presidents.json

[
  "Only three US presidents have been completely bald – John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Martin van Buren. Three others were mostly bald – James Garfield, Dwight Eisenhower, and Gerald Ford.",
  "Only 8 US presidents have had mustaches, and they all followed one after the other with a short break in the middle courtesy of William McKinley.",
  "William Howard Taft is the only president to later serve on the Supreme Court.",
  "Grover Cleveland won, lost, and won again elections for president, becoming the only person to serve non-consecutive terms.",
  "Gerald Ford is the only person to serve as both vice president and president without being elected to either job.",
  "George Washington is the only person to have won the electoral college unanimously, and he did it twice. In 1789, he carried 90% of the popular vote, but in 1792, he won 99%.",
  "Grover Cleveland was a hangman before he was president, and he personally executed two people.",
  "Abraham Lincoln co-owned a bar.",
  "John Tyler had 15 children, his last being born when he was 70 years old.",
  "Gerald Ford was a forest ranger before becoming president.",
  "Every US president has had at least one sibling.",
  "Jimmy Carter helped save Canada from a nuclear disaster when a reactor malfunctioned. As a nuclear engineer for the US Navy, he led a team to disassemble the reactor.",
  "William Henry Harrison is the only president to have studied medicine. He also died 31 days after being inaugurated, after his doctors gave him brandy to treat pneumonia.",
  "William Henry Harrison is the first president to die in office, just 31 days after his inauguration.",
  "William Howard Taft replaced the White House tennis courts with the Oval Office, arguing that the president ought to have an office.",
  "Abraham Lincoln is in the national wrestling hall of fame, having lost only one of his hundreds of matches.",
  "Teddy Roosevelt watched Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession from a front window of his childhood home.",
  "William Howard Taft is the only president to have been born in September.",
  "Abraham Lincoln was nominated to be the Republican Party's candidate for president on the fourth ballot, picking up support from other candidates as they dropped out.",
  "Andrew Johnson was a tailor and made all of his own suits.",
  "Ulysses S. Grant is the only president to have received a speeding ticket while in office.",
  "Calvin Coolidge kept two pet raccoons in the White House.",
  "Thomas Jefferson and James Madison had the same vice president: George Clinton. Not _that_ George Clinton.",
  "The first president to be photographed was John Quincy Adams in 1843, so we actually know what he looked like.",
  "Only three presidents have worn glasses in their official portraits.",
  "Richard Nixon is the only president to resign the office, using a Constitutional provision added in the 25th amendment just seven years before.",
  "Victoria Woodhall became the first woman to formally run for president in 1872. Women could only vote in one state (Kentucky, but only if they owned property) and the Wyoming and Utah territories.",
  "Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress, became the first Black woman to seek the nomination for president of a major political party in 1972.",
  "Margaret Chase Smith, the first woman to serve in both chambers of Congress, was also the first woman to seek the nomination for president for a major political party in 1964.",
  "Frederick Douglass ran for president in 1848, the first Black person to seek the office.",
  "Though he was never president, Charles Curtis, whose mother was Kaw, Osage, Potawatomi, and French, is still recognized as achieving the highest federal office of any enrolled Native American for his service as vice president under Herbert Hoover from 1929 to 1933.",
  "Six of the first ten presidents were from Virginia, but the last president was from Virginia was Woodrow Wilson, elected in 1912. Virginia's eight total presidents is still the most of any state.",
  "Despite being absolutely huge, California has only given us one president: Richard Nixon, elected in 1968 and publicly disgraced in 1974.",
  "Susan B. Anthony, a model patriot, registered and attempted to cast a ballot in the 1872 presidential election. She was arrested, and after being found guilty, proceeded to <https://history.iowa.gov/sites/default/files/history-education-pss-civilrights-susan-excerpt.pdf.pdf|masterfully explain why the judge was wrong>, despite his demands that she stop speaking."
 ]