1. Gerald Ford
   Herbert Hoover
2. Harry S. Truman
   John F. Kennedy

Immediately after graduating Yale Law School, 38th U.S. President Gerald Ford served as legal officer aboard the USS Monterey. Ford would spend 20 months on the ship, participating in actions from 1943 to 1944 such as the Battle of the Philippine Sea and the Battle of Makin.

1. Woodrow Wilson
   Donald Trump
2. William McKinley
   Chester A. Arthur

President Donald Trump was born and raised in Queens, New York. Queens is one of the city's five boroughs and received its name in 1683 after England seized control of the region from the Dutch. The borough was named in tribute to Catherine of Braganza, queen consort of King Charles II.

1. Andrew Johnson
   James Buchanan
2. Herbert Hoover
   Millard Fillmore

Humanitarian Herbert Hoover was the 31st president of the United States. Hoover penned more than 30 books, and he founded the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, a think tank that "seeks to improve the human condition by advancing ideas that promote economic opportunity and prosperity."

1. Abraham Lincoln
   Grover Cleveland
2. Warren G. Harding
   Theodore Roosevelt

Before and during his presidency, Warren G. Harding kept a mistress named Carrie Fulton Phillips. Harding authored over 100 rather lurid letters addressed to Phillips; many of the preserved letters were written on official Senate stationery.

1. William Howard Taft
   Warren G. Harding
2. Dwight D. Eisenhower
   Richard Nixon

The 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft passed down his political legacy to his son Robert A. Taft, who was a Republican senator from Ohio. Robert's son Robert Jr. held the same post. William Howard Taft III, also a son of Robert A. Taft, was ambassador to Ireland from 1953 to 1957.

1. Gerald Ford
   Millard Fillmore
2. Richard Nixon
   Andrew Johnson

From May 1972 until his death in 1994, Nixon was haunted by the Watergate scandal. Posing as plumbers, campaigners for his re-election campaign bugged Democratic offices in the Watergate Hotel.

1. Grover Cleveland
   Theodore Roosevelt
2. Barack Obama
   John F. Kennedy

Barak Obama's father, Barak Obama, Sr., was 25 when he met Obama's mother, 18-year-old Ann Dunham, in a Russian-language class. The two married on February 2, 1961 in Maui, Hawaii.

1. Lyndon B. Johnson
   Rutherford B. Hayes
2. James Buchanan
   Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland was mayor of Buffalo, New York before becoming the state's governor; then he rose to the nation's highest political office. Cleveland served two terms as U.S. president: from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.

1. Chester A. Arthur
   Zachary Taylor
2. William Henry Harrison
   Andrew Jackson

Twenty-first U.S. President Chester A. Arthur served from 1881 to 1885. He passed the nation's first immigration legislation which blocked drifters, mentally unstable persons and criminals from immigrating to the United States.

1. Rutherford B. Hayes
   James Madison
2. Donald Trump
   Grover Cleveland

The hotly contested Bush-Gore election of 2000 was history repeating itself. In 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes won the Electoral College vote; however, Hayes did not win the popular vote. The state of Florida determined the election's outcome. Sound familiar?

1. Jimmy Carter
   Lyndon B. Johnson
2. Thomas Jefferson
   George Washington

Former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson maintained a precarious relationship with war during and after his presidency. Johnson lost credibility as a result of the Vietnam War, and in the late '80s biographer Richard Caro unearthed details that disputed Johnson's claim of being a World War II hero.

1. George W. Bush
   Andrew Jackson
2. Zachary Taylor
   Franklin Pierce

Cartoonists agree that George W. Bush's eyes are a definite draw. At the start of Bush's term in 2001, artist John Kascht offered professional insight concerning Bush's orbs to "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution": "His eyes are so close together I stopped fighting it ... and just gave him one eye."

1. Gerald Ford
   Calvin Coolidge
2. Theodore Roosevelt
   Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson didn't learn to read until he was a teenager. He began his political career at 21, starting out as an alderman, then mayor to Congressman and governor of Tennessee. In 1864, Abraham Lincoln chose Johnson to be his running mate.

1. Calvin Coolidge
   John F. Kennedy
2. William Howard Taft
   Grover Cleveland

The maiden voyage for the USS John F. Kennedy, named for the 35th U.S. president, was to the Middle East. USS Kennedy's aircraft attacked Iraqi forces on January 16, 1991, kicking off Operation Desert Storm.

