U.S. Presidents Flashcards
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This president was the first to put solar panels on the White House
Jimmy Carter
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Of the 20 presidents elected to a second term, 2 of the 3 who failed to complete that term
(2 of) Lincoln, Nixon & McKinley
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He is the only president of the United States to be awarded the Purple Heart
John F. Kennedy
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| During his tenure, he never threw out an opening day first pitch, but before he was president, he did it for the Braves
Jimmy Carter
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was the first U.S. president to be elected in an Olympic year
McKinley
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Excluding honorary degrees, he’s the only president to have degrees from both Harvard & Yale
George W. Bush
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In his inaugural address, he mentioned that “44 Americans have now taken the Presidential Oath”
Obama
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Upon the USA’s entry into World War I, he told Congress, “We desire no conquest, no dominion”
(Woodrow) Wilson
$1200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Only 5’6”, this 8th President was a mini-van
Martin Van Buren
$1600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This early 20th century president’s foreign policy style was known as “big stick diplomacy”
Theodore Roosevelt
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On Dec. 6, 1973 he took the oath of office as Vice President; 8 months later he succeeded to the presidency
(Gerald) Ford
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In an exciting event of his administration, he signed the Federal Reserve Act into law in 1913
Wilson
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The 1999 New Jersey state quarter includes a depiction of this president on the reverse
Washington
$1200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His first term saw the turn of the 20th century & the annexation of Guam & Puerto Rico
McKinley
$5000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Former First Lady Barbara Bush is a distant cousin of this 1850s President
Franklin Pierce
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| “A Country of Vast Designs” is a book subtitled him, “the Mexican War & the Conquest of the American Continent”
James K. Polk
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He’s the only president sworn in on a Catholic missal; it wasn’t his
Lyndon Baines Johnson
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He’s the only president since 1900 whose last name contains more vowels than consonants
Barack Obama
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| You have to go back over a century to find him, the last president who never had a vice president
Chester Arthur
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His presidential library’s website credits him with saving 77 lives as a lifeguard in Dixon, Illinois
Ronald Reagan
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This inventive president invented a “mouldboard of least resistance” for a plow
Jefferson
$1200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| (<a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the Gerald Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, MI.</a>) One of Ford’s biggest foreign crises was the capture of the U.S. ship <a>Mayaguez</a> by this Asian country in 1975
Cambodia
$1600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| JFK played golf with Bing Crosby during his 1961 Easter vacation at the Kennedy family’s home in this Florida town
Palm Beach
$3000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Warren Harding chose this future president as his Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The first man to receive a million votes for president in one election, he didn’t get to enjoy the victory for long
William Henry Harrison
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Only 50 years old when he left office, he was our nation’s youngest ex-president
Teddy Roosevelt
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| When this president & his wife didn’t want to be understood by others, they spoke to each other in Chinese
Herbert Hoover
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He’s the only U.S. president who never lived in the District of Columbia
George Washington
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In his first term, this president held the first press conference that would be shown on TV–later that day
Dwight Eisenhower
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Had he lived in ancient Greece, this president would have been called Odysseus
Ulysses S. Grant
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His second inaugural address began, “At this last presidential inauguration of the twentieth century…”
Bill Clinton
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Subpoenaed for documents in Burr’s treason trial, he cited executive privilege; didn’t work
Thomas Jefferson
$3000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His will gave a total of $110,000 to grandchildren Alexander & Melanie Eisenhower & Christopher Cox
(Richard) Nixon
$1600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In November 1910 he was elected governor of New Jersey
Wilson
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On June 28, 1919 he married Elizabeth Wallace
Harry Truman
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He’s the only president to have held 2 different cabinet posts: Secretary of State & Secretary of War
James Monroe
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The D.C. house he lived in after he left office in 1921 is called “Washington’s only presidential museum”
(Woodrow) Wilson
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Somewhat prophetically, he became the first sitting president to visit Hawaii
FDR
$1200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He & his wife translated into English “De Re Metallica”, a 16th century Latin work on mining
(Herbert) Hoover
$4400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1893 James K. Polk’s tomb was moved from his estate to the state capitol grounds in this city
Nashville
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He became pres. 100 years after George Washington, so he was called the “Centennial President”
Benjamin Harrison
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He’s the only U.S. president to serve in the Senate after leaving the White House
Andrew Johnson
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1831 he settled in New Salem, Illinois, where he worked as a clerk in a general store for $15 a month
