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came by a boat
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the decloration of independence was witten.
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state bird: blue hen chicken
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state bird: Ruffed grouse
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state bird: Eastern goldfinch
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state bird: Brown thrasher
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sate bird: cod
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state bird: American Robin
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state bird: Baltimore oriole
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state bird: Carolina wren
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state bird: Purple finch
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state bird: Cardinal
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state bird: Eastern Bluebird
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1st president of the United States. Presiing fact is dent from (April 30, 1789 to March 3, 1797.)
One interesting fact is, Believing that shaking hands was beneath a president, Washington bowed to his visitors. -
state bird: Cardinal
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4 million
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state bird: Rhode Island Red
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state flower: Red clover
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state bird: Cardinal
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state bird: Mockingbird
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The 2nd president of U.S.
One interesting fact about John Adams isThe only presidents to sign the Declaration of Independence Adams and Jefferson both died on its 50th anniversary, July 4, 1826. Adams' dying words were "Thomas Jefferson survives". Jefferson, however, had passed on a few hours earlier. -
5.3 million
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The Third President of the U.S.
One interesting fact about Tomas Jefferson is The only presidents to sign the Declaration of Independence, Adams and Jefferson both died on its 50th anniversary, July 4, 1826. Adams' dying words were "Thomas Jefferson survives". Jefferson, however, had passed on a few hours earlier. -
state animal: White-tailed deer
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7.2 million
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state bird: Eastern Brown Pelican
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state bird: Cardinal
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5th president of the U.S.
One interesting fact about James Monroe is. In the election of 1820 Monroe received every electoral vote except one. A New Hampshire delegate wanted Washington to be the only president elected unanimously.
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state bird: Mockingbird (also my b-day month and day)
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state bird: Cardinal
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state bird: Yellowhammer
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9.6 million
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state bird: Black-capped chickadee
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state bird: Bluebird
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President Adams regularly swam nude in the Potomac River. Anne Royall, the first American professional journalist, knew of Adams' 5 A.M. swims. After being refused interviews with the president time after time, she went to the river, gathered his clothes and sat on them until she had her interview. Before this, no female had interviewed a president.
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Jackson was the only president who served in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
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12.8 million
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state bird: Mockingbird
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state bird: Robin
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17 million
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Harrison was the only president who studied to become a doctor
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Tyler was the first president whose wife died while he was in office.
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state bird: Mockingbird
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A week before he died, Polk was baptized a Methodist
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state bird: Mockingbird
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state bird: Eastern goldfinch
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state bird: Robin
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Taylor refused all postage due correspondences. Because of this, he didn't receive notification of his nomination for president until several days later.
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23 million
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After Fillmore's term, he became the chancellor of the University of Buffalo
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state bird: California valley quail
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Pierce was arrested while in office for running over an old woman with his horse, but his case was dropped due to insufficient evidence in 1853
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Member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1815-16
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state bird: Common loon
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state bird: Western Meadowlark
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31.4 million
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state bird: Western Meadowlark
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Lincoln was the first president to die by assassination.
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state bird: Cardinal
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halloween day
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Served as Alderman of Greeneville, Tennessee, 1830-33
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Served as Alderman of Greeneville, Tennessee, 1830-33
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Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. (1843)
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38.6 million
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stae bird: Lark bunting
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Of the five presidents who served in the Civil War, Hayes was the only one to be wounded.
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50.1 million
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Garfield was the first left-handed president
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Graduated from Union College (1848)
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Graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (1852)
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Cleveland discovered a cancerous growth on the roof of his mouth in the middle of the economic crisis of 1893. So that his illness would not cause a greater panic, he and several doctors snuck aboard a pleasure boat and removed the growth. The public thought he was on a fishing trip and never knew the truth until 1917.
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state bird: Western Meadowlark
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State Bird: Chinese ring-necked pheasant
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state bird: Western Meadowlark
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state bird: Goldfinch
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62.9 million
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state bird: Mountain Bluebird
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state bird: Western Meadowlark
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state bird: Western Meadowlark
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state bird: Western Meadowlark
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state bird: Western Meadowlark
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state bird: California Sea gull
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Member of U.S. House of Representatives, 1877-91
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76.2 million
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Governor of New York, 1898-1900
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state bird: Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher
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Graduated from Yale College (1878); Cincinnati Law School (1880)
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92.2 million
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state bird:Roadrunner
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state bird: Cactus wren
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Presbyterian
Education: Graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) (1879)
Occupation: Teacher, public official
Political Party: Democrat
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106 million
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While president, Harding played golf, poker twice a week, followed baseball and boxing, and sneaked off to burlesque shows. His advisors were known as the "Poker Cabinet" because they all played poker together.
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Northampton, MA City Councilman, 1899
City Solicitor, 1900-01
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Society of Friends (Quaker)
Education: Graduated from Stanford University (1895).
Occupation: Engineer
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123 million
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From his 1941 inaugural address where he speaks of an enduring democracy: "Put away many evil things.
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132 million
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The house where Truman lived from 1919 to his death is located in Independence, Missouri. The Truman Farm House, where Harry grew up, is located in Grandview, Missouri. Both are located in the Kansas City metropolitan area and both are part of the Truman NHS.
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151 million
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Graduated from U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. (1915)
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state bird: Willow ptarmigan
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state bird: NeneThe Hawaiian goose
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179.3 million
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Kennedy's speech to the students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on October 14, 1960 was the start of the Peace Corps.
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Graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers College (1930) (now known as Texas State University-San Marcos)
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Nixon resigned and was almost impeached over the Watergate Scandal, named for the burglaries at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington. D.C by men found to be connected to Nixon's re-election campaign fundraising committee.
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203 million
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Ford was the first president to be an Eagle Scout.
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Graduated from U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. (1946)
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226.5 million
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At 69 years old, Reagan was the oldest elected president.
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From his first State of the Union address in January of 1990. "...the beginning of a new era in the world's affairs."
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248.7 million
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President Clinton authorized American troops, but not ground troops, to take part in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) air strikes against the Serbian government. Although a United Nations (UN) courts ruled that a "genocide" was not taking place in Yugoslavia at this time, the UN court did conclude that Serbian President Slobodan Milošević's government had used a "systematic campaign of terror, including murders, rapes, arsons and severe maltreatments" in suppressing the ethnic Alb
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281.4 million
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Bush was one of two managing general partners of the Texas Rangers baseball club from 1989-1994.
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Obama was the first African-American U.S. president.
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308.7 million
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Van Buren was the first president born in the United States. All previous presidents were born before the United States became country, although all were born in places that would later be a part of the United States.
