{"id":1925,"date":"2017-02-21T18:34:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T18:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2021-11-29T19:04:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T19:04:45","slug":"fun-facts-presidential-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/fun-facts-presidential-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Short Fun Facts About U.S. Presidential Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

1.<\/h2>\n
\"george-washington-drink\"

courtesy of: thedailybeast.com<\/p><\/div>\n

George Washington blew his entire campaign budget on 160 gallons of liquor to serve to potential voters. Cheers!<\/p>\n

2.<\/h2>\n
\"al-smith-alcohol\"

courtesy of: alchetron.com<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

The worst campaign slogan in history<\/a> belongs to Al Smith, who was against prohibition. To express his support for the creation, distribution, and sale of alcohol, he advertised: \u201cVote for Al Smith and he\u2019ll make your wet dreams come true.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/h2>\n

3.<\/h2>\n
\"three-reqiuments-president\"

courtesy of: rbenjamin.com<\/p><\/div>\n

There are only three requirements to be president:<\/p>\n

-Must be at least 35 years old,<\/p>\n

-Have lived in the United States at least 14 years<\/p>\n

-Be a natural-born citizen.<\/p>\n

4.<\/h2>\n
\"hillary-clinton\"

courtesy of: edition.cnn.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Hilary Clinton formally became the first woman to receive a major party nomination after the Democrats named her this summer as their candidate for the 2016 election.<\/p>\n

5.<\/h2>\n
\"obama-bible\"

courtesy of: voanews.com<\/p><\/div>\n

U.S. Presidents choose which Bible or books they want to use on inauguration day. Than President Obama<\/a> chose two Bibles: the Lincoln Bible, and to rest underneath it, Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s bible.<\/p>\n

6.<\/h2>\n
\"george-washington-fact\"

courtesy of: salon.com<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

George Washington was the only president ever elected unanimously.<\/p>\n

7.<\/h2>\n
\"woman-president\"

courtesy of: npr.org<\/p><\/div>\n

There have been over 200 women who have ever run for the position of president. These are mostly nominees of minor parties and candidates who ran for president before women achieved suffrage.<\/p>\n

8.<\/h2>\n
\"ronald-reagen-fact\"

courtesy of: reaganfoundation.org<\/p><\/div>\n

The oldest U.S. president to be elected was the famous Ronald Reagan, who was 69 at the time,\u00a0according to the Robinson Library. Clinton turned 69 on Oct. 26, while Trump is 70 years old.<\/p>\n

9.<\/h2>\n
\"presidents-died-office\"

courtesy of: topsy.one<\/p><\/div>\n

Eight presidents have died in office:<\/p>\n

William Henry Harrison (pneumonia)<\/p>\n

Zachary Taylor (gastroenteritis)<\/p>\n

Abraham Lincoln (assassination)<\/p>\n

James Garfield (assassination)<\/p>\n

William McKinley (assassination)<\/p>\n

Warren Harding (heart attack)<\/p>\n

Franklin D. Roosevelt (cerebral hemorrhage)<\/p>\n

John F. Kennedy (assassination)<\/p>\n

10.<\/h2>\n
\"victoria-woodhull\"

courtesy of: rebellioustimes.com<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in 1872.<\/p>\n

11.<\/h2>\n
\"us-congress\"

courtesy of: shsmo.org<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until 1856 that Congress removed property ownership as a requirement to vote in elections.<\/p>\n

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1. George Washington blew his entire campaign budget on 160 gallons of liquor to serve to potential voters. Cheers! 2. The worst campaign slogan in history belongs to Al Smith, who was against prohibition. To express his support for the creation, distribution, and sale of alcohol, he advertised: \u201cVote for Al Smith and he\u2019ll make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[50,305,304,250,303,302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40327,"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions\/40327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12facts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}