1. Woodrow Wilson
   Herbert Hoover
2. Harry S. Truman
   James Buchanan

The 15th president of the United States was known as "Old Buck." James Buchanan was a lawyer from Pennsylvania who served one term as president from 1857 to 1861. Buchanan's bachelor status was the subject of much discussion during his 1856 candidacy and subsequent presidency.

1. Richard Nixon
   Barack Obama
2. Millard Fillmore
   Franklin D. Roosevelt

In 1850, Vice President Millard Fillmore took over as U.S. president when Zachary Taylor died. Fillmore was responsible for signing into law the Fugitive Slave Act, which permitted the return of slaves who had escaped to Northern states.

1. James K. Polk
   Warren G. Harding
2. Theodore Roosevelt
   Benjamin Harrison

James K. Polk's presidency secured the territories of present-day Texas, New Mexico, California, Arizona, parts of Colorado, and Nevada. Polk was known to keep his wine cellar in the White House well-supplied.

1. Chester A. Arthur
   Dwight D. Eisenhower
2. Woodrow Wilson
   Donald Trump

The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower can board 5,000 sailors at a time. The aircraft carrier has a 1,092-foot deck, has a displacement of 100,000 tons, contains 29,000 light fixtures and costs $160 million annually to operate.

1. John F. Kennedy
   Herbert Hoover
2. William Henry Harrison
   Theodore Roosevelt

William Henry Harrison was inaugurated on March 4, 1841 and gave the longest inaugural address (8,445 words) in history. Harrison delivered the address without wearing a coat or covering his head. The ninth president died of pneumonia one month later.

1. Bill Clinton
   Rutherford B. Hayes
2. James Buchanan
   John Tyler

Major bombing incidents materialized during the Clinton Administration. On February 26, 1993, the World Trade Center in New York City was bombed, killing six people. One hundred sixty-eight people died when the Oklahoma City federal building was bombed on April 19, 1995.

1. Millard Fillmore
   James A. Garfield
2. James Monroe
   Grover Cleveland

Fifth U.S President James Monroe was the first president to hold his inauguration outdoors, and he was the first to travel by steamboat as president. Monroe was inaugurated on March 4, 1817.

1. Harry S. Truman
   Theodore Roosevelt
2. Gerald Ford
   Bill Clinton

Former U.S. President Harry S. Truman ordered the nuclear bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima at the close of World War II in 1945. The bombs were intended to target mostly enemy noncombatants, of which over 100,000 perished.

1. George W. Bush
   John Tyler
2. James Monroe
   George H. W. Bush

George Herbert Walker Bush served as a Navy pilot during World War II. He was a U.S. congressman, head of the CIA, a diplomat and forty-first president of the United States. He and wife Barbara Bush had been married for 73 years before she passed in April 2018.

1. Martin Van Buren
   Andrew Johnson
2. Theodore Roosevelt
   James A. Garfield

Theodore Roosevelt lived at 28 East 20th Street in Manhattan from his birth until age 14. Roosevelt was the descendant of Dutch merchants who made their wealth in New York. The name Roosevelt means "rose field" in Dutch.

1. John Quincy Adams
   Benjamin Harrison
2. William McKinley
   Woodrow Wilson

John Quincy Adams was the first photographed U.S. president. Adams argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Amistad case, where Spain petitioned for the return of African slaves that the country declared as property. The court sided with Adams and the slaves were allowed to return to Africa.

1. Calvin Coolidge
   Franklin D. Roosevelt
2. Richard Nixon
   Andrew Jackson

President Andrew Jackson served from 1829 to 1837. Jackson is remembered for his disdain for Native Americans, and he signed the "Indian Removal Act" into law in 1830, which caused the Trail of Tears as people who historically lived on the land were forcibly moved west of the Mississippi.

1. Harry S. Truman
   Ronald Reagan
2. Herbert Hoover
   William Howard Taft

For many years after the end of Ronald Reagan's presidency, there have been over 100 dedications honoring the 40th U.S. president. A prominent airport, U.S. Postal Service structures, roads, an aircraft carrier and schools all bear his name.

