The Virginia dynasty were four of the first five presidents, all from Virginia:
George Washington (served 1789-97)
Thomas Jefferson (served 1801-09)
James Madison (served 1809-17)
James Monroe (served 1817-25)
John Adams of Massachusetts (served 1797-1801) was the only one of the first five presidents not from Virginia.
His son John Quincy Adams broke the hold of the Virginia dynasty by taking office as president 1825-29.
Statesman Henry Clay (1777-1852) said, “I would rather be right than be president”.
Five U.S. presidents attended Harvard University: John Adams John Quincy Adams Theodore Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt John F. Kennedy
The speed limit in New York City is thirty miles per hour on the streets, 50 miles per hour on the highways, except where otherwise noted.
The median age in the United States was 33 in 1990.
The 1882 law, the Chinese Exclusion Act, which was enacted to preserve jobs for native-born Americans, suspended Chinese immigration to the U.S. for ten years. Renewed from time to time in the 20th century, it was completely suspended in 1965.
It was Brooklyn-born Shirley Chisholm (1924), who was the first black woman elected to Congress from that borough in 1969. In 1972, she ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for president.