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Presidents By Birth Month

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By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  February 25th, 2012 at 11:28 AM  | 

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For your Presidents’ Week (or whatever they call it these days) enjoyment, the birth month of all the presidents, plus presidential candidates:

This is…not evenly distributed in terms of quality.

January: Nixon, FDR. McKinley, Fillmore

February: Reagan, Lincoln, W.H. Harrison, Washington

One of these things is not like the others. Then again, at least Harrison did no damage in office.

March: Cleveland, Tyler, Jackson, Madison

(Mitt Romney was born in March)

April: Grant, Buchanan, Monroe, Jefferson

May: JFK, Truman

(Rick Santorum was born in May)

June: George H.W. Bush

(Newt Gingrich was born in June)

July: George W. Bush, Ford, Coolidge, J.Q. Adams

August: Obama, Clinton, LBJ, Hoover, B. Harrison

Poor Benjamin Harrison, in this company.

September: Taft

There wasn’t room for another one.

October: Carter, Ike, TR, Arthur, Hayes, Adams

Character of this list changes a lot if you ignore History’s Greatest Monster.

November: Harding, Garfield, Pierce, Taylor, Polk

Pierce is the only one who was alive five years after being elected. Polk rather stands out in this crowd.

December: Wilson, A.Johnson, Van Buren

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  • acat

    … and lookit that, he’s another August.

    Mew

    • http://www.baseballcrank.com Dan McLaughlin

      Paul Ryan? January. Sarah Palin? February. Mitch Daniels? April. Marco Rubio? May. Bobby Jindal? June. Mike Huckabee? August. Chris Christie? September.

      • acat

        I know, correlation does not indicate causality, merely a synchronicity, but it’s still fun when it happens.

        Mew

        • http://www.tinfoilhelicopter.com lunaticrex

          on Taft. Then Christie, that is too funny.

          acat – should we conclude that you intended to use ‘serendipity’ vice synchronicity? If not, I don’t get it.

          • acat

            Wiktionary sez

            In other words, a synchronicity is a correlation with no causality.

            Mew

          • http://www.tinfoilhelicopter.com lunaticrex

            Thank you for that. Now, off to google…

  • westcoastpatriette

    Makes me ashamed of my birth month….August. I had no idea (until now) that such a motley bunch of presidents were born in August.

    Thanks.

  • Locked and Loaded

    by moving April Fool’s Day to October.

    • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

      A crashed helicopter in the foreground, a gas pump with with an out of fuel sign on it in the background, and a killer rabbit lurking on the wings.

  • barleycorn

    Harding, Garfield, Taylor, all died in office.

    Polk died three months after leaving office.

    But poor Pierce actually had it the worst. All three of his children (all sons) died as children. The last one died in a train wreck between his father’s election and his inauguration.

  • conservativecurmudgeon

    January, March, April, August, October, AND December!

  • Flagstaff

    I believe that both were very good presidents.

    “at least Harrison did no damage in office.”

    He didn’t get the chance. Maybe Obama will make a long speech in the snow and sleet without an overcoat.