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Here is the Know Your Trivia for the Week of 1/13/25
Past presidents were known by names other than their actual birth name, and here they are!
The first is the nation’s 18th president, Ulysses S. Grant, who was born Hiram Ulysses Grant. The cause of Grant’s name change is famously known as the result of the actions of Pennsylvania U.S. Representative Thomas Hamer, who erroneously nominated the future president to West Point as “Ulysses” instead of “Hiram.”
As such, Hiram became Ulysses in 1839 when Grant was 17 years old.
The country’s 22nd and 24th president, Grover Cleveland, was born Stephen Grover Cleveland, but was known as “Grover” beginning in his childhood.
America’s 28th president, Woodrow Wilson, was born Thomas Woodrow Wilson, but began calling himself “Woodrow” in adulthood.
The nation’s 30th president, Calvin Coolidge, was born John Calvin Coolidge, named after his father, John, but was called Calvin early in childhood.
The country’s 34th president, Dwight Eisenhower, was born David Dwight Eisenhower, named after his father, David.
Gerald Ford was born Leslie Lynch King and was only a few weeks old when his mother left his deadbeat father. The young King’s mother married businessman Gerald Ford, Sr. a few years later at which point the future president was renamed “Gerald Ford.”
Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe, a few months after his father died in an auto accident. Blythe’s mother remarried a few years later and the young boy eventually took the surname of his stepfather (Roger Clinton, Sr.) when he was a teenager.
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