A Dog in the Hand is Worth Bush in the White House
The
White House has housed more pets than people over the years.
Here's
a look at the nation's
pet
loving Presidents and the nation's First Pets, from George Washington
to
George W. Bush's
Scottish
Terrier, "Barney" & Springer Spaniel, "Spot."
U.S.
President George W. Bush greets a Black Lab searcher dog
after
visiting the site of the World Trade Center attack in New York City.
(Photo:
Sep 14, 2001, Reuters / Win McNamee)
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The
new White House puppy,
Miss Beazley, ran around with Barney
on the South Lawn of the White House
Jan. 6, 2005. (AFP Photo)
Presidential Pets
|
1789 George Washington |
|
| 1801 Thomas Jefferson | mockingbird |
| 1809 James Madison | green parrot |
| 1817 James Monroe | Spaniel dog (no name) |
| 1825 John Quincy Adams | alligator, silkworms |
| 1829 Andrew Jackson | 5 horses |
| 1837 Martin Van Buren | 2 tiger cubs |
| 1841 William H. Harrison | goat, cow |
| 1841 John Tyler | horse |
| 1849 Zachary Taylor | horse |
| 1861 Abraham Lincoln | pig,
rabbit, 3 goats, turkey, horses, cats,
2 dogs (Jip, Fido) |
| 1865 Andrew Johnson | mice |
| 1869 Ulysses S. Grant | 10 horses, gamecocks, parrot, at least 1 dog (Faithful), a Newfoundland) |
| 1877 Rutherford Hayes | cows, horses, goats and dogs (no names) |
| 1881 James Garfield | horse |
| 1885 Grover Cleveland | canaries, mockingbirds, Japanese Poodle (no name) |
| 1889 Benjamin Harrison | goat, dogs (no names) |
| 1897 Willliam McKinley | parrot |
| 1901 Theodore Roosevelt | 13 horses, 5 Guinea pigs, snakes, 2 cats, 2 parrots, 5 bears, Pitbull Terrier (Pete), Chesapeake retriever (Sailor Boy), Terrier (Jack), Mutt (Skip), Spaniel (Manchu), lion, hyena, wildcat, coyote, zebra, barn owl, lizards, rats, roosters, raccoon, horned toad-(Bill) |
| 1909 William Taft | cow |
| 1913 Woodrow Wilson | ram,
sheep
"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience." - Woodrow Wilson |
| 1921 Warren Harding | horse, Airedale (Old Boy), canaries |
| 1923 Calvin Coolidge | Terrier
(Peter Pan),
Airedale (Lady Buck/Paul Pry),
2 White Collies (Oshkosh/Rob Roy and Prudence Primm), Shetland Sheepdog (Calamity Jane), 2 Chows (Tiny Tim and Blackberry), Brown Collie (Ruby Rough), Yellow Collie (Bessie), Bulldog (Boston Beans), Police Dog (King Kole), Bird Dog (Palo Alto), goose, thrush, 3 canaries, mockingbird, cat, bobcat, alley cat, 2 raccoons, donkey, lion cubs, wallaby, pygmy hippo, bear |
| 1929 Herbert Hoover | 2 Police Dogs (King Tut and Pat), 2 Fox Terriers (Big Ben and Sonnie), Scotch Collie (Glen), Eskimo Dog (Yukon), Wolfhound (Patrick), Setter (Eaglehurst Gillette), Elkhound (Weejie) |
| 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt | German Shepherd (Major), 2 Scotch Terriers (Meggie & Fala), Llewellyn Setter (Winks), English Sheep- dog (Tiny), Great Dane (President), Mastiff (Blaze) |
| 1945
Harry
S. Truman
Harry S. Truman |
Mutt
(Feller),
Irish
Setter (Mike)
"Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads." - Harry S. Truman |
| 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower | Weimaraner (Heidi) |
| 1961 John F. Kennedy | canary,
2 parakeets, 4 horses, 2 hamsters, rabbit, cat, Welsh Terrier (Charlie),
8 dogs (Pushinka, Shannon,
Wolf, Clipper, Butterfly, White Tips, Blackie & Streaker) |
| 1963 Lyndon B. Johnson | hamsters, lovebirds, Mutt (Yuki), 4 Beagles (Beagle, Little Beagle, Him and Her), White Collie (Blanco) |
| 1969 Richard Nixon | Spaniel
(Checkers),
Irish
Setter (King Timahoe),
Terrier (Pasha), Poodle (Vicky) |
| 1974 Gerald Ford | Siamese cat, Golden Retriever (Liberty) |
| 1977 Jimmy Carter | Siamese cat,(Grits)the dog |
| 1981 Ronald Reagan | Cavalier King Charles Spaniel (Rex), Bouvier des Flandres (Lucky), more dogs and horses |
| 1989 George Bush | Springer Spaniel (Millie) and her puppy (Ranger) & cat " |
| 1992 Bill Clinton | (Socks) the cat, (Buddy) the dog |
| 2000 George W. Bush | Scottish
Terrier (Barney),
Springer Spaniel (Spot),
2 cats (Spot died 2004) Miss Beasley arrived 2005. |
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*John Adams (1797-1801) *Thomas Jefferson (1801-09) *James Madison (1809-17) *James Monroe (1817-25) *John Quincy Adams (1825-29) *Andrew Jackson (1829-37) *Martin Van Buren (1837-41) *William Henry Harrison (1841) *John Tyler (1841-45) James Polk (1845-49) no pets *Zachary Taylor (1849-50)
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Franklin Pierce (1853-57) no pets James Buchanan (1857-61) no pets *Abraham Lincoln (1861-65) Andrew Johnson (1865-69) no pets *Ulysses S. Grant (1869-77) *Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-81) *James A. Garfield (1881) Chester A. Arthur (1881-85) no pets *Grover Cleveland (1885-89) *Benjamin Harrison (1889-93) *Grover Cleveland (1893-97) *William McKinley (1897-1901) * pets |
*William H. Taft (1909-13) *Woodrow Wilson (1913-21) *Warren Harding (1921-23) *Calvin Coolidge (1923-29) *Herbert Hoover (1929-33) *Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-45) *Harry S Truman (1945-53) *Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-61) *John F. Kennedy (1961-63) *Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-69) *Richard M. Nixon (1969-74) *Gerald R. Ford (1974-77) *Jimmy Carter (1977-81) *Ronald W. Reagan (1981-89) *George Bush (1989-93) *William J. Clinton (1993-2001) *George W. Bush (2001- ) |