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Rare Lincoln Photo Found in Grant Album 12 Mar 2009 | 09:52 am
What may be the last photo to be taken of Abraham Lincoln before his death has surfaced in an a photo album of Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant VI, President Grant’s great-great-grandson, was recent...
10 Interesting Facts About William Taft 7 Mar 2009 | 04:44 pm
10. Play ball! Taft was the first president to throw the first ball of baseball season, beginning a tradition that continues today. The game was a 1910 game between the Washington Senators and the Ph...
10 Interesting Facts About Theodore Roosevelt 5 Mar 2009 | 06:33 am
10. First to leave the country Roosevelt was the first president to travel outside of the continental United States while in office. In 1906, he traveled to Panama. 9. Church and State Although Roo...
10 Interesting Facts About William McKinley 2 Mar 2009 | 06:17 pm
10. First in an automobile McKinley was the first president to ride in an automobile while in office. After he was shot, he was transported to the hospital in an electric ambulance. 9. McKinley show...
10 Interesting Facts About Benjamin Harrison 2 Mar 2009 | 12:48 am
10. A President’s grandson Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of President William Henry Harrison, the 9th President of the United States. Benjamin was seven years old when his grandfather was elect...
10 Interesting Facts About Chester Arthur 1 Mar 2009 | 08:26 am
10. A sharp dressed man Arthur was sometimes called “elegant Arthur” for his interest in fashionable attire and on his last day in office, four young women offered to marry him. It was said he had ov...
10 Interesting Facts About James Garfield 28 Feb 2009 | 06:04 pm
10. Garfield was a southpaw Garfield was the first left handed president. He was also the first ambidextrous president. It is said you could ask him a question in English and he could simultaneously ...
10 Interesting Facts About Rutherford Hayes 28 Feb 2009 | 03:23 pm
10. First presidential telephone President Hayes was the first president to use a telephone while in office. It was installed in the White House in 1879 by none other than Alexander Graham Bell. 9. ...
10 Interesting Facts About Ulysses S. Grant 26 Feb 2009 | 04:43 pm
10. Grant narrowly missed Lincoln’s assassination Grant had been invited to go to Ford theater with President Lincoln but he and his wife Julia decided to travel to New Jersey to visit their children...
10 Interesting Facts About Abraham Lincoln 8 Feb 2009 | 04:41 pm
10. Lincoln has no heirs Although Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln produced four sons, there are no living descendants today. Three of their sons died before the age of twenty. Edward d...