(Abraham) Lincoln
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| A George W. was the first U.S. President & George W. Bush is counted as this number
43
$1200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was named for his maternal grandfather James Knox, a Revolutionary War captain
(James K.) Polk
$4600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His running mates were Thomas Hendricks in 1884, A.G. Thurman in 1888 & Adlai Stevenson in 1892
(Grover) Cleveland
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| After serving one term, this first Quaker president was defeated for re-election in 1932 by FDR
(Herbert) Hoover
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| They’re the 2 men who served the U.S. as President representing the Union Party
Abraham Lincoln & Andrew Johnson
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| With a book about the south, he became the first president–past or present–to publish a novel
Jimmy Carter
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was the first U.S. president not of British descent
Martin Van Buren
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was the first president to use a middle name
John Quincy Adams
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Warren Harding was this political party’s victorious presidential candidate in 1920
Republican
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This man was president when the Warsaw Pact was signed
Dwight D. Eisenhower
$1500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| One of the 2 who were born in the 1920s
Jimmy Carter or George H.W. Bush
$1600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Upon his death in 1849, his last words were, “I love you Sarah, for all eternity, I love you”
James K. Polk
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The stepfather of Patsy & Jacky, he was also known as the “Stepfather of His Country”
George Washington
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| 1 of the 3 U.S. Presidents to run on a third-party ticket after having already served as president
(one of) Teddy Roosevelt, Martin Van Buren & Millard Fillmore
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| A Civil War general, he was the last man to go directly from the House of Representatives to the presidency
James A. Garfield
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Among his nicknames were “King Andrew the First” & “The Hero of New Orleans”
Andrew Jackson
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His first inaugural address, in 1801, was also the first delivered in Washington, D.C.
Thomas Jefferson
$1200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This man who served from August 9, 1974 to January 20, 1977, had the second shortest term of the 20th Century
Gerald Ford
$1600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Although his 1916 campaign slogan was “He kept us out of war”, the U.S. entered World War I the following year
Woodrow Wilson
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In the 1950s the U.S. Golf Association installed a putting green for him near the Rose Garden
Eisenhower
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1976 he was the first incumbent president to take part in a campaign debate with a rival candidate
Gerald Ford
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1921 Harding appointed this man Secretary of Commerce; 8 years later he was the president
Hoover
$1500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| (<a>Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Waldorf Astoria.</a>) A circle of five stars marks the doorway of the suite that this U.S. president once lived in
Eisenhower
$1600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| At his second inauguration, Coolidge took the oath of office from this former president, a first
William Howard Taft
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Before becoming president, <a>he</a> was a professor at Harvard
John Quincy Adams
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS ||| He’s the only man elected vice president twice & elected president twice
Richard Nixon
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Washington was the one who added these 4 words to the presidential oath; they’re not in the Constitution
"So Help Me God"
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was the only U.S. president to die in the 18th century
George Washington
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This former general was the first Republican to serve 2 full terms as president
Ulysses S. Grant
$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This Mexican War hero & winning 1848 candidate had never voted for president before
Zachary Taylor
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1950 he threatened a music critic who had unkind words for daughter Margaret’s singing
Harry S. Truman
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His 1791 marriage to Rachel Robards was invalid, so they had to do it all over again on January 17, 1794
Andrew Jackson
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| 2 of 3 presidents who took their oaths of office in New York state
Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt and/or George Washington
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In the 1830s he was postmaster of New Salem, Illinois & supplemented his income by railsplitting & surveying
Abraham Lincoln
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1961 this president appointed his brother-in-law Sargent Shriver as director of the Peace Corps
John F. Kennedy
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This president is seen here in his 1947 class portrait at the U.S. Naval Academy
Jimmy Carter
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Almost defeating President Ford in the 1976 GOP primary, he won the nomination & the presidency 4 years later
Ronald Reagan
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In January 1918 he set forth his “Fourteen Points” on which he thought lasting peace could be made
Woodrow Wilson
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Some politicians made fun of this president’s fussiness by referring to him as “Granny Hayes”
Rutherford B. Hayes
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was born on a farm near the Pedernales River on August 27, 1908
Lyndon B. Johnson
$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1905 he celebrated St. Patrick’s Day by marrying one of his distant cousins
Franklin D. Roosevelt
$900 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| [Former president Jimmy Carter from the Carter Center in Atlanta] This man was the first president inaugurated in Washington, D.C.
