Presidents Fun Facts

Chester A. Arthur 21st President

Changed his pants several times a day - he owned 80 pairs of pants

James A. Garfield 20th President

Could write with both hands at the same time - in different languages

Millard Fillmore 13th President

First President to have a stove and running water in the White House

Benjamin Harrison 23rd President

First President to have electric lights and a Christmas tree in the White House, grandson of William H. Harrison

Andrew Jackson 7th President

First President to ride in a train

Rutherford B. Hayes 19th President

First President to use a phone - his phone number was 1

Grover Cleveland 22nd President

First and only President married in the White House

Grover Cleveland 24th President

First and only President to ever serve 2 non-consecutive terms

Warren G. Harding 29th President

Gambled away a set of White House china

George W. Bush 43rd President

Has a collection of over 250 signed baseball cards

Abraham Lincoln 16th President

He made it to the Wrestling Hall of Fame with the honor of "Outstanding American."

William Howard Taft 27th President

Heaviest President at 332 pounds and got stuck in a bathtub.

Gerald R. Ford 38th President

Held his daughter's High School prom in the White House

John Tyler 10th President

Loved kids, had 15 children

Zachary Taylor 12th President

Never voted for a President

Ronald Reagan 40th President

Oldest President (69-77) to be elected until that time, former Hollywood actor

Calvin Coolidge 30th President

Only President born on the 4th of July

Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd President

Only President to serve more than 2 terms

Franklin Pierce 14th President

Pierce was arrested for running over a woman with his horse, but charges were later dropped due to a lack of evidence.

William J. Clinton 42nd President

Played the saxophone on national TV

William H. Harrison 9th President

President for only 31 days, died of pnueumonia

Harry S Truman 33rd President

Read every book in his hometown library

Richard M. Nixon 37th President

Recommended a play to the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl VI

James Madison 4th President

Smallest President at 5' 4", under 100 lbs.

Herbert Hoover 31st President

Spoke chinese to his wife to keep their stories private

George Bush 41st President

Survived 4 planes crashes during World War II

George Washington 1st President

Teeth were made from elephant and walrus tusks, not wood.

Ulysses S. Grant 18th President

Was fined $20 for speeding with his horse and carriage

John F. Kennedy 35th President

Youngest elected President, first Catholic President

Theodore Roosevelt 26th President

Youngest person ever to be President

John Quincy Adams 6th President

after presidency, served in the House of Representatives.

William McKinley 25th President

always wore a red carnation on his lapel as a good luck charm.

Andrew Johnson 17th President

apprenticed as a tailor. Even as president, he never stopped making his own suits.

James Buchanan 15th President

bought slaves in Washington, D.C. and quietly freed them in Pennsylvania.

Barack H. Obama 44th President

collects "Spiderman" and "Conan The Barbarian" comic books, and has even read every "Harry Potter" book.

Woodrow Wilson 28th President

face is on the $100,000 bill, which very few have ever laid hands on

Lyndon B. Johnson 36th President

famous among White House staffers for having no shame about asking people to follow him into the bathroom to continue conversations as he relieved himself.

James Earl Carter 39th President

filed a report for a UFO sighting in 1973.

Thomas Jefferson 3rd President

founded the university in 1819 on land that once belonged to eventual President James Monroe

Donald J. Trump 45th President

had a popular reality show called "The Apprentice" where business people competed to work for his multinational corporation

Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th President

he installed a putting green at the White House and played more than 800 rounds while in office

Martin Van Buren 8th President

nickname was "Old Kinderhook" because he was raised in Kinderhook, N.Y.; popular theory states this is why we say "O.K."

James K. Polk 11th President

promised that if he was elected president, he would leave after 4 years, a promise that he kept.

James Monroe 5th President

supported the colonization of Liberia, the country decided to name their capital city, Monrovia, after him.

John Adams 2nd President

would often skip school, choosing instead to spend his time hunting and fishing.