What are the most interesting unknown facts about the new U.S. President?
Home » People » Unknown Facts About President Barack Obama Unknown Facts About President Barack Obama by Rana Sinha in People, November 7, 2008 Do you know any of these little known facts about US President Barack Obama? What does Barrack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have in common? Neither of them had their father live with them. Obama, although extraordinarily bright that he is, might however, need to use an interpreter to converse with Sarkozy, as he (Obama) got a D in 8th grade French. 1. President Obama is related to Dick Cheney and George Bush: President Obama is the eighth cousin of former Vice President Dick Cheney through Mareen and Susannah Duvall, 17th century immigrants from France and tenth cousin of former President George Bush through a 17th century Massachusetts couple, Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soole. President Obama is also distantly related through his mother to US President Harry S. Truman and Wallis Simpson (who married King Edward VIII of England). 2
Presidential Fun Facts BARACK OBAMA is our 44th president, but there actually have only been 43 presidents: Cleveland was elected for two nonconsecutive terms and is counted twice, as our 22nd and 24th president. EIGHT PRESIDENTS were born British subjects: Washington, J. Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, J. Q. Adams, Jackson, and W. Harrison. EIGHT PRESIDENTS never attended college: Washington, Jackson, Van Buren, Taylor, Fillmore, Lincoln, A. Johnson, and Cleveland. The college that has the most presidents as alumni (seven in total) is Harvard: J. Adams, J. Q. Adams, T. Roosevelt, F. Roosevelt, Rutherford B. Hayes, J. F. Kennedy, and George W. Bush. PRESIDENTS WHO would be considered “Washington outsiders” (i.e., the 18 presidents who never served in Congress) are: Washington, J. Adams, Jefferson, Taylor, Grant, Arthur, Cleveland, T. Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Coolidge, Hoover, F. Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and G. W. Bush. THE MOST COMMON religious affiliation amo
