed an executive order officially making it legal to refuse employment to or fire federal employees on the grounds of 'Sexual Perversion'?

[DWPerry]

Which president signed an executive order officially making it legal to refuse employment to or fire federal employees on the grounds of 'Sexual Perversion'?

Executive Order 10450 was signed by President Dwight Eisenhower


What Federal Career Program did Bill Clinton create with an Executive Order in August of 2000?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

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.

By senior officer of one of the Armed Forces, I mean an officer whose only senior with respect to position is a civilian official.

Washington was Senior Officer of the United States Army from 1798 to 1799 in addition to being Commander-in-Chief during the Revolution.

Grant was Commanding General of the United States Army from 1863 to 1869.

Eisenhower was Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1945 to 1948.

Those are the three easy ones.  Harrison was in charge of the Army of the Northwest, but he was subordinate to Henry Dearborn who was the Senior Officer of the United States Army at the time.

There are two others I have in mind, but they are a little trickier to get.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Madison and Taylor?