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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No president of the United States was an only child for his parents.
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President George W. Bush and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner are cousins!
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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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Every U.S. president with a beard has been a Republican.
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Jimmy Carter is the first U.S. President to have been born in a hospital.
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In ancient Athens, the worlds first democracy, they had a process called ostracism, where once a year the people could vote on the politician they thought was most destructive to the democratic process. The “winner” was banished from Athens for 10 years.
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