10 Interesting Facts About Presidents

Happy President’s Day!  Hopefully, you are lucky enough to have today off.  If not, I hope your work day is easy and goes smoothly.  I have to work… so, no fun for me.  I thought today, for my List, I would share 10 Interesting Facts About Presidents.  Ready?  Let’s go…

1. Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
2. Grover Cleveland held a job as a hangman before becoming President.
3. Martin Van Buren was the first president to be a U.S. Citizen… the prior Presidents were all British subjects.
4. Jimmy Carter is the first President that has gone on record to say he saw a UFO.
5. Every member in Teddy Roosevelt’s family owned a pair of stilts.  Including his wife.
6. George Herbert Walker Bush is the only President that has had four names.
7. Gerald Ford worked as a model and as a park ranger in Yellowstone National Park during college.
8. Warren Harding once lost an entire set of priceless White House china in a poker game.
9. George Washington had to borrow $600 from a neighbor to travel to his inauguration.
10. Calvin Coolidge was known for pressing all the buttons on the President’s desk and then hiding behind the door.  When his staff would come running, he would jump out and claim it was to see if anyone was working.

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Note:  All these facts were taken from Random History’s 99 Interesting Facts About Presidents.

Julia is the divorced mom of twins, a blogger, a sometimes crafter, crazy snailmailer, and a corporate bean counter. In her "spare" time, she scrapbooks, travels, makes cards, blogs, designs jewelry, searches for missing cleats and pom poms, enjoys good dark chocolate, and sneaks naps.