Living Presidents - List of All Living U.S. Presidents Living Presidents By Tom Murse Updated October 17, 2016. There are five living presidents, including the current commander-in-chief, President Barack Obama. The other living presidents are George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. The record for the most living presidents at one time is six . The last time there were six living presidents was between 2001 and 2004, when both Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford were still alive during the George W. Bush presidency. That record is certain to be tied in January of 2017, when Obama leaves office and the next president is sworn in . Of the five living presidents, only Clinton and Obama have the distinction of entering the office in their 40s . Carter and the younger Bush entered the White House in their 50s, and the elder Bush took office when he was 64. The elder Bush is the oldest living former president, but only by a couple of months. Carter is the second-oldest. The last time a former president died was in December of 2006, when Gerald Ford passed away.

Here is a list of all living presidents. Barack Obama first won election in 2008 and was re-elected in 2012. Obama was inaugurated president when he was 47 years old. He was 51 when he was sworn into a second term. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images News/Getty Images President Barack Obama, a Democrat, is serving his second term in the White House . He first won election in 2008 and was re-elected in 2012 . Obama was inaugurated president when he was 47 years old . He was 51 when he was sworn into a second term. More » George W. Bush, a Republican, was the 43rd president of the United States and is one of five living presidents. Getty Images 2. George W. Bush George W. Bush, a Republican, was the 43rd president of the United States and is one of five living presidents. He is a member of the Bush political dynasty . Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Conn.

He was 54-years-old when he was sworn in to his first of two terms in the White House in 2001. He was 62 when he left office eight years later, in 2009. More » President Bill Clinton deliver delivers the State of the Union address in 1999. Pool / Getty Images News 3. Bill Clinton Bill Clinton, a Democrat, was the 42nd president of the United States and is one of five living presidents. Clinton was born on Aug. 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. He was 46 when he took the oath of office in 1993 for his first of two terms in the White House. Clinton was 54 when his second term expired in 2001. More » George H.W. Bush, a Republican, was the 41st president of the United States and is among five living presidents. Chris Graythen/Getty Images News 4. George H.W. Bush George H.W. Bush, a Republican, was the 41st president of the United States and is among five living presidents.

Bush was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Mass. He was 64-years-old when he entered the White House in January 1989. He was 68 when his four-year term expired in 1993. Bush was hospitalized in 2015 after he broke the C2 vertebrae in his neck while at his summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine. He spent about a week in the hospital in 2014 after he experienced shortness of breath. More » Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, was the 39th president of the United States and is one of five living presidents. Getty Images 5. Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, was the 39th president of the United States and is one of five living presidents. Carter was born on Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia. He was 52-years-old when he took office in 1977, and 56 years-old when he left the White House four years later, in 1981.

Carter was diagnosed with cancer of the liver and brain in 2015, at age 90. He initially believed he had only weeks to live. Speaking to reporters that year, he said: "I have had a wonderful life. I'm ready for anything and I'm looking forward to new adventure. It is in the hands of God, whom I worship." More » George Bush - U.S. Presidents - HISTORY.com Google Early Life and Military Service George Herbert Walker Bush was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts , to Dorothy Walker Bush (1901-92) and Prescott Bush (1895-1972), a banker who went on to represent Connecticut in the U.S. Senate from 1952 to 1963. The younger Bush was raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, and graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1942. Did You Know? A car bomb assassination plot against George Bush was foiled in Kuwait in 1993. After graduation, Bush joined the U.S.

Naval Reserve to fight in World War II (1939-45), which America had entered in December 1941. When he received his wings shortly before his 19th birthday, Bush was the nation’s youngest commissioned pilot at the time. He flew 58 combat missions during the war, and received the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery after his torpedo plane was shot down by the Japanese in the vicinity of the Bonin Islands in the Pacific on September 2, 1944. During that incident, Bush’s plane was hit and set on fire but he continued toward his target, a radio station, and successfully bombed it before parachuting out of his plane. He later was rescued from the water by an American submarine. Family and Oil Business On January 6, 1945, while on leave from the Navy, Bush married Barbara Pierce (1925-) in Rye, New York . The couple had met as teenagers at a dance.

The Bushes went on to have six children: George (1946-), Robin (1949-53), John (known as Jeb, 1953-), Neil (1955-), Marvin (1956-) and Dorothy (1959-). After completing his military service in September 1945, Bush enrolled at Yale University, where he studied economics and was captain of the baseball team and a member of Skull and Bones, an elite secret society. He graduated in 1948 then moved his family to Texas , where he began a prosperous career in the oil industry, eventually becoming president of an independent offshore oil drilling company. Political Career In 1964, Bush won the Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat from Texas, but lost in the general election. Two years later, he won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served two terms. In 1970, he ran for the U.S. Senate but again was defeated in the general election. President Richard Nixon (1913-94) then appointed Bush the U.S.

ambassador to the United Nations, a role in which he served from 1971 to 1973, when he became chairman of the Republican Party. In that capacity, on August 7, 1974, amidst the Watergate scandal, Bush formally requested that Nixon resign the presidency. Nixon officially stepped down two days later. In the fall of 1974, Nixon’s successor, President Gerald Ford (1913-2006) appointed Bush as the head of the U.S. Liaison Office in the People’s Republic of China, where he served until becoming director of the CIA in January 1976. After Democrat Jimmy Carter (1924-) was elected president, Bush resigned from the CIA in January 1977. Vice Presidency: 1981-1989 In 1980, Bush ran for the Republican presidential nomination but lost to Ronald Reagan . The former actor and governor of California selected Bush as his vice-presidential running mate, and the two defeated incumbent Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale (1928-) in the general election.

