America's sixth president, John Quincy Adams, was known for his intellectual mind and passion for science and exploration. During his presidency, explorers were charting the western frontier like never before, and revolutionary scientific findings were being examined and documented.
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The legacy of Jefferson Davis is tarnished by his tenure as president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War and indictment for treason.
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In today's cutthroat political era, Americans are used to hearing a lot about presidential elections, but it wasn't always like that.
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It's usually safe to assume that the winner of the popular vote will win the electoral college. That assumption has fallen flat five times in American history.
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At the age of 77, Joe Biden would be the oldest president in United States history were he to win the 2020 election. That's why many wonder if Joe Biden would run for president in 2024 if he loses to President Donald Trump.
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If President Donald Trump loses the 2020 US election, what happens then? Some think he'll refuse to peacefully hand over the presidency. Others think he'll try to become president again in 2024, which begs the question: Can Donald Trump run for president in 2024 if he loses to Joe Biden?
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In the constitution, the rules for future presidents were outlined, including a natural citizenship requirement and an age requirement. The age requirement to run for president of the United States starts at 35. The president's age was of great debate in the 1700s.
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Some candidates try again and again to be president, but success forever eludes their grasp. So you might be wondering, what's the most times someone has run for president of the United States?
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Lyon Sr., like his presidential father, also had a second wife, and was in his 70s when Lyon Jr. (1925) and Harrison (1928) were born, said CBS. Lyon Jr. died on September 26, 2020 at 95.
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There's a lot to be said about the United States of America's third president, Thomas Jefferson. But presidents aren't superhuman. Jefferson had one fear, in particular, was quite strange given the man's very public career path. This was Thomas Jefferson's strange fear during his presidency.
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Before the internet, presidents were able to hide a lot - including major illnesses. Here are presidents who hid their poor health from the public.
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Kamala Harris's friendship with Biden's late son, Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015, and their mutual grief over the loss, helped mend the rocky relationship. The Guardian reports that to Harris, Beau was an "incredible friend and colleague." Both served as state attorneys general.
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Harrison made a key update to the historical White House: Namely, he ordered electric power to be installed. Harrison himself, however, wanted nothing to do with electricity or electric lights. Or at least, he wanted nothing to do with the lights' switches.
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Besides Vaseline in particular, Coolidge had some interesting ideas about health in general. The website Medicare Supplement ranks him as the 22nd healthiest president in history, earning a grade of C and receiving the dubious distinction of "pickiest eater of all presidents."
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Certain U.S. vice presidents would have done better staying away from Pennsylvania Avenue. And some of them found themselves promoted to the highest office in the world and failing just as much as they did as vice presidents. These are the worst vice presidents in American history.
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The fable originated with "one of Washington's first biographers, an itinerant minister and bookseller named Mason Locke Weems." When Washington died in 1799, Weems immediately saw an opportunity to fulfill the American public's desire to learn more about the founding father.
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Andrew Johnson was Abraham Lincoln's vice-president and assumed the United States presidency after John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln on April 15, 1865. Less than three years later, Johnson was facing impeachment. Here's the truth about the first president to be impeached.
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Despite his legacy for legislating the New Deal that enabled America's prosperity post the Second World War, Franklin Delano Roosevelt also signed the order that allowed for the internment of Japanese Americans, as well as German and Italian Americans, during the war.
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George Washington died suddenly on December 14, 1799, just two years after he left office as the first President of the United States.
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Donald Trump's net worth isn't quite what he makes it out to be, to say the least. Here's what we can determine is actually his wealth.
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You'll be thrilled to learn that these United States were overseen by a man who claimed to have spotted a flying saucer in Calhoun County, Georgia. The claim, detailed in a remarkably official looking report to the International UFO Bureau in Oklahoma, was made by one Jimmy Carter.
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In June of 1845, Andrew Jackson was 78 years old -- roughly 248 in 19th century years. Soon he'd be buried -- but not how you might expect.
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The vice president makes roughly enough to buy 100 medium-range French bulldogs. Here's how much that is.
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It's not the cherriest of gigs, running the free world. Still, the office is nice, and you get your own bowling alley. Maybe that's why children across the United States dream of the day when they'll grow up to be president.
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Many know George Washington Carver as "that peanut guy," but this hardly scratches the surface. This is the untold truth of George Washington Carver.
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Ulysses S. Grant should be a lot more famous than he is, but his name mainly comes up during discussions about greatest generals or worst presidents. However, the untold truth of Ulysses S. Grant is a much richer and more fascinating story.
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It's not all that unusual for people with similar endgames to disagree about the strategy to get there. Even really smart people. Even the Founding Fathers.
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