Other U.S. Politicians Trivia

1. What party did Howie Hawkins represent as their presidential candidate in 2020?

From Quiz Howie Hawkins: 2020 US Presidential Candidate

Answer: Green Party

Hawkins was one of the founders of the original Greens/Green Party USA in the 90s and also helped to create the modern Green Party of the United States. Hawkins also had the endorsement of the Socialist Party USA and Solidarity (United States) in the 2020 election.

From Quiz Thaddeus Stevens: Radical Republican

Answer: He owned an ironworks

Thaddeus Stevens owned the Caledonia Iron Works in Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Right before the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, troops under Confederate General Jubal Early burned the iron works in retaliation for the alleged vindictiveness of Thaddeus Stevens towards the South. Abraham Lincoln owned his own general store. Richard Johnson ran a pub while he was Andrew Jackson's vice president. Henry Wilson, the Republican Congressman and Senator from Massachusetts and vice president under Ulysses Grant, worked as a cobbler before entering politics.

From Quiz John Conyers

Answer: Korean War

John Conyers served for a year in the Korean War as an officer in the Army Corps of Engineers.

From Quiz Tulsi Gabbard

Answer: Hawaii

Tulsi Gabbard was born in Tutuila, the main island of Samoa and has lived in Hawaii since she was two years old.

From Quiz Ramsey Clark: From the Mainstream to Radicalism

Answer: Attorney General

Ramsey Clark was Attorney General from 1967 to 1969 under the Johnson administration. Clark was a popular Attorney General who supported the Civil Rights Movement, including helping to draft the Voting Rights Act and generally supported civil liberties.

From Quiz Get Clean For Gene

Answer: He had been a monk

McCarthy was born in 1916, in Watkins, MN, which was near Saint John Abbey. He had received his undergraduate degree from Saint John University (affiliated with the Abbey) and worked as a school teacher from 1935 to 1940. Considering becoming a monk, in 1943 he became a Benedictine novice at the abbey where he remained for nine months before enlisting in the army. While in the army he worked in military intelligence as a code breaker.

From Quiz Jill Stein: a Physician for President?

Answer: Green Party

Jill Stein had been a Green Party member for many years and before her 2016 presidential had run for state representative, governor and President on the Green Party ticket. The 2016 Constitution Party Presidential nominee was Darrell Castle and the 2016 Libertarian Presidential nominee was Gary Johnson.

From Quiz I Thought He Was A President

Answer: Alexander's parents weren't married

James and Rachel Hamilton could not marry because of an agreement added into her divorce decree. Since her divorce made it impossible to marry again, Rachel took the Hamilton name and moved in with James. Together they had two children, James and Alexander. When Alexander and James were older, their father abandoned them and their mother died of a fever.

From Quiz US Secretaries of War

Answer: Henry Knox

Henry Knox was born on July 25, 1750. He was from Massachusetts and served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, participating in many important battles, such as Bunker Hill and Siege of Yorktown. A personal friend of George Washington, he was chosen as the first US Secretary of War. He died on October 25, 1806. Benjamin Lincoln was indeed the first appointee in the post, but by the Congress of Confederation and not in a President's cabinet.

From Quiz A Binder Full of Romney

Answer: Detroit, Michigan

Mitt Romney's siblings include two sisters named Margo and Jane and one brother named George. Outside of his work with American Motors Corporation, Mitt's father George was also Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969 and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1969 to 1973.

From Quiz Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers

Answer: November 17, 2003

Arnold was "specially" elected as the state's governor to finish out the term of office for Gray Davis. He then was elected to a second term after this, for which he was sworn in on January 5th 2007.

From Quiz Left Handed Historical Figures

Answer: Benjamin Franklin

In June of 1752, Benjamin Franklin discovered the existance of electricity, a feat which he used a key attached to a kite, which he flew during a thunderstorm.

From Quiz Eugene V. Debs, A True Believer

Answer: Terre Haute, Indiana

The Debs were both French immigrants. He was named for two French writers, Eugene Sue and Victor Hugo. His father owned a small grocery store. Debs quit school at fourteen and worked as a railroad yard painter, a boiler man, and as a grocery clerk for Hulman Wholesale before entering union activities.

From Quiz Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism

Answer: Wisconsin

Joseph McCarthy became a Senator in 1947 from his home state of Wisconsin. Previously, he had served as a judge on the 10th Judicial District Court.

From Quiz Notable Secretaries of State

Answer: John Quincy Adams

Many historians consider Adams to be the greatest secretary of state ever for his many accomplishments during Monroe's presidency. His own presidency was not as successful as Monroe's, however.

From Quiz Governing Women in the USA

Answer: Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming

Ross was elected in November 1924 following the death of her husband on October 2, 1924 who was serving as governor at the time. She took office on January 5, 1925. Miriam Ferguson of Texas was elected to office the same day in November, but she did not take office until two weeks after Ross. She was elected following the impeachment of her husband as governor of Texas and served two terms, although they were not consecutive.

