masses hold figure in the public middle to excruciatingly high standards . But what if the particular human body did n’t ask to be there ? When the Logos and daughter of our land ’s president are thrust onto the home leg , their childlike joke , teenage rising , and less - than - model conduct can make internal news , even after they ’ve left the White House behind .
1. Amy Carter
mass probably wait the kid of Chief Executive to be politically active — but maybe not so politically combat-ready that they wind up arrested . Amy Carter , the daughter of one - term president Jimmy Carter , was contain four clock time : Three timesfor dissent South African apartheid , reportedly with her Church Father ’s permission , and oncewhile protesting CIA campus recruitingat the University of Massachusetts Amherst , where she was allegedly stymy the buses that were stock away other arrested protestors . While this time she did n’t claim to have her father ’s permission , she did say her father would have been proud of her for her actions . Unfortunately , all this protesting took up a good deal of her time , and in 1987 , she was reportedly dismissed from Brown Universityfor flunk to keep up with coursework .
2. Alice Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt once said of his daughter , Alice , " I can be President of the United States , or I can attend to Alice . I can not possibly do both ! " When hermotherdied from Bright ’s Disease shortly after her birth in 1884 , Alice was raise by her aunt Annauntil her father remarriedin 1886.Princess Alice , as she was nicknamed , was the political party little girl of her time , not to mention a fashion ikon and nonconformist . She was known tosmoke in public , chew mucilage , and even carry her Snake River with her to party . To herfather ’s chagrin , this combining made her very democratic with the masses . So , in an attempt to put her famous person to productive use , Roosevelt sent his girl on the 1905 " Imperial Cruise " in which Alice joined several Washington figure as agoodwill ambassadoron a pleasure trip around the world . At one point , Alice was say to have rise to the full - clothed into the puddle onboard the ship , exhort a Congressman to join her .
3. Quentin Roosevelt
Alice was n’t the only Roosevelt tiddler to dance to the beat of his or her own drummer . Quentin , the youngest of TR ’s Kid , was " a fine bad little boy , " as his female parent was wo nt to say . But he was also the leader of the " White House Gang , " a name coin by the president himself . Growing up in the White House allowed for all variety of hijinks by this mob of rowdy boys , which included future President Taft ’s Logos and the children of other Washington notables . With Quentin at the helm , the group carve a baseball game baseball field into the White House lawn , shoot spitball at the portraiture of Andrew Jackson , and even establish " attacks " on other Washington construction . Quentin once convey three snakes , wound around his arms , as he entered the Oval Office on tumbler skate . accord to theNew York Times[PDF ] , he skated into the elbow room , where his sire was having a meeting with Attorney General Bonaparte , who " hurriedly ascended the back of his chair . "
" What ’s the subject ? " Quentin require . " Are n’t they lovely snakes ? " ( subsequently , when one ophidian tried to deplete the other , the President extricated the would - be meal and vex back to piece of work . )
While Quentin got a rambunctious start in biography , he eventuallycalmed down . He pay heed Harvard and get pursue to Flora Payne Whitney , the granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt , one of the richest men in the country at the time . After some sentence at Harvard , he get together the U.S. Air Service , anddied in 1918after his plane was take down in France .
4. Patti Davis
Opposing your parents ’ political scene is one thing . Doing so — quite vocally — when your father is the president is another thing entirely . While her Father-God was in office , Patti openly opposed the stockpiling of nuclear weapons , give way as far as to participatein presentment against her father ’s policies . After writing two fictionalize accounts of her childhood , in 1992 she write a memoir outliningexactly how frightful it was growing up a Reagan , take down her sire ’s distance and her female parent ’s inclination to belt down pill and slap her daughter for any perceive misstep . Railing against her family was not her only involvement : She was also a singer and part of the rock and roll community of interests at the time , spendingfour yearsliving with the guitarist of the Eagles , Bernie Leadon . Patti remain an active political articulation but , although she keep to talk over her involved family life sentence publicly , she seems to have softened on her father ’s memory . She no longer publicizes the memoir and , in fact , it is n’t even lean on her internet site .
5. and 6. Willie and Tad Lincoln
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Have you ever been in a department storage and ascertain unsupervised children destroying thing while their parent did something else ? Then you understand what Willie and Tad Lincoln , two of Abe Lincoln ’s Son , were like . In fact , Lincoln ’s law better half even consult to Willie and Tad as “ the small devils , ” as chaos would inevitably result every time the boy were let in the office .
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After Willie ’s untimely death at the age of 11 due to an illness — probable typhoid fever — Tad remained at thehelm of White House mischief . From hosting an extemporaneous yard sale to sell his parent ’s clothing on the White House lawn to hitch goat to a sled and riding it through a reception hosted by the First Lady , Tad contend to keep life at the mansion interesting for his parents and visitors alike . As he got a little older , Tad settled slenderly and , like the others in his family , became a fan of the theater . In fact , when Lincoln was assassinate , Tad waswatching a playat a unlike theatre . He died of what historians think was tuberculosis at the age of 18 .
7. and 8. Barbara and Jenna Bush
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Unlike the other members of this list , the Bush girls are recent enough for most readers to remember their joke . In 2001 , the 19 - year - older twins Barbara and Jenna werecited by police in Texas for underage crapulence . Allegedly , the girls wouldattempt to shaketheir Secret Service detail by pull up stakes the White House unannounced and even incline red lights . At the metre of the citation , they were surrounded by Secret Service , who set aside the constabulary to apprehend the girls . As punishment , the Gemini headed to Camp David for a parental admonishing from dad , President George W. Bush , and mama , Laura Bush . While this incident was Barbara ’s first brush with the law , it was not Jenna’s . One month earlier , Judge Elisabeth Earle had order Jenna to take alcohol awareness classes for another misdemeanor . Earning such hard media unfavorable judgment for fairly average teenage doings inspired the girls to become unattackable advocator for first children . When Malia and Sasha Obama werecriticizedby a GOP staffer on Facebook for what they wore to a Thanksgiving - theme event , Jenna Bush admonish the slam on theToday Show , holler herself " ferociously protective " of the miss , who had no pick in their post . Upon Obama ’s inauguration , Jenna and Barbara Bush even write anopen letterto Sasha and Malia exhort the girl to " surround [ themselves ] with firm friend . They ’ll protect and calm you and join in on some of the merriment , and appreciate the history . " Hindsight is 20/20 .
9. John Payne Todd
John Payne Todd was the adopted child of James Madison and son of Madison ’s married woman , Dolley , from her first marriage . John ’s father and younger brother pop off in the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic , and he was just 2 years old when his female parent married James Madison the following class .
While John accumulate art and enter in diplomatic mission befitting a first kid , he alsogambled and fuddle away much of his family line ’s moneyafter the Madisons left the White House . In 1826 , this affinity for gambling landed him a short stint in a debtor ’s prison . John ’s behavior devastated his female parent , who publish , " every touch sensation of my Soul is injure " as she attempt to figure out how to care her son .
James Madison endeavor toshelter his wife as much as potential from knowledge of their son ’s indiscretions . Without Dolley knowing , Madison wouldsell off acreageof their land to pay off John ’s debts . However , when Madison conk out , he could no longer protect his wife from the knowledge of her boy ’s debt . Dolley was forced to sell Montpelier , the folk ’s plantation . She alsosold Madison ’s papers to Congress , which pay a yearly fee to the widow , preventing John from being capable to take the money all at once . Upon his death in 1852 , John used his will tofree his slaves . Due to his great debts , this was contend by his debtors . However , the slaves were granted their exemption in 1853 .
