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   Gerald Ford was the only President of the United States to have been elected neither President nor Vice-President. He was also the only president to have been a 'Jr.' to two men (he was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.; after his parents divorced and his mother remarried, he legally adopted his stepfather's name at age 22). He was also the longest-living president, having died at home at the age of 93.
   There has not been an infant in the White House since John F. Kennedy, Jr.; there has also not been a minor son of a president since John F. Kennedy, Jr. (Michael, John, and Steven Ford; Jack, James III, and Donnel Carter; Michael and Ron Reagan; and George W. [yes, Bush 43], John [Jeb], Neil, and Marvin Bush were all grown men when their fathers were elected or appointed President).
   Jennie Elizabeth Eisenhower, an actress who played an extra in the movie Mona Lisa Smile, is both the granddaughter and the great-granddaughter of two presidents (her mother is the former Julie Nixon (President Nixon's younger daughter; her father is David Eisenhower, a grandson of President Eisenhower).
   At present, there are six living former first ladies: Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Pierce Bush (not to be confused with her namesake granddaughter), Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Laura Welch Bush.
   Barbara Pierce Bush (I) and Abigail Adams are the only two First Ladies to have been both wives and mothers to U.S. presidents.
   Can anyone else come up with any more odd Presidential trivia?

   Posted 2 years ago by Vicki #

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   Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital...

   Posted 2 years ago by CSBM #

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   Wow that's a great list Vicki! I can't come up with any more off the top of my head but let me think about it.

   Posted 2 years ago by 2bpurring #

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   Thomas Jefferson was one of two Presidents who signed the Declaration of Independence.

   Posted 2 years ago by WillowandWindismom #

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   William Howard Taft was the heaviest US president at 332 pounds. Early in his administration (1909-1913) he became stuck in the white house bathtub, and had a larger one installed. In 1912, he took his own oversized tub onto the battleship Arkansas for a trip from Key West to Colon. It was not permanently installed. In 1915, the New York Times printed a story of how Taft caused a hotel flood by displacing water in a bathtub in New Jersey.

   Posted 2 years ago by Dee #

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