Alan Rock's Trivia

Q: Who was the only unanimously elected President by the Electoral College? 

A: George Washington was unanimously elected by the Electoral College in 1789, and again in the 1792 election; he remains the only president to have received 100% of the electoral votes. James Monroe, the fifth President, received every Electoral College vote except one. A New Hampshire delegate wanted to preserve the legacy of George Washington.

Q: Before the Twelfth Amendment was passed in 1804, how was the Vice President determined? 

A: The Vice President was originally determined by the presidential candidate receiving the second-largest number of electoral votes. The Twelfth Amendment, passed in 1804, changed the system so that the electoral college voted separately for president and vice president.

Q: Who was the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms?  

A: Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is counted chronologically as both the twenty-second and the twenty-fourth president.

Q: Who was the first President born outside the contiguous United States? 

A: Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Stanley Ann Dunham, an American of predominantly English descent from Wichita, Kansas, and Barack Obama, Sr., a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya Colony. Obama is the first President to have been born in Hawaii.