Fun
Facts About our Presidents
Which
president cut down a cherry tree, or is that just a myth?
I have provided you with some basic information
about our presidents. Your task is to reaserch
more facts about them. The facts can be funny,
serious, good or bad.
Using the fun fact sheet to your right, please fill in
your name, the fun fact you found,
and the resourse where you found the information.
A resourse can be a book, web site,
magazine, or news paper. My resourse was
the Internet Public Library
(HINT, HINT).
The information on this web page will become very handy
when you research and write a term
paper for the 6th grade president project in April.
One fact is due each Friday at noon. I will add
your facts to the web page.
If you have questions about this project you must
e-mail them to me. I will check e-mails twice a day.
GOOD LUCK!
George Washington
1st President of the United States
(April 30, 1789 to March 3, 1797)
Nickname: "Father of His Country"
Born: February 22, 1732, in Westmoreland
County, Virginia
Died: December 14, 1799, at Mount
Vernon , Virginia
John Adams
2nd President of the United States
(March 4, 1797 to March 3, 1801)
Nickname: "Atlas of Independence"
Born: October 30, 1735, in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts
Died: July 4, 1826, in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts
Thomas Jefferson
3rd President of the United States
(March 4, 1801 to March 3, 1809)
Nicknames: "Man of the People"; "Sage of Monticello"
Born: April 13, 1743, in Shadwell, Virginia
Died: July 4, 1826, at Monticello
(near Charlottesville, Virginia
James Madison
4th President of the United States
(March 4, 1809 to March 3, 1817)
Nicknames: "Father of the Constitution"
Born: March 16, 1751, in Port Conway, Virginia
Died: June 28, 1836, at Montpelier
, Virginia
James Monroe
5th President of the United States
(March 4, 1817 to March 3, 1825)
Nicknames: "The Last Cocked Hat"; "Era-of-Good-Feeling President"
Born: April 28, 1758, in Westmoreland County, Virginia
Died: July 4, 1831, in New York, New York
John Quincy Adams
6th President of the United States
(March 4, 1825 to March 3, 1829)
Nickname: "Old Man Eloquent"
Born: July 11, 1767, in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts
Died: February 23, 1848, in Washington, D.C.
Andrew Jackson
7th President of the United States
(March 4, 1829 to March 3, 1837)
Nickname: "Old Hickory"
Born: March 15, 1767, in Waxhaw, South Carolina
Died: June 8, 1845, at the Hermitage
in Nashville, Tennessee
Martin Van Buren
8th President of the United States
(March 4, 1837 to March 3, 1841)
Nicknames: "The Little Magician"; "The Red Fox of Kinderhook
"
Born: December 5, 1782, in Kinderhook,
New York
Died: July 24, 1862, in Kinderhook,
New York
William Henry Harrison
9th President of the United States
(March 4, 1841 to April 4, 1841)
Nicknames: "Old Tippecanoe
"; "Old Tip"
Born: February 9, 1773, in Berkeley, Virginia
Died: April 4, 1841, in Washington, D.C.
John Tyler
10th President of the United States
(April 6, 1841 to March 3, 1845)
Nicknames: "Accidental President"; "His Accidency"
Born: March 29, 1790, in Greenway, Virginia
Died: January 18, 1862, in Richmond, Virginia
James Knox Polk
11th President of the United States
(March 4, 1845 to March
3, 1849 )
Nickname: "Young Hickory"
Born: November 2, 1795, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Died: June 15, 1849, in Nashville, Tennessee
Zachary Taylor
12th President of the United States
(March
5, 1849 to July 9, 1850)
Nickname: "Old Rough and Ready"
Born: November 24, 1784, near Barboursville, Virginia
Died: July 9, 1850, in Washington, D.C.
Millard Fillmore
13th President of the United States
(July 9, 1850 to March 3, 1853)
Nickname: "The American Louis Philippe"
Born: January 7, 1800, in Locke Township (now Summerhill), New
York
Died: March 8, 1874 in Buffalo, New York
Franklin Pierce
14th President of the United States
(March 4, 1853 to March 3, 1857)
Nickname: "Young Hickory of the Granite Hills"
Born: November 23, 1804, in Hillsborough (now Hillsboro), New
Hampshire
Died: October 8, 1869, in Concord, New Hampshire
James Buchanan
15th President of the United States
(March 4, 1857 to March 3, 1861)
Nickname: "Old Buck"
Born: April 23, 1791, in Cove Gap (near Mercersburg), Pennsylvania
Died: June 1, 1868, at Wheatland
(near Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States
(March 4, 1861 to April 15, 1865)
Nicknames: "Honest Abe"; "Illinois Rail-Splitter"
Born: February 12, 1809, in Hardin
(now Larue) County, Kentucky
Died: April 15, 1865, at Petersen's
Boarding House in Washington, D.C.
