List of United States presidential firsts
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This list lists achievements and distinctions of various presidents of the United States. It includes distinctions achieved in their earlier life and post-presidencies. Due to some confusion surrounding sovereignty of nations during presidential visits, only nations that were independent, sovereign, or recognized by the United States during the presidency are listed here as a precedent.
George Washington (1789–1797)
- First president to have been born in the 18th century.[1]
- First president born in Virginia.[2]
- First president of the United States.[3]
- First president to own slaves[4]
- First president to be an Episcopalian.[5]
- First president to be a Freemason.[6]
- First president to appear on a postage stamp.[3]
- First president to be inaugurated in New York, New York.[1]
- First president to receive votes from every presidential elector in an election.[a][7]
- First president to fill the entire body of the United States federal judges; including the Supreme Court.[8]
- First president to deliver to Congress the first State of the Union address in 1790.[9]
- First president to command a standing field army while in office (during the Whiskey Rebellion).[10]
- First president who wasn't part of a political party.[11]
- First president to be inaugurated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; for his second term.[12]
- First president to go uncontested in an election.[13]
- First president to not have any biological children.[14]
- First president to deliver a Farewell Address.[15][16]
John Adams (1797–1801)
- First president born in Massachusetts.[2]
- First president to live in the White House.[17]
- First president to have previously served as vice president.[b][18]
- First president to have previously served as an Ambassador to a foreign country.[19]: 49
- First president to be a lawyer.[20]
- First president who had never served in the military.[21][22]
- First president to not be a slave owner.[23]
- First president to wear a powdered wig.[24][c][25]
- First president who attended one of the Ivy League colleges.[19]: 49
- First president to marry a relative; his third cousin.[26]
- First president to have children of his own.[d][27]
- First president to begin his presidency on March 4 (In his case, 1797).[28]
- First president to receive the oath of office from a chief justice of the United States Supreme Court[29]
- First president to veto no bills while in office.[30]
- First president to have a child (Charles Adams) die while in office.[e][31]
- First president to be defeated for a second term in office.[32]
- First president to not attend the inauguration of his successor.[28][f]
- First president to live to the age of 90.[g][32]
- First president to have signed the Declaration of Independence.[33]
Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809)
- First president to have previously served as secretary of state.[34]
- First president to have been widowed prior to his inauguration.[h][19]: 147
- First president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.[29]
- First president to have his inaugural speech reprinted in a newspaper.[35]
- First president whose inauguration was not attended by his immediate predecessor. [i][36]
- First president to live a full presidential term in the White House.[37]
- First president to have previously been a governor.[j][21]
- First president to defeat the man (Adams) whom he had previously lost to in a presidential election.[19]: 48
- First president who defeated an incumbent president.[19]: 48
- First president whose election was decided in the United States House of Representatives.[38]
- First president to have an inaugural parade; occurred during his second inauguration.[35]
- First president to cite the doctrine of executive privilege.[39]
- First president to have a vice president elected under the 12th Amendment. [k][40]
- First president to expand the country's territory[41][42]
- First president to found a university after being in office; the University of Virginia in 1819.[43]
- First president to serve as rector of the University of Virginia.[44]
James Madison (1809–1817)
- First president to have served in the United States House of Representatives.[45]
- First president to ask Congress for a Declaration of War.[46]
- First president to have an inauguration in Wartime.
- First president to serve as a war-time commander-in-chief.[47]
- First president to have an Inaugural ball.[29]
- First president to wear long trousers instead of knee breeches.[48]
- First president to issue a pocket veto.[30]
- First president to have a parent live throughout his presidency.[l][49]
James Monroe (1817–1825)
- First president to have served in the United States Senate.[50]
- First president to have a child marry at the White House.[m][51]
- First president to ride on a steamboat.[52]
- First president to have held over 50 years of elected public office positions by the end of his presidency[53]
- First president to have held two cabinet positions at once prior to assuming office[53]
- First president to have a foreign capital named after him (Monrovia, Liberia)[53]
John Quincy Adams (1825–1829)
- First president to be the son of another president.[n][54]
- First president whose father lived to see him become president.[o][49]
- First president to have a son marry at the White House.[p][51]
- First president to be photographed.[55]
- First president elected despite receiving fewer votes than his opponent.[19]: 48
- First president to not win a majority of electoral votes.[56]
- First president to adopt a short haircut instead of long hair tied in a queue.[57]
- First president to have been inaugurated wearing long trousers instead of knee breeches.[58]
- First president to serve in Congress after serving in the presidency.[59]
- First president to die from a stroke.[60]
Andrew Jackson (1829–1837)
- First president born in a log cabin.[61]
- First president born to immigrant parents.[q][62]
- First president to be inaugurated on the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol, facing the Library of Congress and Supreme Court.[35]
- First president to pay off the entire national debt.[63]
- First president born after the death of his father.[r][64]
- First president elected as Democrat to the presidency.[65]
- First president to marry a divorced woman.[66]
- First president to kill someone in a duel.[67]
- First president to be targeted by an assassin.[68]
- First president to survive an assassination attempt while in office[69][70]
- First president to ride on a railroad train.[71]
- First president to be censured by the US Senate, although it was expunged in 1837.[72]
