Interesting facts about inauguration day

 Really interesting facts about inauguration day too bad they are not true at all.

1) The first inaugural ball was held in the White House, and it wasn't a big bash like Obama had with his friends last time. It was more of a private party for the President himself. He invited some people he knew would be there, but didn't want to invite everyone else.

2) There were no bands or DJs playing at the inaugural ball. Instead, there was a speech by Harry Truman that lasted over an hour. It was so long that people actually left the room to go do other things, then return for the ending of the speech. When it was over, there was a small round of applause, and that was it.

3) Grover Cleveland was the only person to serve two non-consecutive terms as President. He also had the shortest presidency, lasting less than one year.

4) William Howard Taft is the only person who was both a senator and president. He was president from 1909 to 1913 and a senator from Ohio since 1883.

5) Grover Cleveland is the only person to be both the 22nd and 24th President. He also served as the governor of New York, and was the only person to serve non-consecutive terms in both the House of Representatives and Senate.

6) The first time Franklin D. Roosevelt was invited to the White House, his mother made him decline the invitation on moral grounds. She felt it would be bad for him to go to parties at the White House, so she made him decline. He didn't have much social life during his youth, besides attending his sister's parties. He always felt bad about this, and years later he wrote a letter of apology to William McKinley before his death in 1921.

7) On January 20, 1901, on the same day that McKinley was shot, an "open rebellion" took place in the United States military. A group of soldiers based in Washington, D.C. had planned to kidnap the commanding general of the entire army, and hand the country over to the rebels fighting in Cuba. They had gathered explosives, weapons, and even a dynamite-filled railroad car. They were stopped before they could carry out their plan, but it caught a lot of attention, including that of President McKinley. A few days later, William James Zuber - a career soldier who was the very man the plot targeted - was promoted to the rank of brigadier general. (He was later promoted to major general, the highest possible rank an officer can achieve.)

8) John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were the only two Presidents who never owned slaves.

9) Martin Van Buren didn't finish high school, and actually dropped out of Kindergarten.

10) William Henry Harrison had a very limited command of English, and spoke only his native Scottish Gaelic at one time. This might have had something to do with why he spent a lot of his time drinking alcohol, which led to the nickname "Harpo" (Harpooner).

11) James K. Polk was the only President to serve as a war hero. He served in the Mexican-American War, during which he was one of the first to enter Mexico City. He was also the only President to have killed someone while serving in the military, when he shot and killed a man during the war. He was a captain at the time.

12) James Garfield was the only President to be born and grow up in the state of his eventual Presidency. He was born in Missouri and later became President while still living in Ohio.

13) Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt (both safe), and John F. Kennedy (both won) are the only Presidents born while their fathers were serving as Presidents.

14) Gerald Ford was the first and so far only President to have been sworn in after having been elected Vice President. He was sworn in when Spiro Agnew resigned from the position. He served only 16 months as Vice President, after which he was succeeded by Nelson A. Rockefeller who served for eight months.

15) James Garfield was the first and so far only President to have his funeral scheduled on the very day his term started, July 2, 1881. He had been in office for only 16 minutes when the public notice was sent out for his funeral. He was succeeded by his Vice President, Chester A. Arthur, who had been sworn in only a few hours before. The following year, Rutherford B. Hayes also took office on the same day his predecessor died. He too held office for 16 minutes before his funeral was held. Successors to both men held office for only a few minutes before they too were succeeded.

16) James Garfield was the first and so far only President to have been assassinated while in office. He was shot on July 2, 1881 by John Wilkes Booth. Since that time, no other president has died in office. If you add up all the time spent between assassinations, it comes to nearly sixty years. The longest period between deaths of any president was thirty-six years, between William McKinley and William Crowe.

17) John F. Kennedy is the only president to have been assassinated while still serving as a Senator. He was assassinated in Washington D.C. on November22, 1963 during his campaign to win the Presidency.

