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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

  • First President of the United States.[1]
  • First President to appear on a postage stamp.[1]
  • First President to be a Freemason.[2]
  • First (and, to date, only) President to receive votes from every Presidential elector in an election (in both the 1789 and 1792 elections; each elector voted for Washington and for another candidate).[3]
  • First President to add "So help me God" to the Oath of Office.[4]
  • First (and, to date, only) sitting President to command a standing field army (during the Whiskey Rebellion).[5]
  • First President to have been a Lieutenant general.
  • First President to have a parent live to see them be elected and become President.
  • First (and, to date, only) president to not be affiliated with any political party.
  • First President to be reelected as his party of support lost control of the House of Representatives.
  • First President to be an Episcopalian.
  • First President from Virginia.
  • First President to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
  • First President to have had a Supreme Court nominee be rejected.

John Adams

John Adams was the first President to live in the White House
  • First President to live in the White House.[6]
  • First President to have previously served as Vice-President.[7]
  • First President to have previously served as an Ambassador to a foreign country.[8]
  • First (and only) President elected as a Federalist.
  • First President to have a Vice President of an opposing party.
  • First President to be a lawyer.[9]
  • First President who had never served in the military.[10][11]
  • First President to not be a slave owner.[12]
  • First President to be a Unitarian.
  • First President from Massachusetts.
  • First President to have been named after his father.
  • First President who attended one of the Ivy League colleges, and first to attend Harvard College.[8]
  • First President to have been multilingual, as he was fluent in French and Latin.
  • First President to have been married for more than 50 years.
  • First (former) President who was widowed (His wife Abigail died in 1818, and he outlived her for eight years).
  • First President to have children.[13]
  • First President whose son (John Quincy Adams) was also a President.
  • First President to receive the oath of office from a Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court[14]
  • First President to veto no bills while in office.[15]
  • First President to have a child die while in office.[16]
  • First President to have served only one term.
  • First President to be defeated for a second term in office.[17]
  • First President to not attend the inauguration of his successor.
  • First President to take office in his 60s.
  • First President to live to the age of 90.[17]
  • First President to have had a post-presidency of at least 25 years.
  • First President to have signed the Declaration of Independence.[18]
  • First President to die on Independence Day (along with his Vice President and successor Thomas Jefferson).
  • First President to have outlived his successor as President.
  • First President to have met a British monarch, having met George III of the United Kingdom while serving as Ambassador to Britain.
  • First President to have had a Secretary of the Navy.

Thomas Jefferson

  • First President to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.[14]
  • First President to live a full presidential term in the White House.[19]
  • First President elected as a Democratic-Republican.
  • First President to have previously been a Governor.[10]
  • First President to have previously served as Secretary of State.[20]
  • First President to have served as a non-colonial state legislator.
  • First President to have been Ambassador to France.
  • First President to be elected by defeating another President.
  • First President to defeat a person (Adams) whom he had previously lost to in a Presidential election.[21]
  • First President to receive other more 100 electoral votes than his closest opponent.
  • First President to have been widowed prior to his inauguration (His wife Martha Jefferson died in 1782, long before he was inaugurated).[22]
  • First President whose election was decided in the House of Representatives.[23]
  • First President to cite the doctrine of executive privilege.[24]
  • First president to have a vice president elected under the 12th Amendment. Originally the runner-up in the presidential election was named vice president.[25]
  • First President to have more than one Vice President.
  • First President to be a Deist.
  • First President to be fluent in Greek, Italian, and Spanish.
  • First President to have neither of his parents living at his inauguration.
  • First President who died on Independence Day (Along with his President and predecessor John Adams).
  • First President to be survived by his predecessor as President.
  • First President to wear shoelaces.

