PRESIDENTIAL FACTS

Presidents by official salary

$50,000
Ulysses S Grant [2nd term]
Rutherford B Hayes
James Garfield
Chester Arthur
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt

$75,000
William H Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D Roosevelt
Harry S Truman

$100,000
Harry S Truman [2nd term]
Dwight D Eisenhower
John F Kennedy
Lyndon B Johnson

$200,000
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George Bush
Bill Clinton

$400,000
George W Bush

The Constitution forbids any change in the President's salary
'during the period for which he shall have been elected'.

From Truman's second term Presidents have been given expenses allowances
of $50,000 a year, taxable from 1953, for which they do not have to
account. Since 1909 they have also received a travelling allowance,
currently $100,000, though most of their travel costs, like most of the
non-personal costs of the White House, are met from other budgets.

Presidents who were bearded

Presidents who were Masons

Presidents who were left-handed

Presidents by War Service

Presidents by highest military rank

General of the Army *****
     Dwight D Eisenhower
     Ulysses S Grant

Lt General ***
     George Washington
       posthumously promoted "6-star" General of the Armies by Congress in 1976

       Joint Resolution of Congress, Public Law 94-479, dated 11 October 1976
       provided for the posthumous appointment of George Washington to the grade
       of General of the Armies of the United States, such appointment to take
       effect on July 4, 1976. This resolution stated that "it is considered
       fitting and proper that no officer of the United States Army should
       outrank Lieutenant General George Washington."

Major General **
     James Garfield
     William Henry Harrison
     Rutherford B Hayes
     Andrew Jackson
     Zachary Taylor

Brig General *
     Benjamin Harrison
     Andrew Johnson [as military governor of Tennessee]
     Franklin Pierce

Colonel
     James Madison #
     Theodore Roosevelt

Lt Colonel
     James Monroe #

Major / Lt Commander (Navy)
     Gerald Ford (Navy)
     Lyndon B Johnson (Navy)
     William McKinley
     Richard Nixon (Navy)
     Harry S Truman

Captain / Lieutenant (Navy)
     Jimmy Carter (Navy)
     Abraham Lincoln #
     Ronald Reagan
     John Tyler #

2nd Lieutenant / Lieutenant jg (Navy)
     George Bush (Navy)
     John F Kennedy (Navy)

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