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US Presidents
George Washington (1732-1799) was the only US President to be unanimously elected.
George Washington made the shortest inauguration speech on record—133 words and less than two minutes long.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the first president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.
Jimmy Carter is the first known president to go on record as seeing a UFO.
Abraham Lincoln was the only presidential candidate who was not a Mason in the 1860 election.
Abraham Lincoln was the first president to ever be photographed at his inauguration. In the photo, he is standing near John Wilkes Booth, his future assassin.
James Madison (1751-1836) was the shortest president of the United States, standing at only 5’4”. He never weighed more than 100 pounds.
George Herbert Walker Bush is the only President with four names.
No US President has ever been an only child.
Abraham Lincoln was the tallest president at 6' 4."
The first president to be born outside the original 13 States was Lincoln.
Jimmy Carter was a wealthy peanut farmer in Plains, Georgia. A farming accident left one of his fingers permanently bent.
Gerald Ford was the first person to be both vice president and president without being elected by the people.
Rutherford Hayes banished alcohol from the White House and held gospel sing-alongs every night in the White House.
Andrew Johnson was the first president to be impeached. He was acquitted by one vote in the Senate. It would be another 131 years before another president, Bill Clinton, would be impeached.