- First president to have previously administered the Oath of Office to a Vice-President of the United States (John C. Calhoun).[73]
Martin Van Buren (1837–1841)
- First president born after the Declaration of Independence.[s][29]
- First president to be a non-native speaker of English.[t][74]
- First president from the state of New York.[75]
- First president to be born a citizen of the United States and not a British subject.[76]
- First president to have multiple members of the same party (Whig) run against him.[77]
William Henry Harrison (1841)
- First president elected as a Whig to the presidency.[65]
- First president to have 10 or more biological children.[u][27]
- First president to be born in the same county as his vice president.[78]
- First president to give an inaugural address of more than 5,000 words.[79]
- First president to not issue an executive order[80]
- First president to have his photograph taken while in office.[81]
- First president to die in office.[82]
- First president to serve less than one full term in office.[83]
John Tyler (1841–1845)
- First president to ascend to the presidency by the death of his predecessor.[84]
- First president to have a veto overridden.[30][67]
- First president to face a vote of impeachment in the House (it was unsuccessful).[85]
- First president to be widowed while in office [v][86]
- First president to remarry while in office. [w][52][82]
- First president to be born after the ratification of the United States Constitution.[87]
- First president to be expelled from his political party while in office.[88]
- First president (by date of service) to have grandchildren living in the 21st century.[89]
- First U.S. president to be buried under a foreign flag.[90]
James K. Polk (1845–1849)
- First president to be under the age of 50 upon election and upon entering office.[x][92]
- First president to have served as speaker of the House of Representatives.[92]
- First president to be elected despite losing his states of birth and residence.[93]
- First president to be nominated by his party as a dark horse.[94]
- First president not to seek re-election upon the completion of his one term.[95]
- First president to die before reaching the age of 60.[y][92]
- First president to predecease a parent.[z][96][49]
- First president not to keep a pet during his term in office.[97]
- First president to have his Cabinet to be photographed.[91]
Zachary Taylor (1849–1850)
- First president who had served in no prior elected office.[98]
- First president to serve in the Mexican–American War.[2]
- First president to take office while his party held a minority of seats in the U.S. Senate.[99]
- First president to win election with his party holding no majority in either house of Congress.[100]
- First president to win the U.S. presidential election in November.[101]
- First president to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal more than once (he was awarded it three times).[102]
- First president to use the term "First Lady".[103]
Millard Fillmore (1850–1853)
- First president to establish a permanent White House library.[67]
- First president born in the 1800s.[aa][104]
- First president to leave office while his father was alive.[ab][49]
- First president to install a kitchen stove in the White House.[105]
Franklin Pierce (1853–1857)
- First president born in New Hampshire.[106]
- First president to install central heating in the White House.[52]
- First president to deliver his inaugural address from memory.[107]
- First president who had been elected to actively seek reelection but be defeated for nomination for a second term by his party.[108][109]
- First president to have a Christmas tree in the White House.[105]
- First president to keep his original cabinet members for his entire presidency.[105]
James Buchanan (1857–1861)
- First president born in Pennsylvania.[110]
- First president to be a bachelor.[52][82]
Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865)
- First president born in Kentucky.
- First president born outside of the original 13 colonies.[111]
- First president to hold a patent.[111]
- First president to be photographed at his inauguration.[111]
- First president to be assassinated.[82]
- First president elected as a Republican to the presidency.[65]
- First president to wear a beard.[112]
Andrew Johnson (1865–1869)
- First president to ascend to the presidency by the assassination of his predecessor.[113]
- First president to be impeached by the House of Representatives.[114]
- First president to have members of their own party vote for impeachment.[115]
- First president to serve in the United States Senate after being president.[114]
- First president to issue more than twenty vetoes.[30]
- First president to have more than ten vetoes overridden.[30]
Ulysses S. Grant (1869–1877)
- First president born in Ohio.[2]
- First president to have both parents alive during his presidency [ac][49]
- First president to veto more than fifty bills.[30]
- First president to visit Ireland, Egypt, China, and Japan. (In 1878–79, after leaving the presidency.)[116][117][118]
- First president to publish his memoirs.[119]
- First president to issue more than 40 pocket vetoes.[30]
- First president to issue more than 100 executive orders[120]
- First president to attend a synagogue service while in office[121]
- First president to have served in an American Civil War.[122]
- First president to host an Indian Chief in the White House.[105]
- First president to approve of and sign in a National Park.[123]
- First president to set aside federal land for wildlife protection.[123]
Rutherford B. Hayes (1877–1881)
- First president to hold a state Thanksgiving dinner.[52]
- First president to hold the White House Easter Egg Roll.[52]
- First president to have a telephone installed in the White House.[71][124]
- First president to have a typewriter installed in the White House.[71][124]
- First president to visit the West Coast of the United States while in office.[125]
- First president to win the electoral vote but lose the popular vote.[126]
- First president to be wounded in the American Civil War.[127]
James A. Garfield (1881)
- First president to be elected to the presidency directly from the House of Representatives.[128]
- First president to be left-handed or ambidextrous.[ad][129]
- First president to die before reaching the age of 50.[ae][130]
- First president to have served as a university president.[131][132]
- First President to deliver a campaign speech in a language other than English.[133]
Chester A. Arthur (1881–1885)
- First president born in Vermont.[134]
- First president to take the oath of office in his own home.[135]
