PRESIDENTAL TRIVIA PAGE

* * * JAMES EARL CARTER * * *

Born October 1, 1924

  • ELECTED 1976
  • LONGEST LIVED PRESIDENT
    (Over 98 Years -- See Below)
  • STAYED FAITHFUL TO HIS WIFE
  • FIRST PRESIDENT FROM THE DEEP SOUTH
    SINCE BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR

  • BROKERED ISRAEL/EGYPT PEACE TREATY 1978
  • ESTABLISHED FULL TIES WITH CHINA 1979
  • NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER 2002
  • HUMANITARIAN -- HELPS BUILD HOMES FOR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    EVEN AT ADVANCED AGE
    White House Carter Page

 

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PRESIDENTIAL LONGEVITIES
80 YEARS OR MORE


  1. JAMES EARL CARTER....................................
  2. GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH........... 94 Yrs. 171 Days
  3. GERALD RUDOLPH FORD............................. 93 Yrs. 165 days
  4. RONALD WILSON REAGAN.......................... 93 Yrs. 120 days
  5. JOHN ADAMS..................................................... 90 Yrs. 247 days
  6. HERBERT CLARK HOOVER.......................... 90 Yrs. 71 days
  7. HARRY S TRUMAN........................................... 88 Yrs. 232 days
  8. JAMES MADISON.............................................. 85 Yrs. 104 days
  9. THOMAS JEFFERSON..................................... 83 Yrs. 82 days
10. RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON.......................... 81 Yrs. 102 days
11. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS..................................... 80 Yrs. 227 days
12. JOSEPH ROBINETTE BIDEN, JR...................

LONGEST TIMES WITHOUT A DEATH IN OFFICE

  1. November 22, 1963 to present..............................
  2. March 4, 1789 to April 4, 1841............................. 52 Yrs. 31 days
  3. September 14, 1901 to August 2, 1923................. 21 Yrs. 322 days
  4. August 2, 1923 to April 12, 1945.......................... 21 Yrs. 253 days
  5. September 19, 1881 to September 14, 1901.........19 Yrs. 360 days
  6. April 12, 1945 to November 22, 1963...................18 Yrs. 224 days
  7. April 15, 1865 to September 19, 1881..................16 Yrs. 126 days
  8. July 9, 1850 to April 15, 1865................................14 Yrs. 280 days

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MOST NUMBER OF LIVING FORMER PRESIDENTS AT ONE TIME: FIVE
March 4, 1861 to Jan 18, 1862: Van Buren, Tyler, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan

RECORD TIED IN 20TH CENTURY
Jan. 20, 1993 to Apr. 21, 1994: Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush

RECORD TIED AGAIN IN 21ST CENTURY
Jan. 20, 2001 to June 5, 2004: Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton
(Longest Sustained Five Former Presidents)

Jan. 20, 2017 to November 30, 2018: Carter, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama

Jan. 20, 2021 to present: Carter, Clinton, G.W. Bush, Obama, Trump


SHORTEST TERM IN OFFICE: 32 Days
William Henry Harrison (1841) Elected at age 68 (oldest until Reagan)
caught cold during inauguration -- died April 4, 1841

LONGEST TERM IN OFFICE: 12 Years 39 Days
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945)
cerebral hemorrhage while posing for picture -- died April 12, 1945

ONLY PRESIDENT TO BE SUCCEEDED BY A PRESIDENT OF ANOTHER PARTY
UPON DEATH IN OFFICE:
Abraham Lincoln (Union) succeeded by Andrew Johnson (Democrat)

"20-YEAR JINX" PRESIDENTS

PresidentZERO YEAR ELECTEDDIEDTERMCAUSE
W. Harrison
1840
 1841 1st Pneumonia
A. Lincoln
1860
 1865 2nd shot
J. Garfield
1880
 1881 1st shot
W. McKinley
1900
 1901 2nd shot
W. Harding
1920
 1923 1st heart attack
F. D. Roosevelt
1940
 1945 4th cerebral hemorrhage
J. Kennedy
1960
 1963 1st shot

**** ONLY ONE OTHER PRESIDENT HAS DIED IN OFFICE --
ZACHARY TAYLOR IN 1850 (A ZERO YEAR)


OLDEST PERSON ELECTED PRESIDENT: Joseph Biden, 2020 (78)


STATE THAT HAS PRODUCED THE MOST PRESIDENTS: Virginia (8)
(Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, W.H. Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Wilson)
Source: "Year Book and Daily Reminder"; Northern Central Co., Milwaukee, WI

YEAR THAT HAS PRODUCED THE MOST PRESIDENTS: 1946
(Clinton, G. W. Bush, Trump)


FIRST LADY FACTS:
YOUNGEST FIRST LADY: Frances Folsom Cleveland
was 21 at Grover Cleveland's first inauguration

Edith Wilson (widow of Woodrow Wilson) lived to be 89 --
was special guest at JFK inauguration
SOURCE: "The First Ladies", Greenwich House, Crown Publishers, 1989.

PRESIDENTS WHO HAD NO VICE PRESIDENT
John Tyler (1841-45); Millard Fillmore (1850-53)
(Both assumed presidency upon death of their predecessor)

VICE PRESIDENTS WHO SERVED UNDER MORE THAN ONE PRESIDENT
George Clinton (Jefferson's 2nd term; Madison 1809-12)
John C. Calhoun (J. Q. Adams; Jackson 1829-32)

VICE PRESIDENTS WHO BECAME PRESIDENT
===Presidents they served under are in parentheses===
John Adams (Washington)
Thomas Jefferson (Adams 1801-05)
Martin Van Buren (Jackson 1833-37)
John Tyler (W. Harrison)
Millard Fillmore (Taylor)
Andrew Johnson (Lincoln 2nd term)
Chester A. Arthur (Garfield)
Theodore Roosevelt (McKinley 2nd term)
Calvin Coolidge (Harding)
Harry S Truman (F. D. Roosevelt 4th term)
Richard M. Nixon (Eisenhower)
Lyndon Baines Johnson (Kennedy)
Gerald R. Ford (Nixon 1973-74)
George H. W. Bush (Reagan)
Joseph Biden (Obama)

Library of Congress Presidents list

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