After two terms as vice president under Reagan, Bush became the Republican presidential nominee in 1988. With running mate Dan Quayle (1947-), a U.S. senator from Indiana , Bush defeated Democratic challenger Governor Michael Dukakis (1933-) of Massachusetts and his running mate Lloyd Bentsen (1921-2006). Bush captured 426 electoral votes and more than 53 percent of the popular vote, to Dukakis’ 111 electoral votes and more than 45 percent of the popular vote. Presidency: 1989-1993 A key focus of Bush’s presidency was foreign policy. He began his time in the White House as Germany was in the process of reunifying, the Soviet Union was collapsing and the Cold War was ending. Bush would be credited with helping to improve U.S.-Soviet relations. He met with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-), and in July 1991, the two men signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Bush also authorized military operations in Panama and the Persian Gulf.

In December 1989, the United States invaded Panama and overthrew the nation’s corrupt dictator, Manuel Noriega (1934-), who was threatening the security of Americans who lived there and trafficking drugs to the United States. Then, after Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (1937-2006) launched an invasion and occupation of Kuwait in August 1990 and threatened to invade Saudi Arabia, Bush organized a military coalition of more than 30 countries who began a U.S.-led air assault against Iraq in mid-January 1991. After five weeks of the air offensive and 100 hours of a ground offensive, Operation Desert Storm ended in late February with Iraq’s defeat and Kuwait’s liberation. On the domestic front, Bush, a moderate conservative, signed such important pieces of legislation as the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. He made two appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court: David Souter (1939-) in 1990, and Clarence Thomas (1948-) in 1991.

While Bush gained support among the American public for his foreign policy initiatives, his popularity at home was marred by an economic recession. After promising “no new taxes” in his presidential campaign, he upset some by raising tax revenues in an effort to deal with a rising budget deficit.In 1992, Bush lost his bid for re-election to Governor Bill Clinton (1946-) of Arkansas . Clinton won 370 electoral votes and 43 percent of the popular vote, while Bush captured 168 electoral votes and 37.5 percent of the popular vote. Third-party candidate Ross Perot (1930-) garnered approximately 19 percent of the popular vote. Post-presidency In 2000, Bush’s son George, a two-term Texas governor, was elected president. The Bushes were the second father and son to ascend to the presidency. (The first were John Adams , the second U.S. president, and John Quincy Adams , the sixth U.S. president). Another Bush son, Jeb, was governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007 Access hundreds of hours of historical video, commercial free, with HISTORY Vault . Start your free trial today.

Tags George H.W. Bush - U.S. Vice President, Diplomat, U.S. Representative, U.S. President - Biography.com “I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.” “Read my lips: No new taxes.” “I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.” George H.W. Bush Barbara Bush - Mini Biography (TV-14; 4:58) Barbara Bush, noted advocate for family literacy, is also the second woman to have been First Lady to one U.S. president and mother of another. Learn more about her life and work in this mini biography. Synopsis Born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, George H.W. Bush fought in WWII and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He was Ronald Reagan's VP for two terms and then won the 1988 presidential race, losing his bid for a second term to Bill Clinton. He has since made appearances for George W. Bush, his oldest son, and started the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund with President Clinton.

Early Life George Herbert Walker Bush was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts. The son of Senator Prescott Bush, he was born into a wealthy and politically active family. Bush attended Phillips Academy, an elite boarding school in Andover, Massachusetts. He began dating his future wife, known as Barbara Pierce at the time, after they were introduced at a Christmas dance in 1941. Bush was 17 years old at the time, and Barbara was just 16. (They married in January 1945.) On his 18th birthday, Bush enlisted in the U.S. Navy, becoming the youngest pilot in the Navy during World War II. He served as a combat pilot in the war, flying carrier-based torpedo bomber aircraft and a total of 58 combat missions. He had a brush with death when his plane was hit during a bombing run in the Pacific. After managing to escape the burning aircraft, he was quickly rescued by a U.S. Navy submarine. Bush was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his WWII service. After the war, Bush attended Yale University, where he graduated with a degree in economics in 1948.