James Madison

  • First President to have served in the United States House of Representatives[26]
  • First President to ask Congress for a Declaration of War.[27]
  • First war-time Commander-in-Chief.[28]
  • First President to have an Inaugural ball.[14]
  • First President to be inaugurated at the House Chamber of the United States Capitol.
  • First President to wear long trousers instead of knee breeches.[29]
  • First President to issue a pocket veto.[15]
  • First President to be fluent in Hebrew.
  • First President to have a Vice President die while in office.
  • First President to have a parent live throughout his presidency (He left office in 1817 and his mother died in 1829).

James Monroe

  • First President to have served in the United States Senate[30]
  • First President to have a child marry at the White House.[31]
  • First President to ride on a steamboat[32]
  • First President to receive more than 200 electoral votes in a single election.[33]
  • First President to have served as Secretary of War.
  • First President to issue a doctrine.
  • First President to be inaugurated outdoors.
  • First President to be inaugurated the day after his term officially began, due to it taking place on a Sunday.
  • First President to never appoint a judge of the circuit courts or Courts of Appeals.

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams was the first President to have his picture taken
  • First President to have a middle name.
  • First President to be married to a First Lady born outside of the United States.
  • First President to be the son of another President (He was the son of John Adams).[34]
  • First President elected despite losing the popular vote.[35]
  • First (and to date, only) President to be elected despite being the runner up in the Electoral College.
  • First President to seek reelection under a different political party.
  • First President to have facial hair. (He wore long sideburns).
  • First President to have his photograph taken.[36]
  • First President to serve in Congress after serving in the Presidency.[37]
  • First President to have served in both houses of Congress.
  • First President to have been Ambassador to the Netherlands, Germany, and Russia.
  • First President to have be fluent in German.
  • First President to have served in a State Senate.
  • First President to serve with a Senate where the opposing party had a majority.

Andrew Jackson

  • First President born in a log cabin.[38]
  • First President born in the Carolinas (Place of birth disputed between North and South Carolina).
  • First President to be a Presbyterian.
  • First President to marry a divorcee.[39]
  • First President to adopt a child.
  • First Democrat elected to the Presidency.[33]
  • First President to have been a Major general.
  • First President to be inaugurated at the East Portico of the United States Capitol Building.
  • First President to kill someone in a duel.[40]
  • First President to be targeted by an assassin.[41]
  • First President to ride on a railroad train.[42]
  • First President to appoint a Catholic (Roger Taney) to the Supreme Court.
  • First President to be elected by white men of all classes in 1828 after most laws barring non-land-owners from voting were repealed.
  • First President to be reelected as his party lost control of the Senate.
  • First President to win with a 10% margin of victory in the popular vote.
  • First President whose home state was not also his birth state (His birth state is disputed between North and South Carolina, while he resided in Tennessee at the time of his election).
  • First President to issue more than ten vetoes.
  • First President to have a Vice President resign before the completion of his term.

Martin Van Buren

  • First President born a citizen of the United States, rather than a British subject.
  • First President born in New York state.
  • First President born after the Declaration of Independence.[14]
  • First (and, to date, only) President who spoke a language other than English as his first language.[43] (Dutch was his first language)
  • First (and to date only) President to be of the Dutch Reformed faith.
  • First President to meet with the Pope (as the former President).[citation needed]
  • First President to attempt to return to the Presidency after leaving office.
  • First President to have served as a State Attorney General.
  • First President to lose more than 100 Electoral votes between elections.

William Henry Harrison

  • First Whig elected to the Presidency.[33]
  • First President from Ohio.
  • First President to receive more than one million popular votes in a single election.[33]
  • First President to win the popular vote by a margin of less than 10%.
  • First President to have 10 or more children.[13]
  • First President to give an inaugural address of more than 5,000 words.[44]
  • First President to have his photograph taken while in office.[45]
  • First President to die in office.[46]
  • First President to die in the White House.
  • First President to take office over the age of 65.
  • First President to have had a state funeral.
  • First President to have never appointed a Supreme Court justice.
  • First President to never issue a pardon.
  • First President to serve as Ambassador to a South American country.
  • First President to have been a Brigadier general.

