Prez trivia

1. President James Madison was the smallest U.S. president? He was only 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighed less than 100 pounds!

2. President Taft was the largest president. He was 6 feet tall but weighed 330 pounds!

3. President Ronald Reagan was the oldest president ever elected. He was 69. (That is two years younger than current Republican hopeful John McCain).

4. President John F. Kennedy was the youngest president ever elected. He was 43.

5. William Henry Harrison served the shortest presidential term. He was sworn in on March 2 and died 33 days later of natural causes.

6. Franklin Delano Roosevelt holds the longest term record. He was president for 12 years from 1933-45. He was elected four times. Now, of course, presidents may only serve two four-year terms.

7. President Benjamin Harrison was the first president to have electric lights in the White House. He served from 1889-1993.

8. Every United States president, except Jimmy Carter, has thrown out a first pitch in baseball since the tradition began.

9. Four United States presidents have been assassinated, all of them were elected in a year ending with zero. President Lincoln was shot and killed at a play, he was elected in 1860; President Garfield, elected in 1880, was short and killed while walking in D.C.; President McKinley, elected in 1900, was killed at the World’s Fair in Buffalo, New York; and President Kennedy, who was elected, ironically, the day I was born, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. President Reagan is the only president elected in a zero year to live out their term of office. He was shot, as you recall, but survived.

20 Things You Didn't Know About U.S. Presidents
Not only were these men leaders of the United States, they were multitalented, unique, and sometimes even downright quirky. We've heard a lot about their contribution to United States history. But would you have guessed the following?

1. In warm weather, 6th president of the United States John Quincy Adams customarily went skinny-dipping in the Potomac River before dawn.
2. 9th U.S. president William Henry Harrison was inaugurated on a bitterly cold day and gave the longest inauguration speech ever. The new president promptly caught a cold that soon developed into pneumonia. Harrison died exactly one month into his presidential term, the shortest in U.S. history.
3. John Tyler, 10th U.S. president, fathered 15 children (more than any other president)--8 by his first wife, and 7 by his second wife. Tyler was past his seventieth birthday when his 15th child was born.
4. Sedated only by brandy, 11th president of the United States James Polk survived gall bladder surgery at the age of 17.
5. 15th U.S. president James Buchanan is the only unmarried man ever to be elected president. Buchanan was engaged to be married once; however, his fiancée died suddenly after breaking off the engagement, and he remained a bachelor all his life.

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