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Nicknames of the Presidents
| George Wasthingon | Father of His County, The Sage of Mount Vernon |
| John Adams | His Roundity, The Atlas of Independence, Bonny Johnny |
| Thomas Jefferson | Long Tom, The Pen of the Revolution, Apostle of the Constitution |
| James Madison | Father of the Constitution, Little Johnny, Sage of Montpelier |
| James Monroe | The Last of the Crooked Hats |
| John Quincy Adams | Old Man Eloquent, Publicola |
| Andrew Jackson | Old Hickory, The Old Hero, King Andrew the First |
| Martin Van Buren | The Red Fox of Kinderhook, O.K., The Little Magician, Little Van |
| William Henry Harrison | Old Tippecanoe, The Cincinnatus of the West, Old Granny |
| John Tyler | His Accidency, Young Hickory |
| James K. Polk | Polk the Purposeful, Napoleon of the Stump |
| Zachary Taylor | Old Rough and Ready, Old Zack |
| Millard Fillmore | The Accidental President, the Wool Carder President |
| Franklin Pierce | Hansome Frank, Purse |
| James Buchanan | Old Buck, The Do-Nothing President |
| Abraham Lincoln | The Great Emancipator, Honest Abe, The Rail Splitter |
| AndrewJohnson | The Tailor, Sir Veto, Father of the Homestead Act |
| Ulysses S. Grant | American Ceasar, The Galena Tanner, Useless S. Grant |
| Ruther B. Hayes | His Fraudulency, Old 8 to 7 |
| James A. Garfield | The Canal Boy, The Preacher President |
| Grover Cleveland | Grover the Good, Old Grover |
| Benjamin Harrison | Young Tippecanoe, Little Ben, The Centennial President |
| William McKinley | Liberator of Cuba, The Idol of Ohio, Wobbly Willie |
| Theodore Roosevelt | The Rough Rider, The Cowboy, Rough and Ready, T.R. |
| William Taft | Big Bill |
| Woodrow Wilson | The Professor, The Phrasemaker |
| William B. Harding | W.G. |
| Calvin Coolidge | Silent Cal |
| Herbert Hoover | Chief, Grand Old Man |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | F.D.R., The Boss, King Franklin |
| Harry S. Truman | Give'em Hell Harry, Haberdasher Harry |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | General Ike, Kanasas Cyclone, Duckpin |
| John F. Kennedy | J.F.K. |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | L.B.J. |
| Richard M. Nixon | Tricky Dick, Richard the Chicken-Hearted |
| Gerald Ford | Jerry, accidental president |
| Jimmy Carter | The Peanut Farmer, Cousin Hot |
| Ronald Reagan | The Great Communicator, Dutch, Ronald the Right |
| George W. Bush | W. |
Quick Facts
References:
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The Presidents of the United States. 22 September 2004
- Davis, Gibbs and Ilus. David A. Johnson. Wackiest White House Pets. New York: Scholastic Press, October 2004
- James, Barber and Amy Pastan. Smithsonian Presidents and First Ladies. New York: DK Publishing, 2002
- Harnsberger, Caroline Thomas. Treasury of Presidential Quotations. Chicago: Follett Publishing Company, 1964
- Kane, Joseph Natan. Facts about the Presidents from Washington to Johnson. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1964.
- National Park Service Web Site on Presidential Trivia: http://www.nps.gov/pub_aff/pres/trivia.htm.
Additional Sources:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents
http://www.historyplace.com/specials/portraits/presidents/index.html
www.freep.com
http://www.umkc.edu/imc/prestriv.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/4062/trivia.html
http://www.freep.com/news/inaug/trivia/index.htm
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/
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