At 5'4" & weighing 100 lbs., he was our shortest president
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98 Fun Facts about U.S. Presidents | FactRetriever.com  Sep 17, 2016 ... Kay later wrote a book called Past Forgetting: My Love Affair with Dwight ... [11]; James Madison (1751-1836) was the shortest president of the United States, standing at only 5'4. He never weighed more than 100 pounds. ... later, he was dead from pneumonia, making his the shortest presidency on record.
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Presidential Fun Facts | ACCESS News  He was the shortest president of the United States, standing at only 5'4. He never weighed more than 100 pounds ... Ulysses S. Grant helped set up Yellowstone National Park, which was our country's first national park and the first president...
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The Shortest U.S. Presidents - The Modest Man  May 27, 2012 ... 3 Short Presidents and What You Can Learn from Them ... weighing only a hundred and thirty five pounds, and of a modesty of mien and gentleness ... At 5'4 he was the shortest U.S. president of all time by two inches. ... Next time you use your height as an excuse for anything, think of all the things James...
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Presidential Height, Weight and BMI : Mike Berman's Washington ...  May 31, 2007 ... When Cleveland arrived in Washington he was described as a huge, bejowled ... William Taft, who was likely our heaviest President, was pictured in one cartoon as ... The smallest President was James Madison, who was reported to stand about 5'4" in height and weighed in at 100 pounds (BMI 17.8).
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Who Knew? U.S. Presidential Trivia - National Geographic News  Aug 27, 2004 ... The smallest President was James Madison (Presidential term 1809-17). ... feet, 4 inches (163 centimeters) tall and weighed less than 100 pounds (45 kilograms). ... After he became stuck in the White House bathtub, Taft ordered a new one installed. ... Get our news delivered directly to your desktopfree.
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The 23rd US President - Benjamin Harrison - Sheppard Software  ... was called the Centennial President because he was inaugurated 100 years after George Washington. He was born on August 20, 1833, in North Bend, Ohio.
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History of Old: Sharing the "Story" in History: Taft: Fattest President of ...  Aug 23, 2011 ... Many anecdotes have been passed down regarding Taft's ... He was a collegiate wrestler at 225 lbs. and by all accounts quite athletic. ... embarked on a second "reducing diet" shortly after leaving the office of President. ... Even though he is fat he was still a good president and contributed well to our society.
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Grover Cleveland facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Physically he was a squat, bull-like man with a thick neck and a great chest and belly. ... The Republican candidate, James G. Blaine of Maine, was Cleveland's mirror image. ... Suffice it to say that the election turned on New York's electoral vote, that .... This gave him about 100,000 more popular votes than his opponent.
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Stephen A. Douglas - Wikipedia  Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813  June 3, 1861) was an American politician from ... He was nicknamed the "Little Giant" because he was short in physical stature, but a forceful and dominant figure in politics. ..... For a century and a half, historians have debated whether Douglas opposed slavery, and whether he was...
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America's Worst Vice Presidents | TIME  Aug 21, 2008 ... The nation's third vice president had his strengths: he has been hailed ... after serving 20 insignificant months under James Madison, he suffered a hemorrhage of the lungs while riding in a carriage and died. .... Finally, in 1864, he joined the war effort, serving for three months as a cook in the Coast Guard...
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15 Shortest US Presidential Terms In History - RantPolitical  Apr 12, 2015 ... John Adams was the only one of the first five U.S. presidents not to win re-election. ... Kennedy was assassinated 1036 days into his term.
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Charles Stratton | Lisa's History Room  The best known of circus pioneer P.T. Barnum's performers was Charles Sherwood ... him at the age of five, Stratton weighed only 15 lbs. and was 25 inches tall. ... His parents happily rented out their child for $7 a week plus room, board, and ... an international celebrity he christened General Tom Thumb, recalling the tiny...
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Eleanor Roosevelt | President 32 - Franklin Roosevelt | Pinterest ...  See more about Eleanor Roosevelt, First Ladies and Equal Rights. ... Besides sharing the title of "Tallest First Lady" with Michelle Obama, Mrs. ... Roosevelt, age 20, married Franklin, age 23, her fifth-cousin once removed, on March 17, 1905. ..... Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884  December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of...
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The Death Of President Garfield, 1881 - EyeWitness to History  Less than four months after his inauguration, President Garfield arrived at the Washington railroad depot on July 2, 1881, to catch a train for ... By the time Garfield died on September 19, his doctors had turned a three-inch-deep, ... He lingered for eighty days, wasting away from his robust 210 pounds to a mere 130 pounds.
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Paul Bunyan and the Great Poetry Contest | Paul Bunyan Scenic ...  I guess if we had all of the poetry that Paul said in the woods for those many years we'd have a book two or ... He was a huge man, just a little under seven feet tall and about four hundred pounds of solid muscle. ... Big Cecil was the challenger, so he went first. ... The loggers cheered to Cecil's praise of their occupation.
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WASHINGTON TALK - CONGRESS - A Matter of Measurement ...  Apr 20, 1987 ... LEAD: This will not begin with the phrase ''the long and short of it. ... surpass the ''Little Giant'' - the nickname earned by Stephen A. Douglas for his stature (5 feet 4 inches) and the oratorical skills that helped him ... (6 feet 4 inches) in their famous debates for the Illinois Senate seat captured by Mr. Douglas.
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PHOTOS: Unhealthiest Presidents | Slideshow | Fox News  Jun 14, 2006 ... He became president in 1901, six months after becoming the nation's vice president. ... He died at age 60 in his sleep of a coronary embolism. ... Wilson left office in 1920 and lived another 3 years before he died at home on Feb. ... Undated photo: Warren Harding was the 29th president and served for only...
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William Henry Harrison - Wikipedia  He was also the first president to die in office. He was 68 years, 23 days old when inaugurated, the oldest president to take office until Ronald Reagan in 1981. Harrison died on his 32nd day in office [a] of complications from pneumonia, serving the shortest tenure in United States presidential history.
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Benjamin Harrison - U.S. President - Biography.com  Oct 16, 2014 ... Learn more about Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd U.S. president, who won the ... only to lose it to the same man four years later, at Biography.com. ... In the end, he prevailed in an election fraught with corruption, ... The spending policies of the federal government during Harrison's term earned the legislative...
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Prada Belts Cheap - Hilding HR  Finally, he had become his own man, but there were only five weeks to go. ... with politics, and interested in spending time with the Rhodes scholars. ... the already famous spark plug of our group, who served as secretary of labor in ... The first words I heard from him were directed at Bob Reich, who is less than five feet tall.
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J! Archive - Show #1245, aired 1990-01-19  In 1863 he married Lavinia, who, like him, stood 35 inches tall ... He succeeded Jim Wright as Speaker of the House in June 1989...