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Thread #98915   Message #1964523
Posted By: Rapparee
11-Feb-07 - 10:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: Positive things about US presidents
Subject: RE: BS: Positive things about US presidents
In 1835, under Andrew Jackson, the US became briefly debt-free for the only time in history.

William Henry Harrison died a month after his inaguration. He was sick for most of that time, so he didn't have time to do much of anything.

Rutherford B. Hayes signed the act that permitted women lawyers to plead before the US Supreme Court.

Grover Cleveland personally answered the White House telephone.

In 1853, while President, Franklin Pierce was arrested for running over an old woman with his horse, but the case was dropped due to insufficient evidence. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow were fellow classmates at Bowdoin College, but not Charley Noble, who graduated some years later.