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1. Who was kicked out of Dickinson College for breaking the rules?
2. Who told his students (when he was a teacher) that one day he would be president?
3. Who married his teacher?
4. Who almost became a minister, but his annoying voice drove him to politics instead?
5. Who led a revolt against his tyrannical schoolmaster at age 11?
6. Who was given a farm he named 'Hardscrabble' by his step-father?
7. Who wore a suit and tie to high school and once worked at Yellowstone as a ranger?
8. Who begged his father when only 10 to let him accompany his father to France on a diplomatic mission?
9. Who, on a trip to Maine, was tormented by two boys and was so ashamed his father built him a gym so he could get stronger?
10. Who was born in a farming state and picked potato bugs to earn money to buy fireworks?
11. Who was more interested in cock fighting than studying?
12. Who had a father who refused to attend his son's wedding because his daughter-in-law's father, a prosperous man in St. Louis, owned three slaves?
13. Who was a lawyer that defended the civil rights of blacks and won a case establishing the rights of blacks to ride any streetcar in New York City?
14. Who was friends with writer Nathaniel Hawthorne?
15. Who had a reputation as a flirt and while engaged wrote a love letter to his best friend's wife, Sally Fairfax?
16. Whose parents belonged to a religious group which opposed war or violence of any kind?
17. Who paid a sub to take his place in the Civil War?
18. Who became homesick when sent to school at 11 and walked 14 miles home, but his father drove him 7 miles back and left him to walk the remaining 7 miles?
19. Who had a mother that died of 'milk sickness' when he was 9?
20. Who had a mother that kept track of her many children (health, school, etc.) via a system of index cards?
21. Who was called 'Tommy' as a child?
22. Who was refused entry into West Point due to poor eyesight and spent 15 years paying back debt after his clothing business failed?
23. Who left home at 16, inspired by adventurous books to be a sailor on the Great Lakes, but gave up when a ship captain cursed him and drove him away?
24. Who saw two brothers die (one of tuberculosis and one of meningitis) because his family couldn't afford medical care?
25. Who hated chemistry so much he put a bottle of bad smelling hydrogen sulfide in a teacher's desk and as an adult called teaching the 'hardest job I ever had'?
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