Fun Facts About Presidents For President’s Day: Part 1

Most people don’t think of Presidents Day as a holiday or really know why it’s a holiday we just know it’s a day out of school or work. Lets look at some lesser known facts about some of America’s past Presidents.

Theodore Roosevelt wore a loch of Abraham Lincoln’s hair mounted into a ring at his inauguration. He is the inspiration behind the Teddy Bear and he was the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Teddy Roosevelt was also the first-ever American brown belt in judo.

Grover Cleveland is the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms. Grover Cleveland started out his prestigious political career as sheriff of Erie County. During his time in the role Cleveland also held responsibilities as public executioner where it fell within his duties to either perform executions himself or else pay a deputy to do so. On two occasions he personally executed two convicted murderers by hanging Patrick Morrissey and John Gaffney

Bill Clinton lost the codes to enable nuclear warhead activation. The nuclear Football is a briefcase kept close to the president from which a nuclear attack can be launched at anytime. The nuclear biscuit is a small card bearing top-secret codes for that briefcase and on the morning after the Monica Lewinsky scandal Clinton actually lost the biscuit.

US presidents come in all shapes and sizes and William Taft was a little larger than the average. He was so large in fact the couldn’t fit his 300 pounds in the conventional White House bathtub. The White House rumor is that Taft actually got stuck once while bathing but at the very least he did invest in a purpose-built larger tub large enough to comfortably fit four men of smaller proportions. Taft lost considerable weight after his presidency and got healthier.

Abraham Lincoln attended séances in the White House. Abraham Lincoln’s life was shadowed in sorrow and in seriousness following the death of his son Willy. In particular Lincoln longed to communicate with the other side and he and his wife regularly entertained well-known spiritualists. On more than one occasion Lincoln was also afforded some form of prophetic ability to the point where he foresaw his own assassination in a dream.

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