Can you name the U.S. presidents' middle names? by Anne13

Can you name the U.S. presidents' middle names?

created by Anne13

Enter a middle name in the box below
Correctly named middle names will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
*See notes in comments. Source: "Smithsonian: Presidents- All You Need to Know", Carter Smith
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first name	middle name(s)	surname
John		Adams [6]
William		Harrison
James		Polk
Hiram		Grant*
Rutherford		Hayes
James		Garfield
Chester		Arthur
Stephen		Cleveland
William		Taft
Thomas		Wilson
Warren		Harding
John		Coolidge
Herbert		Hoover

first name	middle name(s)	surname
Franklin		Roosevelt
Harry		Truman*
Dwight		Eisenhower
John		Kennedy
Lyndon		Johnson
Richard		Nixon
Gerald		Ford*
James		Carter
Ronald		Reagan
George		Bush [41]
William		Clinton*
George		Bush [43]
Barack		Obama

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U.S. Presidents- Middle Names Quiz

by Anne13

Created Feb 4, 2011 in History
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	Anne13:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 19:34 GMT		4 points
	*note re. Grant- At a graduation ceremony, the speaker announced Grant's name as Ulysses S. Grant, instead of by his birth name. He was known as U.S. Grant from that time on.

	Anne13:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 20:07 GMT		4 points
	*note re. Truman- Truman's parents wished to name their son after one of his grandfathers. They could not decide between Shipp [Anderson Shipp Truman], or Solomon [Solomon Young}. Instead, they used the initial in common with these names, and deemed it as his "middle name".

	Anne13:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 20:11 GMT		4 points
	*note re. Ford- Ford was born Leslie Lynch King. After his mother divorced, she married Gerald Ford. The boy adopted his stepfather's name. The new Gerald Ford was three years old.

	Anne13:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 20:12 GMT		4 points
	*note re. Clinton- Clinton was born William J. Blythe. After his mother remarried, the boy [Bill] adopted a new surname.

	cupcakes:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 20:45 GMT		2 points
	also since truman's middle name is just S you don't need the period after it...just nit pickin

	moseylou:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 21:08 GMT		2 points
	I appreciate the notes - interesting!

	Anne13:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 21:23 GMT		1 point
	What do you (all) think? Period or no period for Truman's middle initial/name? I have seen it in print both ways.

	livi_in_sin:	Feb 6th, 2011 at 02:03 GMT		1 point
	on Grant: According to the biography I just read, it was actually the letter nominating him for a place at West Point that renamed him Ulysses S. Grant, not a speech at a graduation. on Truman: Include the period. Do a Google Images search on "truman signature" and you'll see that Truman himself used the period.

	Anne13:	Feb 6th, 2011 at 02:29 GMT		1 point
	livi_in_sin, Thanks for that clarification.

	BlueBeetle:	Feb 7th, 2011 at 02:17 GMT		2 points
	Fun quiz!

	valtraxysblue:	Feb 12th, 2011 at 04:47 GMT		1 point
	cool game, and thanks for the notes. i knew about truman's "s", but not about grant or ford. and i knew the middle initial for polk, hayes, garfield, arthur, and harding, but not the names.

	alyr57:	Feb 15th, 2011 at 21:43 GMT		1 point
	Poor Harding, I knew he was a crap president but I never knew he had such a fail middle name.

	kennyb:	Feb 16th, 2011 at 23:03 GMT		1 point
	Although I have always heard there is no period in Harry S. Truman, he himself used a period. So, I say use one. Convincing Secondary Source: http://www.snopes.com/history/american/truman.asp

	diving:	Feb 21st, 2011 at 01:17 GMT		2 points
	Since Truman's 'S' is both an initial and a name it could be either, I would argue that when signing his name Truman used it as an initial, 'Harry S. Truman' is the same style as 'John Q. Adams', but here you're asking for a name and 'Harry S Truman' is is the same style as 'John Quincy Adams'. I think Truman signing his name with a period shows his preference to style it like an initial, not necessarily that his middle name is spelled with punctuation.