6. Cocks Were Allowed To Fight On Presidential Property (Andrew Jackson)
The seventh President, Andrew Jackson (1829-1837), was an extremely controversial figure. He became the first leader of the US to be impeached by Congress (although the Senate failed to ratify this), he persecuted Native Americans - and he keep gamecocks in the White House. While growing up, Jackson owned a cock named Bernadotte and he would regularly walk into pubs and shout: "Twenty dollars on my Bernadotte! Who'll take me up?" And while in office, Jackson keep his brown-red gamecocks in the White House stables and would regularly engage them in fights on government property, such was his love of the "sport". Interestingly, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln were all known to love a good cock fight too...