Comments on: All the presidents' presidents

All the presidents' presidents

psmealey — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 06:22:39 -0800

US Presidents: Lists and Records. For Presidential Historians and Trivia addicts only. More inside

By: psmealey

psmealey — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 06:23:54 -0800

A couple of the more interesting cuts at the data follow:
African-American Presidents Note: Several presidents were allegedly of mixed European and African ancestry, which by U.S. reckoning would designate them as African-American. See The Five Negro Presidents by J.A. Rogers and Six Black Presidents: Black Blood, White Masks by Auset Bakhufu.

Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
Warren Harding
Dwight Eisenhower

Presidents who killed people outside of war (or who were accused thereof)

George Washington - accused of murdering a French ambassador during peacetime.
Andrew Jackson - killed a man in a duel

By: psmealey

psmealey — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 06:28:05 -0800

ps: Apologies for the stray carriage return on the FPP.

By: tomplus2

tomplus2 — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 06:58:51 -0800

Ah, the days of the duel.

By: loquax

loquax — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 07:48:56 -0800

Great list but some notable omissions. No wars during Clinton's tenure? And it does include the best presidential trivia ever: Presidents who were never elected president or vice president

Gerald Ford

By: beagle

beagle — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 07:53:21 -0800

Presidents elected while serving in the Senate: Warren Harding John F. Kennedy Given the perennial quests by Senators for the nomination (12 of of the current 100 Senators have at one time or another run for the Presidency), this scarce result is rather interesting. And the batting average of incumbent Senators is pretty poor: eight have received the presidential nomination of their party, only two have won the White House. (Additionally James Garfield was a Senator-elect when he was elected president, and then declined the Senate seat. Garfield, Harding and Kennedy all died in office.) A total of 11 presidents had some service in the Senate prior to their election. By contrast, 17 men with gubernatorial experience have been elected to the Presidency; 6 or the last 7 races were won by a former governor.