- First president to have an elevator installed in the White House.[124]
Grover Cleveland (1885–1889, 1893–1897)
- First president born in New Jersey.[136]
- First president to get married at the White House.[51]
- First president to have a child born in the White House.[52][137]
- First president to serve non-consecutive terms.[82]
- First president to be filmed.[138]
- First president to veto more than 100 bills, with over 500, including over 200 pocket vetos.[30]
Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893)
- First president to be the grandson of another president. [af][139]
- First president to have a lighted Christmas tree at the White House.[19]: 48
- First president to have electric lighting installed in the White House.[124]
- First president to have his voice recorded.[140]
- First president to create and designate a United States Prehistoric and Cultural Site.[123]
William McKinley (1897–1901)
- First president to ride in an automobile. [ag][141]
- First president to campaign by telephone.[142]
Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909)
- First president born in New York City.[143]
- First president who ascended to the presidency upon the death of a predecessor, and later was elected to the presidency in his own right.[ah] [144][145][146] [147]
- First president (and first American) to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.[ai][148][149][150]
- First president to ride in an airplane.[52][71]
- First president to ride in a submarine.[52][71]
- First president to travel outside the contiguous United States and to visit a foreign country while in office.[aj][151][152]
- First president to have his offices in the West Wing.[153]
- First president to earn the Medal of Honor. [ak][154]
- First president to issue over 1000 executive orders.[155]
- The first president (he was a former president at the time) to call for global governance.[156][157]
- The first president to fully campaign for a third presidential term.[158]
- First president to be wounded in an assassination attempt while out of office and survive their injuries.[69][70]
- First president to designate a National Wildlife Refuge.[123]
William Howard Taft (1909–1913)
- First president to throw out a ceremonial first pitch.[al][159][160]
- First president to own an automobile.[am][52]
- First president to serve in the federal judiciary, having served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.[161]
- First president to have been a former solicitor general.[an][163] [164]
- First president to preside over all of the 48 contiguous states.[ao][153]
- First president to visit Mexico while in office.[165]
- First president to use the Oval Office.[153]
- First president to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. [ap][167]
- First president to deliver the oath of office to another president.
- First president to become chief justice after his presidency.
- First president to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.[82] He was also the first member of the Supreme Court to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery upon his death in 1930.[168][169]
Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921)
- First president to declare a national emergency.[aq][170]
- First president to have a Ph.D.[ar][171]
- First president to visit Europe while in office.[as][172]
- First president to meet with the pope while in office.[at][172]
- First president to meet with a reigning British monarch while in office.[au][172]
- First president to hold a press conference or regular news briefings.[173]
- First president to appoint a Jew (Louis Brandeis) to the Supreme Court.[171][173]
- First president to attend a World Series game.[av][173]
- First president to be buried in Washington D.C.[aw][174][171]
- First president to serve as president of Princeton University.[175]
Warren G. Harding (1921–1923)
- First president to be elected while being a sitting U.S. senator.[ax][93]
- First president to be elected on his birthday.
- First president to have been a lieutenant governor.[ay][176]
- First president elected after women gained the right to vote.[65]
- First president to ride to and from his inauguration in an automobile.[29]
- First president to learn to drive a car.[177]
- First president to visit Canada while in office.[178]
- First president to predecease his father.[az][49]
- First president to appear on a radio broadcast, over navy radio station NOF in Anacostia, D.C.[179]
Calvin Coolidge (1923–1929)
- First president to be sworn in by another president.[ba][29]
- First president to give a radio broadcast from the White House.[67][71]
- First president to visit Cuba while in office.[180]
- First president to be a Congregationalist.[181]
- First president to appear on US coinage while alive.[182]
- First president to appear on US coinage while in office.[182]
- First president to serve as both governor and lieutenant governor of a state.[bb][183]
Herbert Hoover (1929–1933)
- First president born west of the Mississippi River and first born in Iowa.[184]
- First president who was a Quaker.[185]
- First president to have a telephone on his desk.[153]
- First president to select a person of color as their running mate and future Vice President.[186]
- First president to have a post-presidency of more than 30 years.[bc][187]
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945)
- First president to serve more than two terms. [bd][84]
- First president to be inaugurated on January 20 (per the Twentieth Amendment).[be][29]
- First president to appear five times on a national ticket, a record tied by Richard Nixon.[188]
- First president to appear on television.[bf][71][189][190]
- First president to appoint a woman (Frances Perkins) to a Cabinet post.[bg][191]
- First president to establish a presidential library[192]
- First president to veto more than 600 bills.[bh][30]
- First president to issue more than 250 pocket vetos.[bi][30]
- First president to visit South America while in office.[bj][193]
- First president to visit the Soviet Union.[194]
- First president to fly in an airplane while in office.[195]
- First president to make a transatlantic flight. [bk][196]
- First president to meet with a king of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud in 1945.[197]
- First president to visit Iran.[198]
- First president to visit Africa in office.[199]
- First president to establish the "First 100 Days" benchmark and tradition[200][201]
Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)
- First president born in Missouri.[202]
- First president to be assigned a Secret Service codename.[203]
- First president to use nuclear weapons in war.