John Tyler

James K. Polk

  • First President to be elected to the office before reaching the age of 50.[51]
  • First (and, to date, only) President to have served as Speaker of the House of Representatives.[51]
  • First President born in North Carolina (Andrew Jackson's birthplace is disputed between that state and South Carolina).
  • First President to be a Methodist.
  • First President to be elected despite losing his states of birth and residence.[52]
  • First President to win with a plurality of the popular vote.
  • First President to win the popular vote by a margin less than 5%.
  • First President to be nominated by his party as a dark horse.[53]
  • First President not to seek re-election upon the completion of his term.[54]
  • First President to die before reaching the age of 60.[51]
  • First President to predecease a parent (He died in 1849, soon after leaving office, and his mother outlived him for three years, finally dying in 1852).[55][56]

Zachary Taylor

  • First President who had served in no prior elected office.[57]
  • First President to serve in the Mexican-American War.[58]
  • First President to take office while his party held a minority of seats in the U.S. Senate.[59]
  • First President to never serve with a congress controlled by his party.
  • First President from Louisiana.
  • First President to be elected while winning his state of residence but not his state of birth.
  • First President to elected while winning the same number of states as his opponent.
  • First President to have had a Secretary of the Interior.

Millard Fillmore

  • First President to establish a permanent White House library.[40]
  • First President born after January 1, 1800[60]
  • First President whose father lived through his presidency (He left office in 1853 and his father lived until 1863).
  • First President to have served as New York State Comptroller.
  • Firs President to remarry after leaving office.

Franklin Pierce

James Buchanan

  • First President born in Pennsylvania.
  • First (and, to date, only) President to be a bachelor.[32][46]
  • First sitting President to meet a Member of the British Royal Family. (He met the future King Edward VII in 1860 during his tour of America).

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the first President to be assassinated.
  • First President born outside of the original 13 colonies and first born in Kentucky.[62]
  • First President from Illinois.
  • First (and, to date, only) President to hold a patent.[62]
  • First President to be photographed at his inauguration.[62]
  • First President to be assassinated.[46]
  • First President to die in office after serving one full term.
  • First President to have lain in state in the United States Capitol Rotunda.
  • First Republican elected to the Presidency.[33]
  • First (and to date only) President to win with a plurality of the popular vote less than 40%.
  • First President to receive more than two million popular votes in a single election.[33]
  • First President to be elected on a ticket with a running mate from an opposing party.
  • First President to appear on a U.S. coin[32]
  • First President to wear a beard.[63]

Andrew Johnson

  • First President to ascend to the Presidency by the assassination of his predecessor.[64]
  • First President to be impeached by the House of Representatives.[65]
  • First President to serve in the United States Senate after being President.[65]
  • First President to have been mayor of a town.
  • First President to issue more than 20 vetoes.

Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant, here shortly before his death, was the first President to write a memoir.
  • First President born in Ohio.[58]
  • First President to have had a mustache.
  • First President educated at the United States Military Academy.[citation needed]
  • First President to have been a four-star General.
  • First President to win the popular vote by more than 500,000 votes.[33]
  • First President to have both parents live into his Presidency (His father died in 1873, and his mother died in 1882).[56]
  • First President to veto more than fifty bills.[15]
  • First President to visit Ireland, Egypt, China and Japan. (In 1878–79, after leaving the presidency.)[66][67][68]
  • First President to publish his memoirs.[69]
  • First President to legally change his name, his original name having been Hiram Ulysses Grant.
  • First President to appoint ten Circuit Court judges.
  • First President to appoint more than 30 judges to the district courts.
  • First President to appoint more than 40 federal judges.

Rutherford B. Hayes

James A. Garfield

  • First President to be left-handed or ambidextrous.[72]
  • First President to die before reaching the age of 50.[73]
  • First President to be a Congregationalist.
  • First President to be elected to the Presidency directly from the House of Representatives.
  • First President to have been party leader in the House of Representatives.
  • First President to win the popular vote with a margin of less than 1%.

