Fun Presidential Trivia

Did you know that...

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...every U.S. President with a beard has been a Republican?

In case you're curious, the five bearded presidents were
Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant,
Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, and Benjamin Harrison.

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...George W. Bush is related to two former presidents?
...his father, George H. W. Bush (1989-93),
and his fourth cousin five times removed-- Franklin Pierce,
president from 1853 to 1857. 

Barbara Pierce Bush is the only woman in US history to be the 

wife of one president, mother to another, and fourth cousin of another.

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...the first president to be born a citizen of the United States 

was number eight, Martin Van Buren?
He was born on December 5, 1782,
six years after the signing of the Constitution. 

Because all previous presidents had been born 

before the American Revolution, they were actually born British subjects.

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...Civil War Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, 

named at birth for the notorious Indian Chief, 

added William as his first name?

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