TIL Of the 45 persons who have served as President of the United States, at least half have displayed proficiency in speaking or writing a language other than English. Of these, only one, Martin Van Buren, learned English as his second language; his first language was Dutch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multilingual_presidents_of_the_United_States
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