US Presidents - Gaithersburg Trivia Club

1st U.S. President. 1789-1797. No Party

George Washington

2nd U.S. President. 1979-1801. Federalist

John Adams

3rd U.S. President. 1801-1809. Democratic-Republican

Thomas Jefferson

4th U.S. President. 1809-1817. Democratic-Republican

James Madison

5th U.S. President. 1817-1825. Democratic-Republican

James Monroe

6th U.S. President. 1825-1829. Democratic-Republican

John Quincy Adams

7th U.S. President. 1829-1837. Democratic

Andrew Jackson

8th U.S. President. 1837-1841. Democratic

Martin Van Buren

9th U.S. President. 1841-1841 (Died in office of natural causes) Whig

William H. Harrison

10th U.S. President. 1841-1845. Whig

John Tyler

11th U.S. President. 1845-1849. Democratic

James K. Polk

12th U.S. President. 1849-1850 (Died in office of natural causes). Whig

Zachary Taylor

13th U.S. President. 1850-1853. Whig

Millard Fillmore

14th U.S. President. 1853-1857. Democratic

Franklin Pierce

15th U.S. President. 1857-1861. Democratic

James Buchanan

16th U.S. President. 1861-1865 (Assassinated). Republican National Union

Abraham Lincoln

17th U.S. President. 1865-1869. Democratic National Union

Andrew Johnson

18th U.S. President. 1869-1877. Republican

Ulysses S. Grant

19th U.S. President. 1877-1881. Republican

Rutherford B. Hayes

20th U.S. President. 1881-1881 (Assassinated). Republican

James Garfield

21st U.S. President. 1881-1885. Republican

Chester A. Arthur

22nd U.S. President. 1885-1889. Democratic

Grover Cleveland

23rd U.S. President. 1889-1893. Republican

Benjamin Harrison

24th U.S. President. 1893-1897. Democratic

Grover Cleveland (2nd Term)

25th U.S. President. 1897-1901 (Assassinated). Republican

William McKinley

26th U.S. President. 1901-1909. Republican

Theodore Roosevelt

27th U.S. President. 1909-1913. Republican

William H. Taft

28th U.S. President. 1913-1921. Democratic

Woodrow Wilson

29th U.S. President. 1921-1923 (Died of natural causes). Republican

Warren G. Harding

30th U.S. President. 1923-1929. Republican

Calvin Coolidge

31st U.S. President. 1929-1933. Republican

Herbert Hoover

32nd U.S. President. 1933-1945 (Died of natural causes). Democratic

Franklin D. Roosevelt

33rd U.S. President. 1945-1953. Democratic

Harry S. Truman

34th U.S. President. 1953-1961. Republican

Dwight D. Eisenhower

35th U.S. President. 1961-1963 (Assassinated). Democratic

John F. Kennedy

36th U.S. President. 1963-1969. Democratic

Lyndon B. Johnson

37th U.S. President. 1969-1974 (Resigned). Republican

Richard Nixon

38th U.S. President. 1974-1977. Republican

Gerald Ford

39th U.S. President. 1977-1981. Democratic

Jimmy Carter

40th U.S. President. 1981-1989. Republican

Ronald Reagan

41st U.S. President. 1989-1993. Republican

George H. W. Bush

42nd U.S. President. 1993-2001. Democratic

Bill Clinton

43rd U.S. President. 2001-2009 Republican

George W. Bush

44th U.S. President 2009-current Democratic

Barack Obama

-only president who did not represent a political party

George Washington

-only president to be elected unanimously by the Electoral College

George Washington

-1st president to be on postage stamp

George Washington

-his face is on the $1 bill and quarter

George Washington

-1st president to live in the White House

John Adams

-only Founding Father to serve one term

John Adams

-only President elected for the Federalist Party

John Adams

-main author of the Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson

-1st president to be elected by the House of Representatives because of a tie with Aaron Burr

Thomas Jefferson

-is credited with inventing the coat hanger, hideaway bed, and dumbwaiter

Thomas Jefferson

the shortest and lightest president at 5ft. 4 in. and about 100 lbs.

James Madison

-the 1st president that was the son of a former president

John Quincy Adams

-1st president to be photographed

John Quincy Adams

-1st to be elected by the House because none of the candidates had the required electoral votes

John Quincy Adams

-1st president to ride a railroad train

Andrew Jackson

-only president to have been a prisoner of war

Andrew Jackson

-had a "kitchen cabinet"

Andrew Jackson

-1st president born in the U.S (others were born in colonies that later became states)

Martin Van Buren

-first to be born under the Articles of Confederation in 1782

Martin Van Buren

-created the Federal Reserve System

Martin Van Buren

-only president who studied to become a doctor

William Henry Harrison

-delivered the longest inaugural address at 105 min but did not wear a overcoat or hat and afterwards developed pneumonia

William Henry Harrison

-died in the White House one month after giving his speech on April 4

William Henry Harrison

-1st vice president to ascend to presidency after the death of the former president

John Tyler

-he did not make an inaugural address and his entire cabinet resigned

John Tyler

-president with the most children (15 total)

John Tyler

-his second wife began began the tradition of playing "Hail to the Chief" whenever a president appeared at a state function

John Tyler

-only president to serve in both the American Revolution and the War of 1812

John Tyler

made it mandatory to have the song "Hail to the Chief" play whenever a president appeared at a state function or an official event

James K. Polk

hero of the Battle of Buena Vista during the Mexican American War

Zachary Taylor

installed the first bathtub and kitchen stove in the White House

Millard Fillmore

only president to have no turnover in his cabinet

Franklin Pierce

1st bachelor president

James Buchanan

-1st president to wear a beard

Abraham Lincoln

-tallest president at 6ft. 4"

Abraham Lincoln

-wrote the Emancipation Proclamation

Abraham Lincoln

-1st president to die by assassination. On Good Friday, April 14, 1865 he was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's theater in D.C

Abraham Lincoln

-1st president to be impeached for removing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton during the Reconstruction Period. He was acquitted by one vote in the Senate

Andrew Johnson

-had no formal education

Andrew Johnson

-his wife taught him reading, writing, and math

Andrew Johnson

-1st president to run against a woman candidate, Virginia Woodhull from the Equal Rights Party in 1872

Ulysses S. Grant

-1st president ot host an Indian chief in White House

Ulysses S. Grant

-Alexander Graham Bell installed the first telephone into the White House during his presidency

Rutherford B. Hayes

-banished liquor and wine from White House to set a good example, because of this ban his wife became known as Lemonade Lucy

Rutherford B. Hayes

2nd president to be assassinated; he was shot by a job seeker

James Garfield

-destroyed all of his personal papers before his death

Chester A. Arthur

-ended the spoil system by singing the Pendleton Act

Chester A. Arthur

-only president to serve two non-consecutive terms (22nd and 24th president)

Grover Cleveland

-only president married in a ceremony at the White House on June 2, 1886

Grover Cleveland

-vetoed 414 bills in his first term (more than double the 204 vetoes cast by other presidents)

Grover Cleveland

-1st president to have a child born in the White House, his daughter Esther in 1895

Grover Cleveland

-dedicated the Statue of Liberty on Oct. 28, 1886

Grover Cleveland

-only president to be a grandson of a president (William Henry Harrison) and great-grandson to a signer of the Declaration of Independce (Benjamin Harrison)

Benjamin Harrison

-1st president to use electricity in White House; he got an electric shock and his family would refuse to touch light switches and would sometimes go to bed with the lights on

Benjamin Harrison

-3rd president to be assassinated; he was shot during the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, NY and died of his wounds a week later

William McKinley

-1st president to ride in an automobile

William McKinley