What animal was voted the most popular animal in 1926?

1. Which president had a raccoon?
2. What animal did Calvin Coolidge pardon?
3. Which president turned the White House into the Pennsylvania Avenue zoo?
4. Which president had a pet tiger?
5. What president had a pet alligator?
6. Which president had a pet possum?
7. Did people eat racoon for Thanksgiving?
8. Which president had the weirdest pet?
9. Which president had a Siamese cat?
10. Did Calvin Coolidge eat raccoon?
11. Which president refused Thanksgiving a holiday?
12. What president had a pet hyena?
13. Which president died of eating a cherry?
14. Which president had a pet elephant?
15. What president had a cat named Socks?
16. Which president had the most children?
17. What president had a cat in the White House?

Which president had a raccoon?

President Coolidge's favorite pet was a raccoon named Rebecca; he built a special house for her, visited her every day, and walked her around the White House on a leash.

What animal did Calvin Coolidge pardon?

But for the Coolidges, that idea was OFF the table. They decided to keep the raccoon instead. So, Coolidge gave her a name: Rebecca. And then he gave her some bling.

Which president turned the White House into the Pennsylvania Avenue zoo?

Calvin Coolidge's Pennsylvania Avenue Zoo

When Warren G. Harding died unexpectedly of a heart attack just over two years into his term, Vice President Calvin Coolidge ascended to the Oval Office. A frugal man known for his quiet disposition, Coolidge presided over the booming 1920s.

Which president had a pet tiger?

Early in his Presidency, Van Buren received a gift from Kabul al Said, the Sultan of Oman – a pair of tiger cubs. He was delighted with the pair, and began making adjustments to add them to his household. Congress, however, had something to say about his new pets – that he couldn't keep them.

What president had a pet alligator?

President John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) kept an alligator in a bathtub. The Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette was given a live alligator while touring the 24 United States in 1824 and 1825, so he regifted the gator to President Adams, who put the reptile in a tub in the then-unfinished East Wing.

Which president had a pet possum?

Hoover moved into the White House, President Benjamin Harrison had two opossums during his tenure, from 1889 to 1893, which he named Mr.

Did people eat racoon for Thanksgiving?

As Luke Fater reports for Atlas Obscura, Native Americans and early American settlers relied on small game like raccoon and squirrels to supplement their diets. ... In November 1926, Vinnie Joyce of Nitta Yuma, Mississippi, sent President Calvin Coolidge an unsolicited plump raccoon for his Thanksgiving dinner.

Which president had the weirdest pet?

Rooster. William Mckinley and Theodore Roosevelt each had a rooster, but Roosevelt's only had one leg. Roosevelt for sure wins the contest of the oddest presidential pets in the White House.

Which president had a Siamese cat?

President Rutherford B. Hayes was actually given the first Siamese cat in the U.S. from the American Consul in Bangkok as a gift. Jimmy Carter's free-spirited daughter also had a Siamese cat, which she called Misty Malarky Ying Yang.

Did Calvin Coolidge eat raccoon?

Rebecca the Raccoon was meant to be a meal, but she became a favorite pet of President Calvin Coolidge and his wife, Grace. After receiving the raccoon as a Thanksgiving gift in 1926, the little sweetie became an integral part of the family and a curious presence in the White House.

Which president refused Thanksgiving a holiday?

They asked Franklin Roosevelt to make Thanksgiving one week earlier. President Roosevelt ignored those concerns in 1933, but when Thanksgiving once again threatened to fall on the last day of November in 1939, FDR reconsidered the request and moved the date of Thanksgiving up one week.

What president had a pet hyena?

Theodore Roosevelt and family had many pets during their lifetimes and were well known to be great animal lovers.

Which president died of eating a cherry?

Zachary Taylor: Death of the President. Zachary Taylor's sudden death shocked the nation. After attending Fourth of July orations for most of the day, Taylor walked along the Potomac River before returning to the White House. Hot and tired, he drank iced water and consumed large quantities of cherries and other fruits.

Which president had a pet elephant?

PARTY ANIMALS

Some of the more unusual U.S. presidential pets have been gifts from other world leaders. James Buchanan, the 15th president, received a herd of elephants from the King of Siam (now called Thailand). The Sultan of Oman gave Martin Van Buren, the eighth president, a pair of tiger cubs.

What president had a cat named Socks?

President Bill Clinton (1993-2001) owned two pets, a cat named Socks and a dog named Buddy.

Which president had the most children?

John Tyler is the president who fathered the most children, having fifteen children over two marriages (and allegedly fathering more with slaves), while his successor, James K. Polk, remains the only U.S. president never to have fathered or adopted any known children.

What president had a cat in the White House?

President Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865)

Lincoln was the first president to bring felines into the White House. His cats Tabby and Dixie were gifts from Secretary of State William Seward. Lincoln was quite the cat person, even rescuing three motherless kittens while visiting General Grant during the Civil War.