He later moved to Midland, Texas, where he found success in the oil and petroleum industry. Congressman and Vice President Bush became chairman of the Harris County Republican Party in 1963. The following year, he ran an unsuccessful campaign for a U.S. Senate seat in Texas. It didn't take long for Bush to enter Congress, however; in 1966, two years after his unsuccessful Senate bid, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, ultimately serving two terms. Bush was later appointed to several important positions, including U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 1971, head of the Republican National Committee during the Watergate scandal, U.S. envoy to China, and director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1976. Bush then set his sights on the U.S. presidency, but failed to win his party's nomination in 1980, losing it to his opponent, Ronald Reagan. Bush would make it to the White House soon after, however: He was chosen as Reagan's vice-presidential running mate. Reagan won the 1980 election, defeating Democrat challenger Jimmy Carter.

He was re-elected in 1984, with Bush serving as his vice president for both terms. U.S. Presidency Bush finally reached the White House's top seat in 1989; he won the 1988 election against Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis, becoming the first sitting vice president to be elected president since 1837. During his nomination acceptance speech at the 1988 Republican National Convention, Bush famously stated, "Read my lips: No new taxes." During his presidency, Bush skillfully handled foreign affairs during a tumultuous time for the nation. Just months into his first term, he responded to the dissolve of the Soviet Union and oversaw the U.S. military's removal of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega from power. Not long after, Bush responded to then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait (August 1990), creating a national coalition and leading a military strike to drive Hussein out of the oil-rich country. Bush's handling of the invasion in Kuwait is largely viewed as his greatest presidential success.

Bush delivered a speech to the American public as the invasion began, stating, "Now the 28 countries with forces in the Gulf area have exhausted all reasonable efforts to reach a peaceful resolution. [We] have no choice but to drive Saddam from Kuwait by force. We will not fail. We are determined to knock out Saddam Hussein's nuclear bomb potential. We will also destroy his chemical weapons facilities. Much of Saddam's artillery and tanks will be destroyed. ... Our objectives are clear: Saddam Hussein's forces will leave Kuwait." Despite his global successes, economic problems at home have been blamed for Bush's re-election bid failure in 1992. Later Career When his eldest son, George W. Bush, was elected president in 2000, George Bush Sr. made many public appearances, frequently to speak in support of his son. In addition to being a proud and supportive father, he has lent his support to several political causes. In 2005, he joined forces with former president Bill Clinton—the Democratic candidate who defeated him in the 1992 election—to help people affected by Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the Gulf Coast region, especially Louisiana and Mississippi.

The Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund raised more than $100 million in donations in its first few months. In 2011, Bush was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. In November 2012, an 88-year-old Bush was admitted to a Houston hospital to be treated for a cough related to bronchitis. His cough reportedly improved, but he remained hospitalized because of other health setbacks. Bush developed a "persistent fever," according to an Associated Press report. In late December, he was moved into an intensive care unit and was reportedly in guarded condition. Bush has lower-body parkinsonism and has been in a wheelchair for more than a year, according to a Reuters report. The former president seemed to be in good spirits the following July. Photos released to the press showed Bush with a shaved head. He had cut off his hair to his support to a young child battling leukemia. The toddler is the son of a Secret Service agent who guards Bush. Bush and his wife have also contributed to a special fund established to pay for the boy's medical expenses. Bush was admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital in December 2014 after experiencing shortness of breath.

In 2013, he had been hospitalized for two months following a bout with bronchitis. Despite his health set-backs over the years, Bush has skydived on a number of milestone birthdays since leaving the White House. His last jump was in June 2014 in celebration of his 90th birthday. He had previously parachuted for his 80th and 85th birthdays. In July 2015, the 91-year-old former president fell at his summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine, and broke a vertebrae in his neck. His medical condition was considered “not life threatening,” according to his spokesman. Bush spends part of the year in Houston, Texas, with his wife Barbara Bush. The couple also stays at their home in Kennebunkport, Maine. Married for nearly 70 years, George and Barbara Bush have six children: George, Robin, Jeb, Neil, Marvin and Dorothy. Their daughter, Robin, died in 1953. Related Videos Fact Check We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us ! Citation Information 98 Fun Facts about U.S.

Presidents | FactRetriever.com 98 Fun Facts about U.S. Presidents By Karin Lehnardt, Senior Writer Published September 17, 2016 The only president to be unanimously elected was George Washington (1732-1799). He also refused to accept his presidential salary, which was $25,000 a year.[2] Because the KKK was a powerful political force, Truman was encouraged to join the organization. According to some accounts, he was inducted, though he was “never active.” Other accounts claim that though he gave the KKK a $10 membership fee, he demanded it back and was never inducted or initiated.[6][9] Grover Cleveland was the only president in history to hold the job of a hangman. He was once the sheriff of Erie County, New York, and twice had to spring the trap at a hanging.[11] The “S” in Harry S Truman doesn’t stand for anything; therefore, there is no period after his middle initial.[10] Lincoln Logs are named after Abraham Lincoln and the log cabin where he was born.