- First president to visit Germany while in office.[bl]
- First president to serve in World War I.[bm][204]
- First president to have a nationally televised inauguration.[bn]
- First president to leave office on January 20 (after the passage of the Twentieth amendment).[bo][29]
- First president and person to be issued a Medicare card.[bp][210]
- First president to have his Farewell Address broadcast from the Oval Office[15]
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961)
- First president born in Texas.[211]
- First president to serve in World War II.[67]
- First president to serve in both World Wars.[67]
- First president to begin his presidency on January 20 (per the Twentieth Amendment).[bq]
- First president to travel by jet aircraft and helicopter.[212]
- First president to get a pilot's license.[213]
- First president to give a televised news conference, in 1955.[214]
- First president to appear on color television.[215]
- First president to have received an honorary knighthood from a foreign nation (Eisenhower received 22 such honors).[216][217]
- First president to receive the Army Distinguished Service Medal, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, and the Legion of Merit.[216]
- First president to receive the Philippine Distinguished Service Star, the French Médaille militaire, the French Croix de guerre 1939–1945, the Belgian Croix de guerre, and the Luxembourgish Military Medal.[216]
- First president and first American to be appointed to the British Order of Merit.[216]
- First president to be made a Grand Cordon of the Japanese Order of the Chrysanthemum.[216]
- First president and American to receive the Soviet Order of Victory, for serving as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force.[216]
- First president to receive an Emmy Award.[218]
- First president to visit a mosque.[219][220]
- First president to serve as president of Columbia University.[221]
- First president to authorize a National Park in a United States territory: Virgin Islands National Park.[222]
John F. Kennedy (1961–1963)
- First president who was Catholic.[223]
- First president born in the 20th century.[br][224]
- First president to have been a Boy Scout.[67]
- First president to have previously served in the United States Navy.[225]
- First president to receive the Purple Heart, awarded in 1943 after he was wounded in action aboard PT-109.[226][227]
- First president (along with future president Richard Nixon) to participate in the first televised presidential debates.[bs]
- First president to win in a case of dueling electors without council.[229][230]
- First president to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize. [bt][231][232]
- First president to have an inaugural poet; Robert Frost.[35]
- First president to use the Situation Room.[233]
- First president to visit Austria, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Ireland while in office.[234]
- First president to be survived by both his parents.[bu]
- First president to be survived by a grandparent. [bv]
- First president to receive the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, awarded for his heroism as commanding officer of Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 when the ship was rammed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri in 1943.[236][226]
Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–1969)
- First president to have served as Senate majority whip, having served in that office from 1951 to 1953.[237]
- First president to be inaugurated on an airplane.[29] His inauguration was held aboard Air Force One in 1963.
- First president to be sworn in by a woman (Sarah T. Hughes).[29]
- First president to visit Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Suriname, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala while in office.[238][239][240][241][242][243][244]
- First president to ride to and from his inauguration in a bullet-proof limousine (to and from his second inauguration).[29]
- First president to appoint an African American (Thurgood Marshall) to the Supreme Court.[245]
- First president to appoint an African American (Robert C. Weaver) to a Cabinet post.[246] Weaver was appointed the first United States secretary of housing and urban development in 1966.
- First president to have been party leader in the United States Senate, having been minority leader from 1953 to 1955 and majority leader from 1955 to 1961.[247]
- First president to receive the Silver Star.[248]
Richard Nixon (1969–1974)
- First president born in California.[202]
- First president (along with past president John F. Kennedy) to have participated in the first presidential debates.[228] He participated in four televised debates in 1960.
- First non-incumbent vice president to be elected president.[249]
- First president to visit the People's Republic of China, Indonesia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Israel, Poland, Iceland, Jordan and Syria while in office.[250][251][252][253][254][255][256][257][258]
- First president to meet an emperor of Japan, having met Hirohito in 1971.[259]
- First president to name a Vice President during a presidential term. The 25th Amendment had been passed in 1967, allowing the President to nominate a vice president should the office become vacant during a presidential term. Upon the resignation of Spiro Agnew in 1973, Nixon selected Gerald Ford as his successor. Ford was then confirmed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives and sworn in.
- First president to visit all 50 states.[260]
- First president to resign from the presidency.[261] The resignation of Nixon in 1974, was a result of the Watergate scandal. There were efforts by the United States House of Representatives to impeach the president for obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress. Nixon had also lost the support of his own party.[262]
- First president to be pardoned by another president (Gerald Ford).[263] The pardon of Richard Nixon in 1974, gave Nixon a full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he might have committed against the United States while president.[264][265][266]
Gerald Ford (1974–1977)
- First president born in Nebraska.[267]
- First president to be an Eagle Scout[268]
- First president to receive the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.[269]
- First president to serve as House minority leader, having served in that office from 1965 to 1973.[270]
- First president to serve as Republican conference chairman of the United States House of Representatives.[271]
- First president to ascend to the presidency by the resignation of his predecessor.[82]
- First president to ascend to the presidency without being elected to either the offices of the president or vice president.[82]
- First president to pardon another president (Richard Nixon).[263] The pardon of Richard Nixon in 1974 gave Nixon a full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he might have committed against the United States while president.[264][265][266]
- First president to visit Japan and Finland while in office.[272][273]
- First president to release a full report of his medical checkup to the public.[263]
Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)
- First president born in Georgia.[202]
- First president who was born in a hospital.[274] He was born in the Wise Sanitarium of Plains, Georgia, in 1924.