Thomas Jefferson
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| A member of the Warren Commission, he co-wrote “Portrait of the Assassin”, a book about Lee Harvey Oswald
Gerald Ford
$100 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was criticized for not invading Baghdad & removing Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War
George H.W. Bush
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Communist forces invaded South Korea during his second term
Harry S. Truman
$300 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| 7 months into his term in 1929, the stock market crashed
Herbert Hoover
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The White House was burned by the British while he was president
James Madison
$500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He sent U.S. soldiers into Little Rock, Ark. to enforce a court order mandating school desegregation
Dwight D. Eisenhower
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The 2 U.S. presidents who served as governors of states west of the Mississippi River
Ronald Reagan (California) & Bill Clinton (Arkansas)
$100 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Bill Clinton’s middle name, it’s also the last name of another president
Jefferson
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1927 this future president created the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation to help polio victims
Franklin D. Roosevelt
$300 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Talk about a checkered past! In 1952 he gave his famous “Checkers” speech
Richard Nixon
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Stephen was the real first name of this president who served 2 non-consecutive terms
Grover Cleveland
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He lived to see his son become president as well, but died during his son’s term in office
John Adams
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| For his work in founding the League of Nations, he received the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize
Woodrow Wilson
$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He’s the hero seen here with his famous regiment before taking charge of the White House
Teddy Roosevelt
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This president’s grandfather, James Knox, was a captain in the American Revolution
James Knox Polk
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His tenure as president from 1817 to 1825 is often referred to as the “Era of Good Feeling”
James Monroe
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The 2 U.S. presidents who died at the youngest ages, 82 years apart
James A. Garfield & John F. Kennedy
$100 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1997 a Houston airport was renamed in honor of this recent president
George H.W. Bush
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Nearly 91 when he died the same day as Thomas Jefferson, he was the longest-lived president
John Adams
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| It was the last name of the 17th & 36th presidents
Johnson (Andrew & Lyndon)
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| For helping to end the Russo-Japanese War, he was awarded the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize
Theodore Roosevelt
$500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In the campaign slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too”, he’s Tippecanoe
William Henry Harrison
$100 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1985 he said that freedom was “The universal right of all God’s children”
Ronald Reagan
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His grandfather Kindred was the first of his family to settle in Georgia
Jimmy Carter
$300 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1965 he became the first sitting president to meet a pope in the U.S. when he met Paul VI
Lyndon Johnson
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On July 9, 1850 this president died in office; Millard Fillmore was sworn in the following day
Zachary Taylor
$500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Teddy Roosevelt quipped that this successor “meant well but meant well feebly”
William Howard Taft
$100 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In a letter to Horace Greeley he wrote, “My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union”
Abraham Lincoln
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1890, at age 6, he and his family moved to Independence, MO., his home for most of the rest of his life
Harry S. Truman
$300 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| From 1890 to 1902, he served as professor of jurisprudence & political economy at Princeton
Woodrow Wilson
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| At 8,445 words, his inaugural address was the longest – that’s a little more than 263 words per day in office
William Henry Harrison
$500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1861 he was appointed a colonel in the 21st Illinois Volunteers
Ulysses S. Grant
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was the last man elected president who had served as a U.S. Senator
Richard M. Nixon
$100 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His eldest son, also named Theodore, was governor of Puerto Rico from 1929 to 1932
Theodore Roosevelt
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The Louisiana Purchase, made during his term, doubled the size of the U.S.