John Lloyd Wright, son of famous architect Francis Lloyd Wright, invented them.[11] By carving up Shakespeare's chair, Jefferson and Adams became some of America's earliest vandals Thomas Jefferson and John Adams once traveled to Stratford-upon-Avon to visit Shakespeare’s birthplace. While there, they took a knife to one of Shakespeare’s chairs so they could take home some wood chips as souvenirs.[9] James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were once arrested together for taking a carriage ride in the countryside of Vermont on a Sunday, which violated the laws of that state.[9] Andrew Johnson is the only tailor ever to be president. As president, he would typically stop by a tailor shop to say hello. He would wear only the suits that he made himself.[1] George Washington never lived in the White House. The capital was actually located in Philadelphia and other cities when Washington was president. He is also the only president who didn’t represent a political party.[2] James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) is the first president to ever talk on the phone.

When he spoke to Alexander Graham Bell, who was at the other end 13 miles away, he said: “Please speak a little more slowly.”[11] Twenty-ninth president Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923) repeatedly made love to a young girl, Nan Britton, in a White House closet. On one occasion, Secret Service agents had to stop his wife from beating down the closet door.[5] Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the first president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.[8] The term “O.K.” derives from President Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) who was known as “Old Kinderhook” because he was raised in Kinderhook, New York. “O.K.” clubs were created to support Van Buren’s campaigns.[11] President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) is the only president to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms. He was the 22nd and 24th president.[10] Bush is the only recorded U.S. president in history to vomit on a foreign dignitary After President Bush Sr.

vomited on the Japanese Prime Minister, a new word entered the Japanese language. Bushusuru means “to do the Bush thing,” or to publicly vomit.[11] John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s (1917-1963) famous inaugural line “Ask not what you your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country” echoes similar directives made by many others, including Cicero, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and President Warren G. Harding, who told the 1916 Republican convention: “We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it, and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.”[11] Martin Van Buren was the first to be a United States citizen.

All previous presidents were born British subjects.[7] Six presidents were named James: Madison, Monroe, Polk, Buchanan, Garfield, and Carter.[11] President Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was the only president to serve in both WWI and WWII.[8] Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994) was the first president to visit all 50 states and the first to visit China. He is the only president to resign.[10] James Earl “Jimmy” Carter (1924-) was the first president to be born in a hospital.[11] Jimmy Carter is the first known president to go on record as seeing a UFO.[11] Before he was president, Lincoln was a licensed bartender Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) is the only U.S. president who was also a licensed bartender. He was co-owner of Berry and Lincoln, a saloon in Springfield, Illinois.[2] George H. W.

Bush (1924-) was the first serving vice president to be elected president since Martin Van Buren.[11] William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton (1946-) was the first U.S. Democratic president to win re-election since FDR.[11] Abraham Lincoln was the only presidential candidate who was not a Mason in the 1860 election.[9] President James Buchanan (1791-1868) quietly but consistently bought slaves in Washington, D.C., and then set them free in Pennsylvania.[7] Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) gave his White House servants strict orders to hide from him whenever he passed by. Those who failed to do so were at risk of being fired.[7] James Buchanan is the only bachelor president. He was virtually inseparable from William R. King (1786-1853), a senator from Alabama, earning the pair the nickname “Miss Nancy and Aunt Fancy” and “Mr. Buchanan and his wife.”[3] Ulysses S.

Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant, 1822-1885) smoked at least 20 cigars a day and, after a brilliant war victory, a nation of well wishers sent him more than 10,000 cigars. He later died of throat cancer.[9] Dwight D. Eisenhower had an affair with his wartime driver, Kay Summersby (1908-1975). Kay later wrote a book called Past Forgetting: My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower in which she claims he was impotent.[5] John F. “Jack” Kennedy most likely had the most active extramarital sex life of any president. He allegedly slept with Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Audrey Hepburn, Angie Dickinson, stripper Blaze Starr, Marlene Dietrich, and many other women including White House staffers, secretaries, stewardess, campaign workers, strippers, and acquaintances of trusted male friends.

The FBI taped sounds of him and Inga Arvad making love.[4] Johnson nicknamed his genitals "Jumbo" Lyndon Baines Johnson “LBJ”(1908-1973) affectionately called the many women he slept with his “harem.” He even had a buzzer system installed that rang inside the Oval Office so that Secret Service could warn him when his wife was coming.[3] Every member of Teddy Roosevelt’s family owned a pair of stilts, including the first lady.[11] Sally Hemings (ca. 1773-1885) was not only Jefferson’s slave, but also the half-sister of Jefferson’s dead wife. She is said to have been Jefferson’s mistress for thirty-eight years, and scholars have argued for years whether Jefferson was the father of her children. DNA tests in 1998 revealed that a male in Jefferson’s line was the father of at least one of her children, though it did not prove conclusively that Jefferson himself fathered them.[3] When Martin Van Buren wrote his autobiography after serving as president from 1837-1841, he didn’t mention his wife of 12 years.

