the third monday of february is known as president's day in the united states for nearly one hundred years america honored its first President, George Washington, on February 22nd. That was his birthday. But the date was not a national holiday until 1968.
that year the u s congress passed a measure known as the uniform monday holiday act the measure meant that some public holidays would always fall on a monday today the country honors its first president on the third monday in february and not on washington's real birthday the holiday is now commonly called president's day Many say it also honors Abraham Lincoln's birthday. The nation's 16th president was born on February 12th.
the federal government however still recognizes the holiday as washington's birthday the uniform monday holiday act gives workers a three-day weekend It also gives shops and marketers a chance to have special President's Day sales. In January of 2021, joe biden made history when he took the oath of office as the forty sixth president of the united states at seventy-eight years old he became the oldest elected president
The man he beat was the previous record holder, Donald J. Trump. He took office at the age of 70 in 2017. Biden and Trump are leading candidates for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations for the 2024 presidential race.
they will likely face each other again later this year for the presidency as the first billionaire president trump replaced john f kennedy the thirty-fifth president as the richest man to serve as president kennedy still holds the record for the youngest person to be elected president he was forty-three when he took office Kennedy is also the youngest president to die in office. He was assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, Texas. He was 46 years old.
another presidential assassination put the youngest person in office for the president in nineteen o one theodore roosevelt then the vice president became president at the age of forty-two he took office after william mckinley the twenty-fifth president was shot and killed in buffalo new york
the first president to die in office though was william henry harrison the country's ninth president only served thirty-two days the shortest time of any president another roosevelt holds the record for the longest time in office franklin delano roosevelt was the thirty-second president he held office for four thousand four hundred twenty two days after his death the twenty-second amendment was passed it limited a person to two four-year terms
as president. Most Americans know that the two Roosevelts were related, but they may not know exactly how they were related. Here it goes. Franklin Roosevelt's wife Eleanor Roosevelt was also his fifth cousin once removed, and Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president, was Eleanor's uncle.
that makes the two presidents distant relatives but they were not the first relatives to both serve as president that title belongs to the adamses john adams was america's second president his son john quincy adams was elected as the nation's sixth president
the bushes are the other father-son presidential pair george herbert walker bush was elected as the forty-first president his son george w bush was the country's forty-third president not everyone can run for president the u s constitution says a person must be at least thirty-five years old
a person must also have lived within the united states for at least fourteen years and they must be a natural-born citizen but the meaning of natural born citizen is not exactly clear people read the rules in different ways
by some reasoning the first natural-born american president was not george washington or john adams it was martin van buren the eighth president he was born in seventeen eighty two six years after the signing of the declaration of independence all seven presidents before van buren and william henry harrison the ninth president technically were not natural born citizens they were born before seventeen seventy six when the american states were still British colonies. I'm Ashley Thompson.