Andrew Johnson
17th President of the United States
(April 15, 1865 to March 3, 1869)
Nickname: None
Born: December 29, 1808, in Raleigh, North Carolina
Died: July 31, 1875, in Carter's Station, Tennessee
Ulysses Simpson Grant
18th President of the United States
(March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1877)
Nickname: "Hero of Appomattox
"
Born: April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio
Died: July 23, 1885, in Mount
McGregor, New York
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
19th President of the United States
(March 4, 1877 to March 3, 1881)
Nickname: "Dark-Horse President"
Born: October 4, 1822, in Delaware, Ohio
Died: January 17, 1893, at Spiegel
Grove in Fremont, Ohio
James Abram Garfield
20th President of the United States
(March 4, 1881 to September 19, 1881)
Nickname: None
Born: November 19, 1831, in Orange, Ohio
Died: September 19, 1881, in Elberon, New Jersey
Chester Alan Arthur
21st President of the United States
(September 19, 1881 to March 3, 1885)
Nickname: "The Gentleman Boss"; "Elegant Arthur"
Born: October 5, 1830, in Fairfield, Vermont
Died: November 18, 1886, in New York, New York
Grover Cleveland
22nd and 24th President of the United States
(March 4, 1885 to March 3, 1889 and March 4, 1893 to March 3, 1897)
Nickname: None
Born: March 18, 1837, in Caldwell, New Jersey
Died: June 24, 1908, in Princeton, New Jersey
Benjamin Harrison
23rd President of the United States
(March 4, 1889 to March 3, 1893
Nicknames: "Kid Gloves Harrison"; "Little Ben"
Born: August 20, 1833, in North Bend, Ohio
Died: March 13, 1901, in Indianapolis, Indiana
William McKinley
25th President of the United States
(March 4, 1897 to September 14, 1901)
Nickname: "Idol of Ohio"
Born: January 29, 1843, in Niles,
Ohio
Died: September 14, 1901, in Buffalo,
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States
(September 14, 1901 to March 3, 1909)
Nicknames: "TR"; "Trust-Buster"; "Teddy"
Born: October 27, 1858, in New
York, New York
Died: January 6, 1919, in Oyster
Bay, New York
William Howard Taft
27th President of the United States
(March 4, 1909 to March 3, 1913)
Nickname: None
Born: September 15, 1857, in Cincinnati,
Ohio
Died: March 8, 1930, in Washington, D.C.
Woodrow Wilson
28th President of the United States
(March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1921)
Nickname: "Schoolmaster in Politics"
Born: December 28, 1856, in Staunton,
Virginia
Died: February 3, 1924, in Washington,
D.C.
Warren Gamaliel Harding
29th President of the United States
(March 4, 1921 to August 2, 1923)
Nickname: None
Born: November 2, 1865, near Corsica (now Blooming Grove), Ohio
Died: August 2, 1923, in San Francisco, California
Calvin Coolidge
30th President of the United States
(August 3, 1923 to March 3, 1929)
Nickname: "Silent Cal"
Born: July 4, 1872, in Plymouth, Vermont
Died: January 5, 1933, in Northampton, Massachusetts
Herbert Clark Hoover
31st President of the United States
(March 4, 1929 to March 3, 1933)
Nickname: None
Born: August 10, 1874, in West
Branch, Iowa
Died: October 20, 1964, in New York, New York
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States
(March 4, 1933 to April 12, 1945)
Nickname: "FDR"
Born: January 30, 1882, in Hyde
Park, New York
Died: April 12, 1945, in Warm Springs, Georgia
Harry S. Truman
33rd President of the United States
(April 12, 1945 to January 20, 1953)
Nickname: "Give 'Em Hell Harry"
Born: May 8, 1884, in Lamar, Missouri
Died: December 26, 1972, in Kansas City, Missouri
Dwight David Eisenhower
34th President of the United States
(January 20, 1953 to January 20, 1961)
Nickname: "Ike"
Born: October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas
Died: March 28, 1969, in Washington, D.C.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
35th President of the United States
(January 20, 1961 to November 22, 1963)
Nickname: "JFK"
Born: May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts
Died: November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas
Lyndon Baines Johnson
36th President of the United States
(November 22, 1963 to January 20, 1969)
Nickname: "LBJ"
Born: August 27, 1908, near Johnson City, Texas
Died: January 22, 1973, near Johnson City, Texas
Richard Milhous Nixon
37th President of the United States
(January 20, 1969 to August 9, 1974)
Nickname: None
Born: January 9, 1913, in Yorba Linda, California
Died: April 22, 1994, in New York
Gerald Rudolph Ford
38th President of the United States
(August 9, 1974 to January 20, 1977)
Nickname: "Jerry"
Born: July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska
James Earl Carter, Jr.
39th President of the United States
(January 20, 1977 to January 20, 1981)
Nickname: "Jimmy"
Born: October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia
Ronald Wilson Reagan
40th President of the United States
(January 20, 1981 to January 20, 1989)
Nicknames: "The Gipper"; "The Great Communicator"
Born: February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois
George Herbert Walker Bush
41st President of the United States
(January 20, 1989 to January 20, 1993)
Nickname: "Poppy"
Born: June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts
William Jefferson Clinton
42nd President of the United States
(January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001)
Nicknames: "Bill"
Born: August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas
George Walker Bush
43rd President of the United States
(January 20, 2001 to Present)
Nicknames: "W", "Little George"
Born: July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut