Ten Things To Know About My Presidents

Happy Presidents' Day, everybody!  Established in 1885 to honor George Washington, it now covers all 44 of 'em, and it seems like as good of a time as any to sit back and look at some presidential numbers...

1.  The average age of my presidents when they took office was 54 years 11 months.  (The youngest to take office was Teddy Roosevelt, 42.  The youngest to be elected was JFK, 43.  And the oldest was Ronald Reagan, 69.)
2.  Despite having presidents from all kinds of jobs, 25 of my 44 presidents have been lawyers, and I've never had a doctor.
3.  Sixteen presidents had been Senators; twenty had been in the House; and twenty were governors.
4.  Six presidents graduated from Harvard (including both Roosevelts and JFK).  Three went to Yale (Taft and the Bushes).  Three went to the College of William and Mary (Jefferson, Monroe, and Tyler).  And eleven never graduated from college (including Washington, Lincoln, and Truman).
5.  Thirty-one of my presidents served in my military.
6.  My three richest presidents were Washington, Jefferson, and JFK--each with a net worth in the hundreds of millions.  I've only had nine presidents with a net worth of less than a million (in today's dollars), including Lincoln, Grant, and Wilson.
7.  New York and Ohio have both been home to six of my presidents.  Virginia has five.  Massachusetts has four.  And California, Illinois, Tennessee, and Texas each have three.
8.  There have only been five presidents who have been shorter than my average height. The last one was Benjamin Harrison in 1888.  (This Slate article also points out a weird connection based on height and my Constitution.)
9.  I've had eighteen republican presidents, fourteen democrat presidents, and one independent (Washington).
10.  Ranker.com has my three best presidents as Lincoln, Washington, and Jefferson.  My three worst are A. Johnson, Buchanon, and Wilson.

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