Presidential Trivia

[N.i.K.]

Who was expected to be nominated by the Republicans in 1860?

[Nixon in '80]

Who was expected to be nominated by the Republicans in 1860?

I'm pretty sure Seward was the frontrunner going into the convention.

[GMantis]

Yep. Ran only in Alabama.

Won 0.26%. Not bad, considering Alabama's election laws at that time.

[N.i.K.]

Who was expected to be nominated by the Republicans in 1860?

I'm pretty sure Seward was the frontrunner going into the convention.

CORRECT!

[GPORTER]

Which US President once paid a membership fee to the Ku Klux Klan?

[paul718]

Which US President once paid a membership fee to the Ku Klux Klan?

Wilson

[HappyWarrior]

Which US President once paid a membership fee to the Ku Klux Klan?

I believe Truman did in his youth.

[GPORTER]

Which US President once paid a membership fee to the Ku Klux Klan?

I believe Truman did in his youth.

that is correct.

[Jeff from NC]

Since nobody has written a trivia question recently, here's one.

Numerous Presidents have appeared on American currency.  Taking only the most recent version of each denomination that has been issued of American money (paper or coinage), there are six Presidents who appear on American money who were preceded or succeeded by another President who also appears on American money.  Name the presidents and the denominations on which they appear.

EDIT: This excludes the current Presidential quarters line, the state quarters line, and any other commemorative coins.

[Southern Patriot]

I came up with these 4


Cleveland - $1000
McKinley - $500
Jefferson - $2
Madison - $5000

[Jeff from NC]

I came up with these 4

Cleveland - $1000
McKinley - $500
Jefferson - $2
Madison - $5000

Very good.  Two more to go.

[True Federalist]

John Adams (back of the $2 along with Jefferson and 38 other signers of the Declaration of Independence)
Washington $¼ coin and $1 bill

are the other two.


What distinction did Henry Morgenthau, Jr. hold for six days that merits mention in a thread on Presidential trivia?

[J. J.]

What distinction did Henry Morgenthau, Jr. hold for six days that merits mention in a thread on Presidential trivia?

A guess.  He was the highest member of the executive branch in the US during the Potsdam Conference.

[True Federalist]

No.  Although the six days in question were just a little bit before the Potsdam Conference, they had nothing to do with the Potsdam Conference.  Another Conference did play an indirect role in gaining Morgenthau his distinction.

[Jeff from NC]

John Adams (back of the $2 along with Jefferson and 38 other signers of the Declaration of Independence)
Washington $¼ coin and $1 bill

Correct.

[True Federalist]

I'll give y'all a further hint.  The six days in question were from June 27, 1945 to July 3, 1945.

[Southern Patriot]

I'll give y'all a further hint.  The six days in question were from June 27, 1945 to July 3, 1945.

Acting Vice President

[Southern Patriot]

Bill Clinton & Gerald Ford share what distinction?

Eisenhower & Grant could also (arguably) be added to the list.

[Vasall des Midas]

Bill Blythe, Leslie King and Hirum Grant sounds like people who held office under an assumed name - not sure what Eisenhower's to do with that, though.

[nclib]

Bill Blythe, Leslie King and Hirum Grant sounds like people who held office under an assumed name - not sure what Eisenhower's to do with that, though.

I think Eisenhower's birth name is David Dwight Eisenhower, but he switched his first and middle names.

[True Federalist]

I'll give y'all a further hint.  The six days in question were from June 27, 1945 to July 3, 1945.

Acting Vice President

Close but incomplete.  He was first in line to succeed to the Presidency if Truman were to die or become incapacitated for those six days.  (Though Acting Vice President is not the correct term for that.)  However, plenty of people have held that honor, so what makes Morgenthau's term as the first in the line of succession distinctive from all others who have held that position?

[Јas]

I'll give y'all a further hint.  The six days in question were from June 27, 1945 to July 3, 1945.

Acting Vice President

Close but incomplete.  He was first in line to succeed to the Presidency if Truman were to die or become incapacitated for those six days.  (Though Acting Vice President is not the correct term for that.)  However, plenty of people have held that honor, so what makes Morgenthau's term as the first in the line of succession distinctive from all others who have held that position?

He was the first sitting Secretary of the Treasury to be simultaneously first in the order of succession?

[True Federalist]

I'll give y'all a further hint.  The six days in question were from June 27, 1945 to July 3, 1945.

Acting Vice President

Close but incomplete.  He was first in line to succeed to the Presidency if Truman were to die or become incapacitated for those six days.  (Though Acting Vice President is not the correct term for that.)  However, plenty of people have held that honor, so what makes Morgenthau's term as the first in the line of succession distinctive from all others who have held that position?

He was the first sitting Secretary of the Treasury to be simultaneously first in the order of succession?

Not just the first.  He's the only Secretary of the Treasury to have been the President in waiting, and barring a change in the succession law, he'll likely be the only one to ever hold that distinction.

[J. J.]

I'll give y'all a further hint.  The six days in question were from June 27, 1945 to July 3, 1945.

Acting Vice President

Close but incomplete.  He was first in line to succeed to the Presidency if Truman were to die or become incapacitated for those six days.  (Though Acting Vice President is not the correct term for that.)  However, plenty of people have held that honor, so what makes Morgenthau's term as the first in the line of succession distinctive from all others who have held that position?

He was the first sitting Secretary of the Treasury to be simultaneously first in the order of succession?

Not just the first.  He's the only Secretary of the Treasury to have been the President in waiting, and barring a change in the succession law, he'll likely be the only one to ever hold that distinction.

Only Jewish person in immediate succession?

[Southern Patriot]

Bill Blythe, Leslie King and Hirum Grant sounds like people who held office under an assumed name - not sure what Eisenhower's to do with that, though.

I think Eisenhower's birth name is David Dwight Eisenhower, but he switched his first and middle names.

Correct; they all had different birth names
William Jefferson Blythe III
Leslie Lynch King, Jr
Hirum Ulysses Grant
David Dwight Eisenhower