ONE BIG REASON THIS ELECTION IS TOTALLY HISTORIC
It’s a big day today … you know… the election and all that. And here’s one reason this election is even more unique and historic:
Neither Donald Trump nor Joe Biden drinks alcohol. For the first time in modern history, the two major candidates don’t drink -- and claim to have never had an alcoholic drink over the course of their lives.
Shortest term EVER!!
President William Henry Harrison served the shortest term in office -- he died just 31 days after his inauguration. But some might argue that the distinction actually belongs to a man named David Rice Atchison.
Atchison, who was a Senator from Missouri, was technically the nation's chief executive for one day: March 4th, 1889. The term of outgoing president James K. Polk ended at noon on March 4th, and his successor, Zachary Taylor, was expected to take the oath of office at that time. However, March 4th was a Sunday, and Taylor, who was a religious man, refused to be sworn in on a Sunday. He had the inauguration moved to Monday, March 5th.
So, for one day, there was officially no POTUS. Atchison, who was the president pro tempore of the Senate, was next in line to be the acting president. However, Atchison never took the oath of office and was therefore never technically president. For all intents and purposes, America was without a leader on March 4th, 1889. Lucky nothing big happened that day.
In honor of Election Day, let's see how much you know about our past presidents.
Andrew Johnson was the last president who didn't have one of these -- what was it?
a) A college degree
>b) A vice president -- he didn't fill the veep office during his term.
c) A wife
President Teddy Roosevelt served as a Republican, but he also ran for the office as part of what oddly-named party?
>a) Bull Moose Party
b) Know Nothing Party
c) Greenback Party
Which president approved “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the national anthem?
a) Woodrow Wilson
b) Grover Cleveland
>c) Herbert Hoover
Gerald Ford was the only president to work in this offbeat job. What was it?
ANSWER: A model. He appeared on the cover of the original Cosmopolitan magazine back in 1942, before it became a "women's magazine."