A Mississippi Burning Question
January 18, 2008 at 1:34 am
Peter Roff sends in this most excellent trivia question and answer:
Between Teddy Roosevelt and Bill Clinton, 17 men occupied the Oval Office in the 20th Century.
Question: During this period, 1904 to 1996, were more of them elected from West of the Mississippi or East of it?
Answer: It’s a trick question. The number is eight from the East (TR, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, FDR, Kennedy & Carter) and eight from the West (Hoover [California, not Iowa]; Truman, Eisenhower [who claimed Mamie’s home state of Colorado the first time he ran]; LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Clinton. Ford, the tied-breaker, was never elected president.
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