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The ten people below have never been president, but you wouldn't know it to look at their name. Can you match the descriptions below to their presidential namesake?
1
Lead singer of the Blind Boys of Alabama
2
Composer of "Nixon in China" and "On the Transmigration of Souls"
3
Inventor and first mass producer of an instant coffee press
4
Actor who was in the original cast of EastEnders
5
The sheriff on Twin Peaks
6
First Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Virginia and former president of the college of William and Mary
7
Winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Economics for his work on public choice theory
8
Prominent rock climber; first to climb El Capitan by the Nose
9
The Black Power Ranger
10
Republican Congressman from Wyoming in the 1950s and 60s
Zachary Taylor
James Madison
Harry Truman
James Buchanan
Warren Harding
George Washington
John Adams
Jimmy Carter
William H. Harrison
Andrew Johnson
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