1. Dwight D. Eisenhower
   Theodore Roosevelt
2. Martin Van Buren
   Grover Cleveland

Martin Van Buren is the first president that wasn't born under British authority. Prior to George H. W. Bush, Van Buren was the last incumbent vice president to be elected president of the United States.

1. William McKinley
   John Tyler
2. Bill Clinton
   Herbert Hoover

President John Tyler was the 10th president of the United States, serving from 1841 to 1845. At 63, Tyler, who was born in 1790, fathered son Lyon Gardiner Tyler who then fathered a son in 1928, Harrison Tyler, when he was 75 years old. The former president had a grandson living in the 21st century.

1. John F. Kennedy
   Warren G. Harding
2. Zachary Taylor
   Ulysses S. Grant

Zachary Taylor was to be sworn in as president on March 4, 1849, a Sunday. But Taylor was very religious and did not permit the ceremony to take place on his sabbath day. His diamond-studded 18-karat gold watch was willed to his nephew, who lent the watch to his cousin, infamous outlaw Jesse James.

1. William Howard Taft
   Franklin Pierce
2. Grover Cleveland
   Herbert Hoover

Many historians do not regard 14th U.S. President Franklin Pierce very highly. Pierce allegedly worsened North and South relations concerning slavery, and he botched a bid to purchase Cuba from Spain.

1. Jimmy Carter
   Richard Nixon
2. William McKinley
   Abraham Lincoln

At Jimmy Carter's inaugural address as governor of Georgia, he announced: "The time for segregation is over." Carter's remark would set the tone for his post-Nixon, progressive and anti-establishment style of presidential politics.

1. James K. Polk
   Martin Van Buren
2. Thomas Jefferson
   Calvin Coolidge

The early morning hours of August 3, 1923, President Warren G. Harding unexpectedly died. Shortly after, then Vice President Calvin Coolidge, a Vermont native, affirmed the oath of office of the President of the United States in his father's farmhouse.

1. John Adams
   William Henry Harrison
2. James A. Garfield
   Abraham Lincoln

After candidate Abraham Lincoln's fourth debate with Stephen Douglas on September 21, 1858, he retired to the home of a friend. He had already removed boots from his swollen feet when a group arrived to hear more from the candidate. Unable to put his boots back on, he spoke to them in stocking feet.

1. Franklin Pierce
   Ulysses S. Grant
2. Rutherford B. Hayes
   Warren G. Harding

Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the United States and American Civil War commander of the Northern forces. For helping to settle a dispute between Britain and Portugal in the 1800s, the Portuguese put up a statue of him in Guinea-Bissau, a former colony of Portugal.

1. Herbert Hoover
   Harry S. Truman
2. James A. Garfield
   Gerald Ford

Eliza Ballou Garfield affectionately known as "Grandmother Garfield," was the first mother of a president to reside in the White House. The twentieth U.S. president's affection for his elderly mother was well-known. At his March 4, 1881 inauguration, he kissed her as soon as he became president.

1. Andrew Johnson
   Chester A. Arthur
2. Benjamin Harrison
   James Buchanan

In 1853, Benjamin Harrison married Caroline Lavinia Scott. Harrison's former residence is now a museum at 1230 N. Delaware Street in Indianapolis. The 23rd president was the grandson of William Henry Harrison, the nation's ninth U.S. president.

1. Richard Nixon
   Gerald Ford
2. William McKinley
   Jimmy Carter

William McKinley was a courageous war veteran who in 1861 joined the 23rd Ohio Regiment when the American Civil War broke out, serving for 14 months. McKinley was assassinated in Buffalo, New York at the start of his second term as president.

1. Woodrow Wilson
   George H. W. Bush
2. Bill Clinton
   George Washington

The former home of 28th U.S. President Woodrow Wilson is a presidential museum and national landmark in Washington, D.C. The museum curates a collection of well over 8,000 objects, many from the former president's two terms in office.

1. Benjamin Harrison
   Franklin D. Roosevelt
2. Theodore Roosevelt
   Calvin Coolidge

Franklin D. Roosevelt contracted polio before residing in the White House. Although he used a wheelchair to move about, his administration worked tirelessly to conceal the severity of disability from the public. Journalists close to Roosevelt did not reveal images of his wheelchair.