What was James Madison's height?

James Madison Jr. was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the 4th president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. He is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights.

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Who was the shortest president at 5 ft 4 in?

U.S. presidents by height order

James Madison, the shortest president, was 5 ft 4 in (163 cm).
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Who was the tallest president of the United States of America?

Presidential Height Graph (PDF)The tallest U.S. president was Abraham Lincoln at 1.93 m, while the shortest was James Madison at 1.63 m. Bush, George H. W.
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What U.S. president had syphilis?

Abraham Lincoln told his biographer, friend, and law partner of 18 years, William Hearndon, that he had been infected with syphilis in 1835 or 1836.
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Which President was never married?

In his personal life, Buchanan never married, the only U.S. president to remain a lifelong bachelor, leading some to question his sexual orientation. Buchanan died of respiratory failure in 1868, and was buried in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he had lived for nearly 60 years.
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Who was the first left handed President?

Garfield (1881) First president to be elected to the presidency directly from the House of Representatives. First president to be left-handed or ambidextrous. First president to die before reaching the age of 50.
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Who is the youngest President to take office?

The youngest person to assume the presidency was Theodore Roosevelt, who, at the age of 42, succeeded to the office after the assassination of William McKinley.
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What president was 300lbs?

President Taft was a huge man, weighing more than 300 pounds. A special bathtub was installed for him in the White House, big enough to hold four men. Fast Fact: William Howard Taft: the only man to become President and then chief justice.
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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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Are lefties smarter?

Although data suggested that right-handed people had slightly higher IQ scores compared to left-handers, the scientists noted that intelligence differences between right and left-handed people were negligible overall.
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Is Einstein left-handed?

But handedness has its roots in the brain—right-handed people have left-hemisphere-dominant brains and vice versa—and the lefties who claim Einstein weren't all that far off. While he was certainly right-handed, autopsies suggest his brain didn't reflect the typical left-side dominance in language and speech areas.
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Who was the only 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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Which president never went to school?

George Washington never attended college, though The College of William & Mary did issue him a surveyor's certificate. Two presidents have attended a foreign college at the undergraduate level: John Quincy Adams at Leiden University and Bill Clinton at the University of Oxford (John F.
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Who was the 13th president?

Millard Fillmore, a member of the Whig party, was the 13th President of the United States (1850-1853) and the last President not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties.
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Who was the drunkest president?

Franklin Pierce earned Will-Weber's nod as the drunkest president in American history. According to the writer, Pierce "drank a lot of everything" and once said after leaving office, "What can an ex-president of the United States do except get drunk?" He died of cirrhosis of the liver at age 65.
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