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On their wedding day, Martha Washington gave him a miniature portrait of herself. He wore it on a chain around his neck until his death 40 years later
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Adams was the first President to live in the White House
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: Considered the most brilliant President, he wrote the Declaration of Independence, founded the University of Virginia, and was an architect, a farmer, and a scientist.
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Madison is considered the father of the Bill of Rights
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Monroe lived out his retirement in poverty.
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Jackson was the first President to ride on a train
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John Adams and John Quincy Adams were the first father and son to have served as Presidents.
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Harrison was the first President to die in office and he served the briefest term
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Van Buren was the first President to be born an American citizen, rather than a British subject.
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Taylor won fame as a general in the Mexican War. His soldiers called him "Old Rough and Ready."
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Tyler had 15 children, more than any President
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Buchanan was the only bachelor to ever serve in the White House.
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Polk is the only President to have served as Speaker of the House.
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In 1856, Fillmore ran for President on the anti-immigrant Know-Nothing Party ticket.
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Pierce's wife hated Washington, D.C., so much, that she fainted when she found out he had been nominated for President.
