Presidential curiosities

[Pogo]

Who is the only President and First Lady to witness the decapitation of their son right in front of their eyes?

Franklin and Jane Pierce in a train accident.

I knew about the accident, didn't know the kid was decapitated.

Pierce later quipped "there's nothing left to do but get drunk" and proceeded to do just that, running down a pedestrian at one point while drunk driving his carriage.

What President was arrested multiple times for speeding, while in office?

Spoiler: Answer

Grant

 

[Pogo]

What President (there's only one, so far, not counting Rump) grew up speaking a language that was not English?

Spoiler: Answer

Martin van Buren (his mother tongue was Dutch)

 

[Pogo]

What President saw all of his siblings and both parents, die at relatively young ages, all from pancreatic cancer?

Spoiler: Answer

Jimmy Carter, now age 95

 

[Pogo]

What former POTUS, campaigning to return to the office, took a bullet in the chest from a would-be assassin at a speech, but went right on speaking?

Spoiler: Answer

Teddy Roosevelt

 

[Pogo]

Here's one for Hallowe'en...........

What POTUS was the great-great-great-great-great-great grandson of Susanna Martin, one of the victims at the Salem witch trials?

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Spoiler: Answer

Chester Alan Arthur, who also had the coolest Presidential sideburns ever