Presidential Trivia

[DWPerry]

For Hoover, the Cardinals.

Still wrong, it's Stanford Cardinal (the color, not the bird)

newt question:
Name the 11 Presidents that were related to FDR by either blood or marriage.

[Smid]

Obvious one is Teddy - his uncle, yes? I couldn't really contribute more than that, though...

[Erc]

All I could find (in addition to TR)

George Washington
George H.W. Bush
George W. Bush
Calvin Coolidge

[J. J.]

All I could find (in addition to TR)

George Washington
George H.W. Bush
George W. Bush
Calvin Coolidge

I couldn't even find that, but GWB is related to Franklin Pierce, so you could add that one.

I'd suspect the Harrisons.

[DWPerry]

All I could find (in addition to TR)

George Washington
George H.W. Bush
George W. Bush
Calvin Coolidge

I couldn't even find that, but GWB is related to Franklin Pierce, so you could add that one.

I'd suspect the Harrisons.

I actually found two different lists, both include 11 other Presidents. Presidents in BOLD are on both lists.
from Apples4TheTeacher.com
Franklin D. Roosevelt was related by either blood or marriage to:
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Ulysses S. Grant
William Henry Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
James Madison
Theodore Roosevelt
William Taft
Zachary Taylor
Martin Van Buren and
George Washington

According to Wikipedia:
fourth cousin three times removed of John Quincy Adams
third cousin four times removed of Martin Van Buren
half fourth cousin three times removed of Zachary Taylor
seventh cousin once removed of Millard Fillmore
sixth cousin twice removed of Franklin Pierce
fourth cousin once removed of Ulysses Grant
sixth cousin once removed of Rutherford Hayes
half eighth cousin of Grover Cleveland
fifth cousin of Theodore Roosevelt (his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, was a niece of Theodore)
sixth cousin twice removed of William Taft
seventh cousin once removed of Calvin Coolidge

[Kaine for Senate '18]

How many Presidents have served as diplomats?

[J. J.]

How many Presidents have served as diplomats?

Adams, Jefferson, Monroe, Madison, Van Buren, Buchanan, Bush I.

Arguably Taft, Eisenhower, and Reagan had at quasi-diplomatic posts.

[Хahar 🤔]

How many Presidents have served as diplomats?

Adams, Jefferson, Monroe, Madison, Van Buren, Buchanan, Bush I.

Arguably Taft, Eisenhower, and Reagan had at quasi-diplomatic posts.

Wasn't Adams II ambassador to Russia?

[J. J.]

How many Presidents have served as diplomats?

Adams, Jefferson, Monroe, Madison, Van Buren, Buchanan, Bush I.

Arguably Taft, Eisenhower, and Reagan had at quasi-diplomatic posts.

Wasn't Adams II ambassador to Russia?

He might have been Secretary of State too; my bad.

[J. J.]

Thomas Jefferson wrote this while Vice President; it is still used today though it doubtful Jefferson ever used it after he was President.  What is it, what was its intended use when written, and where is it used today (principally)?

[DWPerry]

Thomas Jefferson wrote this while Vice President; it is still used today though it doubtful Jefferson ever used it after he was President.  What is it, what was its intended use when written, and where is it used today (principally)?

1)"The wall of separation between church and state"
2) intended to mean that the government should not get involved in church issues
3) now, misinterpreted to mean that anything any government official/employee does that acknowledges a god (generally only applied to Christians) violates this "wall"; most people believe this to be part of the first amendment

[J. J.]

Thomas Jefferson wrote this while Vice President; it is still used today though it doubtful Jefferson ever used it after he was President.  What is it, what was its intended use when written, and where is it used today (principally)?

1)"The wall of separation between church and state"
2) intended to mean that the government should not get involved in church issues
3) now, misinterpreted to mean that anything any government official/employee does that acknowledges a god (generally only applied to Christians) violates this "wall"; most people believe this to be part of the first amendment

Wrong.  He wrote "The wall of separation between church and state" in 1802, after he was President.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Thomas Jefferson wrote this while Vice President; it is still used today though it doubtful Jefferson ever used it after he was President.  What is it, what was its intended use when written, and where is it used today (principally)?

Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States which is principally used by the House of Representatives these days.

[J. J.]

Thomas Jefferson wrote this while Vice President; it is still used today though it doubtful Jefferson ever used it after he was President.  What is it, what was its intended use when written, and where is it used today (principally)?

Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States which is principally used by the House of Representatives these days.

Very good, it is still the basis for US House Rules.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Who was the first President to travel outside the United States after his term of office was over?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Grant?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Grant?

No.  Earlier.

[J. J.]

Filmore?

[DWPerry]

Jefferson

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Filmore?

As far as I can tell, yes.  Considering the inconvenience of travel until the development of steamships, that's no great surprise.  So unless Van Buren made a brief trip into Upper Canada from New York, I believe that Filmore is the answer.

[DWPerry]

Filmore?

As far as I can tell, yes.  Considering the inconvenience of travel until the development of steamships, that's no great surprise.  So unless Van Buren made a brief trip into Upper Canada from New York, I believe that Filmore is the answer.

Tyler was President before Filmore, and Tyler lived and died in the Confederate States, so, again, unless Van Buren went to Canada, Tyler would be the first President to travel outside of the US after serving as President.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Tyler was President before Filmore, and Tyler lived and died in the Confederate States, so, again, unless Van Buren went to Canada, Tyler would be the first President to travel outside of the US after serving as President.

Filmore traveled to Europe before the Civil War, so even if one considers Tyler to have traveled outside the United States, Filmore did it before Tyler did, and the order in which they served is irrelevant to the question I asked, so the answer is certainly not Tyler.

[J. J.]

Filmore?

As far as I can tell, yes.  Considering the inconvenience of travel until the development of steamships, that's no great surprise.  So unless Van Buren made a brief trip into Upper Canada from New York, I believe that Filmore is the answer.

Tyler was President before Filmore, and Tyler lived and died in the Confederate States, so, again, unless Van Buren went to Canada, Tyler would be the first President to travel outside of the US after serving as President.

And in theory, it was never a foreign country.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Tyler was President before Filmore, and Tyler lived and died in the Confederate States, so, again, unless Van Buren went to Canada, Tyler would be the first President to travel outside of the US after serving as President.

And in theory, it was never a foreign country.

Regardless of whether it was a foreign country or not, he didn't travel to it.

[J. J.]

Add the last two names to this list:

Sargent
Frederick
Anne
Millard