Presidential Full Names
I discovered only a handful of presidents seem to have had middle names. Since some of them were interesting, I thought I'd post them up.
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Warren Gamaliel Harding
James Abram Garfield
James Earl Carter, Jr.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Warren Gamaliel Harding
James Abram Garfield
James Earl Carter, Jr.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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Some of the early ones didn't have middle names, but the 20th century ones certainly did (I'm confused by this post frankly, since you're American and some of them went by the middle initial, like JFK or FDR?).
Here's the list of the rest of them:
John Quincy Adams
William Henry Harrison
James Knox Polk
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant)
Chester Alan Arthur
Stephen Grover Cleveland
William Howard Taft
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.
Herbert Clark Hoover
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman (he had just the initial)
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Richard Milhous Nixon
Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.)
George Herbert Walker Bush
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton
George Walker Bush
Barack Hussein Obama II
My all time faves are Gamaliel and Delano.
Here's the list of the rest of them:
John Quincy Adams
William Henry Harrison
James Knox Polk
Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant)
Chester Alan Arthur
Stephen Grover Cleveland
William Howard Taft
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.
Herbert Clark Hoover
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman (he had just the initial)
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Richard Milhous Nixon
Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.)
George Herbert Walker Bush
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton
George Walker Bush
Barack Hussein Obama II
My all time faves are Gamaliel and Delano.
This message was edited 4/26/2012, 7:24 PM
Hussein, Rudolph, and Milhous deserve honorable mention.
I mean, C'MON. ;)
I mean, C'MON. ;)
This message was edited 4/28/2012, 12:19 PM
I just did the interesting ones.
Fitzgerald & Delano are really well-known.
So I didn't - plus I didn't type up the list. My husband did and he told me it had to be under 10 names or less.
So I didn't - plus I didn't type up the list. My husband did and he told me it had to be under 10 names or less.
They may be well known, but they are still interesting.
I don't think I've met anyone with the middle name Fitzgerald or Delano IRL, so I don't know...I think they should be included on the "interesting middle name" list, even if everybody knows them. JMO.
I don't think I've met anyone with the middle name Fitzgerald or Delano IRL, so I don't know...I think they should be included on the "interesting middle name" list, even if everybody knows them. JMO.
This message was edited 4/28/2012, 12:16 PM
Gamaliel is interesting. I don't think I've ever heard it before (and it sounds like something out of LotR.)
My thought exactly.
The Scandalous "Teapot Dome" president with a LOTR mn? Too funny.
The Scandalous "Teapot Dome" president with a LOTR mn? Too funny.
VPs and Secretaries
4th VP George Clinton
15th VP Hannibal Hamlin
Secretary of State (appointed 1909) Philander C. Knox
Secretary of Treasury (under Lincoln) Salmon P. Chase
Secretary of Treasury (appointed 1876) Lot M. Morril
Secretary of War (appointed 1889) Redfield Proctor
Secretary of Interior (appointed 1893) Hoke Smith
And names we don't hear much anymore:
Elihu
Alonzo
Lyman
Ogden
Orville
4th VP George Clinton
15th VP Hannibal Hamlin
Secretary of State (appointed 1909) Philander C. Knox
Secretary of Treasury (under Lincoln) Salmon P. Chase
Secretary of Treasury (appointed 1876) Lot M. Morril
Secretary of War (appointed 1889) Redfield Proctor
Secretary of Interior (appointed 1893) Hoke Smith
And names we don't hear much anymore:
Elihu
Alonzo
Lyman
Ogden
Orville