Meet the Presidents.
{ work in progress }
-
George Washington // #1
NICKNAMED “DEVOURER OF VILLAGES”
RAISED TWO STEPKIDS …
WHICH MADE HIM AN ATTRACTIVE FIRST LEADER
(NO RISK OF MONARCHY!) -
John Adams // #2
-
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
-
James Madison // #4
MOST DIMINUTIVE PRESIDENT (5’ 4” AND GENERALLY UNDER 100 LBS.)
FIRST LADY DOLLEY KINDA DEFINED THE ROLE
-
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.
-
John Quincy Adams // #6
LOVED VIGOROUS EXERCISE
ENJOYED SKINNY DIPPING…
…UNTIL HE REALIZED SWIMMING WAS MORE OF A WORKOUT WHEN WEARING WET CLOTHES
-
Andrew Jackson // #7
DID SOME TERRIBLE THINGS (TRAIL OF TEARS)
DEVOTED TO HIS WIFE; BLAMED JOHN QUINCY ADAMS’ CAMPAIGN FOR HER DEATH
-
Martin Van Buren // #8
-
William Henry Harrison // #9
-
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
-
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 (!!!)
-
Zachary Taylor // #12
HIS DAUGHTER MARRIED JEFFERSON DAVIS, FUTURE CONFEDERATE PRESIDENT
SHE DIED BEFORE DAVIS WAS A TRAITOR
-
Millard Fillmore // #13
-
Franklin Pierce // #14
-
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
-
Abraham Lincoln // #16
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Grover Cleveland // #22 & 24
WITHIN THREE YEARS, HE WENT FROM MAYOR OF BUFFALO…
… TO GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK…
… TO PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
-
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
-
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.
-
William McKinley // #25
SERVED UNDER FUTURE PRESIDENT RUTHERFORD B. HAYES IN THE CIVIL WAR
“A TANTALIZING ENIGMA,” ACCORDING TO ONE HISTORIAN
-
-
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!
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Franklin D. Roosevelt // #32
-
Harry S Truman // #33
-
Dwight D. Eisenhower // #34
-
John F. Kennedy // #35
-
Lyndon Baines Johnson // #36
-
Richard Nixon // #37
-
Gerald Ford // #38
-
Jimmy Carter // #39
-
Ronald Reagan // #40
-
George H.W. Bush // #41
-
William J. Clinton // #42
-
George W. Bush // #43
-
Barack Obama // #44
FIRST PRESIDENT FROM OUTSIDE THE CONTIGUOUS U.S.
-
Donald Trump // #45
-
Joe Biden // #46