President Nicknames and More

Nicknames of the Presidents

• George Wasthingon - Father of His County, The Sage of Mount Vernon
• John Adams - His Roundity, The Atlas of Independence, Bonny Johnny
• Thomas Jefferson - Long Tom, The Pen of the Revolution, Apostle of the Constitution
• James Madison - Father of the Constitution, Little Johnny, Sage of Montpelier
• James Monroe - The Last of the Crooked Hats
• John Quincy Adams - Old Man Eloquent, Publicola
• Andrew Jackson - Old Hickory, The Old Hero, King Andrew the First
• Martin Van Buren - The Red Fox of Kinderhook, O.K., The Little Magician, Little Van
• William Henry Harrison - Old Tippecanoe, The Cincinnatus of the West, Old Granny
• John Tyler - His Accidency, Young Hickory
• James K. Polk - Polk the Purposeful, Napoleon of the Stump
• Zachary Taylor - Old Rough and Ready, Old Zack 
• Millard Fillmore - The Accidental President, the Wool Carder President
• Franklin Pierce - Hansome Frank, Purse
• James Buchanan - Old Buck, The Do-Nothing President
• Abraham Lincoln - The Great Emancipator, Honest Abe, The Rail Splitter
• AndrewJohnson - The Tailor, Sir Veto, Father of the Homestead Act
• Ulysses S. Grant - American Ceasar, The Galena Tanner, Useless S. Grant
• Ruther B. Hayes - His Fraudulency, Old 8 to 7
• James A. Garfield - The Canal Boy, The Preacher President
• Grover Cleveland - rover the Good, Old Grover 
• Benjamin Harrison - Young Tippecanoe, Little Ben, The Centennial President
• William McKinley - Liberator of Cuba, The Idol of Ohio, Wobbly Willie
• Theodore Roosevelt - The Rough Rider, The Cowboy, Rough and Ready, T.R.
• Woodrow Wilson - The Professor, The Phrasemaker
• William B. Harding - W.G.
• Calvin Coolidge - Silent Cal
• Herbert Hoover - Chief, Grand Old Man
• Franklin D. Roosevelt - F.D.R., The Boss, King Franklin
• Harry S. Truman - Give'em Hell Harry, Haberdasher Harry
• Dwight D. Eisenhower - General Ike, Kanasas Cyclone, Duckpin
• John F. Kennedy - J.F.K.
• Lyndon B. Johnson - L.B.J.
• Richard M. Nixon - Tricky Dick, Richard the Chicken-Hearted
• Gerald Ford - Jerry, accidental president
• Jimmy Carter - The Peanut Farmer, Cousin Hot
• Ronald Reagan - The Great Communicator, Dutch, Ronald the Right
• George H Bush - Old Read My Lips, Poppy , The Resume Candidate
• Bill Clinton - The Comeback Kid, Teflon Bill, Slick Willie, Bubba 
• George W. Bush - 43, Bush the Younger, Bush II, The Commander Guy    
• Barack Obama - Barry, Rock, Bama 

US Presidents Who Died in Office

• William H. Harrison, 1841
• Zackary Taylor, 1850
• Abraham Lincoln, 1865 (Assassinated)
• James Garfield, 1881 (Assassinated)
• William McKinley, 1901 (Assassinated)
• Warren G. Harding, 1923
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1945
• John F. Kennedy, 1967 (Assassinated)

Vice Presidents That Became President

• John Tyler Harrison died of pneumonia in 1842
• Millard Fillmore Taylor died in1850 from illness
• Andrew Johnson after Lincoln was assassinated in 1865
• Chester A. Arthur  after Garfield was assassinated in 1881
• Theodore Roosevelt after McKinley was assasinated in 1901
• CalvinCoolidge after Harding died of a heart attack in 1923
• Harry S. Truman after Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1945
• Lyndon B. Johnson after Kennedy assassinated in 1963
• Gerald R. Ford after Nixon resigned in 1974

Presidentials Firsts

• Abraham Lincoln was the first to receive a patent (for a floating drydock).
• Millard Fillmore was the first president to have a stepmother.
• James K. Polk was the first president to have his swearing-in reported by telegraph.
• Hoover was the first to have a telephone on his desk (as well as the first millionaire).
• FDR was the first to appear on television.
• Truman was the first to ride in a submarine.
• Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital.

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Airports named after Presidents

• John F. Kennedy International Airport - New York, New York
• George Bush Intercontinental Airport - Houston, Texas
• Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport - Washington, DC
• Gerald R. Ford International Airport - Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport - Springfield, Illinois
• Dickinson Theodore Roosevelt Regional Airport - Dickinson, North Dakota

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Did You Know?
•Only five presidents have ever worn facial hair when they sought the office. The last was over a century ago, in 1889; Benjamin Harrison.
•There have been seven left-handed presidents, including three of the last four (Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan).
•The first president to smoke a cigar in office was James Madison. In fact, Madison regularly smoked cigars until his death in 1836 at the age of 85. Madison was also the shortest president at five-feet four-inches tall.
•George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, and his wife Laura got married just three months after meeting each other.
•40th president of the United States Ronald Reagan broke the so-called "20-year curse," in which every president elected in a year ending in 0 died in office.
•Military leader and 34th president of the U.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower loved to cook; he developed a recipe for vegetable soup that is 894 words long and includes the stems of nasturtium flowers as one of the ingredients.
•32nd president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt was related, either by blood or by marriage, to 11 former presidents.
•Herbert Hoover, 31st U.S. president, published more than 16 books, including one called Fishing for Fun-And to Wash Your Soul.
•Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States, had chronic stomach pain and required 10 to 11 hours of sleep and an afternoon nap every day.
•Warren Harding, 29th U.S. president, played poker at least twice a week, and once gambled away an entire set of White House china. His advisors were nicknamed the "Poker Cabinet" because they joined the president in his poker games.
•William Taft, 27th president of the United States, weighed more than 300 pounds and had a special oversized bathtub installed in the White House.
•The teddy bear derived from 26th U.S. president Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt's refusal to shoot a bear with her cub while on a hunting trip in Mississippi.
•Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th president of the United States, underwent a secret operation aboard a yacht to remove his cancerous upper jaw in 1893.
•Both ambidextrous and multilingual, 20th president of the United States James Garfield could write Greek with one hand while writing Latin with the other.
•Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States, died of throat cancer. During his life, Grant had smoked about 20 cigars per day.
•17th U.S. president Andrew Johnson never attended school. His future wife, Eliza McCardle, taught him to write at the age of 17. (Bonus fact about Andrew Johnson: He only wore suits that he custom-tailored himself.)
•Often depicted wearing a tall black stovepipe hat, 16th president of the United States Abraham Lincoln carried letters, bills, and notes in his hat.
•15th U.S. president James Buchanan is the only unmarried man ever to be elected president. Buchanan was engaged to be married once; however, his fiancée died suddenly after breaking off the engagement, and he remained a bachelor all his life.
•Sedated only by brandy, 11th president of the United States James Polk survived gall bladder surgery at the age of 17.
•John Tyler, 10th U.S. president, fathered 15 children (more than any other president)--8 by his first wife, and 7 by his second wife. Tyler was past his seventieth birthday when his 15th child was born.
•9th U.S. president William Henry Harrison was inaugurated on a bitterly cold day and gave the longest inauguration speech ever. The new president promptly caught a cold that soon developed into pneumonia. Harrison died exactly one month into his presidential term, the shortest in U.S. history.


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