Thomas Jefferson
$300 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was the first California native to become vice president & the first to become president
Richard Nixon
$500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Taking office in 1869, he was the first West Point graduate to become president
Ulysses S. Grant
$500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| After leaving office in 1837, he retired to the Hermitage, his Tennessee plantation
Andrew Jackson
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to wear a beard; this man was the second
Ulysses S. Grant
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| 2 of the 5 presidents buried west of the Mississippi River
Eisenhower, Hoover, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Truman
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Although he graduated 64th out of 112 in his 1935 high school class, he was voted “Most Likely To Succeed”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
$100 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He’s on the front of the penny & his memorial is on the back
Abraham Lincoln
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was married to an Academy Award winner
Ronald Reagan
$300 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Among his nicknames were “Gloomy Gus” & “Tricky Dick”
Richard Nixon
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He won the popular vote in 1960 by just 113,057 votes
John F. Kennedy
$500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On Jan. 20, 1993 he became a former president
George H.W. Bush
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? ||| Monticello, in Virginia
Thomas Jefferson
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? ||| A rose garden in Hyde Park, New York
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? ||| Riverside Park, New York City
Ulysses S. Grant
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? ||| Kinderhook Cemetery, Kinderhook, New York
Martin Van Buren
$3000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? ||| The corner of Delaware Avenue & Vernon Heights Blvd. in Marion, Ohio
Warren G. Harding
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| During the Spanish-American War, his unit first saw action June 24, 1898 at Las Guasimas, Cuba
Theodore Roosevelt
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Referring to his initials, classmates at West Point began calling him Uncle Sam
Ulysses S. Grant
$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was the first president to serve 2 terms in office
George Washington
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1832 this president vetoed the recharter of the Second Bank of the United States
Andrew Jackson
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On March 4, 1853 this president gave his inauguration address from memory without notes
Franklin Pierce
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On his mother’s side, he was a descendant of Scottish Protestant reformer John Knox
James Knox Polk
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1749 he was appointed surveyor of Culpeper County, Virginia
George Washington
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On June 16, 1858 he said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand”
Abraham Lincoln
$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| While he was vacationing at his father’s Vermont home, word reached him that Harding had died
Calvin Coolidge
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| While governor of New Jersey, he enacted the state’s first workmen’s compensation law
Woodrow Wilson
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The last Whig elected president, he was James Madison’s distant cousin
Zachary Taylor
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The Roosevelt dime made its debut the year this president was born
Bill Clinton (born in 1946)
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1774 this Virginian wrote the pamphlet “A Summary View of the Rights of British America”
Thomas Jefferson
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1943 this PT-109 skipper helped save the lives of his crew & won a Purple Heart
John F. Kennedy
$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This future president graduated from Abilene High School in 1909
Dwight D. Eisenhower
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| While at Princeton, he was a member of the American Whig Society debating club
Woodrow Wilson
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1820 this president ran unopposed for reelection
James Monroe
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was a U.S. senator when he married Jacqueline Bouvier in 1953
John F. Kennedy
$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On June 15, 1775 he was unanimously elected Commander in Chief of the Continental Army
George Washington
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| A revolving book stand he adapted may be seen at his home, Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1859, before he was president, he wrote, “He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave”
Abraham Lincoln
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The teddy bear was named in his honor
Teddy Roosevelt
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| As head of the Union Army, this future president accepted Lee’s surrender at Appomattox
Ulysses S. Grant
$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Living to the age of 90, this president was able to see his son become president as well
John Adams
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was president during WWI
Woodrow Wilson
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His library in Independence, Missouri opened to the public in 1957
Harry S. Truman
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| His half-brother Lawrence served in the British navy under Admiral Edward Vernon
George Washington
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| 2 of the 5 presidents in the 20th century who were former U.S. senators
(2 of) Warren Harding, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson & Richard Nixon
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The first & last to preside over exactly 48 states
William Howard Taft & Dwight Eisenhower
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| As a senator, he shared lodgings with future vice president William Rufus Devane King
James Buchanan