Not even once.[9] John Tyler (1790-1862) had more children than any other president. He had eight by his first wife and seven by his second. He was 70 when his last child, Pearl, was born. He was also the first president to get married in office, though his eight children form his first wife did not approve of the wedding and did not attend.[10] Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) won the Most Nearly Perfect Male Figure Award from the University of California in 1940.[11] Thomas Jefferson had a family of plants named after him, Jeffersonia diphylla, which is also known as twin root or rheumatism root.[11] Thomas Jefferson wrote “The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth,” which was discovered after his death by his daughter. It argues that Jesus Christ was a great thinker, but that he was devoid of other worldly qualities that made him the center of Christianity.[11] James Madison (1751-1836) was the shortest president of the United States, standing at only 5’4”.

He never weighed more than 100 pounds.[10] George Washington made the shortest inauguration speech on record—133 words and less than two minutes long.[2] William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) holds the record for the longest inauguration speech in history at 8,578 words long and one hour and 40 minutes. Unfortunately, he gave the speech during bad weather and a month later, he was dead from pneumonia, making his the shortest presidency on record.[10] John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) would often skinny dip in the Potomac River.[9] Adams would swim at 5 a.m.

in the Potomac River every day to deal with the stress of being president George Washington, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, James Garfield, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, Warren Harding, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, and Gerald Ford were all Masons, many symbols of which are found on American currency.[9] The body of John Scott Harrison, father of President of Benjamin Harrison, was stolen by grave robbers and sold to Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati for use as a training cadaver. The body was eventually recovered and reburied.[11] Gerald Rudolph Ford’s (1913-2006) name before he was adopted was Leslie Lynch King Jr.[7] The youngest president was Teddy Roosevelt who became president at age 42 when McKinley (1843-1901) was assassinated.

JFK was the youngest president elected at the age of 43.[10] As a young man, Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893) fought lyssophobia, or the fear of going insane.[11] Three presidents died on July 4th: Thomas Jefferson (1826), John Adams (1826), and James Monroe (1831). Calvin Coolidge is the only president to have been born on the Fourth (1872).[8] George Herbert Walker Bush is the only President with four names.[11] James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other hand simultaneously.[9] Roosevelt was also the first President to win a Nobel Peace Prize “Teddy Bears” were so named when Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt (1858-1919) refused to shoot a small bear cub one day.

The incident was reported in the news, which inspired a toy manufacture to come out with the cute stuffed animals.[1] The three best known Western names in China are Jesus Christ, Elvis Presley, and Richard Nixon.[11] James Monroe (1758-1831) once chased his Secretary of State from the White House with a pair of fire tongs.[9] When Mexican general Santa Ana demanded Zachary Taylor (“Old Rough and Ready,” 1784-1850) to surrender, Taylor said, “Tell him to go to hell.”[9] Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) was reportedly involved in over 100 duels, most to defend the honor of his wife, Rachel. He had a bullet in his chest from an 1806 duel and another bullet in his arm from a barroom fight in 1813 with Missouri senator Thomas Hart Benton.[7] Herbert Hoover was an orphan whose first job was picking bugs off potato plants, for which he was paid a dollar per hundred bugs. He also was a mine worker.[2] Gerald Ford worked as a model during college.

He also worked as a forest ranger at Yellowstone National Park directing traffic and feeding the bears.[1] In 1945, Congress voted to commemorate the work FDR did for the March of Dimes by putting his profile on the coin.[9] Abraham Lincoln was the first president to ever be photographed at his inauguration. In the photo, he is standing near John Wilkes Booth, his future assassin.[11] Robert Lincoln is the only man in U.S. history known to have witnessed the assassinations of three different presidents, his father, James Garfield, and William McKinley. After he saw anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoot McKinley, he vowed he would never again appear in public with an incumbent president.[9] An anarchist and lawyer named Charles Guiteau shot James Garfield in the back with a five-barrel, .44-caliber pistol called a British Bulldog in 1881. He said he chose the gun because it would look good on a display in a museum someday. No one currently knows where the gun is.[2] Taft was also the only U.S. president to also serve as chief justice of the U.S.

Supreme Court At 325 pounds, William Howard Taft (1857-1930), who was dubbed “Big Bill,” was the largest president in American history and often got stuck in the White House bathtub. His advisors had to sometimes pull him out.[2] The first attempt to assassinate a president was on Andrew Jackson by Richard Lawrence, a house painter. Both of his guns misfired, however—an event that statisticians say could occur only once in 125,000 times. Andrew Jackson then chased Lawrence with his walking stick.[10] James Garfield didn’t die from the gunshot wounds from his assassin’s gun; he died of blood poisoning after doctors and experts (including Alexander Graham Bell) tried to remove the bullet from his back with their dirty fingers and instruments, causing him to linger in pain for 80 days before dying. His assassin, Charles Guiteau, later claimed that he didn’t kill the president, the doctors had.[9] Harding was obsessed with poker and once bet an entire set of priceless White House China and lost it.[11] During his second run for presidency, Teddy Roosevelt was shot by a would-be assassin while giving a speech in Milwaukee.