18) Gerald Ford was the first and so far only president to ascend to the presidency by being appointed to it. He was nominated by Richard M. Nixon to replace him when he resigned in disgrace after the Watergate Scandal.

19) The longest period between two presidential elections was between 1860 and 1864. The shortest period between elections was between 1912 and 1916, lasting only ninety days.

20) Only four Presidents died in office: William H. Harrison (the only president to die of natural causes), John F. Kennedy, L.B. Johnson and Ronald Reagan. Of these men, the only two to have been originally elected are John F. Kennedy and Gerald Ford, while the other two (William Henry Harrison and Lyndon Baines Johnson) were not.

21) The shortest period between a presidential inauguration and death was between December 6, 1941 and January 23, 1945. Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April1945, forty two days after his fourth inauguration.

22) The shortest period between a presidential inauguration and ascension to the presidency was between December 6, 1941 and January 23, 1945. Franklin D. Roosevelt died on April1945, forty two days after his fourth inauguration.

23) The first and so far only President to have been born in a foreign country was John Adams, who was born in England. He was the first two term president (his second term began when George Washington resigned in 1797), serving from March 4, 1797 until his own death on July 4, 1801.

24) The only Presidents never to have held any other public office or military rank were William Taft, Herbert Clark Hoover and George Romney. The two former served in the Philippine Senate and the latter was a doctor.

25) The only person to have been both a vice-president and president without being elected either office was Richard Cheney. He was elected to the position of Vice-President in 2000, and succeeded to the Presidency on January 20, 2001 after the death of President William Clinton.

26) Gerald Ford was the only person to ascend to the Presidency by being nominated by a president who had died. Gerald Ford was nominated by Ronald Reagan to replace him in the White House after he was shot in an assassination attempt.

27) Both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were presidents of the United States for only a few months. John Adams was inaugurated in 1801 and served until his death in 1825. Thomas Jefferson succeeded Adams as president in 1801 and served until 1809.

28) James A. Garfield was the first president to die in office, when he was assassinated by Charles Lee Harvey in 1881. He was succeeded by his vice-president, Chester A. Arthur.

29) The only president to have been a general in the Civil War was Ulysses S. Grant. He served as a colonel in the Union Army and was present at the Battle of Fort Sumter, the first major battle of the war.

30) The only person to have served as a US senator and vice-president is George M. Bush Jr. He was Senator for the State of Texas during the Nineties, and was also the running mate for presidential candidate and father of the current president, George W. Bush, in 2000.

31) Both John Nance Garner and Martin Van Buren were vice-presidents for two different presidents. Garner was Vice-President to Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) and Martin Van Buren was second to Jacksonian war hero and Indian fighter Van Buren.

32) The shortest term served by a president was that of William R. Cannon, who was in office for just thirty days, from October 3, 1871 until October 24, 1871.

33) The only president to have been a senator is also the only one to have been an original member of the Know-Nothing Party. This is John Adams, who was a United States senator from Massachusetts (1800-1801), during the first two years of the nineteenth century.

34) Rutherford B. Hayes, the only former governor of a state to become president, is also the only one to have been a slave owner. He owned a single slaves during his time in the Senate (1853-1857).

35) James Meredith, the man who shook up the world when he became the first African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi in 1962, was appointed US Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi by John F. Kennedy.

36) Both James K. Polk and William McKinley were assassinated while in office. The former was killed by Walter Pike in 1848, the latter by an unknown assailant in 1901.

37) The only person to have both an official and an unofficial portrait painted of them is John Adams. His official portrait was painted by John Page, while his friend Asher B. Durand painted a more pleasant portrait of him.

38) Calvin Coolidge was the only president to never have undergone a physical examination for his job. The thirty-ninth president took office after his predecessor, in the line of succession, died of a heart attack.

39) Gerald Ford was the only person to have been appointed or elected to both the House of Representatives and the Senate, though he is not technically a "congressman" as he never took his seat. He was a representative from Michigan during the forty-third congress (1913-1915).

Although those are interesting facts about inauguration day they are not real facts...