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Presidential birthplaces
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Presidents born before the USA became a country:
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe,
John Qunicy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison
Presidents born in Ohio
Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William
McKinley, William Taft, Warren Harding
Presidents born in Pennsylvania: James Buchanan
Presidents born in Virginia
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, William
Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Woodrow Wilson
Deist presidents: Thomas Jefferson
Episcopalian presidents
George Washington, James Madison, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, John
Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, Chester Arthur, Franklin Roosevelt, Gerald
Ford, George Bush
Quaker presidents: Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon
Roman Catholic presidents: John Kennedy
Presidents without church affiliation: Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson
Presidential Military Experience
Presidents who served in wars
 George Washington - Commander in Chief of Continental Army during the
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American Revolution.
 James Monroe - served in American Revolution
Andrew Jackson - American Revolution, War of 1812, First Seminole War
 William Henry Harrison - Indian wars in the NW territory, War of 1812

 John Tyler - War of 1812
 Zachary Taylor - War of 1812, Black Hawk, Second Seminole, and Mexican wars
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Franklin Pierce - Mexican War
 James Buchanan - War of 1812
Abraham Lincoln - Black Hawk War
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Andrew Johnson - Civil War
 Ulysses Grant - Mexican War, Civil War
Rutherford Hayes - Civil War
 James Garfield - Civil War
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Chester Arthur - Civil War
 Benjamin Harrison - Civil War
William McKinley - Civil War
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Theodore Roosevelt - Spanish-American War
 Harry Truman - WWI
Dwight Eisenhower - WWII General
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John Kennedy - WWII
 Lyndon Johnson - WWII
Richard Nixon - WWII
 Gerald Ford - WWII
 George H.W. Bush - WWII
Presidents who were in the military but who saw no action
 James Madison
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James Polk
 Millard Fillmore
Jimmy Carter
 Ronald Reagan - kept out of combat due to bad eyesight
 George W. Bush
Presidents with no military experience
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John Adams
 Thomas Jefferson
John Quincy Adams
 Martin Van Buren
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Grover Cleveland
 William Taft
Woodrow Wilson
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Warren Harding
 Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
 Franklin Roosevelt
 Bill Clinton

Presidents during wartime
 George Washington: war with Native Americans in Ohio
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Thomas Jefferson: Tripolitan War, 1800-1805, against the Barbary pirates
 James Madison - War of 1812, 1812-1814, against the British
James Monroe - First Seminole War, 1817-1818
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Andrew Jackson - Black Hawk War, 1832
 Martin Van Buren - Aroostook War, 1839; Second Seminole War - ended 1842
William Henry Harrison - Second Seminole War - ended 1842
 John Tyler - Second Seminole War - ended 1842
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James Polk - Mexican War
 James Buchanan - beginning of the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln - Civil War, 1861-1865
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William McKinley - Spanish-American War, 1898; Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1900
 Woodrow Wilson - WWI, 1914-1918
Warren Harding - formally concluded WWI
 Franklin Roosevelt - WWII, 1941-1945
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Harry Truman - conclusion of WWII, Korean War - 1950-1953
 Dwight Eisenhower - conclusion of Korean War
John Kennedy - Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961; beginning of Vietnam War
 Lyndon Johnson - Vietnam War, Dominican Republic, 1965
 Richard Nixon - Vietnam War
 Ronald Reagan - Grenada Invasion, 1983
 George Bush - Invasion of Panama, 1989-1990; Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991
 George W. Bush - War against the Taliban, Iraq, 2001 to present.
Electoral Lists
Presidents who had been vice presidents
 John Adams, under George Washington
 Thomas Jefferson, under John Adams
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Martin Van Buren, under Andrew Jackson
 John Tyler, under William Henry Harrison
Millard Fillmore, under Zachary Taylor
 Andrew Johnson, under Abraham Lincoln
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Chester Arthur, under James Garfield
 Theodore Roosevelt, under William McKinley
Calvin Coolidge, under Warren Harding
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Harry Truman, under Franklin Roosevelt
 Lyndon Johnson, under John Kennedy
Richard Nixon, under Dwight Eisenhower
 Gerald Ford, under Richard Nixon
 George Bush, under Ronald Reagan

