Daniel Webster, who ran for president and lost three times, declined the Vice Presidency twice, thinking it a worthless office. Both presidents who offered it later died in office, meaning that if he had accepted, he would’ve become president after all.
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Former U.S. Congressman John Jenrette once had sex with his wife on the steps of the Capitol Building during a break in a late night Congressional session.
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There was a pre-WWII movement called Technocracy, which held that scientists and engineers should take over the government and economy from politicians and economists. The leader of the movement was known as the Great Engineer.
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Every U.S. president with a beard has been a Republican.
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Of all things, Andrew Jackson's tombstone does not mention that he served as the president of the United States!
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In 1789, the total U.S. federal government debt was $190,000.
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Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.
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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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