- First president to graduate from the United States Naval Academy; part of the class of 1947.[275][276]
- First president to have served as the governor of Georgia; served in that role from January 12, 1971 - January 14, 1975.[277]
- First president to use a nickname in an official capacity.[278] His full name is James Earl Carter Jr, but he is better known by his nickname, "Jimmy" Carter, which was used on all official documents while he was president.
- First president to visit Nigeria and Guadeloupe while in office.[279][280]
- First president to appoint a woman to be Secretary of Commerce (Juanita M. Kreps).[281]
- First president who completed at least one full term in office and never made a nomination to the United States Supreme Court.[282]
- First president to have hosted an official papal visit at the White House. In 1979, Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit a sitting president at the White House.[283][284]
- First president to live to the ages of 95 and 96 (As of January 2021, 100 years old).[285][286]
- First president to be married 74 years.[287]
Ronald Reagan (1981–1989)
- First president born in Illinois.[288]
- First president to have been divorced.[289][290] He married his first wife Jane Wyman in 1940, and the couple divorced in 1949.
- First president to be the head of a union (the Screen Actors Guild).[291][292]
- First president to nominate a woman to the Supreme Court (Sandra Day O'Connor).[293]
- First president to be inaugurated at the West Front of the United States Capitol Building.[294]
- First president to be re-elected over the age of seventy, as he was 73 years old when he was re-elected in 1984.[295]
- First president to visit the New York Stock Exchange, (on March 28, 1985) while in office.[296]
- First president to attend and open an Olympic Games (the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles) while in office.[297]
- First president to address both houses of the British parliament (on June 8, 1982).[298]
- First president to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[299]
- First president to win a Golden Globe Award.[300]
- First president to win a Razzie Award[301]
- First president to win a Golden Boot Award[301]
- First president to nominate an Italian-American to the United States Supreme Court (Antonin Scalia).[302]
- First president to grant civilians access to military GPS satellite technology.[303][304][305][306]
- First president to be wounded in an assassination attempt while in office and survive their injuries.[69][70]
George H. W. Bush (1989–1993)
- First president to have been a naval aviator.[213]
- First president to have served as a United States ambassador to the United Nations (1971–73).[307]
- First president to have served as the chief of the United States Liaison Office in China (1974-1975).[308]
- First president to have served as director of Central Intelligence (office is now the director of the Central Intelligence Agency) (January 1976-January 1977).[309][310][311]
- First president to have served as acting president (when Reagan was sedated for eight hours due to colon surgery).[312]
- First president to visit Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Singapore, Somalia, and the Russian Federation, as well as a reunified Germany while in office.[313][314][315][316][317][318]
- First president to have received a Distinguished Flying Cross.[319][320]
- First president to formally pardon a turkey, officially sparking the Turkey Pardon Tradition.[321]
- First president to have been married 70 years.[322] (George and Barbara Bush were married for 73 years, 101 days.)
Bill Clinton (1993–2001)
- First president from Arkansas.[202]
- First president to have served as the attorney general of Arkansas.[323]
- First president to have served as the governor of Arkansas; served in the role four terms (1979-1981 and 1983-1992).[323][324]
- First president to appoint an African American man to be Secretary of Commerce (Ron Brown).[281]
- First president to appoint a woman as the Secretary of Energy (Hazel O'Leary).[325]
- First president to visit Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Kuwait, the Czech Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Denmark, Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, post-apartheid South Africa, Botswana, Senegal, Slovenia, the Republic of Macedonia, Norway, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Bangladesh, Oman, Tanzania, Brunei, as well as reunited Vietnam while in office.[326][327][328][329][330][331][332][333][334][335][336][337][338][339][340][341][342][343][344][345][346]
- First president to visit and address the Palestinian National Authority while in office.[347]
- First president to visit North Korea post-office (on a humanitarian mission)[348]
- First president to send an email.[349]
- First president whose inauguration was streamed on the internet.[29]
- First president to appoint an Asian-American to a Cabinet post. Norman Mineta was appointed secretary of commerce by President Clinton in 2000.[350]
- First president to appoint a woman as Attorney General (Janet Reno).[351][352]
- First president to be a Rhodes Scholar.[353]
- First president to begin GPS modernization. [bw][354][355][304][356][357]
- First president to host and perform in a jazz festival while in office.[358][359][360]
George W. Bush (2001–2009)
- First president born in Connecticut.[202]
- First president to have a MBA.[361]
- First president to have State of the Union live broadcast on the Internet.[362]
- First president to have a 90% approval rating in the history of modern political polling.[363]
- First president to appoint an African-American Secretary of State; Colin Powell.[364][365]
- First president to appoint an Hispanic man as Attorney General; Alberto Gonzales.[351][366]
- First president to open the Winter Olympic Games (the 2002 Winter Olympics Salt Lake City) while in office.[367]
- First president to attend an Olympic Games in a foreign country (the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing) while in office.[368]
- First president to leave office with both parents still alive.[369] (Bush left office in 2009, while his parents both died in 2018, nine years after he left office).