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The last names of 8 different presidents end with this 3-letter combination
Son (Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, W.H. Harrison, A. Johnson, B. Harrison, Wilson & L. Johnson)
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| 2 of the 5 U.S. presidents who played football for their college teams
Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford & Reagan
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The 2 men whose presidencies each began & ended during one calendar year
William Henry Harrison (1841) & James Garfield (1881)
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He reduced U.S. troop strength in Vietnam from about 540,000 in 1969 to 25,000 in 1972
Nixon
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On March 4, 1801 he slipped out of town early to avoid Jefferson’s inaugural
(John) Adams
$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| During this bachelor’s administration, his niece Harriet Lane served as White House hostess
(James) Buchanan
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In the Federalist No. 51, he put forth a case for the separation of powers & a system of checks & balances
James Madison
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| From 1895 to 1897 he served as president of the New York City police board
Teddy Roosevelt
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This president’s middle initial, “S”, honored both of his grandfathers
Harry S. Truman
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This president from Kinderhook was the first who wasn’t born a British subject
Martin Van Buren
$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was nicknamed “The Sage of Montpelier”
James Madison
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Not only the first president to marry in the White House, he was also the first to have a child born there
Grover Cleveland
$2500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| When he took office in 1853 at age 48, this New Englander was the youngest president to that time
Franklin Pierce
$100 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He passed away at Monticello July 4, 1826
Jefferson
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| After leaving office, this generally “silent” president wrote a syndicated news column
Coolidge
$300 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He beat Charles Evans Hughes by only 23 electoral votes to win reelection in 1916
Wilson
$500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| He was the first president to preside over all 50 states
Eisenhower
$500 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On graduating from West Point in 1843, he hoped to become a math teacher
Grant
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The two presidents whose fathers signed the Declaration of Independence
William Henry Harrison & John Quincy Adams
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| 1 of 3 U.S. presidents in the 20th c. who never had a house of Congress controlled by his party
(1 of) Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford & George Bush
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On July 4, 1798 he became the only former president named commander-in-chief of American forces
George Washington
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This president was named for the Reverend Stephen Grover of Caldwell, New Jersey
Grover Cleveland
$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| During his administration, the slave trade was abolished & the Louisiana Territory was purchased
Thomas Jefferson
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1971 he published “The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963-1969”
Lyndon Johnson
$2000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| With Republicans split between Taft & Teddy Roosevelt, this Democrat was elected president in 1912
Woodrow Wilson
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In his will, he left a plot of land in Grandview, Missouri to his Masonic lodge
Harry S. Truman
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1902 he became the first layman chosen as president of Princeton
Woodrow Wilson
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Among the scandals of his administration were the Credit Mobilier & the Whiskey Ring
Ulysses S. Grant
$800 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This president’s nephew & the editor of the Washington Globe were part of his “Kitchen Cabinet”
Andrew Jackson
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1897 he was hired as a mining engineer at Coolgardie, Australia
Herbert Hoover
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The first two presidents not born in Virginia were born in what is now this state
Massachusetts
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The first two consecutive presidents who were from the same state
Thomas Jefferson & James Madison (both from Virginia)
$200 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| On August 4, 1753 Lodge No. 4 in Fredericksburg, Virginia initiated him into the Masons
George Washington
$400 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| In 1888 this future president wrote the book “Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail”
Teddy Roosevelt
$600 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| While attending college, this president served as an editor of the “Princetonian”
Woodrow Wilson
$1100 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Both the U.N. Charter & the NATO Pact were signed by this president
Harry S. Truman
$1000 ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| 1,200 quarts of ice cream & a cake 4 feet high were served at his March 4, 1857 inaugural
James Buchanan
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| This president was the last surviving signer of the U.S. Constitution
James Madison
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Of the 1st 7 presidents, only these 2 were not re-elected
John Adams & John Quincy Adams
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| The number of U.S. Presidents in the 20th century to serve out at least 2 full terms
3
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| President elected to 2nd term with 523 electoral votes, the greatest number in any election
Franklin D. Roosevelt
$None ||| Category: U.S. PRESIDENTS ||| Adventurous 26th president, he was 1st to ride in an automobile & an airplane
Theodore Roosevelt
