Presidential Trivia

[J. J.]

Who was the last sitting Representative to be elected President?

James Garfield

Name the only President to have served as a Representative, Senator, Governor and Vice-President.

A guess, but my response is Teddy Roosevelt.

My question is, who was the first "king" to become President of the United States?

Gerald R. Ford.

What presidents did not use their birth names, or a derivative, when they became president.  There are at least three.

[J. J.]

Who was the last sitting Representative to be elected President?

James Garfield

Name the only President to have served as a Representative, Senator, Governor and Vice-President.

A guess, but my response is Teddy Roosevelt.

My question is, who was the first "king" to become President of the United States?

Gerald R. Ford.

What presidents did not use their birth names, or a derivative, when they became president.  There are at least three.

Ford (Leslie King), Eisenhower (David Dwight), and Grant (Hiram Ulysses).

Under which President was the first White House bath tub installed?

Wrong, I said that were at least three.  Not counting Eisenhower because "Dwight David" might have been, there were six.

[J. J.]

Which President had the longest wait between their first election to Congress and their accession to the Presidency?   (Two possible answers, depending on how you treat territories)

I would say Ronald Reagan, because he was never elected to Congress.

William Henry Harrison had a long gap between being a territorial governor and president; so that would be my answer.

Also, ERC, you are missing one; there are six.

What president was elected to his first public office before his 21st birthday?

[J. J.]

Which President had the longest wait between their first election to Congress and their accession to the Presidency?   (Two possible answers, depending on how you treat territories)

I would say Ronald Reagan, because he was never elected to Congress.

William Henry Harrison had a long gap between being a territorial governor and president; so that would be my answer.

Also, ERC, you are missing one; there are six.

What president was elected to his first public office before his 21st birthday?

John F. Kennedy

Wrong.

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My first guess would be Hellcats of the Navy, but I think I'd stick with Bedtime for Bonzo, because they met before the costarred together.  I looked it up and would now say The Girl From Jones Beach.

[J. J.]

Reagan met Nancy Davis, not Jane Wyman, while he was filming "Hellcats of the Navy." Also, I don't know if it's been mentioned (this thread is getting kind of hard to read), but Woodrow Wilson was another President who was elected using his middle name. His full name was Thomas Woodrow Wilson.

Now, don't anyone berate me for not answering a question, because I've lost track of whether or not there's one still out there that wasn't answered correctly. But I will ask one of my own and let the chips fall where they may (this is actually a pretty easy one, but I can't think of another right now):

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.

[J. J.]

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?

[J. J.]

Cleveland

Who were the two major-party candidates who, after losing the election, became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

Taft and Earl Warren (VP under Dewey in 1948).

[J. J.]

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.

John Calvin Coolidge, I believe.

Correct!

[J. J.]

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

[J. J.]

Arguably Clinton was working class.

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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.

[J. J.]

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

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.

[J. J.]

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

Which presidents were prisoners of war?

[J. J.]

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.

[J. J.]

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.

[J. J.]

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.

Correct.

[J. J.]

10 times (1800, 1828, 1840, 1888, 1892, 1912, 1932, 1976, 1980, 1988)

Which Presidents have been Chairman of House and Senate Committees?

McKinley, Truman, LB Johnson.

[J. J.]

What was the semi-official form of address of George Washington (NOT his rank), during Revolutionary War.

[J. J.]

His Excellency?

Correct and it was denied him officially as president.

Your turn.

[J. J.]

Hoover.

Who was the lightest President? The fattest?

Van Buren and Taft.

What presidents never voted for themselves as president under a party banner in a general election.

[J. J.]

What presidents never voted for themselves as president under a party banner in a general election.

I repeat the question.  Nobody was even close.

Hint:  There are four.

[J. J.]

Wasn't Washington techincally an independent? Just a guess.

I think he was ON the ballot, however.  Hoover might have written himself in 1960, for example.

Erc, there is a fourth (that I thought was the easiest).