Vice-presidents who were later elected president, without having served out the remainder of a predecessor's term
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Richard Nixon, George Bush
Presidents who never ran for president
 John Tyler
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Millard Fillmore
 Andrew Johnson
Chester Arthur
Presidents who were never elected president or vice president: Gerald Ford
Presidents who ran for president, but were never elected: Gerald Ford
Elected presidents whose parties did not nominate them for a second term
 Franklin Pierce
Presidents who ran unopposed
 George Washington, both terms.
 James Monroe, second term.
Vice presidents who became president through death or resignation of their president
 John Tyler - death of William Henry Harrison
 Millard Fillmore - death of Zachary Taylor
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Andrew Johnson - assassination of Abraham Lincoln
 Chester Arthur - assassination of James Garfield
Theodore Roosevelt - assassination of William McKinley
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Calvin Coolidge - death of Warren Harding
 Harry Truman - death of Franklin Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson - assassination of John Kennedy
 Gerald Ford - resignation of Richard Nixon
Presidents who lost the popular vote but won the electoral college vote
 Rutherford Hayes - Samuel Tilden won the popular vote, and probably the electoral college vote, but the results were fixed to give Hayes the majority.
 Benjamin Harrison - incumbent president Grover Cleveland won the popular vote
 George W. Bush - Al Gore won the popular vote. The electoral college vote was thrown into doubt by peculiarities in Florida's election, and the election was decided by the Supreme Court when they stopped the recount.

Presidents who won neither the popular vote nor the electoral college vote, but still ended up as president
 John Quincy Adams - Andrew Jackson had more votes in both categories.
Presidents who were chosen by the House of Representatives because no one had a majority
 Thomas Jefferson (1st term)
 John Quincy Adams
Presidents who defeated incumbents
 Thomas Jefferson - defeated John Adams in 1800.
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Andrew Jackson - defeated John Quincy Adams in 1828,
William Henry Harrison - defeated Martin Van Buren in 1840.
 Benjamin Harrison - defeated Grover Cleveland in 1888.
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Grover Cleveland - defeated Benjamin Harrison in 1892.
 Woodrow Wilson - defeated Howard Taft in 1912.
Franklin Roosevelt - defeated Herbert Hoover in 1932.
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Jimmy Carter - defeated Gerald Ford in 1976.
 Ronald Reagan - defeated Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Bill Clinton - defeated George Bush in 1992.
Presidents elected to two terms
 George Washington: 1789, 1792
 Thomas Jefferson: 1800, 1804
 James Madison: 1808, 1812
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James Monroe: 1816, 1920
 Andrew Jackson: 1828, 1832
Abraham Lincoln: 1860, 1864
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Ulysses Grant: 1868, 1872
 Grover Cleveland: 1884, 1892
William McKinley: 1896, 1900
 Woodrow Wilson: 1912, 1916
 Dwight Eisenhower: 1952, 1956
 Richard Nixon: 1968, 1972
 Ronald Reagan: 1980, 1984
 Bill Clinton: 1992, 1996
Presidents elected to one term
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John Adams: 1796
John Quincy Adams: 1824
Martin Van Buren: 1836

 William Henry Harrison: 1840
 James Polk, 1844
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Zachary Taylor, 1848
 Franklin Pierce, 1852
James Buchanan, 1856
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Rutherford Hayes, 1876
 James Garfield, 1880
Benjamin Harrison, 1888
 Theodore Roosevelt, 1904
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William Taft, 1908
 Warren Harding, 1920
Calvin Coolidge, 1924
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Herbert Hoover, 1928
 Harry Truman, 1948
John Kennedy, 1960
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Lyndon Johnson, 1964
 Jimmy Carter, 1976
George Bush, 1988
Presidents elected to four terms
 Franklin Roosevelt: 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944
Presidents who served non-consecutive terms
 Grover Cleveland
Presidents who received 100% of the electoral college votes
 George Washington
Ex-Presidents who tried unsuccessfully to regain the presidency
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Martin Van Buren was defeated in the primary in 1844 by James Polk.
 Millard Fillmore was defeated in 1856 by James Buchanan.
Ulysses Grant was defeated in 1880 in the primary by James Garfield.
 Theodore Roosevelt was defeated in 1912 by Woodrow Wilson.
Presidential deaths and misfortunes
Presidents killed by the incompetence of their doctors
 George Washington - bled to death by his doctors as treatment for "inflammatory quinsy"
 James Garfield - whose doctors contaminated his bullet wound so that he died of infection.

