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Fun presidential facts are pretty easy to come by considering the type of people that have occupied the post over the years. Throughout history, we have had our fair share of "characters" in the oval office, subsequently they have provided us with some fun presidential facts for our enjoyment. Here are some of the top fun presidential facts. Enjoy.
1. President George Washington's teeth where rumoured to have been made of wood. They were in fact made of elephant and walrus tusks.
2. Standing six feet and four inches, President Abraham Lincoln was the tallest President in history. He also used his well known black top hat to carry letters and notes on his head.
3. President John Tyler had fifteen children.
His youngest child was born after he turned seventy.
4. President John Quincy Adams liked to go skinny-dipping in the Potomac River.
5. President James Buchanan was the only President throughout history to assume the post unmarried.
6. President Grover Cleveland was drafted in the Civil War but paid a substitute $150 to take his place so he could stay behind to care for his mother and sisters. Unlike President Bill Clinton who would dodge the military draft nearly a century later, Cleveland wasn’t widely criticized for this move: the Conscription Act of 1863 expressly permitted such a substitution.
7. Grover Cleveland was the only president to openly admit that he had fathered an illegitimate child. When the allegations came out during his presidential campaign, he instructed his staff to tell the truth about the child. In reality, it was never determined whether Cleveland was the child’s real father; he paid child support because he was the only single man among the mother’s suitors.
8. President Calvin Coolidge was reported to be a very interesting character. When not having his head massaged with Vaseline during breakfasts in bed or riding his own mechanical bull, he was ringing the White House doorbell and then running off to hide.
9. President Andrew Johnson was illiterate until the age of seventeen and had never attended school. Later in life, he was nearly lynched in Virginia and was forced to vacate his home in Tennessee when he opposed the South’s secession from the Union.
10. President Ulysses S. Grant got pulled over for speeding in a horse and buggy.
11. President James Garfield was ambidextrous, and could write Greek and Latin at the same time.
12. So far, all American presidents have claimed ancestry limited to one or more of just seven nationalities: Dutch, English, German, Irish, Scottish, Swiss, and Welsh.
13. President Warren Harding gambled away a set of White House china.
He was known for his gambling addiction.
14. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in one way or the other, was related to eleven former Presidents.
15. George W. Bush walked down the aisle only three months after he met his wife Laura.
16. Three presidents have died to the sound of fireworks on Independence Day.
17. There were four presidents who were not actual presidents of the United States: Sam Houston, Mirabeau Lamar, and Anson Jones were all presidents of the Republic of Texas. Jefferson Davis was President of the Confederate States of America.
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