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Legend 110 - 50 Fascinating Facts About our Presidents

     Tallest: Abraham Lincoln (6 feet 4 inches)
       Shortest: James Madison (5 feet 4 inches)
       Heaviest: William Howard Taft (Over 300 pounds)
       Biggest Feet: Warren G. Harding (Size 14)
       Youngest to take Office: Theodore Roosevelt (42)
       Oldest to take Office: Ronald Reagan (69)
       Longest Lived: Gerald Ford (93 years, 166 days)
       Longest Time in Office: Framklin D. Roosevelt (12 Years)
       Shortest Time in Office: William Henry Harrison (32 days)
       First Born a U.S. Citizen: Martin Van Buren
       First Born West of the Mississippi: Herbert Hoover (Iowa)
       First Born in a Log Cabin: Andrew Jackson
       First Born in a Hospital: Jimmy Carter
       First Bearded: Abraham Lincoln
       A Bearded Democrat: None
       First President Assassinated: Abraham Lincoln
       First President Impeached: Andrew Johnson
       First Who was a Boomer: William Clinton
       First Who Died in Office: William Henry Harrison
       First to Attend a Major League Baseball Game: Benjamin Harrison
       First to Speak on Radio: Warren G. Harding
       First to Appear on Television: Franklin D. Roosevelt
       First to Establish a National Park: Ulysses S. Grant (Yellowstone)
       First to Preside Over 50 States: Dwight D. Eisenhower
       First to Appoint a Woman to the Cabinet: Lyndon B. Johnson
       First to Appoint a Black American to the Cabinet: Lyndon B. Johnson
       Only One Who Didn't Live in Washington: George Washington
       Only One Who Was Defeated by His Vice President: John Adams (Thomas Jefferson)
       Only One to Found a University: Thomas Jefferson (University of Virginia)
       Only One to Write With Both Hands in Different Languages: James Garfield
       Only One to Hang People: Grover Cleveland (as a County Sheriff)
       Only One to Serve Two Non Consecutive Terms: Grover Cleveland
       Only One to Serve as a Supreme Court Justice: William Howard Taft
       Only One to be Sworn in by His Father: Calvin Coolidge (John C. Coolidge)
       Only President to Resign: Richard Nixon
       Only President to Serve as Both Vice President and President Without Being Elected to Either Office:
       Gerald Ford
       Only One to Survive a Bullet Wound While in Office: Ronald Reagan
       Only One Who Earned a PH.D.: Woodrow Wilson
       Only One Who Earned an MBA: George W. Bush
       Only one Who Served in the 20th Century Without College Training: Harry S. Truman
       Presidents Who Were Only Children: None
       Presidents Raised with 1/2 Siblings Only: Franklin Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, and Bill Clinton
       President that was a Bachelor: James Buchanan
       Presidents That Married While President: Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson
       A Divorced President: Ronald Reagan
       President that Fathered the Most Children: John Tyler (15)
       Presidents that Fathered Another President: John Adams and George H. W. Bush
       Grandfather of Another President: William Henry Harrison
       Father-in-law to Confederate President: Zachary Taylor (Jefferson Davis)