Heres an interesting bit of trivia.... (50s, Washington, Lincoln, presidents)

[NVplumber]

Can anyone name the last third party president elected in the US? The answer is kinda cool. 123 GO.... (I've used this one as a stumper MANY times)

[NVplumber]

10 views and no answers...lol ok boys and girls the answer is no other than ol' Abe Lincoln himself. From a then upstart party called..The Republicans

[TracySam]

Hmmm, if by "Third Party" you mean not a Democrat or a Republican, then it's probably Fillmore, who was a Whig.

But then again, Lincoln and Johnson were part of the "National Union Party," an alliance of R's and D's, which was really a quasi-party, and which most don't consider a "real" party.

[TracySam]

ooops, you responded to your own thread when I was still typing.

To some "third party" means "not a Democrat or Republican" (the accepted meaning has turned into this)
But to others, and as you correctly point out, third party means a party that hasn't yet become dominant.

[Fred314X]

It's true that the Republican Party didn't exist prior to the 1860 election. But when they did form, there really weren't any other legitimate political parties besides the Democrats. The Whigs had had their last hurrah in 1848 with the election of Zachary Taylor (Fillmore wasn't elected President; he was Taylor's VP, and succeeded to the office in 1850). The American, popularly called "Know Nothing" party, was big in the 1850s, but was fizzling out by the end of that decade.

[NVplumber]

Yes what I meant was a heretofore unrecognized party of power. As in ,say, an Independent were to win today. An upset election as it were.

[Tesaje]

No, it was Teddy Roosevelt. He switched to his own independent party when the Republicans didn't want him but the oil baron's puppet was remarkably similar to the performance of the current oil baron's puppet.

[Steve Bagu]

Couple of trivias;
President Harry S Truman.....What did the "S" stand for?
What was George Washington's middle name?
Which Presidents lived past the age of 90?
Who is the President to have lived the longest?

[MICoastieMom]

The 'S' stands for whatever Harry's grandfathers wanted to believe. His parents allowed each to think their son was named for them.

According to the family Bible, George did not have a middle name.

This is a trick question: Hubert Heaver (I never could get that name straight as a kid!) and John Adams both lived until ninety. But they weren't the oldest.

Gerald Ford beat out Ronnie Reagan as the oldest president by one month, they were both 93.

[TracySam]

I thought Teddy switched to the Bull Moose party AFTER he was President, when he tried to run again. I could be wrong but I believe he was still a Republican when elected.

Reagan lived past 90. I think 93?
John Adams lived past 90; I just saw the miniseries for like the 4th time.

Don't want to cheat and look up the rest. That's all I can say off the top of my head.

Harry Truman's middle name was just "S"

No clue on Washington's middle name (without cheating).