Here are just a few fun facts of our early Presidents that you may not believe: Once, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson sawed off a piece of Shakespeares chair for a memento. Andrew Jackson taught his parrot how to curse. It was so bad that the parrot had to be removed from Jacksons funeral for swearing too much. Herbert Hoover and John Quincy Adams both had pet alligators. Grover Cleveland is the only president to have served as a hangman. He carried out multiple executions. Ulysses S. Grant once got a speeding ticket on his horse and was fined $20. James Monroe chased William Crawford, the Secretary of the Treasury, out of the White House with a pair of fire tongs. James K. Polk, at age 17, had his gallstones removed without any anesthesia or antiseptic. Warren G. Harding played poker once lost on a single hand an entire set of White House china dating back to Benjamin Harrison. Chester A. Arthur changed his pants several times a day - he owned 80 pairs of pants
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 21:06:50 +0000
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