Who is the tallest president in history?

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president was Abraham Lincoln at 6 feet 4 inches (193 centimeters), while the shortest was James Madison at 5 feet 4 inches (163 centimeters).
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Who is the fattest president?

Taft was the most obese president. He was 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and his weight was between 325 pounds (147 kg) and 350 pounds (160 kg) toward the end of his presidency.
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Which president was never married?

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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How old 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. Assassinated at age 46, John F.
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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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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 broke the bathtub?

And President William Howard Taft got stuck in a bathtub, and then got unstuck. This is his story.
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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 is the poorest U.S. president?

Truman was among the poorest U.S. presidents, with a net worth considerably less than $1 million. His financial situation contributed to the doubling of the presidential salary to $100,000 in 1949.
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Who was the guy that shot Ronald Reagan?

John Hinckley, who shot and wounded US president Ronald Reagan in 1981, has been freed from court oversight, officially concluding decades of supervision by legal and mental health professionals.
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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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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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How many American presidents are still alive?

He was, and remains, the only U.S. president never affiliated with a political party. As of June 2022, there are five living former presidents: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. The most recent to die was George H. W.
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How tall was Abraham Lincoln and how much did he weigh?

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln was the tallest and thinnest president in history. Standing at 6 feet 4 inches, he was quite slight - weighing only 180 pounds in 1859, but he is believed to have weighed even less during his presidency.
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Which president lived the shortest life?

William Henry Harrison, an American military officer and politician, was the ninth President of the United States (1841), the oldest President to be elected at the time. On his 32nd day, he became the first to die in office, serving the shortest tenure in U.S. Presidential history.
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Which president was a football player?

Gerald Ford played center for the University of Michigan Wolverines in the 30s, was the team MVP, and chose not to sign with the Green Bay Packers. Instead, Ford took a coaching job at Yale while he attended Law School, and eventually became the 38th President of the United States.
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What is the poorest US state?

Poverty rates were highest in the states of Mississippi (19.58%), Louisiana (18.65%), New Mexico (18.55%), West Virginia (17.10%), Kentucky (16.61%), and Arkansas (16.08%), and they were lowest in the states of New Hampshire (7.42%), Maryland (9.02%), Utah (9.13%), Hawaii (9.26%), and Minnesota (9.33%).
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