He continued to deliver his speech with the bullet in his chest.[9] Woodrow Wilson (born Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924) would paint his golf balls black during the winter so he could continue playing in the snow.[1] Thomas Jefferson was convinced that if he soaked his feet in a bucket of cold water every day, he’d never get a cold.[11] Teddy Roosevelt’s last request before dying was “Please put out the light.” Thomas Jefferson’s last words were “This is the Fourth?” John Adam’s dying words were “Thomas Jefferson still survives,” unaware that Jefferson had passed away a few hours earlier.[11] George Washington didn’t have enough money to get to his own inauguration so he had to borrow $600 from his neighbor.[9] Washington, Jackson, Van Buren, Taylor, Fillmore, Lincoln, A. Johnson, Cleveland, and Truman did not attend college. Harry Truman is the only twentieth-century president without a college degree.[2] On his epitaph, which he composed, Jefferson mentions that he was the author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statuette of Virginia for Religious Freedom and that he was the father of the University of Virginia.

He neglected to mention he had been the President of the United States.[7] No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. - John Adams The capital of Liberia is called Monrovia after President James Monroe.[11] In 1978, President Jimmy Carter, the first Southerner elected to the presidency following the Civil War, restored U.S. citizenship to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America.[9] Samuel Mudd, the doctor who treated the broken ankle of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, received a presidential pardon in 1869 from Ulysses S. Grant.[9] No president has ever been an only child.[10] Historians argue whether George Washington actually added the phrase "“so help me God” to the end of presidential oath. As far as can be determined, the first President who is known to have appended the phrase to the oath was Chester Alan Arthur.

He added the phrase when he was sworn into office on September 22, 1881, after the death of President Garfield.[2] John Adams' campaign propaganda against Jefferson said that if Jefferson was elected, “murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced.” They later resolved their differences and wrote many letters to each other.[9] It was so cold at Ulysses S. Grant’s presidential inauguration that the canaries that were supposed to sing at the inaugural ball froze to death.[11] Calvin Coolidge liked to have his head rubbed with petroleum jelly while eating his breakfast in bed.[2] He believed rubbing the jelly on his head was good for his health Every so often, Calvin Coolidge would press all the buttons on the President’s desk and hide and watch his staff run in. He would then pop out from behind the door and say that he was just seeing if everyone was working.[2] The first president to be born outside the original 13 States was Lincoln.[11] Jimmy Carter was a wealthy peanut farmer in Plains, Georgia.

A farming accident left one of his fingers permanently bent.[2] William McKinley, Grover Cleveland, and James Madison are on the $500, $1000, and $5000 bill, respectively. The bills are still used as legal tender but are no longer being printed.[2] Abraham Lincoln is the only president to receive a patent (# 6469). He was the first president to have a beard, at the request from a little girl named Gracie Bedell. The first child to die in the White House was Abraham Lincoln’s 12-year old son, Willie.[9] Abraham Lincoln was the tallest president at 6' 4."[9] Several of his descendants and a few historians claim that John Hanson (1721-1783) is actually the forgotten first president of the United States because he was the first president under the Articles of Confederation.[10] William McKinley was the first to ride in a self-propelled vehicle—the electric ambulance that took him to the hospital after he had been shot.[11] The presidential faces on Mount Rushmore are as high as a five-story building, about 60' from chin to top of the head.

The pupils of eyes are 4' across and the mouths are 18' wide. The carving took 14 years, from 1927-1941. The total cost was about $990,000. A total 450,000 tons of stone was removed.[2] George Washington’s original ancestral name was de Wessyngton, from a certain William de Hertburn, a twelfth-century noble knight of the manor and village of Wessyngton who later changed his name to de Wessyngton (which is the Norman spelling of Washington).[9] Woodrow Wilson was the first to show a motion picture in the White House: The Birth of Nation, which has become the most banned film in American history.[11] JFK died younger than any other U.S. president to date JFK was the first Roman Catholic to be president, the first Boy Scout to become president, and the first president to be born in the twentieth century.[9] Warren Harding was the first president to own a radio, the first to make speech over the radio, and the first to ride to his inauguration in a car.

When women got the right to vote, he was the first president they could elect.[11] Gerald Ford was the first person to be both vice president and president without being elected by the people. He was appointed vice president when Spiro Agnew resigned and he succeeded to the presidency when Nixon resigned.[7] Rutherford Hayes banished alcohol from the White House and held gospel sing-alongs every night in the White House.[11] Andrew Johnson was the first president to be impeached. He was acquitted by one vote in the Senate. It would be another 131 years before another president, Bill Clinton, would be impeached.[10] Pinnable Facts Keyword Tags #Educational #FactOfTheDay #Interesting #FastFacts #Awesome #SchoolProject #Animation #YouTube #Conservative #Democrat #Liberal #Politics #Republican #Government #PresidentsDay #February #GeorgeWashington #USPresidents #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #AbrahamLincoln #TheodoreRoosevelt #Shakespeare #WashingtonDC #Elections #WWI #WWII #WhiteHouse #InaugurationDay #TeddyBear #ExecutiveBranch References 1 Boller, Paul F. Jr.