- First president to celebrate Diwali.[370]
Barack Obama (2009–2017)
- First president born outside of the 48 contiguous states.[371]
- First president born in Hawaii.[371]
- First president to be biracial; his European-American mother was from Kansas and his African father was from Kenya.[372]
- First president who was African-American.[373]
- First president to have a Catholic vice president (Joe Biden).[374]
- First president to appoint a former first lady to the Cabinet (Hillary Clinton).[375]
- First president to appoint a woman to be Secretary of Homeland Security; Janet Napolitano.[376]
- First president to appoint an African-American man as Attorney General; Eric Holder.[351][377]
- First president to publicly endorse same-sex marriage.[378]
- First president to appoint an Haitian-American federal judge (Raymond Lohier).[379]
- First president to appoint an Afro-Caribbean-born district judge (Margo Kitsy Brodie).[379][380]
- First president to appoint an African-American female circuit judge in the Sixth Circuit (Bernice B. Donald).[379]
- First president to appoint an African-American circuit judge on the First Circuit (Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson).[379]
- First president to write a line of computer code.[381]
- First president to appoint a Latino American to the Supreme Court (Sonia Sotomayor).[382]
- First president to visit a federal prison.[383]
- First president to have his official photograph portrait taken with a digital camera.[384]
- First president to light a diya for Diwali at the White House.[385]
- First president to have the Nuclear Option invoked on his nominees.[386]
- First president to address the African Union while in office.[387]
- First president to have visited the Arctic Circle while in office.[388]
- First president to visit Hiroshima, Japan, the location where the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare in 1945.[389]
- First president to write a scholarly article in a scholarly journal while president.[390]
- First president to visit Cambodia, Myanmar, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Laos while in office.[391][392][393][394]
- First president to appoint an African-American woman as Attorney General (Loretta Lynch).[351][395]
- First president to grant 1,715 commutations while in office; the most to date.[396]
- First president to create the world's largest protected area (Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument); to date.[397]
- First President to make their Presidential Library digital as opposed to a physical facility.[398]
Donald Trump (2017–2021)
- First president to reach the age of 70 prior to his election to the presidency.[399]
- First president to assume the office without having had any prior public service experience, military or political.[400][401]
- First president to be a billionaire prior to assuming office.[402]
- First president to have been divorced more than once. He married his first wife Ivana Trump in 1977 and divorced in 1992, married his second wife Marla Maples in 1993 and divorced in 1999.[290]
- First president to marry three times.[290]
- First president to have children from three different wives.[290]
- First president who is not Catholic but has a Catholic wife (Melania Trump).[403][404]
- First president to have an Orthodox Jewish rabbi (Marvin Hier) give a benediction at his inauguration.[405]
- First president to have a female campaign manager (Kellyanne Conway).[406]
- First president to be impeached and run for re-election.[407]
- First president to appoint an Indian American to a Cabinet-level position (Nikki Haley).[408]
- First president to begin tenure with a net negative approval rating in the history of modern political polling.[409][410]
- First president to dine in the Forbidden City of Beijing, China.[411]
- First president to meet with two emperors of Japan while in office, Emperor Akihito and Emperor Naruhito.[412]
- First president to cross over the DMZ and enter North Korea while in office. (2019 Koreas–United States DMZ Summit).[413]
- First president to have a personal YouTube channel and reach 1 million subscribers.[414][415]
- First president to attend the NYC Veterans Day Parade while in office.[416]
- First president to send a Presidential Text Alert (in this case as a test) through the National Wireless Emergency Alert System.[417][418]
- First president to attend and address the March for Life Rally.[419][420][421]
- First president to appoint a Hasidic Jew to an U.S. administration position requiring Senate confirmation (Mitchell Silk).[422][423]
- First president to directly support and oversee private spaceflight in the United States[424][425][426]
- First president to appoint an openly gay person to serve in an acting Cabinet-level position (Richard Grenell).[427]
- First president to have had an arrest warrant issued against him by a foreign nation (Iran).[428]
- First president to be permanently banned from a social media platform (Twitter).[429]
- First president to be impeached twice by the U.S. House of Representatives.[430]
- First president to not personally hand over the nuclear football to his successor.[431]
- First president to have a senate impeachment trial after his presidency.[432]
Joe Biden (2021–)
- First president from the Silent Generation.[433]
- First president born during World War II.[434]
- First president to assume the office over the age 75 (Biden was 78 when inaugurated).[bx][435]
- First president whose home state is Delaware.[436]
- First president to bring a rescue dog to the White House (Major).[437][438]
- First president to have been a senator for over 12 years, serving as a senator from Delaware for 36 years. (1973–2009).[439][440]
- First president to be a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient prior to taking office.[441]
- First president to have a woman, an African-American, and an Asian-American serve as vice president (Kamala Harris).[442]
- First president to have the National Youth Poet Laureate read a poem at his inauguration (Amanda Gorman).[443]
- First president to appoint an openly gay person to serve in a cabinet position (Pete Buttigieg).[444]
- First president to appoint an openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the Senate (Rachel Levine).[445]
- First president to have the National Security Council include an official dedicated to climate change (John Kerry).[446]
- First president to have the head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy be elevated to the cabinet level.[447]
- First president to appoint a woman to be Director of National Intelligence (Avril Haines).[448]
- First president to appoint an African-American as Secretary of Defense (Lloyd Austin).[449]
- First president to appoint a woman as Secretary of the Treasury (Janet Yellen). [450]
See also
Notes
- ^ In both the 1789 and 1792 elections, each elector voted for Washington and for another candidate.
