"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me God."

Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln. (carved between 1927 and 1941 - height: 1841 m)

1^st

The father of America.

2^nd

John ADAMS

1797-1801

3^rd

The chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence, he effected the Louisiana Purchase.

1801-1809

4^th

James MADISON

1809-1817

5^th

James MONROE

1817-1825

6^th

The only president in history who refused to put his hand on the Bible when he took the oath of office. (He was the son of John Adams, 2^nd president)

1825-1829

7^th

Anyone could come to Andrew Jackson's public parties at the White House, and just about everyone did! At his last one, a wheel of cheese weighing 1,400 lbs. was eaten in two hours. The White House smelled of cheese for weeks.

1829-1837

8^th

Martin VAN BUREN

1837-1841

9^th

His inaugural address lasted nearly two hours, in cold and stormy weather. He caught a cold, which turned to pneumonia and pleuresy. He died a month later.

1841

10^th

John Tyler was the first president to be married in office on June 26, 1844.

1841-1845

11^th

During his administration, Texas, and territory included in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon and California were added to the Union.

1845-1849

12^th

Hero of the Mexican War

Zachary Taylor spent July 4, 1850, eating cherries and milk at a ceremony at the Washington Monument. He got sick from the heat and died five days later, the second president to die in office.

1849-1850

13^th

Millard FILLMORE

1850-1853

14^th

Franklin PIERCE

1853-1857

15^th

James Buchanan was certainly a good host. When England's Prince of Wales came to visit in the fall of 1860, so many guests came with him, it's said the president slept in the hallway!

1857-1861

16^th

His fame rests on his success in saving the Union in the Civil War (which had started because of his election) and his emancipation of slaves (1863). He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

17^th

Andrew JOHNSON

1865-1869

18^th

Commander in Chief of Union forces, the winner of the Civil War, to whom Southern General Lee had surrendered at Appotamox.

1869-1877

19^th

In 1879, the first telephone was installed in the White House. At first it was hardly used, because there weren't many other phones in Washington to call.

1877-1881

20^th

James Abram GARFIELD

1881

21^st

Chester Alan ARTHUR

1881-1885

22^nd

Grover CLEVELAND

1885-1889

23^rd

William Henry Harrison's grandson

1889-1893

24^th

Grover CLEVELAND

1893-1897

25^th

William McKINLEY

1897-1901

26^th

In 1903 he won for the US the right to build the Panama Canal , and won the Nobel Peace Prize (1906) for mediating in the Russo Japanese War.

1901-1909

27^th

He was a huge man, weighing more than 300 pounds. A special bathtub was installed for him in the White House, big enough to hold four men.

1909-1913

28^th

After securing the formation of the League of Nations he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919

Sheep on the White House lawn? A flock of sheep grazed during Woodrow Wilson's term. Their wool was sold to raise money for the Red Cross during World War I.

1913-1921

29^th

Warren HARDING

1921-1923

30^th

Calvin Coolidge, a president of few words, was so famous for saying so little that a White House dinner guest made a bet that she could get the president to say more than two words. She told the president of her wager. His reply: "You lose."

1923-1929

31^st

Parties at the White House during Herbert Hoover's term were big events. As many as 4,000 invitations to a gala would be loaded on trucks and hand delivered around Washington.

1929-1933

32^nd

To counter the economic crisis he instituted major reforms (the New Deal) ; he later was a forceful leader during WWII

1933-1945

33^rd

In 1945, he approved the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan ; he later involved the US in the Korean War

You know your house needs repair when a piano leg goes through the floor! It happened in the White House in 1948.

1945-1953

34^th

President Eisenhower, an avid golfer, had a putting green installed on the White House lawn. He also banished squirrels from the grounds because they were ruining the green.

1953-1961

35^th

The youngest and the only catholic president.

36^th

Lyndon Baines JOHNSON

1963-1969

37^th

The Watergate man

Though President Richard Nixon disliked much of the press, he had the White House swimming pool filled in, to give reporters more room when covering White House events.

1969-1974

38^th

The man who got President by accident.

After Richard Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974, and Gerald Ford became president, his friends had another pool dug on the White House lawn.

1974-1977

39^th

James Earl CARTER

1977-1981

40^th

To avoid long encounters with the press, President Ronald Reagan often took reporters' questions with his helicopter roaring in the background.

1981-1989

41^st

George Herbert Walker BUSH

1989-1993

42^nd

His second name is a clear reference to the 3^rd president.

1993-2001

43^rd

His father's son ; he won the election by a majority of 100's of votes in Florida amid confusion over uncounted or miscounted ballots, although he had a minority of votes in the country as a whole. Hail to the Thief…

2001-

Source for fun facts : the White House at whitehouse.gov