Six US presidents since 1929 have been left-handed, including Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Harry Truman. Ronald Reagan was ambidextrous. There may have been more left-handed presidents before the 20th century, but left-handedness was considered negative. Left-handedness is estimated to be 10-14% of the population, making the number of left-handed presidents remarkable. Left-handedness is associated with creativity and articulate abilities.
No one is entirely sure how many left-handed presidents the United States has had, since there are no really clear records prior to 1929. Of those presidents whose handedness is known, six were left-handed, including Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Harry Truman. Ronald Reagan was said to be ambidextrous, so if that’s counted half of the US presidents since 1929 are left-handed.
In chronological order, the known left-handed presidents are: Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, George HW Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Other presidents who may have been ambidextrous or left-handed include Ronald Reagan, James Garfield and Thomas Jefferson. If Reagan is considered left-handed, then the United States was controlled by a left-handed president for 20 years from 1981 to 2001, which is unusual considering how rare left-handed people are in the general population.
There is some controversy over the list of left-handed presidents. Before the 20th century, left-handedness was considered a negative character trait, and it is possible that multiple presidents before the 20th century were left-handed, but they hid this fact. The “retraining” of left-handed individuals was also very common during the 20th century, with young children being forced to write with their right hand, even if the left hand was dominant.
Two of the presidents who can write with their left hand, Garfield and Reagan, have experienced assassination attempts. Garfield probably would have survived were it not for a series of errors on the part of his doctors, but he died after weeks of infection and misery. Reagan survived, as the bullet barely missed his heart. Truman and Ford were both vice presidents who succeeded to the office of residence, following the death of President Roosevelt in 1945 and the resignation of President Nixon in 1974. Ford was the only president never to win a national election, as he was nominated the vice presidential office after Nixon’s original vice president Spiro Agnew resigned from the office in disgrace after it emerged that he took nearly $30,000 US dollars (USD) in bribes.
Given that an estimated 10 to 14 percent of the population is left-handed, six out of 1929 presidents since XNUMX being left-handed is quite a remarkable statistic and a source of pride among some members of the left-handed community. Left-handed individuals are presumably more creative and articulate than their right-handed counterparts, due to differences in brain function, which may have something to do with the high number of left-handed presidents.
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