Did you know?

 

Thomas Jefferson wrote his own epitaph: “Author of the Declaration of American Independence, Author of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom and the Father of the University of Virginia.” Evidently, he didn’t feel being President was all that important.

 

 

 

President Zackary Taylor voted for the first time at the age of 62. Why? Because he was a soldier and moved around a great deal before he became president.  He was also a spendthrift and refused to pay postage due on the letter informing him he had been nominated to the presidency. His wife Margaret was also an independent soul.  When she lived in the White House, she refused to serve as her husband’s hostess.  The job of White House hostess went to their daughter Betty Taylor Bliss.

 

 

 

 

Ulysses S. Grant was the first president to run against a woman candidate, Virginia Woodhull. She was nominated by the “Equal Rights Party” in 1872.  Grant was the first president to receive an Indian Chief in the White House and to establish our nation’s first National Park (Yellowstone) in 1872.

 

 

 

 

 

Dwight D. Eisenhower was man of many talents. He was a skilled chef famous for his vegetable soup, steaks, and cornmeal pancakes.  He was also licensed to fly an airplane and loved golf so much he had a putting green set up on the White House lawn.

 

 

 

President Lyndon Baines Johnson used to go through the White House at night turning off lights to save taxpayers money. He was the only president to take the oath of office from a female, Judge Sarah T. Hughes, and the first president to name an African American to his cabinet.