We celebrate Presidents Day on Monday, Feb. 17. This holiday began as a tribute to President George Washington and was scheduled near his birthday, Feb. 22. In fact, the official name of the federal holiday is still Washington’s Birthday.

This week, The Mini Page celebrates Presidents Day by getting to know some of our former presidents a little bit better. (The number next to each president’s name shows the order in which he served.)

George Washington (1)

• Washington was the only president to have a state named after him.

• He gave the shortest inauguration speech ever, 133 words, at his second inauguration in 1793.

• Washington did not have wooden teeth. His teeth were made of the best materials available at the time.

John Tyler (10)

• Tyler had more children than any other president. He was the father of 15! He was married twice. He had eight children by his first wife, Letitia, and seven by his second wife, Julia.

Theodore Roosevelt (26)

• Roosevelt was our youngest president, taking office at age 42.

• He had six children.

The family had pets including a bear, a lizard, guinea pigs, a pig, a onelegged rooster, a barn owl and a rabbit.

William Henry Taft (27)

• Taft was the biggest president. He weighed more than 300 pounds.

• He later became chief justice of the Supreme Court.

Abraham Lincoln (16)

• Lincoln was the first president to wear a beard. He did not wear it for long, only for the last four years of his life. An 11-year-old girl, Grace Bedell, wrote him a letter suggesting that he grow one. grow one.

• Lincoln was the tallest president. He was 6 feet 4 inches tall. He weighed 180 pounds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (32)

• Roosevelt was the only president elected for four terms. He was a distant cousin of Theodore Roosevelt (26). He was the first president to fly in an airplane while in office. He also loved the hobby of stamp collecting.

Ronald Reagan (40)

• Reagan was the only Hollywood star and the third-oldest man ever elected to the office of president. He was 69 when he was elected to his first term.

• Reagan was also the first president to wear a bulletproof vest, a hearing aid and contact lenses.

Jimmy Carter (39)

• Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital.

• He was also the first president to walk from the Capitol to the White House after his inauguration.

Richard Nixon (37)

• Richard Nixon was the first president to make a telephone call to the moon.