He is known as the father of the country.
He and his wife, Martha, are buried at Mount Vernon.
He died on the same day as Jefferson, July 4, 1826.
He is the father of another president.
He designed his famous home, Monticello.
He penned the Declaration of Independence.
He and George Washington signed the Constitution.
His wife, Dolly, loved ice cream.
He was the third president who died on the 4th of July.
He was also known for a famous doctrine.
He often stored things in his tall stove-piped hat.
He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Assuming the presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, he helped the American people regain faith in themselves.
When he was shot by an assassin, He joked, 'I forgot to duck.'
He did not die during the assassination attempt.
He was buried at the Washington National Cathedral in D.C.
He was in office at the beginning of World War I.
He was shot in the chest during a dual, but he survived with a bullet in his chest for 40 years.
He was one of the presidents responsible for for the Trail of Tears.
He won a Grammy in 2006 for his voice on the audio book , Dreams From My Father.
He was the first African American president.
He enjoys playing the saxophone and was a member of a band called Three Blind Mice when he was in high school.
His wife ran for the office of president in 2016.
He had fifteen children.
He was the first Vice President to succeed to the presidency after the death of his predecessor.
He died just 32 days after becoming president. He died from a cold he got while standing in the rain giving his inauguration speech.
He enjoyed skinny dipping and was known to take 5 a.m. plunges in the Potomac River as part of his morning exercise program,
He was the first president born after the American Revolution.
When he was 17, he needed surgery to have some kidney stones removed.
He was from North Carolina and graduated in 1818 from the University of NC.
He was a war hero whose horse was as nearly as popular as he was. The horse was called Old Whitey.
He was known to keep a dictionary on him to improve his vocabulary.
He was a brigadier general during the Mexian-American war where he sustained a groin injury so serious that he fainted, earning him the nickname 'Fainting Frank.'
He was the only president who never married.
He frequently made his own clothes and suits. He became president after his predecessor's assassination.
He was a Civil War general who was friends with Mark Twain.
The first Siamese cat to arrive in America was sent as a gift to him and his wife, Lucy.
His Presidency was impactful, but cut short after 200 days when he was assassinated.
His name sounds like a famous cat.
The son of a Baptist preacher who had emigrated from northern Ireland, he became president in 1881 when his predecessor was assassinated.
He was the first and only president to serve two non-consecutive terms.
His daughter was called 'Baby Ruth.'
He had a parrot named Washington Post who was declared the official White House greeter.
His image is one of four portrayed on Mount Rushmore. A famous toy is named for him.
He was the supreme commander of the allied forces in Europe during WW II.
As he was only 5 feet, 6 inches tall, Democrats called him “Little Ben”; Republicans replied that he was big enough to wear the hat of his grandfather, “Old Tippecanoe.”
Weighing in as the heaviest president, this gentleman tipped the scales at 350 pounds.
Though his term in office was fraught with scandal, including Teapot Dome, he embraced technology and was sensitive to the plights of minorities and women.
His term preceded the Great Depression. He was known for his taciturn nature.
He was known as as “The Great Humanitarian” who fed war-torn Europe during and after World War I.
Soon after V-E Day, the war against Japan had reached its final stage. An urgent plea to Japan to surrender was rejected. He ordered atomic bombs dropped on two Japanese cities.
When he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
Assuming the role of president after his predecessor's assassination, he carried on the rapidly growing struggle to restrain Communist encroachment in Vietnam.
After successfully ending American fighting in Vietnam and improving international relations with the U.S.S.R. and China, he became the only President to ever resign.
He had been the first Vice President chosen under the terms of the Twenty-fifth Amendment and in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal.
He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize.
He was a peanut farmer from Georgia.
He entered the White House with a determination to direct them toward making the United States “a kinder and gentler nation.'
He was famous for 'A thousand points of light.'
He was transformed into a wartime President in the aftermath of the airborne terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
His campaign slogan for President was, “Make America Great Again.'
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