KIDS, IN SUNDAY SCHOOL #4UnknownAmie212008-08-12T16:27:00Z2008-12-18T11:48:00Z2008-12-18T11:48:00Z14902798KYOWVA Evangelistic Association236328211.0000PRESIDENTS, FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT… By Dr. Hoyt W. Allen, Jr.RECORD SETTERSTallest: Abraham Lincoln (6 feet 4 inches) Shortest: James Madison (5 feet 4 inches) Heaviest: William Howard Taft (over 300 lbs) Biggest feet: Warren G. Harding (size 14) Youngest elected: John F. Kennedy (43) Youngest to take office: Theodore Roosevelt (42) Oldest elected: Ronald Reagan (69) Longest-lived: Gerald Ford (93 yrs 166 days) Longest time in Office: Franklin D. Roosevelt (12 years) Shortest time in Office: William Henry Harrison (32 days)FIRST PRESIDENT WHO WASBorn a US citizen: Martin Van Buren Born west of the Mississippi: Herbert Hoover (Iowa) Born in a log cabin: Andrew Jackson Born in a hospital: Jimmy Carter Bearded: Abraham Lincoln A bearded democrat: none Assassinated: Abraham Lincoln Impeached: Andrew Johnson A boomer: Bill ClintonFIRST PRESIDENT WHODied in office: William Henry Harrison Attended a major league baseball game: Benjamin Harrison Spoke on radio: Warren G. Harding Appeared on TV: Franklin D. Roosevelt Established a National Park: Ulysses S. Grant (Yellowstone) Presided over 50 states: Dwight D. Eisenhower Appointed a woman to his cabinet: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Frances Perkins) Appointed an African American to his cabinet: Lyndon B. Johnson (Robert C. Weaver)ONLY PRESIDENT WHODidn’t live in Washington: George Washington Was defeated by his vice president: John Adams (Thomas Jefferson) (continued)(continued)Founded a University: Thomas Jefferson (University of Virginia) Could write with both hands at the same time in two different languages: James Garfield Hanged People: Grover Cleveland (as a county sheriff) Served two nonconsecutive terms: Grover Cleveland Later Served as Supreme Court Chief Justice: William Howard Taft Was Sworn into office by his father: Calvin Coolidge (John Calvin Coolidge) Resigned: Richard Nixon Served as both Vice president and President without being elected to either: Gerald Ford Survived a bullet wound while in office: Ronald Reagan Earned a PH.D.: Woodrow Wilson Earned an MBA: George W. Bush Served in the 20th Century and didn’t graduate from college: Harry S. TrumanFAMILY MATTERSOnly children: None Raised with half-siblings only: Franklin Roosevelt, Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton Bachelor: James Buchanan Got married while president: Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson Divorced: Ronald Reagan Fathered the most children: John Tyler (15) Fathered another president: John Adams and George H.W. Bush (John Quincy Adams and George W. Bush) Grandfather of another president: William Henry Harrison (Benjamin Harrison) Father-in-law to confederate president: Zachary Taylor (Jefferson Davis). One thing is for certain – all of our past Presidents were believers in the Creator God, in which the Bible teaches. May we elect men (or women) to serve as our country’s leaders who recognize they are made by God’s design and strive to promote His ways to govern our country and to encourage our country to be “One Nation Under God”!KYOWVA Evangelistic Association1541 S. 7th Street Ironton, OH 45638Web Page: www.kyowva.comFree Bible Course Upon Request