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« Reply #100 on: December 30, 2007, 09:47:42 PM »

One of the Reconstruction-era Senators, perhaps?

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

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Who are the only two President's to lose their homestates?
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« Reply #101 on: December 30, 2007, 10:08:40 PM »

One of the Reconstruction-era Senators, perhaps?

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

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Who are the only two President's to lose their homestates?

Woodrow Wilson (1916)
Richard Nixon (1968)

My question is as follows:

Where was President-Elect John F. Kennedy when he learned that his wife had given birth to John F. Kennedy Jr.?

Nixon won California 48% - 45% in 1968.
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« Reply #102 on: December 30, 2007, 10:32:06 PM »

One of the Reconstruction-era Senators, perhaps?

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

Winner!

Who are the only two President's to lose their homestates?

Woodrow Wilson (1916)
Richard Nixon (1968)

My question is as follows:

Where was President-Elect John F. Kennedy when he learned that his wife had given birth to John F. Kennedy Jr.?

Nixon won California 48% - 45% in 1968.

But in 1968 his home state was New York.
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« Reply #103 on: December 30, 2007, 10:51:37 PM »

One of the Reconstruction-era Senators, perhaps?

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

Winner!

Who are the only two President's to lose their homestates?

Woodrow Wilson (1916)
Richard Nixon (1968)

My question is as follows:

Where was President-Elect John F. Kennedy when he learned that his wife had given birth to John F. Kennedy Jr.?

Nixon won California 48% - 45% in 1968.

But in 1968 his home state was New York.

That is the same thing that I said in my previous post.

Dude, calm down Wink
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« Reply #104 on: December 30, 2007, 10:57:09 PM »

One of the Reconstruction-era Senators, perhaps?

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

Winner!

Who are the only two President's to lose their homestates?

Woodrow Wilson (1916)
Richard Nixon (1968)

My question is as follows:

Where was President-Elect John F. Kennedy when he learned that his wife had given birth to John F. Kennedy Jr.?

Nixon won California 48% - 45% in 1968.

But in 1968 his home state was New York.

That is the same thing that I said in my previous post.

Dude, calm down Wink

Homestate is the state you were born in.  Like Hillary's homestate is Illinois, though she lived in Arkansas, D.C. and is a Senator now for NY.
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« Reply #105 on: December 30, 2007, 10:59:25 PM »

Oook then, didn't know I was going to spark such visceral reactions... but the two I was looking for were Wilson in 1916 and Polk in 1844.
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« Reply #106 on: December 30, 2007, 11:02:13 PM »

One of the Reconstruction-era Senators, perhaps?

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

Winner!

Who are the only two President's to lose their homestates?

Woodrow Wilson (1916)
Richard Nixon (1968)

My question is as follows:

Where was President-Elect John F. Kennedy when he learned that his wife had given birth to John F. Kennedy Jr.?

Nixon won California 48% - 45% in 1968.

But in 1968 his home state was New York.

That is the same thing that I said in my previous post.

Dude, calm down Wink

Homestate is the state you were born in.  Like Hillary's homestate is Illinois, though she lived in Arkansas, D.C. and is a Senator now for NY.

Politically speaking, I think homestate is where you launch your political base.  I mean, I consider Reagan's homestate to be California, but he was born in Illinois.  Eisenhower was all over the place; some people have him in Kansas, Texas, and I think New York as well.  So, it's kind of ambiguous.
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« Reply #107 on: December 30, 2007, 11:26:09 PM »

One of the Reconstruction-era Senators, perhaps?

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

Winner!

Who are the only two President's to lose their homestates?

Woodrow Wilson (1916)
Richard Nixon (1968)

My question is as follows:

Where was President-Elect John F. Kennedy when he learned that his wife had given birth to John F. Kennedy Jr.?

Nixon won California 48% - 45% in 1968.

But in 1968 his home state was New York.

That is the same thing that I said in my previous post.

Dude, calm down Wink

Homestate is the state you were born in.  Like Hillary's homestate is Illinois, though she lived in Arkansas, D.C. and is a Senator now for NY.

Politically speaking, I think homestate is where you launch your political base.  I mean, I consider Reagan's homestate to be California, but he was born in Illinois.  Eisenhower was all over the place; some people have him in Kansas, Texas, and I think New York as well.  So, it's kind of ambiguous.

By using that standard, both Bushes lost their home states 4 times; I think they born in Massachusetts.  And Eisenhower's home state in 1956 was, Pennsylvania.
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« Reply #108 on: December 30, 2007, 11:43:23 PM »

One of the Reconstruction-era Senators, perhaps?

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

Winner!

Who are the only two President's to lose their homestates?

Woodrow Wilson (1916)
Richard Nixon (1968)

My question is as follows:

Where was President-Elect John F. Kennedy when he learned that his wife had given birth to John F. Kennedy Jr.?

Nixon won California 48% - 45% in 1968.

But in 1968 his home state was New York.

That is the same thing that I said in my previous post.

Dude, calm down Wink

Homestate is the state you were born in.  Like Hillary's homestate is Illinois, though she lived in Arkansas, D.C. and is a Senator now for NY.

