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UNITED STATES PRESIDENTS
INTERESTING FACTS AND TRIVIA

Select one of the presidents below for basic information about that president as well as interesting presidential quotes and trivia.

If you scroll down to the bottom of this page, and click the play button you will see a YouTube video of the American Presidents from Washington to Obama in four minutes. Each president will morph into the next. It's worth a few minutes of your time to check it out.

1. George Washington (1789)	23. Benjamin Harrison (1889)
2. John Adams (1797)	24. Grover Cleveland (1893)
3. Thomas Jefferson (1801)	25. William McKinley (1897)
4. James Madison (1809)	26. Theodore Roosevelt (1901)
5. James Monroe (1817)	27. William H. Taft (1909)
6. John Quincy Adams (1825)	28. Woodrow Wilson (1913)
7. Andrew Jackson (1829)	29. Warren Harding (1921)
8. Martin Van Buren (1837)	30. Calvin Coolidge (1923)
9. William Henry Harrison (1841)	31. Herbert Hoover (1929)
10. John Tyler (1841)	32. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933)
11. James Polk (1845)	33. Harry Truman (1945)
12. Zachary Taylor (1849)	34. Dwight Eisenhower (1953)
13. Millard Fillmore (1850)	35. John F. Kennedy (1961)
14. Franklin Pierce (1853)	36. Lyndon Johnson (1963)
15. James Buchanan (1857)	37. Richard Nixon (1969)
16. Abraham Lincoln (1861)	38. Gerald Ford (1974)
17. Andrew Johnson (1865)	39. Jimmy Carter (1977)
18. Ulysses S. Grant (1869)	40. Ronald Reagan (1981)
19. Rutherford B. Hayes (1877)	41. George H. W. Bush (1989)
20. James Garfield (1881)	42. William J. Clinton (1991)
21. Chester Arthur (1881)	43. George W. Bush (2001)
22. Grover Cleveland (1885)	44. Barack Obama (2009)

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◦	Myth: During the Civil War, Lincoln once said about Grant's drinking: "If I knew what brand he used, I'd send every general a barrel"
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◦	Myth: George Washington fathered several children by his slaves
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◦	Presidents Adams through Jackson (alphabetic)
◦	John Adams
◦	John Quincy Adams
◦	Chester Arthur
◦	James Buchanan
◦	George H.W. Bush
◦	George W. Bush
◦	Jimmy Carter
◦	Grover Cleveland
◦	Grover Cleveland (2nd term)
◦	William J. Clinton
◦	Calvin Coolidge
◦	Dwight Eisenhower
◦	Millard Fillmore
◦	Gerald Ford
◦	James Garfield
◦	Ulysses S. Grant
◦	Warren Harding
◦	Benjamin Harrison
◦	William Henry Harrison
◦	Rutherford B. Hayes
◦	Herbert Hoover
◦	Andrew Jackson
◦	Presidents Jefferson through Wilson (alphabetic)
◦	Thomas Jefferson
◦	Andrew Johnson
◦	Lyndon Johnson
◦	John F. Kennedy
◦	Abraham Lincoln
◦	James Madison
◦	William McKinley
◦	James Monroe
◦	Richard Nixon
◦	Barack Obama
◦	Franklin Pierce
◦	James Polk
◦	Ronald Reagan
◦	Franklin D. Roosevelt
◦	Theodore Roosevelt
◦	William H. Taft
◦	Zachary Taylor
◦	Harry Truman
◦	John Tyler
◦	Martin Van Buren
◦	George Washington
◦	Woodrow Wilson

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UNITED STATES PRESIDENTS INTERESTING FACTS AND TRIVIA

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INTERESTING FACTS AND TRIVIA