Presidential Firsts

Guess what these U.S. Presidents did first.

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Hint	Time In Office	Answer
First president under 5 feet 5 inches (165cm)	1809–1817	James Madison
First VP to take office because of a president’s death	1841–1845	John Tyler
First to be denied renomination by his party	1853–1857	Franklin Pierce
First abolitionist president	1825–1829	John Quincy Adams
First to be born a citizen of the U.S.	1837–1841	Martin Van Buren
First to shake hands with guests instead of making them bow	1801–1809	Thomas Jefferson
First to have his photograph taken while in office	1829–1937	William Henry Harrison
First to be elected before age 50	1845–1849	James Polk
First president to be unanimously elected	1789–1797	George Washington
First senator to be elected president	1817–1825	James Monroe
First to establish a White House library	1850–1853	Millard Fillmore
First president to kill someone in a duel	1829–1837	Andrew Jackson
First and only president to be a bachelor	1857–1861	James Buchanan
First to allow women to argue before the Supreme Court	1877–1881	Rutherford B. Hayes
First to marry a family member (third cousin)	1797–1801	John Adams
First to have held no prior elected office	1849–1850	Zachary Taylor
First (and only) president to serve on the Supreme Court	1909–1913	William Howard Taft
First to pardon a turkey	1861–1865	Abraham Lincoln
First (and only) to be elected to non-consecutive terms	1893–1897	Grover Cleveland
First to see the Pacific Ocean	1869–1877	Ulysses S. Grant
First to use air conditioning	1881	James Abram Garfield
First to ride in a submarine and an airplane	1901–1909	Theodore Roosevelt
First to claim Native American ancestry	1923–1929	Calvin Coolidge

Hint	Time In Office	Answer
First to be accused of being born outside the U.S.	1881–1885	Chester Alan Arthur
First to have a billion-dollar budget	1889–1893	Benjamin Harrison
First to give all of his federal paychecks to charity	1929–1933	Herbert Hoover
First to be impeached	1865–1869	Andrew Johnson
First president to hold a press conference on television.	1961–1963	John F. Kennedy
First to campaign by telephone	1897–1901	William McKinley
First to become vice president and president without being elected	1974–1977	Gerald Ford
First to decorate White House tree with electric Christmas lights	1885–1889	Grover Cleveland
First to be sworn in by a woman	1963–1969	Lyndon B. Johnson
First to break the “Curse of Tippecanoe”	1981–1989	Ronald Reagan
First president to visit Europe while in office	1913–1921	Woodrow Wilson
First (and only) president to resign	1969–1974	Richard Nixon
First to appear on television	1933–1945	Franklin Delano Roosevelt
First vice president to have served as acting president	1989–1993	George H. W. Bush
First to have both the lowest and highest approval ratings	2001–2009	George W. Bush
First president to have women vote for him	1921–1923	Warren G. Harding
First president of all fifty states	1953–1961	Dwight Eisenhower
First president to have a letter as a middle name	1945–1953	Harry S. Truman
First to sign a law via robot	2009–2017	Barack Obama
First to be born in a hospital	1977–1981	James Carter, Jr.
First to appoint openly gay people to government positions	1993–2001	Bill Clinton
First president to serve for a day	March 4, 1849	David Atchison

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