Arthur, Chester
21st President
Baptist "preacher's kid."  He learned early that he had to fend for himself.  He was quite successful.

Coolidge, Calvin
30th President
One of the smallest presidents and was rated as "tolerable good." He learned to scrap in Vermont which was the mecca of early day wrestling.

Eisenhower, Dwight
34th President
After a football injury, turned to intramural wrestling at West Point.

Ulysses, S. Grant
18th President
Like Andrew Jackson, learned to wrestle so he could stand up to bullies.

Jackson, Andrew
7th President
Very tall and thin, he was often made fun of.  He took up wrestling to stand up to bullies.  He was known for never backing down to anyone.  His style was similar to Washington's.

Lincoln, Abraham
16th President
Lincoln was an impressive physical specimen, thin but wiry and muscular, strengthened by hard work in the fields and towering to a mighty 6 feet, 4 inches in height. Considered the greatest president of all-time.  He was a 2 X County Champion.  First in Kentucky and then in Illinois. Lincoln undoubtedly was the roughest and toughest of the wrestling Presidents.

Roosevelt, Teddy
26th President
Continued regular wrestling workouts throughout his term as Governor of New York. Roosevelt, of course, had an affinity for most kinds of strong physical exertion. Only president to wrestling in the White House. 

Taft, W. Howard
27th President
Heaviest wrestling President at his ''best weight'' of 225, was a lifelong follower of collar and elbow. Big Bill was intramural heavyweight champion at Yale, and was a fourth generation wrestler in the Taft family.

Taylor, Zachary
12th President
Learned to wrestle as a boy.  Believe it was a great leadership. As a General in the Black Hawk War, he had all his men participate in wrestling drills. He always favored wrestling as an army sport.

Garfield, James
 20th President
Became known as the "King of the Mountain" wrestler of all boys at college in Hiram, Ohio.

Washington, George
1st President
Washington was first a champion wrestler. At 18, the big, shy Washington apparently held a ''collar and elbow'' wrestling championship that was at least county-wide and possibly colony-wide.

Pearce, Franklin
 14th President
Wrestled in the New Hampshire House of Representatives building while he was house speaker.