Vulcain Cricket Pop Quiz!

When I was in middle school, I had a very good history teacher. And he had a way of giving a piece of fact in language that could be deceptive.

One question I remember was this - 

Who was the first US President born in the United States of America?

Now to our way of thinking, and our nascent understanding of Presidential Electoral requirements, it seemed like a trick question. Like who's buried in Grant's Tomb?

I had a quick Google, and thankfully Donald Trump's favorite South African adoptee and his team of nitwits haven't done a virtual arson job on this (yet)...

Article II, Section 1, Clause 5:

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

Long story short, the first US President born as a United States Citizen was Martin Van Buren, born in 1782 - and no, he did not receive a Vulcain Cricket ; )

Now history notes that the first sitting US President to receive a Vulcain Cricket was indeed President Truman in 1953 (although the case back on his gold Vulcain Cricket was engraved 1952).

But - spoiler alert - he was not the first US President to wear a Vulcain Cricket!

My new book on the history of the Vulcain Cricket and the Presidents of the US will be released in March, and all will be revealed! 

Stay tuned for preorder information.