Name that President

William Harrison I served the shortest term as president (31 days). My billy goat
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ate on the lawn while I was at the White House. My grandson became president as well.

James Monroe I was from Virginia. I received every electoral vote except 1 in
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the election of 1820. No one ran against me. I am most known for my “doctrine”. My death
occurred on July 4.

John Adams
3. ______________________ I was the first president to live in the White House. My name
appears on the Declaration of Independence, which I helped draft. I was 8 years old when I
started smoking. As the lawyer for British soldiers after the

th Boston Massacre, I helped get them declared “not guilty”. I died on July 4.

John Q. Adams My dad was president. I was the first president to serve in the
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House of Representatives after being president. I won the Presidency after no one had the
electoral vote majority and it went to the House of Representatives. Andrew Jackson
actually had more popular votes and more electoral votes than I did.

James Madison
5. _______________________ During my term as president the British burned down the
White House. My wife saved the Declaration of Independence and a picture of George
Washington. I as 5’4” and 100 lbs., but I am known as the Father of the Constitution.

John Tyler
6. _______________________ I was a member of the Whig party. My sons and daughters
totaled 15 from two wives. I joined the Confederacy when the Civil War started and served
in the Confederate House of Representatives. I was the first vice- president to assume the
presidency.

Andrew Jackson
7. ________________________ At age 13 I joined in the fighting during the Revolutionary
War. I also fought in the war of 1812. I carried 2 bullets in my body for most of my adult
years because of duels I had fought. My nickname is Old Hickory. I was responsible for the
Trail of Tears.

Martin V. Burren
8. ________________________ My nickname was “Old Kinderhook”. I was the first
president born as an American citizen. I helped found the Democratic party.

Thomas Jefferson
9. ________________________ I was responsible for the Louisiana Purchase. My most
famous document is a little thing called the Declaration of Independence. With Sally
Hemmings, one of my slaves, I fathered children.

10.George Washington
________________________ I was known as the Father of our Country, yet I did not
father any children of my own. I set the two-term tradition as president. I was the
commander of the Continental Army. My slaves were freed by my will when I died.
 James Buchanan I was the only president who wasn’t married. My place of
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birth was a log cabin in Pennsylvania. During the end of my presidency, it became clear
that many states in the South were going to secede from the Union.

Zachary Taylor
12. ______________________ My nickname was “Old rough and ready”. I was the second
president to die while in the White House. I did not vote until I was 62 years old. I am
another president who did not win the popular vote.

James K. Polk
13. ______________________ I was once the Speaker of the House. During my presidency
we fought the Mexican-American War. I was a firm believer in manifest destiny. My wife
and I hosted the first Thanksgiving dinner at the White House. I retired after one term in
office and died 3 months later.

Grant
14. ______________________ I established Yellowstone as the first national park. I was
said to smoke 20 cigars a day (this may explain why I died of throat cancer.) For a period
of time I served at West Point. My picture is on the $50 bill.

Hayes
15. ______________________ Some say I should not be president because I lost the popular
vote and the electoral vote. It took three recounts, but the presidency was finally given to
me in the most controversial election ever, before Gore vs. Bush in 2000. I had the first
telephone installed in the White House and I banished alcohol there in order to set a good
example for the country.

Andrew Johnson I was impeached by the House of Representatives and saved

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by one vote in the Senate. My wife and I got married when she was 16 and I was 18. I was
never elected president and I did not have a Vice-president.

Franklin Pierce
17. _______________________ I was born in New Hampshire. My life was hard because I
was an alcoholic. My party did not nominate me to run for a second term. I did not have a
Vice-President because he died before I took office. The first Christmas tree was put up in
the White House during my presidency. I was once arrested for running someone over in
my carriage.

Abraham Lincoln
18. ________________________ I failed at most things before I became president. I was the
tallest president at 6’4”. My life began in Kentucky and I lived in Indiana and Illinois. I
held the union together during one of the toughest eras in this country’s history. John
Wilkes Booth took my life in April of 1865.

James Garfield
19. ________________________ I was the last president to be born in a log cabin. The man
who shot me was Charles Guiteau. I would have lived but my doctors tried to find the
bullet with unsterilized hands and instruments. I eventually died of blood poisoning. My
place of birth was Ohio. I campaigned for the presidency from my front porch.

Millard Fillmore I was the second president without a Vice-President. When the
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Library of Congress caught fire my cabinet and I helped put out the blaze. My political
party was the Whigs, and I was never elected president.
21. Grover Cleaveland I was the only president to serve non-consecutive terms. I paid
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a Polish immigrant $150 to take my place during the Civil War. While in the White House,
I answered the phone personally. The Baby Ruth candy bar was not named after my
daughter as legend says it was.

