Fun Presidential Facts

*James Buchanan was the only bachelor president.

*William Taft weighed in at 326 pounds.

*James Madison was the shortest president at 5 feet 4 inches.

*Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest president at 42 years old.

*Ronald Reagan was the oldest president leaving office at 77 years old.

*John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4th, 1826 (also the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence).

*John Quincy Adams swam daily in the Potomac River.

*William Henry Harrison died one month after delivering the longest inaugural speech at 1 hour 45 minutes.

*Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated.

*Grover Cleveland was the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms.

*Benjamin Harrison was the only grandson of a president to become president.

*The teddy bear was named for Theodore Roosevelt.

*Woodrow Wilson kept sheep to trim the White House lawn.

*At 4 terms, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to more terms than any other president.

*Richard Nixon was the only president to resign.

*Gerald Ford was the only president not elected into office.

*John F. Kennedy and William H. Taft are the only presidents buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

*Andrew Jackson had a pet parrot named Poll.

*Millard Fillmore had the fist bathtub installed at the White House.

*Ulysses S. Grant got a speeding ticket of $20 for riding his horse too fast.

*Calvin Coolidge's wife Rebecca had a pet raccoon.

*John F. Kennedy kept the White House pool at 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

*Ronald Reagan was a Hollywood star before he became president.

*George H.W. Bush flew 58 combat missions in World War II.