Presidential Trivia

[12th Doctor]

If you want to claim that there are three, they are Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland and Richard Nixon. (Roosevelt had four. Of course that means he also had three. In which case you probably werent thinking of Alabama 1960 after all. It depends how you define it.)

Which American President lived to see the largest number of his successors hold office?

It was probably either Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon or John Adams.

[12th Doctor]

If you want to claim that there are three, they are Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland and Richard Nixon. (Roosevelt had four. Of course that means he also had three. In which case you probably werent thinking of Alabama 1960 after all. It depends how you define it.)

Which American President lived to see the largest number of his successors hold office?

It was probably either Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon or John Adams.

Several Presidents lived to see five of their successor... but onyl one lived to see six...

John Tyler.

He lived through Polk, Taylor, Filmore, Pierce, Buchanan and one year of Lincoln.

Booyah

[12th Doctor]

And as I answer, I realize that I was wrong... the answer is actually Martin Van Buren... he lived to see 8 successors... including Tyler.  He was still alive when Tyler bite the dust.

[12th Doctor]

What President holds the record as the longest serving earliest living President?  How many years did they hold the title?

[12th Doctor]

Truman was on the ballot for a few primaries, I believe, does that count?

Technically Truman was seeking a third term.

[12th Doctor]

Which President was (at least arguably, with the urban part the iffy part) born into the urban Working Class?

Yes, there's only one.

I suddenly feel very stupid, as I was about to say "Alexander Hamilton".

I do believe the answer is Richard Nixon, though.

[12th Doctor]

What President holds the record as the longest serving earliest living President?  How many years did they hold the title?

So in other words the President who had the longest remaining life after the death of his last living predecessor?
Heh.

Herbert Hoover probably. 31 years from Coolidge's death to his own.

Correct...

Hoover had a long, successful, respectable and happy life after the White House.  Sadly, its not what he will be remembered for.  The unique circumstances that led to his holding the title (the three Presidents before him dying long before their time) mean that this record is highly unlikely to ever be broken.

[12th Doctor]

Truman was on the ballot for a few primaries, I believe, does that count?

Technically Truman was seeking a third term.

Is there some arbitrary time at which point a partial term gets counted as a full term by historians?

Well, I can pretty well guess that its not when a guy serves almost all of his predecessors term, as Truman did.

If I had to guess I would say two years, since that is the cut off date in the Constitution

[12th Doctor]

Which President was (at least arguably, with the urban part the iffy part) born into the urban Working Class?

Yes, there's only one.

I suddenly feel very stupid, as I was about to say "Alexander Hamilton".

I do believe the answer is Richard Nixon, though.

Not the answer I was looking for, although, coming from a non-posh outer suburb and from a very much lower middle class family, he comes closer then about 39 or 40 or so of his colleagues... 

Hint: "urban" is perhaps more than a tad misleading here.

John Adams.  His father was a farmer, but they lived in a grown up town area.

[12th Doctor]

Ronald Reagan was born in an apartment.  Though it was in a small town, not located very close to a large area.

[12th Doctor]

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.

[12th Doctor]

Well, one obvious pick in James Tyler.

[12th Doctor]

Well, one obvious pick in James Tyler.

Wrong.

John Tyler. ha

[12th Doctor]

Well, one obvious pick in James Tyler.

Wrong.

John Tyler. ha

Still wrong.  Ha, ha.

Who is John Tyler?

[12th Doctor]

Which President kept shseep on the white house lawn?

Woodrow Wilson. He kept them durring WWI to donate the wool to the Red Cross.

Which president left his surviving children nothing in his will. In fact, his will was only six words long!

I'll take a shot in the dark and say Grant.  Since he didn't finish his memoirs until days before his death, they wouldn't have been published until a while after, so he would have had no money to leave them.

[12th Doctor]

Who is the only President believed to have been truly tone deaf?

[12th Doctor]

So far you're all wrong.

[12th Doctor]

Soulty,

Is it Ulysses S. Grant? He only knew two tunes, one was Yankee Doodle and the other wasn't after all.

Correct!

As you said, Grant hated music because it all sounded the same to him, one big noise.  And as he is reported to have said, he only knew two songs "one is Yankee Doodle, the other isn't."  And if you think about it, Yankee Doodle is one of the most non-tonal songs ever created.  So there is alot of good evidence that Grant was a rare person who was actually completely incapable of distinguishing tone.

[12th Doctor]

All of them since around 1950.

Sorry, I wasn't specific enough: How many Presidents have run on tickets with different parties?

I really don't see the difference. They all run on tickets with different parties in NY.

Nationally, excluding states with fusion.

Lincoln and Andrew Johnson ran of the "National Union" ticket, though officially Lincoln was still a Republican and Johnson a Dem... if that counts.

[12th Doctor]

Which president owned the same hat for 50 years?

Tom Landry?

[12th Doctor]

Since this group was 1876 founding, it has included, 17 Presidents of the United States (out of 25), 1 prime minister, and 1 king.  What is this group?

I'll give you another clue:

Three of the four living presidents are members; the king is alive.

Well, my guess would be that the king mentioned in the king of Jordan, but other than that, I have no idea.

[12th Doctor]

OH OH  I KNOW IT!!!












The John Birch Society.

[12th Doctor]

OH OH  I KNOW IT!!!

The John Birch Society.

As far as I know, no president was ever a member of the John Birch Society, and certainly no living president.

Well... its probably not the National League and I can't think of any other organizations founded in 1876.

[12th Doctor]

Which Presidents (excluding Washington) were the only living U.S. President during their term?

Which person held the title of Oldest living US President for the shortest amount of time?

[12th Doctor]

I'll take a stab at Ford for the shortest record of longest lived.

Nope