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Can You Recognize These Baby Photos of American Presidents?
Updated on Nov. 28, 2022
They may have served as leaders of our country, but we all started in the same place. These adorable little babies turned into the faces we recognize from our textbooks and television screens, with The White House as a very distant future endeavor. See if you can recognize our former leaders as tiny humans. If you nail these, challenge yourself with these Presidential trivia questions everyone gets wrong.
Who’s this little president?
Hint: He can eat hard foods now, but still has trouble with pretzels.
It’s: George W. Bush! (1946- )
This 1947 photo of baby Bush was taken while father, George H.W., was a student at Yale. Though a famous Texan, George W. was born in New Haven, Connecticut. Check out these dramatic before-and-after photos of how the presidents have aged in office.
Who’s this little president?
Hint: That hat and gown is a Raw Deal.
It’s: Franklin D. Roosevelt! (1882 -1945)
This 1884 baby photo is a time capsule of Gilded Age style: boys wore dresses until 6 or 7 years old—also the age they received their first haircut. Here’s FDR’s Yalta buddy Winston Churchill at the same age.
Who’s this little president?
Hint: Lookin’ slick, even as a 4-year-old.
It’s: Bill Clinton! (1946- )
This 1950 photo captures the little prez when he was still William Jefferson Blythe IV. He wouldn’t formally take the name Clinton until 1962, long after his mother remarried. These are more facts about the presidents you probably never knew.
Who’s this little president?
Hint: That flower definitely isn’t for Saddam.
It’s: George H.W. Bush! (1924-2018)
This 1925 shot captures little H.W.’s first steps at his grandfather’s house in Kennebunkport, Maine. You definitely don’t want to miss these 19 hilarious quotes from past presidents.
Who’s this little president?
Hint: Though he ditched the cowboy hat, this president still did plenty of Honky-Tonkin.
It’s: Lyndon Johnson! (1908-1973)
LBJ was born in a farmhouse some 15 miles from this porch in Johnson City, Texas—a town named after his cousin James Polk Johnson.
Who’s this little president?
Hint: This one is tricky.
It’s: Richard Nixon! (1913-1994)
This 1916 family photo was the future president’s first appearance in a newspaper. “My mother gave us a nickel each to put in a collection basket for war orphans, and a photographer snapped our picture,” Nixon explains in his memoirs. Check out these little-known talents of 24 U.S. presidents.
Who’s this little president?
Hint: He never lived that Dutch haircut down.
It’s: Ronald Reagan! (1911-2004)
According to Reagan’s biographies, his father gave him the nickname “Dutch” because he resembled a “fat little Dutchman” in his infancy. The bowl cut probably didn’t help. (Baby photo c. 1916-17)
