There have been only two father-son pairs to serve as U.S. president: John Adams and John Quincy Adams and George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. (Robert A. Taft, the son of President William Howard Taft, came somewhat close to joining their company but failed to secure his party’s nomination despite three close attempts.)  As the only person to be the son of one president and the father of another, however, John Scott Harrison occupies an even rarer place in history. His father, William Henry Harrison, was the shortest-serving president in U.S. history, having died 31 days into his term on April 4, 1841. John Scott Harrison’s son Benjamin Harrison occupied the White House from 1889 to 1893. John Scott Harrison was 36 when his father died, and he went on to represent Ohio’s 2nd congressional district from 1853 to 1857 — first …Read More

The four U.S. Presidents carved into Mount Rushmore were chosen by sculptor Gutzon Borglum to represent major milestones and ideals in American history.