Question: Barack Obama is left-handed. How many of the previous 43 presidents were southpaws?

Answer: When President-elect Barack Obama was sworn in, he joined six left-handed U.S. presidents.

They are James Garfield (20th), Harry Truman (33rd), Gerald Ford (38th), Ronald Reagan (40th), George H.W. Bush (41st) and Bill Clinton (42nd).

Several of these lefties are considered ambidextrous because they used both hands. President Garfield had the impressive ability to write Latin with one hand and, at the same time, Greek with the other.

Truman, the first president to toss a baseball out of the presidential box, used right and left arms when throwing ceremonial pitches. Reagan was frequently photographed using different hands signing documents.

From Cox News Service