Let's take a look at the middle names and initials of U.S. presidents.
1. Name the first U.S. president who had a middle name.
2. What was Harry Truman's middle name?
3. What was Woodrow Wilson's middle name?
4. We've had two presidents named George Bush. Did they have the same full name?
5. President Ronald Reagan's middle name was the same as the last name of a future president. Who was that president?
6. Woodrow was not Woodrow Wilson's first name. What was Wilson's first name?
7. What president's birthplace was renamed and now bears the same name as his middle name?
8. His original name was Hiram Ulysses Grant, but when he entered West Point the future president changed it. What was Grant's new military academy name?
9. President Coolidge went by his middle name of "Calvin." What was our 30th president's first name?
10. Leslie Gardner King Jr. was adopted by his mother's new husband following her divorce and remarriage. By what name did we know him as president?
Answers
1. John Quincy Adams, our 6th president, was the first president to have a middle name.
2. Truman's middle name was the letter "S" — just that single letter.
3. Woodrow was our 28th president's middle name. His full name was Thomas Woodrow Wilson.
4. George Bush, the father, was George Herbert Walker Bush. George Bush, the son, bears the name George Walker Bush without the name "Herbert."
5. Reagan's middle name was Wilson, as in Woodrow Wilson.
6. Our 28th president's full name was Thomas Woodrow Wilson.
7. Braintree, Massachusetts, the birthplace of John Quincy Adams, is now Quincy.
8. The future general took on the new name of Ulysses Simpson Grant, which bears the patriotic initials of U.S. Grant.
9. His name was John Calvin Coolidge.
10. We knew Leslie Gardner King Jr. by his new name of Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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