Politically speaking, I think homestate is where you launch your political base.  I mean, I consider Reagan's homestate to be California, but he was born in Illinois.  Eisenhower was all over the place; some people have him in Kansas, Texas, and I think New York as well.  So, it's kind of ambiguous.

By using that standard, both Bushes lost their home states 4 times; I think they born in Massachusetts.  And Eisenhower's home state in 1956 was, Pennsylvania.

Wow, I was way off Smiley
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« Reply #109 on: December 31, 2007, 01:07:06 AM »

GWB, was born in Connecticut, but he lost that twice.

Which presidents were prisoners of war?
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« Reply #110 on: December 31, 2007, 04:09:24 AM »

Andrew Jackson, definitely (in the Revolutionary War, at that).

McKinley (I think) very narrowly avoided being one late in the Civil War, but I don't believe he ever was one.

Can't think of anyone else but Jackson, so no complete answer.
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« Reply #111 on: December 31, 2007, 04:18:08 AM »

Andrew Jackson, definitely (in the Revolutionary War, at that).

McKinley (I think) very narrowly avoided being one late in the Civil War, but I don't believe he ever was one.

Can't think of anyone else but Jackson, so no complete answer.

There is another one, who was briefly.
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« Reply #112 on: December 31, 2007, 06:39:31 AM »

Andrew Jackson, definitely (in the Revolutionary War, at that).

McKinley (I think) very narrowly avoided being one late in the Civil War, but I don't believe he ever was one.

Can't think of anyone else but Jackson, so no complete answer.

There is another one, who was briefly.

Was Teddy Roosevelt one during the Spanish-American War of 1898? He might have been but I am leaning towards no.

How about William Henry Harrison?
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« Reply #113 on: December 31, 2007, 05:52:13 PM »

Andrew Jackson, definitely (in the Revolutionary War, at that).

McKinley (I think) very narrowly avoided being one late in the Civil War, but I don't believe he ever was one.

Can't think of anyone else but Jackson, so no complete answer.

There is another one, who was briefly.

Was Teddy Roosevelt one during the Spanish-American War of 1898? He might have been but I am leaning towards no.

How about William Henry Harrison?

No, and no, though Jackson was one.
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« Reply #114 on: January 02, 2008, 02:51:33 AM »
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GWB, was born in Connecticut, but he lost that twice.

Which presidents were prisoners of war?

George Washington was in the French and Indian War.

Andrew Jackson in the American Revelotion.

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« Reply #115 on: January 03, 2008, 10:58:16 PM »

GWB, was born in Connecticut, but he lost that twice.

Which presidents were prisoners of war?

George Washington was in the French and Indian War.

Andrew Jackson in the American Revelotion.



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« Reply #116 on: January 04, 2008, 08:56:31 PM »

Who was the first President not from the original 13 colonies?
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« Reply #117 on: January 04, 2008, 08:59:40 PM »
« Edited: January 04, 2008, 09:02:17 PM by CPT MikeyMike »

Who was the first President not from the original 13 colonies?


You mean born outside? Lincoln.

Name the first president to attend a World Series game while in office?
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« Reply #118 on: January 04, 2008, 09:05:35 PM »

Name the first president to attend a World Series game while in office?

I'm going to take a stab and say it's Woodrow Wilson.
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« Reply #119 on: January 04, 2008, 09:05:47 PM »

Who was the first President not from the original 13 colonies?


You mean born outside? Lincoln.

Name the first president to attend a World Series game while in office?

No, I meant the first candidate to be politically outside the 13 colonies.
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« Reply #120 on: January 04, 2008, 09:06:37 PM »

Who was the first President not from the original 13 colonies?


You mean born outside? Lincoln.

Name the first president to attend a World Series game while in office?

No, I meant the first candidate to be politically outside the 13 colonies.

Jackson
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« Reply #121 on: January 04, 2008, 09:08:34 PM »

I'm going to take a stab and say it's Woodrow Wilson.

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Name the first president(s) to attend an NBA, NFL and NHL game while in office.
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« Reply #122 on: January 04, 2008, 09:08:58 PM »

Who was the first President not from the original 13 colonies?


You mean born outside? Lincoln.

Name the first president to attend a World Series game while in office?

No, I meant the first candidate to be politically outside the 13 colonies.

Jackson

Correct, and in response to your question, would it be Taft?
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« Reply #123 on: January 04, 2008, 09:09:57 PM »

Who was the first President not from the original 13 colonies?


You mean born outside? Lincoln.

Name the first president to attend a World Series game while in office?

No, I meant the first candidate to be politically outside the 13 colonies.

Jackson

Correct, and in response to your question, would it be Taft?

He attended the first MLB game while in office but it wasn't the World Series.
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« Reply #124 on: January 04, 2008, 09:10:24 PM »

Who was the first President not from the original 13 colonies?


You mean born outside? Lincoln.

Name the first president to attend a World Series game while in office?

No, I meant the first candidate to be politically outside the 13 colonies.

Jackson

Correct, and in response to your question, would it be Taft?

He attended the first MLB game while in office but it wasn't the World Series.

Harding?
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