Presidential Trivia

[minionofmidas]

Which president was elected to public office before his 21st birthday.  Hint:  He was elected to public office after his 66 birthday.

Johnson held municipal office in Greeneville TN pretty early and returned to the Senate floor shortly before his death at the age of 66... so maybe he#s the answer to this one as well.

In which case I think the only remaining open question is who was Evil Dick's first choice for running mate in 68.

[J. J.]

Which president was elected to public office before his 21st birthday.  Hint:  He was elected to public office after his 66 birthday.

Johnson held municipal office in Greeneville TN pretty early and returned to the Senate floor shortly before his death at the age of 66... so maybe he#s the answer to this one as well.

Correct.

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The rumor was Robert Hutchison Finch, but as both were from CA, there might have been the Constitutional problem.  The short list was interesting.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

IIRC I heard something about Andrew Johnson being a mayor or councillor when he was 20.
- So I'll stab at that being my answer.

Q. What do Presidents Garfield, Hoover, Truman, Ford, Reagan, Bush I and Clinton all have in common? This is a very easy one.

Ah hem...

[minionofmidas]

IIRC I heard something about Andrew Johnson being a mayor or councillor when he was 20.
- So I'll stab at that being my answer.

Q. What do Presidents Garfield, Hoover, Truman, Ford, Reagan, Bush I and Clinton all have in common? This is a very easy one.

Ah hem...

I answered that. They're white males.

[J. J.]

IIRC I heard something about Andrew Johnson being a mayor or councillor when he was 20.
- So I'll stab at that being my answer.

Q. What do Presidents Garfield, Hoover, Truman, Ford, Reagan, Bush I and Clinton all have in common? This is a very easy one.

Ah hem...

Left handed?

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

IIRC I heard something about Andrew Johnson being a mayor or councillor when he was 20.
- So I'll stab at that being my answer.

Q. What do Presidents Garfield, Hoover, Truman, Ford, Reagan, Bush I and Clinton all have in common? This is a very easy one.

Ah hem...

Left handed?

I also got no response for getting Johnson. Ugh!!!

Yep, left-handed.

[J. J.]

IIRC I heard something about Andrew Johnson being a mayor or councillor when he was 20.
- So I'll stab at that being my answer.

Q. What do Presidents Garfield, Hoover, Truman, Ford, Reagan, Bush I and Clinton all have in common? This is a very easy one.

Ah hem...

Left handed?

I also got no response for getting Johnson. Ugh!!!

Yep, left-handed.

Sorry about that, but I still can't find it.

[minionofmidas]

IIRC I heard something about Andrew Johnson being a mayor or councillor when he was 20.
- So I'll stab at that being my answer.

Q. What do Presidents Garfield, Hoover, Truman, Ford, Reagan, Bush I and Clinton all have in common? This is a very easy one.

Ah hem...

Left handed?

I also got no response for getting Johnson. Ugh!!!

Yep, left-handed.

Sorry about that, but I still can't find it.

It's quoted in your post. (No, I hadn't seen it before, either.)

Okay... new question...

Which President was born in the same county as his Vice President?

[gorkay]

The answers to my questions: I was thinking of Chester Arthur as the last incumbent to seek and be denied a second term, in 1884. Although Truman's name got on the ballot in some primaries (as did Lyndon Johnson's, for that matter), since he never officially entered the race, I wouldn't consider that to be actively seeking the nomination. Teddy Roosevelt and Hoover, who were also mentioned, weren't incumbents. Polk was the youngest President at death who wasn't assassinated. As for the one who is thought by some not to have been born in the U.S.: I didn't realize that there were three possible answers to this question. I had forgotten about the doubts some have about Van Buren and Arthur. I was thinking of Andrew Jackson. Some historians believe he was actually born either in England or on a ship bound for the U.S., although there is no proof of either claim.

Robert Finch, who was then the Lieutenant Governor of California, was Nixon's first choice for V-P in 1968, but he turned it down. There would have been no constitutional issue, since Nixon was a resident of New York at the time. Here are a couple of other vice-presidential questions: who were the first choices of Hoover in 1928 and Reagan in 1980 for vice-president? (Hint: for Reagan the answer isn't Gerald Ford; there was someone he wanted before that.)

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Two of mine still out:

1.  There are six name changers.  The five listed so far are:

Grant (Hirum)
Cleveland (Stephen)
Wilson (Thomas)
Ford (Leslie King, Jr.)
Clinton (William Jefferson Blyth)

There is one missing.  Who is it.

2.  Which president was first elected to public office at age 20?

I do not know the answer to the first question off the top of my head, but I do know the answer to the second question.

The answer to the second question is John F. Kennedy.

My question is...

Which member of Johnson's cabinent had a bad relationship with him from 1965 on, but did not resign until spring of 1968?

McNamara?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Cyrus Vance?

Who was the last Democratic candidate to win all 11 Southern states?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Harold Brown?

[Robespierre's Jaw]

Harold Brown?

Harold Brown is correct.

Now please answer my question that I posted in my last post.

No question there Gporter. Here's my question, considering you yet again failed to post one.

Which famous media mogul ran for the 1904 Democratic Presidential Nomination?

[Meeker]

Harold Brown?

Harold Brown is correct.

Now please answer my question that I posted in my last post.

No question there Gporter. Here's my question, considering you yet again failed to post one.

Which famous media mogul ran for the 1904 Democratic Presidential Nomination?

William Randolph Hearst. Couldn't have done any worse than the loser they actually did pick.

Who was the first President to seriously want a third term?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

William Randolph Hearst

Who was the first Governor elected President?

[Erc]

gporter, if you're going to participate in this as rabidly as you seem to be, could you at least try to get the questions right?

Off the top of my head, I know that Jefferson and Van Buren were governors, and (looking it up) apparently Monroe and Tyler were as well (not to mention Jackson & Harrison if you count territories).


And, for the record, the answer to meeker's question is (I assume) Grant--though unconsecutively, in 1880.  (None of the first five Presidents tried and Jackson willingly handed over power to Van Buren)


Anyway, back to gporter's question.

[J. J.]

What did Gerald Ford ask the driver of the helicopter to do on his last day in office?

Fly over a house where someone (staffer?, family?) had made a large "goodbye" sign.

[minionofmidas]

Okay... new question...

Which President was born in the same county as his Vice President?

[Meeker]

Okay... new question...

Which President was born in the same county as his Vice President?

I'm guessing it would be a Virginia/Virginia team... and the only one that comes to mind is Harrison/Tyler?

[jokerman]

Okay... new question...

Which President was born in the same county as his Vice President?

I'm guessing it would be a Virginia/Virginia team... and the only one that comes to mind is Harrison/Tyler?

Bingo.

[Meeker]

Who was the first African-American to receive votes at a Presidential nominating convention?

And for bonus points, where, when, and what party?

[Meeker]

Who was the first African-American to receive votes at a Presidential nominating convention?

And for bonus points, where, when, and what party?

Might it be Shirley Chisholm.

Democratic party, 1972 Presidential Campaign.

Thanks for playing, but no.

[Torie]

Without cheating and looking it up, Frederick Douglas in 1856. Just a wild shot.

[Meeker]

Without cheating and looking it up, Frederick Douglas in 1856. Just a wild shot.

Good guess, but no.

[Erc]

One of the Reconstruction-era Senators, perhaps?

Blanche K. Bruce, probably just as a Mississippi favorite son, in the...1880? Republican Convention?