US Presidents

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How many future U. S. Presidents signed the Declaration of Independence?

2 (Jefferson & Adams)

10

John Tyler

How many of Franklin Pierce's nine vetoes were overridden by Congress?

5

Who was the first president to never marry?

Buchanan

30

Calvin Coolidge

Who was the first president born in a hospital?

Carter

21

Chester A. Arthur

Who vetoed 584 bills during presidency?

Cleveland

Who was the first U.S. President to be married in the White House?

Cleveland

What presidential candidate played a saxophone on The Arsenio Hall Show during his campaign?

Clinton

Who is the only U. S. President born on July 4?

Coolidge

34

Dwight D. Eisenhower

What was John Adams' political party?

Federalist

32

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Which U. S. President purchased Alaska from Russia?

Johnson

Who was the first President to appoint an African American to the Supreme Court?

Johnson

Who was the first President to be impeached?

Johnson

35

John F. Kennedy

6

John Quincy Adams

What U.S. President won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage?

Kennedy

Walt Whitman's poem "Oh Captain, My Captain" was written about which President?

Lincoln

Who is the only president to hold a patent?

Lincoln

Who ran for President with the campaign slogan "Vote Yourself a Farm"?

Lincoln

Who was the first President with a beard?

Lincoln

Who was the first president to use the telegraph?

Lincoln

36

Lyndon B. Johnson

Which president is known as the Father of the Constitution?

Madison

Who was the shortest President?

Madison

8

Martin Van Buren

Who was the first president to campaign by telephone?

McKinley

13

Millard Fillmore

What was Calvin Coolidge's nickname?

Silent Cal

Who was the only U. S. President to also serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

Taft

Who was rumored to have been poisoned by pro-slavery southerners?

Taylor

Who is the only U.S. president not buried under the American flag?

Tyler

18

Ulysses S. Grant

Who was the first U.S. President to be born an American citizen?

Van Buren

Who was the first president to speak English as a second language?

Van Buren

How many Presidents have died on the Fourth of July?

3 (Adams, Jefferson, Monroe)

16

Abraham Lincoln

Who took the oath of office on a law book?

Adams

Who was the first President to live in the White House?

Adams

Which American inventor tried to help doctors remove the bullet from James A. Garfield's abdomen after he was shot?

Alexander Graham Bell

7

Andrew Jackson

17

Andrew Johnson

Who burned all their papers before their death?

Arthur

23

Benjamin Harrison

42

Bill Clinton

14

Franklin Pierce

41

George H. W. Bush

43

George W. Bush

1

George Washington

38

Gerald Ford

Which President signed the Civil Rights Act that extended the rights of emancipated slaves?

Grant

What crisis struck during Herbert Hoover's presidency?

Great Depression

22

Grover Cleveland

24

Grover Cleveland (2)

What U.S. President had a nervous breakdown at the age of 24 and spent time in a sanitarium?

Harding

33

Harry Truman

31

Herbert Hoover

What president had a sport named after him?

Hoover

Who was the first president to have a telephone on his desk?

Hoover

What was Benjamin Harrison's presidential nickname?

Human Iceberg

What Act did Andrew Jackson sign in 1830?

Indian Removal Act

Who was the only U.S. president to pay off the national debt?

Jackson

15

James Buchanan

20

James Garfield

11

James K. Polk

4

James Madison

5

James Monroe

What U.S. President had a pet mockingbird named "Dick"?

Jefferson

Which of the following Presidents vetoed the least number of bills during his time in office?

Jefferson

39

Jimmy Carter

What U.S. President won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002?

Jimmy Carter

2

John Adams

What rumor did Chester A. Arthur's political enemies start?

Not born in US

What does the "S" in Ulysses S. Grant stand for?

Nothing

By how many votes did Andrew Johnson avoid conviction in the Senate?

One

What kind of pet did William McKinley keep in the White House?

Parrot

What illness left Franklin D. Roosevelt paralyzed from the waist down?

Polio

Who was the first President elected who had previously been divorced?

Reagan

37

Richard Nixon

40

Ronald Reagan

Who was the first President to appear on TV?

Roosevelt

Who was the first President to have a state car custom built to Secret Service standards?

Roosevelt

Who was the first President to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Roosevelt

Who was the youngest U. S. President?

Roosevelt

What was the nickname of the cavalry regiment Theodore Roosevelt commanded during the Spanish-American War?

Rough Riders

19

Rutherford B. Hayes

26

Theodore Roosevelt

3

Thomas Jefferson

29

Warren G. Harding

Who was the only President elected unanimously by the Electoral College?

Washington

9

William Henry Harrison

27

William Howard Taft

25

William McKinley

Who is the only U. S. President with a PHD?

Wilson

What did Rutherford B. Hayes have to agree to do in order to win the 1876 presidential election?

Withdraw from the south

28

Woodrow Wilson

12

Zachary Taylor


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