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Presidents’ Day in the US
The holiday is now commonly called Presidents’ Day. Many say it also honors Abraham Lincoln ’s birthday.
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Presidents’ Day in the US
The nation’s 16th president was born on February 12. The federal government, however, still recognizes the holiday as “Washington’s Birthday.”
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Presidents’ Day in the US
The Uniform Monday Holiday Act gives workers a three-day weekend. It also gives shops and marketers a chance to have special Presidents’ Day sales.
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Presidents’ Day in the US
At 78 years old, he became the oldest elected president. The man he beat was the previous record holder, Donald J.
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Presidents’ Day in the US
Trump He took office at the age of 70 in 2017.
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Biden and Trump are leading candidates for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations for the 2024 presidential race.
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Presidents’ Day in the US
They will likely face each other again later this year for the presidency. As the first billionaire president, Trump replaced John F.
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Presidents’ Day in the US
Kennedy the 35th president, as the richest man to serve as president. Kennedy still holds the record for the youngest person to be elected president.
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He was 43 when he took office. Kennedy is also the youngest president to die in office.
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He was assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, Texas. He was 46 years old.
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Presidents’ Day in the US
Another presidential assassination put the youngest person in the office of the president. In 1901, Theodore Roosevelt then the vice president, became president at the age of 42.
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He took office after William McKinley the 25th president, was shot and killed in Buffalo, New York.
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Presidents’ Day in the US
The first president to die in office, though, was William Henry Harrison The country’s ninth president only served 32 days, the shortest time of any president.
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Another Roosevelt holds the record for the longest time in office. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd president.
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He held office for 4,422 days. After his death, the 22nd Amendment was passed.
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It limited a person to two four-year terms as president.
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Presidents’ Day in the US
But they may not know exactly how they were related. Here it goes: Franklin Roosevelt’s wife, Eleanor Roosevelt was also his fifth cousin once removed.
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And Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president, was Eleanor’s uncle. That makes the two presidents distant relatives.
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But they were not the first relatives to both serve as president. That title belongs to the Adamses.
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John Adams was America’s second president. His son, John Quincy Adams was elected as the nation’s sixth president.
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Presidents’ Day in the US
The Bushes are the other father-son presidential pair George Herbert Walker Bush was elected as the 41st president.
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Presidents’ Day in the US
His son, George W. Bush was the country’s 43rd president.
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Not everyone can run for president. The U.S. Constitution says a person must be at least 35 years old.
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A person must also have lived “within the United States” for at least 14 years. And they must be a “natural-born citizen.”
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But the meaning of “natural-born citizen” is not exactly clear. People read the rules in different ways.
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