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minus-squareNotSteve_linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-21 month agoFair enough haha. Decided to look it up myself and apparently it was a trend started by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Newspapers liked using the initials since it saved space in headlines so it kind of stuck around. Source: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1136/when-did-presidents-start-using-their-middle-initial-e-g-john-f-kennedy-was
Fair enough haha. Decided to look it up myself and apparently it was a trend started by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Newspapers liked using the initials since it saved space in headlines so it kind of stuck around.
Source: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1136/when-did-presidents-start-using-their-middle-initial-e-g-john-f-kennedy-was