US Presidents #11-20 and their bewildering coffee associations (Part 2 of 5)

Alright guys, so you enjoyed our first post about presidents? Well, that was child’s play, and we’re just getting warmed up. Welcome to our 2nd part of a 5 part series, outlining the quirky connections between coffee and past POTUSes. Lets get started:

11) James K Polk: is said on many accounts to have been the most boring of all of the US Presidents, ever. Not only is he said to have never danced, a couple sources have reason to believe that he never drank coffee, and he and his wife were labeled overly prudish by many.

US Presidents #1-10 and their interesting coffee facts (Part 1 of 5)

We begin our list of all of the presidents of the United States of America, and a tidbit or two of their quirky or interesting relationships to coffee.  This is part 1 of a 5 part series.

1) George Washington: he was a coffee importer according to some of his ledgers, bringing in as much as 200lbs of coffee at a time from overseas, and also asking for what was considered the world’s best coffee beans just weeks before he died.