Presidential Trivia

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Which President lost a two statewide races before being elected Vice President?

George Bush.

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Which President lost a two statewide races before being elected Vice President?

I think it was Richard Nixon.

It was Bush. Nixon never lost an actual political race (though he lost a race for President of student council) before 1960, and loss only one race after that, 1962.

George Bush, on the other hand, ran for Texas Senator in 1964 and lost. He ran for Congressman in 1966 and won, winning re-election in 1968. In 1970, he ran again for Senate and lost, then was appointed Ambassador to the United Nations, elected RNC Chairman, appointed Envoy to China, and appointed DCI before entering four years of private life in 1977, and being elected Vice-President in 1980.

Therefore, the answer is George HW Bush.

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No. All of the presidents are related to Washington except....

John F Kennedy?

(...and, pulling the racist card here...)
Barrack Obama?

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@JJ, TR got the Medal of Honor psthumoisly in 2001 as I recall.

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Taft and Pinchot?

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Charles Fairbanks (R-IN)

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Rooney, my guess was based on something in a history book that had WHT going up against Gifford Pinchot. It was just a guess, and as I suspected, he wasn't the Interior Secretary:

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It goes on to discussing Pinchot having someone sue Ballinger, blah blah blah, etc. But not a correct guess. I'll be looking though.

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Got it! Ulysses S. Grant and Zachariah Chandler.

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George Cabot Lodge

Who was Ted Kennedy's principle primary opponent in that race.

I'm just guessing off the top of my head, but former Governor Endicott Peabody?

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George Cabot Lodge

Who was Ted Kennedy's principle primary opponent in that race.

I'm just guessing off the top of my head, but former Governor Endicott Peabody?

Speaker McCormack's son, whose first name escapes me at the moment. Joseph I believe.

Wikipedia says Edward.

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Eh, Snowstalker asked me this in chat a few weeks ago and we got to the answer. I won't spoil it for you.

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The only President to win reelection with fewer electoral votes won the second time around than the first.

Obama

Actually Obama is the second.  I suspect that GPORTER was asking for the first, who before 2012 would have been the only.

Yes, Obama is the second be reelected with fewer EVs than when he was first elected (Wilson was first).  I said FDR because I thought that GPORTER was trying to trick us with the wording of the question.  I thought he meant second reelection, and FDR was the only President reelected more than once.

Madison?

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Nevada and Oklahoma



What President has the capital of an African nation named after him?

James Monroe.  Monrovia, Liberia.

But why?

Liberia was established by the American Colonization Society as a homeland for freed American slaves, on the premise that (a) slavery was bad; and (b) blacks and whites could not peacefully coexist within a society. The country's political system was more or less a carbon copy of the United States, right down to its flag (Henry Clay was a leading proponent of the ACS, and the dominant Liberian political party through the 1960s was named the Whig Party). When the project began in the early 1820s, Monroe was the incumbent U.S. President.

What president tried unsuccessfully to establish a third party while in office?

John Tyler? Nixon toyed with the idea of creating a right-wing Conservative third party (which is ironic).

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Nevada and Oklahoma



What President has the capital of an African nation named after him?

James Monroe.  Monrovia, Liberia.

But why?

Liberia was established by the American Colonization Society as a homeland for freed American slaves, on the premise that (a) slavery was bad; and (b) blacks and whites could not peacefully coexist within a society. The country's political system was more or less a carbon copy of the United States, right down to its flag (Henry Clay was a leading proponent of the ACS, and the dominant Liberian political party through the 1960s was named the Whig Party). When the project began in the early 1820s, Monroe was the incumbent U.S. President.

What president tried unsuccessfully to establish a third party while in office?

John Tyler? Nixon toyed with the idea of creating a right-wing Conservative third party (which is ironic).

I was thinking of Andrew Johnson. I didn't know that about Nixon—was this before or during his presidency?

I would have guessed him as well, but the NUP I guess existed as of 1864. Nixon so far as I can tell only toyed with the idea while in office, fantasizing, presumably, of a ticket of him and Connelly, dumping the liberal Republicans and running a full-throated Middle America campaign. I believe I only have one source on this as of yet.