What president had the most children?

John Tyler
John Tyler
John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was the tenth president of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845, after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in 1841.
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was the most prolific of all American President: he had 15 children and two wives. In 1813, Tyler married Letitia Christian
Letitia Christian
Letitia Tyler (née Christian; November 12, 1790 – September 10, 1842) was the first lady of the United States from 1841 to 1842 as the wife of President John Tyler. She met Tyler in 1808, and they married in 1813.
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, the daughter of a Virginia planter. They had eight children.
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Which president had no biological child?

George Washington had no biological children of his own, and it took many years for Washington to come to grips with the fact that he was not going to father his own children.
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How many children did the presidents have?

Currently there are 33 confirmed, known living presidential children, the oldest Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, the youngest Barron Trump. Two presidential children, John Quincy Adams and George W. Bush, have become president in their own right.
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Which president had more than one wife?

The first first lady was Martha Washington, married to George Washington. Presidents John Tyler and Woodrow Wilson had two official first ladies; both remarried during their presidential tenures.
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Which presidents never had kids?

Have there been any United States presidents without children? George Washington, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, James Knox Polk, James Buchanan, and Warren Harding (no legitimate children, although DNA testing has confirmed that Elizabeth Ann was his child with mistress Nan Britton).
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Queens Who Had The Most Children



Which president has no wife?

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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Is there a president that was an only child?

Franklin Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama had no full-siblings and were the only child of the marriage that produced them.
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What president married his niece?

Mary Dimmick Harrison (née Mary Scott Lord; April 30, 1858 – January 5, 1948) was the second wife of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States. She was nearly 25 years younger than Harrison, and was the niece of his first wife.
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Which US president married his sister?

The wedding of Grover Cleveland and Frances Folsom took place on June 2, 1886, in the Blue Room of the White House. He was 49 and she was 21. The wedding was personally organized by the president and his sister, and the press was barred from attending.
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Which president had 15 kids?

Genealogy of John Tyler and his Descendants

John Tyler was the most prolific of all American President: he had 15 children and two wives. In 1813, Tyler married Letitia Christian, the daughter of a Virginia planter.
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Who has fathered the most children?

The man who is thought to have fathered the most children of all time is Moroccan Sultan Ismail Ibn Sharif (1645 to 1727) with a total of more than 1,000, according to Guinness World Records.
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Who has had the most children?

Valentina Vassilyev and her husband Feodor Vassilyev are alleged to hold the record for the most children a couple has produced. She gave birth to a total of 69 children – sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets – between 1725 and 1765, a total of 27 births.
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Who is the only child of a president to be born in 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. The White House has served as the home for the president and his family since November 1800 when President John and Abigail Adams became the mansion's first residents.
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Which presidents fathered no children?

Polk, remains the only U.S. president never to have fathered or adopted any known children. Coincidentally, as of November 2020, the U.S.' tenth president, John Tyler, has two grandsons who are still alive today, despite the fact that he was born in 1790.
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Which Founding Fathers had no children?

One, however, stands apart as the founding father – George Washington. And while that honor is as particularly fitting given that Washington had no biological children, you might be surprised to learn that America was not Washington's only child.
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What President adopted an Indian child?

Lyncoya Jackson (also known as Lincoyer, c. 1811 – July 1, 1828) was a Creek Indian child adopted and raised by U.S. President Andrew Jackson and his wife, Rachel Jackson. Born to Creek (Muscogee/Red Stick) parents, he was orphaned during the Creek War after the Battle of Tallushatchee.
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Which two presidents were father and son?

How unusual is it for a father and son to become President of the United States? It has now happened twice in our nation's history: the Adamses (John Adams (1797-1801) and John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) and the Bushes (George H.W. Bush (1989-1993) and George W. Bush (2001-2009).
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What two US presidents grandson and daughter married each other?

Julie Nixon Eisenhower (née Nixon; born July 5, 1948) is an American author who is the younger daughter of former U.S. president Richard Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon. Her husband David is the grandson of former U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife Mamie Eisenhower.
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What President married his first cousin?

His childhood sweetheart and cousin once removed, Hannah Hoes Van Buren was the wife of the eighth President, Martin Van Buren (1837-1841). She died of tuberculosis before he was elected, leaving him one of the few Presidents to remain unmarried in office.
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Which president had his sister as a first lady?

Rose Elizabeth "Libby" Cleveland (June 13, 1846 – November 22, 1918) served as first lady of the United States from 1885 to 1886, during the first term of her brother, President Grover Cleveland's two administrations.
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Has a first lady ever been pregnant in the White House?

Martha Jefferson Randolph

First first lady to give birth to a child in the White House. First first lady to not be the sitting president's wife. She was his daughter.
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What President was an orphan at 9?

Hoover lived in Iowa only for the first decade of his life. Orphaned at the age of nine, he began an odyssey that would make him a multi-millionaire, international humanitarian, secretary of commerce, and President of the United States.
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Who was the only President to not have a First Lady?

Unique among First Ladies, Harriet Lane acted as hostess for the only President who never married: James Buchanan, her favorite uncle and her guardian after she was orphaned at the age of eleven.
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