While enjoying your day off, here are some fun facts about President’s Day you might not know.
- President’s Day is celebrated on the third Monday in February.
- George Washington’s actual birthday is February 22, 1732.
- President Gerald Ford was the first to be president and vice president without ever being elected.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt took the first presidential flight, according to Air and Space.
- There are three presidents from Tennessee: Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and Andrew Johnson.
- George Washington completed his education at age 15 to go to work. He became a surveyor because his family could not afford to send him to college.
- Woodrow Wilson is the only president to have earned his PhD degree.
- George W. Bush is the only president to have earned his MBA degree.
- The “S” in Harry S. Truman doesn’t stand for anything.
- John F. Kennedy was the first President that was a Boy Scout.
- William Henry Harrison died just 32 days after becoming President. He died from a cold he got while standing in the rain giving his inauguration speech.