Presidential Diversion: Presidents at Play from George Washington to George W. Bush. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Books, 2007. 2 Frank, Sid and Arden Davis Melick. The Presidents: Tidbits and Trivia. New York, NY: Greenwich House, 1977. 3 Garrison, Webb. Love, Lust, and Longing in the White House. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House, 2000. 4 Gregory, Leland H. Presidential Indiscretions. New York, NY: Dell Publishing, 1999. 5 Hagood, Wesley O. Presidential Sex: From the Founding Fathers to Bill Clinton. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1996. 6 McCullough, David.Truman. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2003. 7 McPhereson, James M., Ed. “To the Best of My Ability”: The American Presidents. New York, NY: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc ,2000. 8 Nelson, Michael, Ed. The Presidency: A to Z. Washington D.

C.: Congressional Quarterly, Inc, 1998. 9 O’Brien, Cormac. Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents: What Your Teachers Never Told You about the Men of the White House. Philadelphia, PA: Quirk Books ,2004. 10 Smith, Carter. Presidents: Every Question Answered. Irvington, NY: Hylas Publishing, 2004. 11 Stebben, Gregg and Jim Morris. White House Confidential: The Little Book of Weird Presidential History. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House Publishing ,1998. Suggested for you List of One-Term U.S. Presidents See also: 5 Wacky Myths About Obama Who are the other one term presidents in the history of the United States? Who are the other modern one term presidents? Why did voters turn their backs on them? Here's a look at America's one term presidents - those who ran for, but lost, re-election - through history. George H. W. Bush, 1989. Hulton Archives 1. George H.W. Bush Republican George H.W.

Bush was the 41st president of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. He lost a campaign for re-election in 1992 to Democrat William Jefferson Clinton , who went on to serve two full terms. Bush's official White House biography describes his re-election loss this way: "Despite unprecedented popularity from this military and diplomatic triumph, Bush was unable to withstand discontent at home from a faltering economy, rising violence in inner cities, and continued high deficit spending. In 1992 he lost his bid for reelection to Democrat William Clinton." President Jimmy Carter. Mikki Ansin/Hulton Archive 2. Jimmy Carter Democrat Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981. He lost a campaign for re-election in 1980 to Republican Ronald Reagan , who went on to serve two full terms. Carter's White House biography blames several factors for his defeat, not the least of which was the hostage-taking of U. S. embassy staff in Iran , which dominated the news during the last 14 months of Carter's administration.

"The consequences of Iran's holding Americans captive, together with continuing inflation at home, contributed to Carter's defeat in 1980. Even then, he continued the difficult negotiations over the hostages." Iran released the 52 Americans the same day Carter left office. President Gerald Ford. David Hume Kennerly/Hulton Archive 3. Gerald Ford Republican Gerald R. Ford was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977. He lost a campaign for re-election in 1976 to Democrat Jimmy Carter , who went on to serve one term. "Ford was confronted with almost insuperable tasks," his White House biography states. "There were the challenges of mastering inflation, reviving a depressed economy, solving chronic energy shortages, and trying to ensure world peace." In the end he could not overcome those challenges. President Herbert Hoover. Hulton Archive 4. Herbert Hoover Republican Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. He lost a campaign for re-election in 1932 to Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt , who went on to serve three full terms.

The stock market crashed within months of Hoover's first election in 1928, and the United States plunged into The Great Depression . Hoover became he scapegoat four years later. "At the same time he reiterated his view that while people must not suffer from hunger and cold, caring for them must be primarily a local and voluntary responsibility," his biography reads. "His opponents in Congress, who he felt were sabotaging his program for their own political gain, unfairly painted him as a callous and cruel President." President William Howard Taft. Buyenlarge 5. William Howard Taft Republican William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States, serving from 1909 to 1913. He lost a campaign for re-election in 1912 to Democrat Woodrow Wilson , who went on to serve two full terms. "Taft alienated many liberal Republicans who later formed the Progressive Party, by defending the Payne-Aldrich Act which unexpectedly continued high tariff rates," Taft's White House biography reads.

"He further antagonized progressives by upholding his secretary of the interior, accused of failing to carry out [former President Theodore] Roosevelt's conservation policies." When the Republicans nominated Taft for a second term, Roosevelt left the GOP and lead the Progressives, guaranteeing the election of Woodrow Wilson. President Benjamin Harrison. Stock Montage 6. Benjamin Harrison Republican Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd president of the United States, serving from 1889 to 1893. He lost a campaign for re-election in 1892 to Democrat Grover Cleveland , who went on to serve two full terms, though not consecutively. Harrison's administration suffered politically after a substantial Treasury surplus evaporated, and prosperity seemed about to disappear as well. The 1890 congressional elections swept in Democrats, and Republican leaders decided to abandon Harrison even though he had cooperated with Congress on party legislation, according to his White House biography. His party renominated him in 1892, but he was defeated by Cleveland. President Grover Cleveland. PhotoQuest 7.

