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Topic: Pointless Presidential Trivia Item #8,472

#	Author	Message
1	alexbook Tue 5/27/2008 11:46a	Every one of our first 43 presidents was born within the "contiguous" U.S. (i.e., the territory owned by the United States pre-1867). John McCain and Barack Obama were both born outside that region (in the Panama Canal Zone and Hawaii, respectively). Coincidence? Or conspiracy?
2	SoThisIsLove Tue 5/27/2008 12:07p	Neither. :) We're just older as a country...we've had 50 states since 1959 (the same year Sleeping Beauty was released...now THERE'S your conspiracy right there!) and the population is aging and junk like that.
3	Dabob2 Tue 5/27/2008 12:24p	This will also be the first year since 1960 that we'll elect a sitting senator to be president.
4	SoThisIsLove Tue 5/27/2008 12:29p	VERY nice, Dabob2!
5	Goofyernmost Tue 5/27/2008 1:09p	I have a feeling that we are going to wish that they remained seated and let someone else run. I'm not happy about the upcoming election at all. Personal trivia, but, trivia none the less.
6	SoThisIsLove Tue 5/27/2008 2:44p	I have a feeling they'll wish that they stayed seated, too! :) Man, weird times in the USA. Food and gas prices...tornados and earthquakes and fires...you couldn't pay me a kabillion bucks to be President. And now, my trivia: Eight Presidents were born British subjects: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and Benjamin Harrison.
7	alexbook Tue 5/27/2008 3:00p	^-Probably meant William Harrison, not Benjamin. Also, Martin Van Buren was born after the British surrendered but before the peace treaty was signed. Then there's Chester Arthur. Some people claimed that he'd actually been born in Dunham, Quebec, and not Fairfield, Vermont, as his family claimed.
8	Mrs ElderP Tue 5/27/2008 4:18p	I've heard a special clause (or a citizen at the time of the adoption of this constitution) was written into the constitution just for Hamilton, who wasn't born in the Colonies, (he was born in the West Indies.)

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