From Quiz 20th Century New York City Mayors

Answer: Jimmy Walker

James John Walker, or Jimmy Walker, the son of Irish immigrants, was mayor of New York, first elected to the office in 1925, with the help of the Governor of New York Alfred E. Smith, and Tammany Hall, an organization which was influential in New York City politics at the time. He had previously tried his hand as a songwriter, with his most well-known song being "Will You Love Me In December (As You Do In May)?" Walker's first four-year term was a good one, and the city prospered. He was re-elected to the office in 1929, but his fortunes turned along with that of the rest of the country after the stock market crash of 1929. Contributing to his downfall were allegations of immorality and corruption, with Walker having numerous affairs and leaving his wife for a showgirl in the late 1920s. Also during his administration, the proliferation of speakeasies was prevalent in the city. Increasing social unrest from the public as well as criticism from the Catholic Church and the President led to his eventual resignation in September of 1932.

From Quiz Christmas Time for Bribery Blago

Answer: Illinois governor Milorad "Rod" R. Blagojevich

Blagojevich, pronounced "blah-GOY-uh-vich," was elected governor of Illinois in 2002. He defeated his opponent, state Attorney General Jim Ryan, on a platform of fighting corruption. According to CNN, Blagojevich "touted his record on Capitol Hill, saying in a debate that 'Illinois is mired in corruption, and insiders like Jim look the other way.'" It would make for a beautiful day for the all-seeing Goddess of Irony some years down the road.

From Quiz Diplomacy and Tact: U.S. Secretaries of State

Answer: Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger played a major role in the Nixon cabinet. William Rogers was Nixon's first secretary of state, serving from 1969 to 1973.

From Quiz James Blaine

Answer: Gillespie

James Blaine was born on January 31, 1830, in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania. James' father was a Scottish Presbyterian while his mother was an Irish Catholic.

From Quiz Meet Sarah Palin

Answer: Sandpoint, Idaho

Governor Palin was born Sarah Heath in Sandpoint, Idaho on February 11, 1964. Her father was a teacher, her mother a school secretary. She has lived in Alaska since she was a small child. She is the complete frontier woman, an expert hunter, sharpshooter and fisher. She attended college at Hawaii Pacific University, North Idaho College, the University of Idaho, Matanuska-Susitna College in Alaska, and for her final year, once again the University of Idaho, from which she graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1987.

From Quiz Cynthia McKinney

Answer: 60s

The slogan was used by the young during the 1960s to protest the establishment and the America's involvement in the Vietnam War. The slogan "All Power to the People" was used by the Panther Party. The slogan was also the title of a song by John Lennon.

From Quiz Sonny Bono

Answer: Detroit

Sonny was the third child of Italian immigrant Santo Bono and third-generation Italian mother Jean. The couple was residing in Detroit when their first son was born. His father had emigrated from Montelabre. His mother was only 14 when she married his father as the result of a customary arranged Italian marriage.

From Quiz Mike Gravel: 2008's most suppressed candidate

Answer: Alaska

Mike Gravel was originally from Springfield, Massachusetts. His parents were French-Canadian immigrants and he served in the army in West Germany after graduating from Columbia. He moved to Alaska in the 1950's to work in real estate.

From Quiz John S. McCain III

Answer: Coco Solo, Panama

McCain was born August 29, 1936 at Coco Solo Air Base, Panama Canal Zone, Panama to Admiral John S. "Jack" McCain, Jr. and Roberta McCain. Some question his eligibility to run for president since he was not born in the United States. His eligibility is assured because both of his parents were U.S. citizens and at the time Panama was U.S. territory.

From Quiz U.S. Political Figures

Answer: Thomas Dewey

Dewey thought that putting away all of those mobsters away like Lepke Buchalter and Jacob Shappiro would have turned the cards in his favor; he was wrong.

From Quiz William Jennings Bryan

Answer: His mother was Mariah Elizabeth Jennings

Although not hyphenated, Bryan used his mother's maiden name as his middle name.

From Quiz Controversial U.S. Politicians

Answer: Virginia

The offending congressman was Jim Moran (D-VA). Moran has been heavily criticized for ethical problems, anti-Semitism, and abusing his ex-wife, but won re-election in 2004 by beating Lisa Cheney, whose husband is a distant relative of the Vice President.

From Quiz John Kerry

Answer: 1984

Although Kerry assumed his position in the 99th Congress in 1985, he was elected by the people of Massachusetts in the 1984 election. He replaced the popular Paul Tsongas, joining Edward "Ted" Kennedy in the nation's most powerful legislative body.

From Quiz Adlai Stevenson

Answer: Los Angeles, CA

Stevenson was born in Los Angeles on January 5, 1900. His family moved shortly after to Bloomington, Illinois where he was raised.

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