Chester A. Arthur

  • First President born in Vermont.[74]
  • First President to take the oath of office in his own home.[75]
  • First President to have an elevator installed in the White House.[70]
  • First President to wear a mustache without a beard.

Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland was the first President to serve non-consecutive terms, and the first President to be married (to Frances Folsom) at the White House
  • First President born in New Jersey.
  • First President to go by his middle name rather than his first name.
  • First President to get married at the White House.[31]
  • First President to have a child born in the White House.[32][76]
  • First (and, to date, only) President to serve non-consecutive terms.[46]
  • First President to be filmed.[77]
  • First President to veto more than 100 bills, veto more than 200 bills, veto more than 300 bills, or veto more than 400 bills.[15]
  • First President to issue more than 100 pocket vetos.[15]
  • First President to serve a full term with a Senate controlled by the opposing party.
  • First President to have had a Secretary of Agriculture.

Benjamin Harrison

  • First President to have a lighted Christmas tree at the White House.[35][42]
  • First President to be a grandson of another President (W. H. Harrison)
  • First President (with Cleveland) to receive more than five million popular votes in a single election.[33]
  • First President to have electric lighting installed in the White House.[70]
  • First President to make a sound recording.
  • First President from Indiana.

William McKinley

Theodore Roosevelt

William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft was the first President to also serve on the United States Supreme Court

Woodrow Wilson

Warren G. Harding

  • First President to receive more than ten million popular votes or 400 electoral votes in a single election.[33] Harding received 16,144,093 votes in the United States presidential election, 1920. He also received 404 electoral votes. The election took part following the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted voting rights to women. There were more eligible voters than previous elections, though voter turnout was relatively low. In 1920, just 36% of eligible women turned out to vote (compared with 68% of men).[105][106] The low turnout was partly due to other barriers to voting, such as literacy tests, long residency requirements and poll taxes. Inexperience with voting and persistent beliefs that voting was inappropriate for women may also have kept turnout low.[105][106]
  • First President to win more than 60% of the popular vote. Harding won 60.3% of the popular vote.
  • First President to win the popular vote with a margin of victory over 20%.
  • First sitting U.S. Senator elected to the presidency.[52] Harding was serving as a Senator from Ohio when elected. He resigned his position as senator and was replaced by Frank B. Willis.
  • First President to have served as a Lieutenant Governor.
  • First President to win the popular vote by more than 5 million.[33]
  • First President elected after women gained the right to vote.[33]
  • First President to ride to and from his inauguration in an automobile.[14] The inauguration of Harding took place in 1921.
  • First President to visit Canada while in office[107]
  • First President to be a Baptist.
  • First President to be on the cover of Time Magazine.
  • First President to have had a Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Calvin Coolidge

Herbert Hoover

  • First President born west of the Mississippi River and first born in Iowa.[114]
  • First President to receive more than twenty million popular votes in a single election.[33] Hoover received 21,427,123 votes in the United States presidential election, 1928. The Hoover vote touched the high-water mark for all votes for a presidential candidate up to that time; 21,400,000 votes cast was an increase of more than 5,500,000 over the Coolidge vote of four years before.[115]
  • First President to have a telephone on his desk.[88]
  • First President to have a post-presidency of more than 30 years.[116] Hoover left office in 1933, and died in 1964. He died 31 years, and 230 days after leaving office.
  • First Quaker to serve as President.
  • First President to have served as Secretary of Commerce.
  • First President to have a National Library administered by the National Archives and Records Administration.
  • First President to be fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Harry S. Truman

Dwight D. Eisenhower

John F. Kennedy

Lyndon B. Johnson

Following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson became the first President to be inaugurated on an airplane and the first President to be sworn in by a woman. The inauguration is shown in the photo above.

Richard Nixon

Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford, here being sworn in by Warren Burger, was the first man to ascend to the Presidency without being elected to either the offices of the President or Vice-President.

Jimmy Carter

Ronald Reagan

George H. W. Bush

Bill Clinton

George W. Bush

Barack Obama


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