Every Democratic President since Polk has had 2 first names.

[Renew Deal]

Polk was the last Democratic president that didn't have 2 first names. Check it...

Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman
John Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Jimmy Carter
Bill Clinton


This is a good sign. We have 4 candidates now with 2 first names.

Wes Clark
John Edwards
Howard Dean
John Kerry

And it goes for the republicans too:

Chester A Arthur
James A Garfield
Ulysses S Grant
Benjamin Harrison
Rutherford B Hayes
Abraham Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
William H Taft

But wait, there's more

More Democrats:
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Johnson

Federalist (2)
George Washington
John Adams

Democratic Republican (4)
John Quincy Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe

Whig (4) )
Millard Fillmore
William Henry Harrison
Zachary Taylor
John Tyler

That's 23 out of 43. :wow:

http://www.campvishus.org/PresPartyShare.htm
http://www.bartleby.com/124/

[JVS]

1. I think that some of those names were not first names when they were born

who the hell names their kid Kennedy, Johnson, Wilson, Carter, or Roosevelt?

[Jersey Devil]

2. You mean "many", but certainly not "every" President

Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon

Plus I am sure several others who did not have two first names.

[Renew Deal]

3. Democratic is the key word.

[eyesroll]

4. How many of these last names became first names later, BECAUSE

of the president?

When did these names come into use?

[Renew Deal]

5. I was wondering that too.

I just don't know.