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What president never weighed more than 100 pounds?

Madison was slight in stature even by eighteenth-century standards (he was five feet, four inches tall, and never weighed more than 100 pounds), suffered from ill health, and was socially awkward.
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What president weighed the most?

The distinction for being the heaviest president goes to William Howard Taft. He weighed between 300 and 350 pounds. He was so heavy that the White House had to install a special bathtub to accommodate his girth.
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Who was the smallest president?

The tallest U.S. president was Abraham Lincoln at 6 feet 4 inches (193 centimeters), while the shortest was James Madison at 5 feet 4 inches (163 centimeters).
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Who was the most obese president?

Bathtub. Taft was the most obese president. He was 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and his weight was between 325 pounds (147 kg) and 280 pounds (130 kg) toward the end of his presidency.
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Was the shortest president at 5 4 and weighed barely over 100 pounds?

James Madison (#4), the father of the Constitution, was only 5 feet, 4 inches tall and weighed less than 100 pounds.
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Which president had 15 children?

John Tyler was the most prolific of all American President: he had 15 children and two wives. In 1813, Tyler married Letitia Christian, the daughter of a Virginia planter. They had eight children.
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What president weighed over 300 pounds while in office?

President Taft was a huge man, weighing more than 300 pounds. A special bathtub was installed for him in the White House, big enough to hold four men. Fast Fact: William Howard Taft: the only man to become President and then chief justice.
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Which President was the only President to remain a bachelor?

Tall, stately, stiffly formal in the high stock he wore around his jowls, James Buchanan was the only President who never married.
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Who was the youngest President?

The youngest person to become U.S. president was Theodore Roosevelt, who, at age 42, succeeded to the office after the assassination of William McKinley. The youngest at the time of his election to the office was John F. Kennedy, at age 43.
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Can a 2 term President run for President again?

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
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What president never went to school?

This did not affect their success as they became president of the United States. There are 9 U.S. presidents reported to have never attended college, including George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland, and Harry Truman.
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What president was never married?

In his personal life, Buchanan never married and was the only U.S. president to remain a lifelong bachelor, leading some historians and authors to question his sexual orientation.
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Which president had two wives?

The first First Lady was Martha Washington, married to George Washington. Presidents John Tyler and Woodrow Wilson had two official first ladies; both remarried during their presidential tenures.
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Who is the #1 president?

On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States.
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What president was unanimously elected?

Washington was elected with 69 of the 69 first-round votes cast in the United States Electoral College. With this election, he became the only U.S. president to be unanimously chosen.
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Who was the only president with a Phd?

In 1886, Wilson was awarded a Ph.D. in history and government from Johns Hopkins University, making him the only U.S. president in the nation's history to possess a Ph.D. In early 1885, Houghton Mifflin published Wilson's Congressional Government, which was well received with one critic called it "the best critical ...
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Which president served 3 terms?

Roosevelt won a third term by defeating Republican nominee Wendell Willkie in the 1940 United States presidential election. He remains the only president to serve for more than two terms.
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What U.S. president died at the youngest age?

John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States (1961-1963), the youngest man elected to the office. On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, becoming also the youngest President to die.
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Who was the very first president to live in the White House?

It was not until 1800, when the White House was nearly completed, that its first residents, President John Adams and his wife, Abigail, moved in. Since that time, each President has made his own changes and additions.
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Who was the first President with a degree?

John Adams, our nation's second President from 1797-1801, was the first President to graduate from college, earning a Bachelor's degree in 1755 from Harvard University. He went on to study law, in what was the usual method at the time, as an apprentice under lawyer James Putnam.
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Who was the only President to get married?

The wedding of President Grover Cleveland, who was 49 years old, and his bride Frances Folsom, who was 21 years old, took place on June 2, 1886, in the Blue Room of the White House. Cleveland was the sitting President of the United States and remains the only U.S. president to be married in the White House.
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Who was the first President to be assassinated?

The assassination occurred five days after General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac following the Battle of Appomattox Court House. Lincoln was the first American president to be killed by an assassin.
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Which two presidents were father and son?

How unusual is it for a father and son to become President of the United States? It has now happened twice in our nation's history: the Adamses (John Adams (1797-1801) and John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) and the Bushes (George H.W. Bush (1989-1993) and George W. Bush (2001-2009).
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Which president had polio?

Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States from 1933-1945, began experiencing symptoms of a paralytic illness in 1921 when he was 39 years old.
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Why was Taft buried in a piano box?

Taft, in life weighing 330 pounds, in death is haunted by the rumor that he had to be buried in a piano box (which isn't true, but hard to forget).
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