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What unusual distinction do John Quincy Adams Rutherford B. Hayes Benjamin Harrison and George W. Bush share?
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∙ 13y ago
Invested millions of tax payer dollars in failed attempts to create a time travel device. Coincidently Harrison came closest to achieving success. In 1891 the Harrison Administration successfully transported a chimpanzee back into the space time continuum, however, they were unable to retrieve the primate from the past. In all $200 million U.S. tax dollars have been spent on such efforts.
They are the only persons to win the U.S. Presidency without receiving a majority of the popular vote.
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∙ 11y agoThey were each elected president despite having an opponent who received a higher fraction of the popular vote.
Leave out Hayes and the other three have something else in common: they were closely related to another US president. George W Bush and John Quincy Adams were the sons of George H W Bush and John Adams respectively, and Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of William Henry Harrison.
(Despite having the same last name, Franklin Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt were not particularly closely related; they were 5th cousins.)
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∙ 13y agoAll four of these men lost the popular vote but won the presidency.
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