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 presidents had no biological 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 presidents have no living descendants?

Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln have no living descendants. Their last great-grandson, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, died, childless, in 1985.
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Why didn t George and Martha have children?

George Washington, the father of his country but never the actual father of a child with his wife, Martha, was probably infertile, according to an article in the March issue of the medical journal Sterility and Fertility.
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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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What president was not born in the United States?

Answer and Explanation: Every president was born in the country that is now known as the United States.
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Who was the only U.S. president to never marry?

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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Which president had the most kids?

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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Did George Washington have illegitimate children?

George Washington, the “Father of the Nation,” had no biological children of his own. But during his 40-year marriage to Martha, the Revolutionary War hero and first president presided over a Mount Vernon estate filled with her children and grandchildren, and by their accounts was a beloved father figure.
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Does George Washington have any living descendants?

George Washington had no children of his own. Thus, there are no direct descendants of George Washington. However, he had numerous siblings and half-siblings and there are many descendants of the Washington family. George Washington's nephew, Bushrod Washington, inherited Mount Vernon.
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How many US presidents were not natural born citizens?

All presidents who have served since were born in the United States. Of the 45 individuals who became president, there have been eight that had at least one parent who was not born on U.S. soil.
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Who is the only U.S. president who never lived in the White House?

1. President Washington never lived in Washington, D.C. George Washington is the only US president to have never occupied the White House.
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Has any U.S. president been 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. Roosevelt was the only child of his mother.
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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. 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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How many presidents did not own slaves?

Of the U.S.' first twelve presidents, the only two never to own slaves were John Adams, and his son John Quincy Adams; the first of which famously said that the American Revolution would not be complete until all slaves were freed.
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Which founding fathers had children with slaves?

Several people close to Thomas Jefferson or the Monticello community believed that he was the father of Sally Hemings's children. Eston Hemings changed his name to Eston Hemings Jefferson in 1852. Madison Hemings stated in 1873 that he and his siblings Beverly, Harriet, and Eston were Thomas Jefferson's children.
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How many biological kids did George Washington have?

Did George Washington Have Children? George Washington did not have any children. Despite that fact, there were always children at Mount Vernon. They raised Martha Washington's two children from a previous marriage, as well as her four grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.
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What man 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 fathered the most children in the USA?

Kyle Gordy, 30, from California, US, is a sperm donor and the biological father to more than 50 children across the world, but he is now facing a problem in having a regular relationship as women approach him for having a baby and not for settling down with him, according to various media reports.
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Which president had two wives?

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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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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What president marry his cousin?

Born in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York–now a national historic site–he attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. On St. Patrick's Day, 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt. Following the example of his fifth cousin, President Theodore Roosevelt, whom he greatly admired, Franklin D.
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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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