Meet the Presidents.

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  • George Washington // #1

    NICKNAMED “DEVOURER OF VILLAGES”

    RAISED TWO STEPKIDS …
    WHICH MADE HIM AN ATTRACTIVE FIRST LEADER
    (NO RISK OF MONARCHY!)

    INOCULATION PIONEER

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  • John Adams // #2

    FIRST POTUS TO LIVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE

    (BUT IT WASN’T CALLED THAT YET)

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  • Thomas Jefferson // #3

    INVENTED THE SWIVEL CHAIR

    DIDN’T LIKE WHEN PEOPLE PROVIDED FEEDBACK OR CHANGES ON WHAT HE WROTE

    REWROTE THE NEW TESTAMENT, OMITTING THE MIRACLES AND, YOU KNOW, SUPER-NATURAL POWERS AND STUFF

    PROBABLY DIDN’T SEE THE IRONY THAT HE WAS ABOVE NEEDING EDITING BUT WAS QUALIFIED TO EDIT THE BIBLE

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  • James Madison // #4

    MOST DIMINUTIVE PRESIDENT (5’ 4” AND GENERALLY UNDER 100 LBS.)

    FIRST LADY DOLLEY KINDA DEFINED THE ROLE

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  • James Monroe

    James Monroe // #5

    AT 11, WALKED FIVE MILES TO SCHOOL EACH DAY WITH A GUN OVER HIS SHOULDER

    CHALLENGED ALEXANDER HAMILTON TO A DUEL AND ASKED AARON-FREAKING-BURR TO BE HIS SECOND

    YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT. MORE ON THAT SOME OTHER TIME.

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  • John Quincy Adams // #6

    LOVED VIGOROUS EXERCISE

    ENJOYED SKINNY DIPPING…

    …UNTIL HE REALIZED SWIMMING WAS MORE OF A WORKOUT WHEN WEARING WET CLOTHES

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  • Little Van loved him some Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson // #7

    DID SOME TERRIBLE THINGS (TRAIL OF TEARS)

    DEVOTED TO HIS WIFE; BLAMED JOHN QUINCY ADAMS’ CAMPAIGN FOR HER DEATH

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  • Martin Van Buren

    Martin Van Buren // #8

    FIRST POTUS BORN IN THE U.S.

    DUTCH WAS HIS FIRST LANGUAGE

    HE HAD A SUPER-FANCY, INNOVATIVE TOILET

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  • William Henry Harrison // #9

    FIRST PRESIDENT TO DIE IN OFFICE

    SHORTEST PRESIDENCY

    ONLY PRESIDENT TO BE GRANDFATHER TO ANOTHER

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  • John Tyler // #10

    FATHER TO MORE KIDS THAN ANY OTHER POTUS (14)

    AS OF 2022, ONE OF HIS GRANDKIDS IS STILL ALIVE

    ONLY PRESIDENT BURIED UNDER THE CONFEDERATE FLAG

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  • James K. Polk // #11

    DON’T LET THE HAIR FOOL YOU; THIS GUY WAS ALL BUSINESS

    I GOT TO VISIT HIS GRAVE UNEXPECTEDLY WHEN I ATTENDED A CONFERENCE ACROSS THE STREET (!!!)

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  • Zachary Taylor // #12

    HIS DAUGHTER MARRIED JEFFERSON DAVIS, FUTURE CONFEDERATE PRESIDENT

    SHE DIED BEFORE DAVIS WAS A TRAITOR

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  • Millard Fillmore

    Millard Fillmore // #13

    HARD TO FIND MANY REDEEMING QUALITIES

    DOUGHFACE

    WORKED TO OPEN TRADE WITH JAPAN

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  • Franklin Pierce // #14

    DOUGHFACE

    GREAT HAIR

    TERRIBLE PRESIDENT

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  • James Buchanan // #15

    THE ONLY BACHELOR PRESIDENT

    JACKSONIAN DEMOCRAT, DESPITE THE FACT THAT JACKSON DIDN’T LIKE HIM

    JACKSON SHIPPED HIM OFF TO RUSSIA AND SAID HE WISHED HE COULD SHIP HIM EVEN FARTHER

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  • Abraham Lincoln // #16

    AT 6’ 4”, OUR TALLEST POTUS

    IN THE WRESTLING HALL OF FAME

    ONLY POTUS WITH A PATENT

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  • Andrew Johnson

    Andrew Johnson // #17

    PART OF THE PLAN WHEN LINCOLN WAS ASSASSINATED WAS TO KILL HIM AS WELL

    HIS WOULD-BE ASSASSIN WENT TO THE BAR INSTEAD

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  • Ulysses S. Grant // #18

    HE WAS BORN “HIRAM” — AND HIS INITIALS WERE HUG

    WITHIN HALF A YEAR, HE LOST HIS HEALTH AND HIS WEALTH

    HIS TOMB IS THE LARGEST IN AMERICA

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  • Rutherford B. Hayes // #19

