Richard Nixon was so good at poker that most of his first campaign for the House of Representatives was funded by poker winnings from his time in the navy.
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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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Every U.S. president with a beard has been a Republican.
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Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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Of all things, Andrew Jackson's tombstone does not mention that he served as the president of the United States!
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Former U.S. President Franklin Pierce was arrested during his term as President for running over an old lady with his horse, but the charges were later dropped.
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President George W. Bush and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner are cousins!
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John F. Kennedy was buried without his brain after it was lost during the autopsy!
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