United States presidential dogs

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Presidential pooches

(PAUL MORSE/AFP via Getty Images)

While politics can be polarizing, there’s one thing that can bring us all together: Dogs.

A few Presidents have owned some pretty crazy pets, but the pooch in the White House has always reigned supreme. They have routinely been the most widely-known type of pet for Presidents and Friday is National Dogs in Politics Day.

Celebrate below with this list of some famous dogs of United States Presidents:

Joe Biden

(File)

President Biden leaves a Delaware shelter with his new rescue dog, Major.

Barack Obama

(Photo by Pete Souza/The White House via Getty Images)

Bo, a Portuguese water dog, with President Obama.

George W. Bush

(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

President George W. Bush holds his Scottish terrier, Barney.

George H.W. Bush

(whitehouse.gov, File)

The first President Bush and Springer Spaniel, Millie, and her puppies.

Ronald Reagan

(AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File)

First Lady Nancy Reagan, President Reagan, and Rex, their King Charles spaniel.

Jimmy Carter

(Presidential Pet Museum)

Grits was the family dog of President Carter.

Gerald Ford

(whitehouse.gov, File)

President Ford with his golden retriever, Liberty, in the Oval Office.

Richard Nixon

(Nixon Library)

President Nixon with his canine trio which included a French poodle named Vicky, a Yorkshire terrier named Pasha and an Irish setter named King Timahoe.

Lyndon B. Johnson

(AP Photo/Charles P. Gorry, File)

President Johnson had two beagles named Him and Her.

John F. Kennedy

(JFK Library)

President Kennedy and his family with their dogs, Shannon, Wolf, White Tips, Blackie, Clipper, and Charlie.

Dwight Eisenhower

(AP Photo)

President Eisenhower with Heidi, his Weimaraner, as he returns to the White House.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

(AP Photo)

FDR used his Scottie, Fala, as part of his campaigning for a fourth term according to Politico.

Herbert Hoover

(Hoover Library)

President Hoover poses with his pet dog, King Tut.

Calvin Coolidge

(AP Photo, File)

President Coolidge with one of his dogs, Rob Ray.

Warren Harding

(whitehouse.gov, File)

Laddie Boy, dog of President Harding, is considered one of the first famous first pets.

Grover Cleveland

(Library of Congress)

President Cleveland with one of his dogs, Gallagher.

Abraham Lincoln

(The Gilder Lehrman Collection)

The name Fido is a popular dog name because that was the name of President Lincoln’s pup, according to the Gilder Lehrman Institute.

Story originally appeared on List Wire