    BELIEVED WOMEN WERE SUPERIOR TO MEN

    WAS NOT ANTI-SLAVERY, BUT HIS WIFE LUCY TURNED HIM AROUND

    HE ENDED UP BEING AN ABOLITIONIST

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  • James Garfield // #20

    I LOVE ME SOME JAMES GARFIELD

    DIDN’T WANT TO BE PRESIDENT, BUT LOVED WORKING FROM HOME

    KILLED BY HIS GERMY DOCTORS AFTER HE WAS SHOT

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  • Chester A. Arthur // #21

    SUPER-CORRUPT; THEY MADE HIM VICE PRESIDENT TO KEEP HIM OUT OF TROUBLE

    THEN THE PRESIDENT WAS KILLED, SO THAT DIDN’T WORK OUT

    THANKS TO YOUNG PENPAL WHO SENT HIM UNSOLICITED ADVICE, HE TURNED THINGS AROUND

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  • Grover Cleveland // #22 & 24

    WITHIN THREE YEARS, HE WENT FROM MAYOR OF BUFFALO…

    … TO GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK…

    … TO PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

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  • Benjamin Harrison // #23

    ONLY GRANDSON OF A PRESIDENT TO BECOME PRESIDENT

    FIRST PRESIDENT WITH ELECTRICITY IN THE WHITE HOUSE

    HIS FATHER’S GRAVE WAS ROBBED; THE STORY IS BONKERS

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  • Grover Cleveland // #22 & 24

    ONLY GUY TO SERVE NON-CONSECUTIVE TERMS

    BOUGHT HIS WIFE A BABY STROLLER. BUT, LIKE, WHEN SHE WAS A BABY. THAT’S NOT WEIRD AT ALL.

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  • William McKinley // #25

    SERVED UNDER FUTURE PRESIDENT RUTHERFORD B. HAYES IN THE CIVIL WAR

    “A TANTALIZING ENIGMA,” ACCORDING TO ONE HISTORIAN

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  • Teddy Roosevelt // 26

    OUR YOUNGEST PRESIDENT

    HAND-PICKED HIS SUCCESSOR

    REGRETTED HIS DECISION

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  • William Howard Taft // #27

    NO INTEREST IN THE PRESIDENCY, BUT HIS AMBITIOUS WIFE PRESSURED HIM

    GOLFED A LOT

    APPOINTED TO HIS DREAM JOB BY HARDING — SUPREME COURT JUSTICE!

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  • Woodrow WIlson

    Woodrow Wilson // #28

    ONLY PRESIDENT WITH A PhD

    COULDN’T READ WELL UNTIL HE WAS 12 YEARS OLD

    FIRST PRESIDENT TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY WHILE IN OFFICE

    ONE OF ONLY TWO PRESIDENTS WITH TWO FIRST LADIES

    USED BLACK GOLF BALLS SO HE COULD CONTINUE IN THE WINTER

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  • Warren G. Harding

    Warren G. Harding // #29

    AT AGE 11, HE WAS A PRINTER’S DEVIL

    NEWSPAPERMAN

    CHECKED HIS BEST FRIEND INTO A SANITARIUM … THEN BEGAN A 15-YEAR LONG AFFAIR WITH HIS WIFE

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  • Calvin Coolidge // #30

    THREE PRESIDENTS DIED ON JULY 4, BUT HE’S THE ONLY BORN ON JULY 4

    HIT BY A FORD WHILE DISTRACTEDLY CROSSING THE STREET

    SWORN IN BY HIS FATHER

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  • Herbert Hoover // #31

    GREW UP POOR, BUT MADE TONS OF MONEY AS A GEOLOGIST

    RESPONSIBLE FOR SAVING MORE LIVES THAN MAYBE ANYONE ELSE IN HISTORY

    TRIED TO WARN EVERYONE ABOUT IMPENDING DOOM, BUT ENDED UP BEING BLAMED FOR THE GREAT DEPRESSION

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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt // #32

    LONGEST PRESIDENCY

    (ONLY ONE TO WIN FOUR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS)

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  • Harry S Truman

    Harry S Truman // #33

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Dwight D. Eisenhower // #34

  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy // #35

  • Lyndon Baines Johnson // #36

    FIRST JOB WAS TEACHING

    USED TO HOLD MEETINGS IN THE BATHROOM… WHILE DOING #2

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  • Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon // #37

  • Gerald Ford

    Gerald Ford // #38

  • Jimmy Carter

    Jimmy Carter // #39

  • Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Reagan // #40

  • George H.W. Bush

    George H.W. Bush // #41

  • Bill Clinton

    William J. Clinton // #42

  • George W. Bush

    George W. Bush // #43

    ONLY PRESIDENT WITH TWINS

    USED TO BE PART-OWNER OF A BASEBALL TEAM

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  • Barack Obama

    Barack Obama // #44

    FIRST PRESIDENT FROM OUTSIDE THE CONTIGUOUS U.S.

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  • Donald Trump // #45

  • Joe Biden

    Joe Biden // #46