Assassinated presidents
 Abraham Lincoln - assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
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James Garfield - assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau
 William McKinley - assassinated by Leon F. Czolgosz
John Kennedy - assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald
Presidents who suffered attempted assassinations
 Andrew Jackson - would-be assassin: Richard Lawrence (both derringers misfired)
 Harry Truman - Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola attempted to storm Blair
House, residence of Truman
 Gerald Ford - would be assassins: Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme and Sara Jane
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Moore, in two separate incidences
Ronald Reagan - shot and wounded by John W. Hinkley, Jr
Presidents who died in office of natural causes
 William Henry Harrison - died of "bilious pleurisy"
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Zachary Taylor - died of cholera morbus
 Warren Harding - died of pneumonia or stroke
Franklin Roosevelt - died of cerebral hemorrhage
Impeached presidents
 Andrew Johnson
 Bill Clinton
Presidents who resigned
 Richard Nixon
Presidential Families
Presidents related to earlier presidents
 James Madison: half first cousin twice removed of George Washington
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John Quincy Adams: son of John Adams
 Zachary Taylor: second cousin of James Madison
Grover Cleveland: sixth cousin once removed of Ulysses Grant
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Benjamin Harrison: grandson of William Henry Harrison
 Theodore Roosevelt: third cousin twice removed of Martin Van Buren
Franklin Roosevelt: fourth cousin once removed of Ulysses Grant, fourth cousin three times removed of Zachary Taylor, fifth cousin of Theodore Roosevelt
 Harry Truman: great-great-great nephew of John Tyler

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Richard Nixon: seventh cousin twice removed of William Taft, eighth cousin once removed of Herbert Hoover
George Bush: fifth cousin four times removed of Franklin Pierce, seventh cousin three times removed of Theodore Roosevelt, seventh cousin four times removed of Abraham Lincoln, eleventh cousin once removed of Gerald Ford
George W. Bush: son of George Bush
African-American Presidents
Note: Several presidents were allegedly of mixed European and African ancestry, which by U.S. reckoning would designate them as African-American. See The Five Negro
Presidents by J.A. Rogers and Six Black Presidents: Black Blood, White Masks by Auset
Bakhufu.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Andrew Jackson
 Abraham Lincoln
Warren Harding
Dwight Eisenhower
Presidents who married while president
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James Tyler
Grover Cleveland
Woodrow Wilson
Bachelor presidents
 James Buchanan
Presidents with adopted children
 George Washington
 Andrew Jackson
 Ronald Reagan
Presidents who had children out of wedlock
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Thomas Jefferson
Grover Cleveland
Warren Harding
Childless presidents
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James Madison
James Polk

 James Buchanan
Divorced presidents
 Ronald Reagan
Presidents belonging to no party
 John Quincy Adams
Presidents at least temporarily without vice-presidents
 John Tyler - He had been William Henry Harrison's VP, and the position was not filled when Tyler assumed the presidency.
 Millard Fillmore - He had been Zachary Taylor's VP, and the position was not filled when Fillmore assumed the presidency.
 Franklin Pierce - William Rufus DeVane King was elected VP, but died before
 assuming office, and was not replaced.
Andrew Johnson - He had been Abraham Lincoln's VP, and the position was not filled when Johnson assumed the presidency.
 Ulysses Grant - His second-term VP, Henry Wilson, died in office and was not replaced, leaving Grant without a VP for more than a year.
 Chester Arthur - He had been James Garfield's VP, and the position was not filled when Arthur assumed the presidency.
 Grover Cleveland - His first-term VP, Thomas Hendricks, was not replaced after dying nine months into his term.
 William McKinley - His first VP, Garret Hobart, died in office in 1899, and was
 not replaced until March 1900 by Theodore Roosevelt.
William Taft - His VP, James Sherman, died shortly before the end of Taft's term
 and was not replaced.
Calvin Coolidge - He had been Warren Harding's VP, and the position was not filled until Coolidge was elected for his own term in 1924.
 Harry Truman - He had been Franklin Roosevelt's last VP, and the position was not filled until Truman was elected for his own term in 1948.
 Lyndon Johnson - He had been John Kennedy's VP, and the position was not filled until Johnson was elected for his own term in 1964.
Vice-Presidents who resigned as VP
 John Calhoun - Andrew Jackson's VP, resigned in 1832 to accept election to the
Senate.
 Spiro Agnew - Richard Nixon's VP, resigned in 1973 to avoid criminal prosecution.
Presidents who killed people outside of war (or who were accused thereof)

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George Washington - accused of murdering a French ambassador during peacetime.
Andrew Jackson - killed a man in a duel
Presidents with an alcohol problem
 Franklin Pierce
 Ulysses Grant
 George W. Bush
Presidents who owned slaves
 George Washington
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Thomas Jefferson
 James Madison
Andrew Jackson
 James Polk
 Zachary Taylor
Presidents with facial hair
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Martin Van Buren - large mutton-chops
 Abraham Lincoln - beard
Ulysses Grant - beard and mustache
 Rutherford Hayes - beard and mustache
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James Garfield - beard and mustache
 Chester Arthur - mustache and sideburns
Grover Cleveland - mustache
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Benjamin Harrison - beard and mustache
 Theodore Roosevelt - mustache
William Taft - mustache
Presidents who joined the Confederacy
 John Tyler
President who slept the most
 Calvin Coolidge - slept 10 hours a day.