This president almost made Cuba one of the United States of America.

Who were they?

Some more clues:

1. The guy with English as a second language was also the first president to be born an American citizen (all prior presidents were born British subjects); his family emigrated to the US as indentured servants from Europe.

2. This guy offered Spain $100 dollors for Cuba on two separate occasions (the last of the big-time spenders he wasn't!); Spain refused the offer.

Q2 President Polk tried in 1848 http://www.sunnyhill.org/layservices/cuba/

President Pierce tried in 1854 http://mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us/~udhsweb/aphistory/file512.htm

1857 President James Buchanan tries to interest Congress in buying Cuba, but Congress is too bitterly divided over slavery. http://www.sunnyhill.org/layservices/cuba

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BUT...do you know:

Which president served the shortest term in office?

Which president, due to a clerical error made during his college registration, was assigned the wrong name? He liked the 'wrong' name so much, he kept it his entire life, and this is how we know him?

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Some sources will mention a guy name Anderson, who "served" as President for one day because the real President did not want to take the oath of office on a Sunday. But Anderson was not sworn in as President, so he really doesn't count. The real President with the shortest term was William Henry Harrison (one month).

Which president, due to a clerical error made during his college registration, was assigned the wrong name? He liked the 'wrong' name so much, he kept it his entire life, and this is how we know him?

When Hiram Ulysses Grant went to West Point, he was called Ulysses Simpson Grant (I forget why), and liked the new initials better, and kept them.

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Who was the most educated of the presidents? This guy earned 12 different college degrees and authored several college texts before teaching at Johns Hopkins, Bryn Mawr, Wesleyan and Princeton?

1. Which President was born in Delaware AND in Ohio?

2. Which President could write in Greek with one hand, and in Latin with the other hand; at the same time?

3. Which President often ate a cucumber soaked in vinegar for breakfast?

2 President James Garfield

3 President Ulysses S. Grant

You guys are unreal. But I'm determined......try this one:

Which president had the dubious distinction of being the only chief executive to have hung a man?

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Who was the first president to admit to having Native American bloodlines in his history?

My question: Who was the first president to throw out the first ball on major league baseball's opening day?

What no takers?.........

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Which president was a disaster where appointments to his Cabinet were concerned. His ineptitude in Cabinet appointees was blamed on his 'youthful inexperience." His Secretary of State resigned shortly after appointment; the Secretary of War died during his first year; the millionaire Secretary of the Treasury was forced from office due to 'conflict of interest', and the Secretary of the Navy (another millionaire) resigned after 3 months because "this government job takes up too much time." Name him.

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Q How exactly did Thomas Jefferson and James Polk both die