24 Interesting Facts About U.S. Presidents

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The first American-born president was actually Martin Van Buren.

Unlike the former presidents, Martin Van Buren was the first president born an American citizen. His parents immigrated from the Netherlands to Kinderhook, New York, and six years after the colonists finally declared their independence from Britain, Martin Van Buren was brought into this world.

Andrew Jackson hated money made out of paper.

We see his face almost every single day when we open our wallets, but ironically, the seventh president of the United States hated paper money. Why? Because he only trusted gold and silver, paper money was apparently out of his league.

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