The World Almanac 5,001 Incredible Facts for Kids on America's Past, Present, and Future

The World Almanac 5,001 Incredible Facts for Kids on America's Past, Present, and Future — page 9
69 Richard Nixon is the only president to resign from office 70 Gerald Ford who replaced Nixon was appointed vice president in 1973 and assumed the presidency before ever appearing on a presidential ballot 71 Ronald Reagan was a successful movie actor before becoming president 72 While he was president Grover Cleveland had a secret surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his mouth 73 Theodore Roosevelt was shot while giving a speech He continued speaking for 90 minutes after the attempted assassination 74 William Taft the heaviest president weighed 340 pounds 154 kg 75 James Madison was the lightest president He weighed about 100 pounds 45 kg 76 Franklin Roosevelt was the only president to serve four terms 77 Martin Van Buren was the first president born in the United States 78 William Henry Harrison was only president for a month before dying of pneumonia 79 Millard Fillmore and his wife established the first White House library 80 The middle initial S in Ulysses S Grant’s and Harry S Truman’s names doesn’t stand for anything 81 Rutherford B Hayes held the first Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn in 1878 82 Woodrow Wilson was the first president to have a speech heard on the radio 83 Herbert Hoover was the first president born west of the Mississippi River 58 Grover Cleveland was the only president to be married in the White House 59 Cleveland is also the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms 60 After his presidency William Howard Taft served as the U S Supreme Court Chief Justice and swore in Presidents Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover 61 Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D Roosevelt were fifth cousins 62 There have been two father-and-son presidential pairs John Adams and John Quincy Adams and George H W Bush and George W Bush 63 There have been four presidential assassinations Lincoln Garfield McKinley and Kennedy 64 James Madison was Princeton University’s first graduate student 65 Monrovia the capital of Liberia was named after James Monroe 66 John Quincy Adams enjoyed skinny dipping in the Potomac River 67 Andrew Jackson participated in more than 100 duels 68 Though he was president on the eve of the Civil War James Buchanan called the conflict over slavery and states rights happily a matter of but little practical importance in his inaugural address 4