President Herbert Hoover is probably one of the most controversial presidents in the history of the United States. As the last Republican President before the four continuous administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hoover was blamed greatly for ineffective leadership at the beginning of the great depression. Here are seven things though that you don’t know about President Herbert Hoover.

1. Herbert Hoover was the first head of any host nation to not attend the Olympics being hosted in their home country. Hoover was President of the United States from 1929-1933 and didn’t attend the Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles in 1932.

2. Herbert Hoover was the first United States President born west of the Mississippi River.

3. Hoover was orphaned after his mother died when he was five and his father died when he was nine.

4. Herbert Hoover attended Stanford University (then known as Leland Stanford Junior University) in the first year of the school’s existence.

5. Less than a decade before being elected President of the United States as a Republican in 1928, Hoover was pursued by Democratic leaders to be their nominee.

6. When former President Hoover toured what would become West Germany following World War II to ascertain what the country’s food needs were, his mode of transportation was rail and his personal car was the former personal car of German Field Marshal Herman Goring.

7. More than twenty years after losing his bid for reelection to Franklin Roosevelt, President Hoover was offered the opportunity to become a Senator from New York to fill an unexpired term, but he turned the opportunity down.

No former President lived longer after leaving office than President Hoover. Through those many years a great deal was done to rehabilitate his image and in later life he was perceived much better than he was when the country was in the thick of the Great Depression. President Hoover led the country through one of its most difficult times, and paid the political price for it too.

Ronald Reagan is easily one of the most famous presidents in the history of the United States. During his time in office, especially his earlier years, he was one of the most respected men both inside his own country’s borders as well as around the world. He of course had his detractors, every politician does, but for an extended period of time he was one of the most widely recognized people in the world. Here are seven things you don’t know about Ronald Reagan.

1. When Ronald Reagan was first elected Governor of California in 1966 he had only been a Republican for four years, having switched from being a Democrat in 1962.

2. Ronald Reagan was the first, and so far only United States President to have been divorced.

3. Ronald and Nancy Reagan were married in 1952 at the Little Brown Church in the San Fernando Valley in California. Reagan’s best man was famous actor William Holden.

4. During Reagan’s two terms as Governor of California, one person was executed by the state.

5. Ronald Reagan was the first American President to open an Olympic Games that was held in the USA.

6. When the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library was dedicated in 1991, it marked the first time in the history of the United States that five US Presidents were in one location (Reagan, Bush, Carter, Ford and Nixon).

7. Ronald Reagan is one of only four US Presidents to reach the age of 90, the others being John Adams, Herbert Hoover and Gerald Ford.

Ronald Reagan is one of the most beloved presidents in the history of the United States. For many different reasons, the citizens by and large flocked to Reagan’s side of most issues while he was in power. The man himself led a fascinating life, from start to finish. He truly was one of the most interesting men ever to reach the position of President of the United States of America.

When it comes to the interesting lives that a President leads before they become President, George Herbert Walker Bush sits near the top of the list. The man has held many positions and accomplished many things, including raising a son who would also reach the office of the presidency, but here are 7 things you don’t know about George Herbert Walker Bush.

1. Following the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan In 1941, at the age of 18, George H.W. Bush became the youngest naval aviator in United States history.

2. The first President Bush played baseball on the Yale University baseball team and appeared in the first two College World Series ever played.

3. In 1988, while George H.W. Bush was running for President, his opponent Michael Dukakis’ running mate was Lloyd Bentsen. Bentsen had defeated Bush in 1970 in a race for the United States Senate.

4. George H.W. Bush won the first primary (Iowa) in the 1980 Republican Primary before eventually bowing out in the wake of Ronald Reagan’s successful candidacy for President.

5. The last Nimitz class supercarrier produced for the United States Navy was christened the USS George H.W. Bush.

6. When in 1966 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives representing the 7th District of Texas, in doing so he became the first Republican to represent the city of Houston.

7. George H.W. Bush was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1993, he is the third President to have such an honor bestowed upon him after Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan.

Only serving one term has led many to believe that George H.W. Bush was one of the least fascinating men to rise to the level of President of the United States of America. It is obvious looking at his history that this is far from the truth.

When you run for President of the United States, there are very few secrets left uncovered by the media. Barack Obama seemed to burst on the political scene from out of nowhere a couple of years ago, but here are 7 Things You Don’t Know About: Barack Obama.

1. Many know that he is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, but his college career began at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California.
2. Barack and Michelle Obama met in 1988.
3. Famous people who share Barack Obama’s birthday (August 4th): Elizabeth (Queen Mother), Louis Armstrong, Billy Bob Thornton, Roger Clemens, and Jeff Gordon.
4. Barack Obama has claimed that if he had to choose an alternate career it would’ve been that of an architect.
5. In his first three years in the United States Senate, Barack Obama received honorary degrees from: Knox College, University of Massachusetts Boston, Northwestern University, Xavier University of Louisiana, Southern New Hampshire University, and Howard University.
6. Barack Obama’s first book, “Dreams Of My Father”, was written and published before his first run for public office.
7. Barack Obama’s father is from Kenya where after a 2006 Congressional visit, a school was renamed the Senator Barack Obama Primary School.

Barack Obama, win or lose, will go down in history as one of the more interesting political personalities and stories of our time.