Do You Know Which President I Am? Quiz

Answer: George Washington

George Washington (1732-1799) was born in the British colony of Virginia. By the late 1760s, Washington, as he was a rural producer, felt very much the burden of taxes that the colonists had to pay to the British Crown, understanding that the best would be their independence. In 1774, Washington served as a delegate to the First Continental Congress and when the American Revolutionary War began, he was named Commander in Chief of the Continental Army.

George Washington participated in drafting the new constitution and in the first presidential election, held in 1789, he was unanimously elected. After two terms as president (1789-1797), George Washington finally retired from public life and returned to live in Mount Vernon, Virginia.

Answer: Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr., known as Jimmy Carter (1924 -) was born in Plains, Georgia, in a hospital where his mother was a nurse making him the first president to be born in a hospital. Carter always dreamed of attending the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was admitted in 1943. In 1948, Carter began officer training for submarine duty and served aboard the USS Pomfret. In 1951 he was assigned to the diesel USS K-1, where he was qualified to command and serve in several positions. The following year he worked on the first nuclear submarine program.

With the death of his father, Carter ended his military career and returned to Georgia to take care of family matters. In 1963, he began his political career. He was governor of Georgia (1971-1975) and the 39th president of the United States (1977-1981). Throughout his life, Carter received many honors, but one particularly special. The SSN-23, the third and final Seawolf-class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine in the U.S. Navy, was named USS Jimmy Carter, and launched in May 2004. Jimmy Carter is the first president to be certified in submarines.

Answer: Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) was the eighth American president. However, he was the first president born an American citizen. The seven presidents who preceded him (George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Jr., James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson) and the president who succeeded him (William Henry Harrison) were born in the British Colonies, they were born before July 4th, 1776, the United States Independence.

Martin Van Buren was born Maarten van Buren, in Kinderhook, NY, a town of Dutch settlers. His parents were of Dutch descent and he was raised speaking primarily Dutch and learned English while attending school. He is the only American president whose first language was not English.

Answer: Grover Cleveland

When Stephen Grove Cleveland (1837-1908) was 26 years old he was assigned as assistant district attorney of Erie County. In the same year, the American Congress passed the Conscription Act of 1863, requiring able-bodied men to serve the army if called upon; but by law the summoned person was allowed to send a substitute. Cleveland decided not to go to war and paid $150 to George Benninsky, a Polish immigrant, to serve in his place. George Benninsky survived the war.

Answer: John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917 -1963), sometimes called JFK, was the second of nine children of the couple Joseph and Rose Kennedy, a very rich Catholic family. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1941 and was discharged in 1945. He planned to pursue an academic or journalistic career, but his father's plans differed. He hoped that Joe, the eldest son, would pursue a political career, but Joe was killed in the war. So all of Joseph's expectations became about his son John.

John Kennedy did not let the family down: He never lost an election. He began his political career in 1947 as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, senator, and then elected 35th President of the United States (1961-1963), the youngest person elected to office. He was inaugurated at age 43 and 65 days. On November 22, 1963, a few days after his thousandth day in office, JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was the first Catholic president.

Answer: William Henry Harrison

William Henry Harrison (1773-1842) was a military officer and politician. He was born into a politically prominent family, enlisted in the army at age 18, and participated in numerous military campaigns including the War of 1812. As a politician, he served in the US House and Senate.

In 1840, William Harrison was elected to serve as the 9th president of the U.S. He took office on March 4, 1841, in a cold and wet day. He arrived on horseback to the ceremony, without hat or overcoat and delivered the longest inaugural address in American history, which took nearly two hours to read. On March 24, 1841, the president again came out without proper clothes in the cold and rain. On March 26, Harrison became ill with cold-like symptoms and died on April 4, just 31 days after the inauguration. He was the first U.S president to die in office of natural cause, who was in office the shortest time, and who gave the longest speech.

Answer: Grover Cleveland

Although Grover Cleveland won the popular vote for three presidential elections-in 1884, 1888, and 1892, he was defeated by Benjamin Harrison in the electoral college in 1888. Grover Cleveland was President from 1885-1889 and 1893-1897. He was the first, and until 2022, the only president to have two non-consecutive terms.

Until 2021, only three American Presidents John Tyler, Woodrow Wilson, and Grover Cleveland got married while serving but only Grover Cleveland's wedding ceremony took place at the White House. He married Frances Folsom, who was 28 years his junior and became the youngest First Lady in American history.

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1858-1919), known as Teddy Roosevelt or T.R, was a politician, naturalist, historian, and writer. He held various positions in public administration. He was the 33rd Governor of the State of New York, the 25th Vice President, and the 26th President of the United States.

In 1900, Theodore Roosevelt was selected as the running mate in William McKinley's re-election campaign. The inauguration took place on March 4, 1901. Six months and 10 days into the second term, 8 days after being shot, President McKinley passed away. On September 14 1901, Roosevelt, aged 42 years and 88 days, was inaugurated. Article II, Section 6 of the Constitution states that: "In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, the same shall devolve on the Vice President..." The article did not state that the vice president would BECOME the President. It was not until the Twenty-Fifth Amendment has passed in 1967 that the vice president technically BECAME the president.

Theodore Roosevelt ran for and won the presidential election in 1904, becoming the 26th American president.

Answer: James Buchanan

James Buchanan (1791-1868), was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. He studied at Dickson College in Pennsylvania and later graduated in law. After graduating, he was successful in law practice and his gift as a public speaker eventually led him to politics. He was Secretary of State, Representative of Pennsylvania in both houses of the US Congress, and US Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Russia. In 1856, Buchanan ran for and won the presidential election, becoming the 15th American president.

When James Buchanan was 28 years old, he became engaged to Anne C. Coleman, the daughter of a prestigious Pennsylvania family. But he broke up the engagement for reasons not explained and shortly afterward the young Coleman died. Buchanan never married and until 2022 remains the only bachelor president.

Answer: William Jefferson Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton known as Bill Clinton (1946 -) was governor of the state of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992. He won the presidential elections held in 1992, as a candidate for the Democratic Party, becoming the 42nd American president, serving two terms from 1993 to 2001. He was the first baby-boomer generation president.

He married Hillary Rodham in 1975, a fellow Yale Law Graduate, who played a very active role in his career. After leaving her role as First Lady, Hilary was elected US Senator for New York (2001-2009). She first ran for president in 2008, but lost the Democratic primary to Barack Obama. From 2009 to 2013, during President Obama's administration, she held the position of Secretary of State. In April 2015, she formally announced her candidacy for the presidency in the 2016 election. Although she received the most votes overall, she was beaten to the presidency by Donald Trump, who won most votes in the electoral college.