Was there ever a single president?

Tall, stately, stiffly formal in the high stock he wore around his jowls, James Buchanan was the only President who never married. Presiding over a rapidly dividing Nation, Buchanan grasped inadequately the political realities of the time.
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Has there ever been a divorced President?

When Reagan became president 32 years later, he became the first divorced person to assume the nation's highest office.
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Has any President been married while in office?

"I must go to dinner," he wrote a friend, "but I wish it was to eat a pickled herring a Swiss cheese and a chop at Louis' instead of the French stuff I shall find." In June 1886 Cleveland married 21-year-old Frances Folsom; he was the only President married in the White House.
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Who married their own daughter?

In an unusual event, a Maharashtra man married his own daughter, taking advantage of his wife's absence from the house. According to police, Raju Pawar, a daily wage labourer from Purandarar, Pune, recently married his 13-year-old daughter with the help of other people.
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Which president was unmarried?

Tall, stately, stiffly formal in the high stock he wore around his jowls, James Buchanan was the only President who never married. Presiding over a rapidly dividing Nation, Buchanan grasped inadequately the political realities of the time.
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Who is the youngest president?

The youngest to become president by election was John F. Kennedy, who was inaugurated at age 43. The oldest person to assume the presidency was Joe Biden, who took the presidential oath of office 61 days after turning 78.
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How many presidents have been married twice?

Presidents John Tyler and Woodrow Wilson had two official first ladies; both remarried during their presidential tenures.
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Who was the shortest president?

U.S. presidents by height order

James Madison, the shortest president, was 5 ft 4 in (163 cm).
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Which president drowned in bathtub?

President William Howard Taft was rumored to have gotten stuck in a bath tub while in office, but he did not die in a bath tub.
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Which president got stuck in a bathtub?

And President William Howard Taft got stuck in a bathtub, and then got unstuck. This is his story. “Although there's considerably more naked flesh on display than in the average picture book, there's no denying the riveting spectacle of Taft's struggle.”
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How many presidents have been assassinated?

In the course of the history of the United States four Presidents have been assassinated, within less than 100 years, beginning with Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Attempts were also made on the lives of two other Presidents, one President-elect, and one ex-President.
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Which president killed a man in a duel?

On May 30, 1806, future President Andrew Jackson kills a man who accused him of cheating on a horse race bet and then insulted his wife, Rachel.
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Who is the only president to have a child born at the White House?

Esther, President Grover Cleveland's second daughter, was the first and only child of a president to be born in the White House.
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Which First Ladies have died in the White House?

Letitia Christian Tyler, first wife of President John Tyler, served as First Lady of the United States from 1841 until her death at 51. She was the youngest First Lady to pass away and one of only three to have passed away in the White House.
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Who was the first billionaire president?

The richest president in history is believed to be Donald Trump, who is often considered the first billionaire president. His net worth, however, is not precisely known because the Trump Organization is privately held. Truman was among the poorest U.S. presidents, with a net worth considerably less than $1 million.
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Who was the best president?

Abraham Lincoln has taken the highest ranking in each survey and George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt have always ranked in the top five while James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Franklin Pierce have been ranked at the bottom of all four surveys.
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Who was the 27th president?

William Howard Taft was elected the 27th President of the United States (1909-1913) and later became the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921-1930), the only person to have served in both of these offices.
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Has any first lady been pregnant?

Frances Cleveland

First first lady to have a child in the White House.
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Who was the youngest First Lady of the United States?

Frances Clara Cleveland Preston (born Frank Clara Folsom; July 21, 1864 – October 29, 1947) was first lady of the United States from 1886 to 1889 and again from 1893 to 1897 as the wife of President Grover Cleveland. Becoming first lady at age 21, she remains the youngest wife of a sitting president.
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Who was the first family in the world?

In fossils

The First Family is also a collection of Australopithecus afarensis fossils discovered at site "333" at Hadar in Ethiopia, near the location of another famous A. afarensis, Lucy. A. afarensis is believed to be the first habitual bipedal hominid and a direct ancestor of Homo sapiens.
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Has a president ever killed anyone?

Theodore Roosevelt: Not only was Teddy Roosevelt awarded the Medal of Honor for his display of courage at the Battle of San Juan Hill, in which he led an attack on an enemy position with only a few men. In this particular battle, Roosevelt was first to reach the enemy position and killed the first man with his pistol.
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Are duels still legal?

Various modern jurisdictions still retain mutual combat laws, which allow disputes to be settled via consensual unarmed combat, which are essentially unarmed duels, though it may still be illegal for such fights to result in grievous bodily harm or death. Few if any modern jurisdictions allow armed duels.
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When was the last legal duel?

A confrontation in a Vermont border town in 1876 may well have been the last formal duel in the United States. The fact that it took place in the village of Richford is almost incidental to the story.
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Who was president for the longest time?

William Henry Harrison spent the shortest time in office, while Franklin D. Roosevelt spent the longest. Roosevelt is the only American president to have served more than two terms. Following ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment in 1951, presidents—beginning with Dwight D.
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What presidents survived assassination attempts?

Kennedy (1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald). Additionally, two presidents have been injured in attempted assassinations: former president Theodore Roosevelt (1912, by John Flammang Schrank) and Ronald Reagan (1981, by John Hinckley Jr.).
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