William H. Taft The White House had a huge bathtub installed for me because
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I over 300 lbs. I was the first president to sit on the Supreme Court after my presidency. I
am also one of two presidents to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

23.Benjimin Harrison My grandfather was president. We had electric lights installed

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in the White House when I was president, but I was afraid to turn them on and off. I lost
the popular vote but won the electoral vote. I was one of 7 presidents to come from Ohio
and I was the first to attend a baseball game.

Chester Arthur
24. _____________________ I was one of two presidents born in Vermont. I was never
elected and had no Vice-President. I knew I was going to die toward the end of my term but
I still tried to gain the party nomination for the next election.

25.Theodore Rooselvelt I was the first president to have a public ride in an

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automobile. I was a member of the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War and I
formed the Bull Moose political Party. The Panama Canal was begun during my
presidency.

26. William McKinley I was the first president to actually ride in an automobile. My
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campaign for president was the first to use the phone to talk to people about voting. I was
shot by an immigrant named Leon Czolgosz. I died 8 days later.

Herbert Hoover I was blamed for the Great Depression. My salary was given to
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charity because I was the first millionaire president. I was a Quaker and was the first
president to have a phone on his desk.

28.Warren G. Harding I am ranked as one of the worst presidents in history. Poker

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games with alcohol were normal at the White House during my presidency, which was
during Prohibition. I was the first president broadcast over the radio.

Woodrow Wilson I was the second president to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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After my stroke, my wife pretty much ran the government for me. I was president of
Princeton and was responsible for segregating the government.

Calvin Coolage
30. ______________________ I was the last ex-president to serve in the House of
Representatives. My total years spent as president were six. My routine for the day was to
sleep 10 hours at night, work 4 hours a day and take a nap during that time as well.

JFK
31. _____________________ I was the first Catholic president, first to win a purple heart,
and the first Pulitzer prize winner. I did not accept a salary as President. I am rumored to
have had an affair with Marilyn Monroe.
 FDR
32. _____________________ My life was very hard because I was stricken with polio earlier
in my life. I was elected to four terms as president. Two of my most famous speeches
include the words “the only think we have to fear is fear itself” and “a day which will live
in infamy”.

33.Dwight D. Eisenhower
_____________________ I was the first president to serve under a constitutionally
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limited term (22 amendment). I was the only president to serve in WWI and WWII. I was
the first president to be on color television.

Jimmy Carter I was the first president born in a hospital. My earlier

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employment consisted of being a peanut farmer. A submarine was once under my
command. I was studied nuclear physics at Annapolis. I am currently very involved in
Habitat for Humanity.

Ronald Reagan The Iran-Contra Scandal occurred during my presidency. I

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was once an actor and was in a movie with a monkey called “Bedtime for Bonzo”. I was
shot but did not die during my presidency.

Richard Nixon I resigned from office during the Vietnam War. My nickname
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was “Tricky Dick”. I talked to the astronauts who landed on the moon from the White
House.

Gerald Ford I pardoned President Nixon and was shot at by a member of

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the Manson Family. I went to the University of Michigan and was adopted.

Harry Truman I was the first president to give a speech on television. During
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my presidency I had to make the decision to drop the atomic bomb. My most famous line
was “The buck stops here”.

George W. Bush I was responsible for the war in Iraq that led to the ousting of
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Saddam Hussein. My former job was as part owner of the Texas Rangers. My father was
president before me.

Lyndon Johnson I was once criticized for picking my dog up by his ears. I
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escalated the war in Vietnam and did not run for a second term because it wore on me so
badly. A lot of civil rights legislation was passed during my presidency.

Bill Clinton I was impeached by the House of Representatives but not by

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the Senate. I had an inappropriate affair with a woman named Monica during my
presidency. My nickname was Bubba.

George H. W. Bush My most famous line was “No new taxes”. When there were
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new taxes, I didn’t get reelected. I lead our country in the Persian Gulf war against
Saddam Hussein. (My son would do it years later as well.)
 Donald Trump I pledged to make America Great Again. Taxes were cut. I
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pushed to build a wall along the Mexican border, and I was impeached twice by the House
of Representatives but not removed by the Senate.

Barack Obama I was the first president elected that had an African American
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background. During my presidency Osama bin Laden was killed. I loved to shoot hoop at
the White House.