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Who was the only U.S. president to serve as a member of the
Congress of the Confederate States?
A: John Tyler.

What presidential candidate ran his campaign from prison, on 1920?
A: Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist Party candidate. Jailed for sedition, he received nearly one million votes.

Both President John Tyler Jr. and his father, John Tyler Sr. served as governor of what state?
A: Virginia.

What name did George Washington use in addressing his friend the Marquis de Lafayette?
A: Fayette.

What twentieth-century American president was so obsessed with secrecy that he often wrote "burn this" on personal letters?
A: Lyndon Baines Johnson.

What famous American politician coined the phrase "lunatic fringe"?
A: Teddy Roosevelt. He used the term in 1913 to describe people of excessive zeal within the reform groups that supported him.

What crime was the U.S. Secret Service established to combat when it was created in 1865?
 A: Counterfeiting. It was not until 1901, after the assassinations of Presidents Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield and William McKinley, that the Secret Service was given the job of protecting American presidents.

How many doors are there in the 132-room White House?
A: 412.

What three successive American presidents were Republicans, Union army generals and born in Ohio?
A: Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield.

Who was the only president born in Illinois, the Land of Lincoln?
A: Ronald Reagan. He was born in Tampico, Illinois. Lincoln was born in Kentucky.

What were the Four Freedoms outlined by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his State of the Union message to Congress in January 1941?
A: Freedom of speech and worship, and freedom from want and fear.

Who was the only American president to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy?
A: Jimmy Carter, who was in the class of 1946.

How many men named Johnson have served as vice president of the United States?
A: Three--Richard Mentor Johnson, who served with Martin Van Buren; Andrew Johnson, who served with Abraham Lincoln and succeeded him as president; and Lyndon Baines Johnson, who served with John F. Kennedy and succeeded him as president.

How many presidents did J. Edgar Hoover serve under as chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation?
A: Eight--Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon AB. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. Hoover headed the agency from 1924 until his death in 1972.

:How many animals did ex-presiddent Theodore Roosevelt bag during his 11-month hunting expedition to Africa after leaving office in 1909?
A: 296--including 9 lions, 5 elephants, 13 rhinos and 7 hippos.

How many times did Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas debate during their 1858 race for the U.S. Senate?
A: Seven. They debated in each of Illinois' seven congressional districts. Douglas won the election--and Lincoln gained national prominence.

What president's bid for reelection inspired the opposition slogan, "Let's get another deck"?
A: Franklin Delano Roosevelt's--in 1936. The slogan ws the Republican party's response to Roosevelt's New Deal.