Grover Cleveland* *Democrat Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, having served from 1885 to 1889, and 1893 to 1897. So he doesn't technically qualify as a one term president. But because Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive four-year terms, he holds an important place in U.S. history, having lost his initial bid for re-election in 1888 to Republican Benjamin Harrison . "In December 1887 he called on Congress to reduce high protective tariffs," his bio reads. "Told that he had given Republicans an effective issue for the campaign of 1888, he retorted, 'What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?'" President Martin Van Buren. Hulton Archive 8. Martin Van Buren Democrat Martin Van Buren served as the eighth president of the United States, serving from 1837 to 1841. He lost a campaign for re-election in 1840 to Whig William Henry Harrison , who died shortly after taking office.

"Van Buren devoted his inaugural address to a discourse upon the American experiment as an example to the rest of the world. The country was prosperous, but less than three months later the panic of 1837 punctured the prosperity," his White House biography reads. "Declaring that the panic was due to recklessness in business and overexpansion of credit, Van Buren devoted himself to maintaining the solvency of the national Government." Still, he lost re-election. President Quincy Adams. Hulton Archive 9. John Quincy Adams John Quincy Adams was the sixth president of the United States, serving from 1825 to 1829. He lost a campaign for re-election in 1828 to Andrew Jackson after his Jacksonian opponents accused him of corruption and public plunder - "an ordeal," according to his White House biography, "Adams did not easily bear." President John Adams. Hulton Archive 10. John Adams Federalist John Adams , one of America's Founding Fathers, was the second president of the United States, having served from 1797 to 1801.

"In the campaign of 1800 the Republicans were united and effective, the Federalists badly divided," Adams' White House biography reads. Adams lost his re-election campaign in 1800 to Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson . Don’t feel too sorry for one-term presidents. They get the same nice presidential retirement package as two-term presidents including a yearly pension, a staffed office, and several other allowances and benefits. In 2016, Congress passed a bill that would have cut the pensions and allowances given to former presidents. However, President Barak Obama, soon to be a former president himself, vetoed the bill . President George Herber Walker Bush 1942 George Bush entered the U.S. Navy and serves in WW II. 1948 Bush graduated from Yale University. 1953 Robin Bush, daughter of George and Barbara died of leukemia. 1966 Bush was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. 1976 President Ford appoints Bush director of the CIA. 1980 Bush was elected Vice President for Ronald Reagan and served two terms. 1988 Bush was elected President. 1991 U.S. launches Operation Desert Storm.

1992 Bush was defeated by Bill Clinton for the Presidency. George Herbert Walker Bush 1988 - 1992 41st President George Herbert Walker Bush was one of four Presidents to be born in Massachusetts. He was born in Milton, Massachusetts on June 12, 1924. He as the first president to be born in June. He is one of four presidents from Massachusetts. George Bush was the captain of the baseball team at Yale University. He also liked tennis and jogging. He is still a big baseball fan and can be seen sitting in stands with other fans a Houston and Texas baseball games. George was 6' 2" tall and weighed about 195. He is left handed. Bush was one of three presidents who majored in economics while is college. Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford were the others. Bush requested Nixon's resignation as president in the name of the Republican Party. George Bush was the fifth cousin four times removed of Franklin Pierce. George Herbert Walker Bush resigned from the CIA after Jimmy Carter was elected president in 1976. George H.W. Bush's daughter Robin died of leukemia in 1953, when she was 3.

President Bush's entire family stayed in the White House the night he was inaugurated. Extra beds had to be put up in all the bedrooms. The Bush's had a springer spaniel named Millie. Millie had a book published about her life in the White House. She had six puppies during her time a the White House. He liked to play horseshoes and had a horse shoe pit installed on the White House lawn. He also enjoyed Pork Rinds with Tabasco sauce on them. George Herbert Walker Bush became the youngest pilot in the U.S. Navy, surviving some dangerous missions in the South Pacific. He flew 58 combat missions in World War II. He was shot down and rescued by a submarine. His son become a pilot in the National Guard. President Bush was a Republican. George Bush was Vice President under Ronald Reagan. He was the first Vice President elected President since Van Buren. He also served as president for seven hours when he was vice president. He was president when Reagan was shot and was undergoing surgery. George Bush's Vice President was Dan Quayle (1989-1993). President Bush signed the bill creating a Federal Holiday in memory of Martin Luther King Jr.

Bush signs Martin Luther King Holiday Proclamation, May 17, 1989. George Bush Presidential Library and Museum The First Dog, Millie, had her own room, in Nancy Reagan's old beauty parlor. George Herbert Walker Bush served only one term, Bill Clinton defeated George Bush in 1992. When Bush left office in 1993, he became the nation's 5th living ex-president, joining Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan. George Herbert Walker Bush's son George W. Bush was also a President. Quotes from George H. Bush: "If anyone tells you that America's best days are behind her they're looking the wrong way." "Read my lips, no new taxes." Said when he was campaigning for the presidency. Topics

Question: Ex US President George H W Bush was born in 1924, the same year as which other still living ex US President ?
Answer: JIMMY CARTER