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President Info
U.S. President Trivia
Clue | President |
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first to live in the White House | John Adams |
the most brilliant president; wrote the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
lived in the White House at the time it burned during the War of 1812 | James Madison |
The Monroe Doctrine was named after him. | James Monroe |
the first father and son presidents | John Adams and John Quincy Adams |
was nicknamed "Old Hickory" because he was so tough | Andrew Jackson |
the first president to be born an American citizen, served through an economic depression | Martin Van Buren |
31 days after taking office, he died from a cold after his marathon inaugural speech | William Henry Harrison |
the first vice president to assume presidency during a presidential term | John Tyler |
had 15 children | John Tyler |
the only president to serve as speaker of the house | James K. Polk ("Dark Horse") |
nicknamed "Old Rough and Ready," he died in office | Zachary Taylor |
approved the Compromise of 1850, allowing slavery in the South | Millard Fillmore |
supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act | Franklin Pierce |
the only bachelor (never married) | James Buchanan |
president during the Civil War; ended slavery; was assassinated | Abraham Lincoln |
top Union military hero | Ulysses S. Grant |
won the election by one electoral vote | Rutherford B. Hayes |
reformed the spoils system; assassinated; the first left-handed president | James Garfield |
expanded the Secret Service | Grover Cleveland |
the grandson of President #19 | Benjamin Harrison (grandson of Rutherford B. Hayes) |
only president elected to 2 NON-consecutive terms (#22 and #24) | Grover Cleveland |
served during the Spanish-American War | William McKinley |
pushed the building of the Panama Canal | Theodore Roosevelt |
helped establish 5 national parks to protect wildlife | Theodore Roosevelt |
only president to become a Supreme Court Justice | William H. Taft |
drafted the peace plan to end WWI | Woodrow Wilson |
created the League of Nations | Woodrow Wilson |
served during the Teapot Dome Scandal; died in office | Warren G. Harding |
served during economic prosperity (1923-1925) | Calvin Coolidge |
served during the stock market crash / Great Depression | Herbert Hoover |
served the longest (over 12 years); elected 4 times! but died in office | Franklin Roosevelt |
led the nation during the Great Depresson and victory in World War II | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Gave the Pearl Harbor speech with this quote: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
dropped the atomic bomb on Japan | Harry S. Truman |
led U.S. during the Korean War | Harry S. Truman |
said, "The buck stops here" | Harry S. Truman |
former WWII hero; helped end the Korean War | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
the only Catholic president | John F. Kennedy |
served during the Cuban Missile Crisis | John F. Kennedy |
assassinated in Dallas, TX at the age of 46 | John F. Kennedy |
sworn into office on an airplane after Kennedy's assassination; served during the Vietnam War | Lyndon B. Johnson |
1st president to fill a vacancy under the 25th amendment | Richard M. Nixon |
president during the Watergate scandal, resigned while facing impeachment | Richard M. Nixon |
Never elected president or vice president, he assumed the presidency after Spiro Agnew's resignation in 1973. | Gerald Ford |
pardoned Nixon, which was an unpopular move | Gerald Ford |
promoted Middle East peace; served during the Iran Hostage Crisis | Jimmy Carter |
This former actor and Governor of California survived a would-be assassination. | Ronald Reagan |
Led the U.S. in Gulf War | George H.W. Bush (senior) |
Soviet Union collapse; end of Cold War | George H. W. Bush (senior) |
NAFTA trade agreement; cut budget deficit; scandal / impeachment | Bill Clinton |
Born and raised in Arkansas | Bill Clinton |
served during September 11 terror attacks, led U.S. into war against Iraq | George W. Bush (junior) |
1st African-American president | Barack Obama |
businessman, television producer, never held public office before serving as president, never served in the military | Donald J. Trump |