- ^ Adams served as Vice President under George Washington, and thus was the first Vice President of the nation.
- ^ Washington powdered his own hair.
- ^ Adams and his wife Abigail had six children, including John Quincy Adams, the sixth President. Washington did not have any children by his own, and was only a stepfather.
- ^ Charles Adams, the second son of John Adams, died of liver cirrhosis on November 30, 1800, when his father was still President. He was a chronic alcoholic, and was estranged from his family at the time of his death.
- ^ Adams did not attend Thomas Jefferson's inauguration.
- ^ Adams, who was born on October 30, 1735 and died on July 4, 1826, the 50th Independence Day of the United States, lived for 90 years, 247 days, and was the longest-lived President until 2001, when his record was broken by Ronald Reagan.
- ^ Jefferson's wife Martha died in 1782, 19 years before he was inaugurated. He was also the first President whose hostess was his daughter.
- ^ John Adams did not attend Jefferson's inauguration, due to personal problems.
- ^ Jefferson was Governor of Virginia from 1779 to 1781.
- ^ Originally the runner-up in the presidential election was named vice president. Adams, Jefferson and Aaron Burr became Vice Presidents in this way.
- ^ Madison left office in 1817 and his mother Nelly Conway Madison died in 1829, only seven years before her son.
- ^ Monroe's daughter Mary married in 1820 at the Blue Room on the State Floor of the White House.
- ^ Adams was the eldest son of John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams.
- ^ Adams' father, former President John Adams, was still alive when he took office, and died in 1826.
- ^ Adams' son John Adams II married in the Blue Room on February 25, 1828.
- ^ Jackson's parents and two brothers emigrated from Ireland in 1765, two years before he was born.
- ^ Jackson's father, Andrew Jackson, Sr., died in an accident in late February 1767, around three weeks before his son was born.
- ^ Van Buren was born on December 5, 1782, 6 years, 154 days after the Declaration of Independence.
- ^ Dutch was Van Buren's first language. He was called as Careful Dutchman for this factor. He spoke English as a second language.
- ^ Harrison had 10 children from his wife Anna Harrison, and is allegedly believed to have a daughter from a slave.
- ^ Tyler's first wife, First Lady Letitia Christian Tyler, died on September 10, 1842.
- ^ Tyler married Julia Gardiner Tyler on June 27, 1844, and had children with her.
- ^ Polk was aged 49 years, 122 days when he was inaugurated.
- ^ Polk was aged 53 years, 225 days when he died on June 15, 1849.
- ^ Polk died in 1849, soon after leaving office. Jane Knox Polk, his mother, died in 1852, having outlived her son by three years.
- ^ Fillmore was born on January 7, 1800, six days after the 1800s began. He was also the first President who was born after the death of a former President, since he was born 24 days after the death of George Washington, who died on December 14, 1799.
- ^ Fillmore left office in 1853 and his father Nathaniel Fillmore died in 1863.
- ^ Grant's father, Jesse Root Grant, died in 1873, and his mother Hannah Simpson Grant died in 1883. Neither attended the inauguration of their son.
- ^ It is widely believed that Garfield could simultaneously write Greek with his left hand and Latin with his right hand.
- ^ Garfield, born on November 19, 1831, was 49 years, 304 days when he died as a result of complications caused by gunshot.
- ^ Harrison was the grandson of William Henry Harrison, being the son of W. H. Harrison's son John Scott Harrison, who is thus the only person to have been both the son of a President and the father of another President.
- ^ McKinkley rode with Freelan Oscar Stanley of the Stanley Motor Carriage Company in his steam car in 1899. He also rode in an electric ambulance that carried him to the hospital where he was treated after being shot.
- ^ Roosevelt was elected vice president in 1900, ascended to the presidency after the assassination of William McKinley in 1901, and was elected in his own right in 1904.
- ^ Roosevelt won the award in 1906, due to his successful mediation to end the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905).
- ^ Roosevelt travelled to the Panama Canal Zone in 1906, where he inspected construction of Panama Canal, and visited Panama.
- ^ Roosevelt won the award for his service in the Spanish–American War, and in particular his role in the Battle of San Juan Hill. The Medal of Honor was awarded posthumously in 2001, by the then President Bill Clinton.
- ^ Taft threw his pitch at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C., on the Washington Senators' Opening Day. The pitch took place on April 14, 1910.
- ^ In fact, Taft owned four cars when he was in office.
- ^ Taft served as solicitor general from 1890[162] to 1892. He became president in 1909.
- ^ Arizona and New Mexico were admitted to the Union under Taft's presidency.
- ^ Taft left office as president in 1913. He was appointed chief justice in 1921, by President Warren Harding.[166] As chief justice, he administered the oath of office to Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover.
