Calvin Coolidge received a raccoon as a gift intended for the holiday meal, but he pardoned it and kept it as a White House pet instead.

In 1856, Representative Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner with a cane so severely that Sumner took three years to recover.

William Howard Taft, weighing over 300 pounds, famously got wedged in the presidential bathtub and required help to get out.

James Buchanan remained a bachelor throughout his life, making him the only president to never take a wife.

Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton in a duel while both men were still in office.

Andrew Jacksons pet parrot Poll had to be removed from the presidents funeral because it would not stop cursing.

William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia just one month after his inauguration, making his the briefest term in office.