- ^ With Proclamation 1354, Wilson declared a national emergency relating to water transportation and shipping in the United States.
- ^ Wilson received a Ph.D in political science from Johns Hopkins University.
- ^ In 1918–19, Wilson visited: France, the United Kingdom, Italy (along with the Holy See, not yet a sovereign nation), and Belgium.
- ^ Wilson met Pope Benedict XV in 1919, during his visit to Vatican city.
- ^ Wilson met with King George V in 1918, during his visit to the United Kingdom.
- ^ Wilson attended Game 2 of the 1915 World Series in Philadelphia between the Boston Red Sox and the Philadelphia Phillies.
- ^ Wilson died in 1924, three years after he left office, and was interred in a sarcophagus in Washington National Cathedral.
- ^ Harding was serving as a senator from Ohio when elected. He resigned his position as senator and was replaced by Frank B. Willis.
- ^ Harding served as lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1904 to 1906.
- ^ Harding died in 1923, and his father, George Tryon Harding, died in 1928, five years after his son.
- ^ Coolidge was sworn-in for the second time by William Howard Taft, who was chief justice at the time of the second inauguration of Coolidge in 1925.
- ^ Coolidge served as lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 1916 to 1919 and governor of Massachusetts from 1919 to 1921.
- ^ Hoover left office in 1933, and died on October 20, 1964, 31 years, 230 days after leaving office.
- ^ Roosevelt won a record four presidential elections, and served four terms in office from 1933 to 1945. More precisely, Roosevelt served three full terms, and died 2 months and 24 days into his fourth term. After his death, the term limit was reduced to two terms.
- ^ Roosevelt's first inauguration took place on March 4, 1933. His second inauguration took place on January 20, 1937 and is the first inauguration to take place on that date.
- ^ On April 30, 1939, Roosevelt appeared at the opening ceremony of the 1939 New York World's Fair and gave a speech. The speech was televised, and Roosevelt became the first president of the United States to give a speech that is broadcast by television. Roosevelt's speech was seen on black and white television sets with 5 to 12-inch tubes.
- ^ Perkins was appointed United States secretary of labor in 1933.
- ^ Roosevelt's total vetoes were 635, though 9 were overridden.
- ^ Roosevelt issued 263 pocket vetoes.
- ^ Roosevelt visited Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay in his administration. However, Theodore Roosevelt visited Panama, which was considered part of South America when he visited but no longer is.
- ^ Roosevelt traveled aboard a Boeing 314 Clipper during his secret 1943 mission to Casablanca. As a result of this trip, he also became the first president to visit Africa while in office. He visited Morocco, Liberia, Tunisia, Gambia and Egypt.
- ^ Truman visited Allied-occupied Germany in July–August 1945, for attending the Potsdam conference.
- ^ Truman served as an officer of the American Expeditionary Forces and commanded Battery D of the 129th Field Artillery Regiment. He saw combat service in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. He was discharged from the Army in 1919, with the rank of major. He remained affiliated with the United States Army Reserve until 1953. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1925 and colonel in 1932.
- ^ Truman's second inauguration in 1949 was the first presidential inauguration televised. Millions of people watched the inauguration, broadcast as a single live program that aired on every network.[205] Many schoolchildren watched from their classrooms.[206] Truman authorized a holiday for federal employees so that they could also watch.[207] The ceremony, and Truman's speech, were also broadcast abroad through the Voice of America, and translated into other languages including Russian and German.[208] According to some calculations, the 1949 inauguration had more witnesses than all previous presidential inaugurations combined.[206][209]
- ^ Truman left office on January 20, 1953, and was succeeded by Dwight D. Eisenhower as the 34th President of the United States.
- ^ In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Medicare bill at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum and gave the first two Medicare cards to Truman and his wife Bess Truman, to honor the former president's fight for government health care while in office.[210]
- ^ Eisenhower began his presidency on January 20, 1953, succeeding Harry S. Truman.[29]
- ^ Kennedy was born in 1917 and took office in 1961. But his four successors were older than him, the oldest of them being Lyndon B. Johnson, his immediate successor, who was born in 1908, and thus is the earliest-born President of the 20th century.
- ^ Kennedy and Nixon took part in four televised debates in 1960.[228]
- ^ Kennedy received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1957, for his book Profiles in Courage.
- ^ Kennedy was assassinated by a gunshot to the head on November 22, 1963. His father Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. outlived him by six years, dying in 1969. His mother Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy outlived him by more than 30 years, dying in 1995. He has been, to date, the only President to be survived by both parents, and also the shortest-lived U.S. President, dying at the age of 46 years, 177 days.[49]
- ^ Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. His maternal grandmother, Mary Josephine Hannon, died on August 8, 1964 at the age of 98. Already ailing at the time of her grandson's assassination, she was never told of that news by anyone until her death.[235]
- ^ While President Reagan first granted civilians access to government GPS technology, President Clinton removed Selective Availability and granted civilians unrestricted access to GPS satellites, "flipping the blue switch" and unleashing a worldwide revolution in civil and commercial applications, leading to the creation of GPS Block III.
- ^ Biden was 78 years and 61 days old when he was sworn in as President, beating the previous age record held by Ronald Reagan, who was 77 years and 349 days old on his last day as President.
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