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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.
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1 George Washington (1789–1797)
2 John Adams (1797–1801)
3 Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809)
4 James Madison (1809–1817)
5 James Monroe (1817–1825)
6 John Quincy Adams (1825–1829)
7 Andrew Jackson (1829–1837)
8 Martin Van Buren (1837–1841)
9 William Henry Harrison (1841)
10 John Tyler (1841–1845)
11 James K. Polk (1845–1849)
12 Zachary Taylor (1849–1850)
13 Millard Fillmore (1850–1853)
14 Franklin Pierce (1853–1857)
15 James Buchanan (1857–1861)
16 Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865)
17 Andrew Johnson (1865–1869)
18 Ulysses S. Grant (1869–1877)
19 Rutherford B. Hayes (1877–1881)
20 James A. Garfield (1881)
21 Chester A. Arthur (1881–1885)
22 Grover Cleveland (1885–1889;1893–1897)
23 Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893)
24 William McKinley (1897–1901)
25 Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909)
26 William Howard Taft (1909–1913)
27 Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921)
28 Warren G. Harding (1921–1923)
29 Calvin Coolidge (1923–1929)
30 Herbert Hoover (1929–1933)
31 Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945)
32 Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)
33 Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961)
34 John F. Kennedy (1961–1963)
35 Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–1969)
36 Richard Nixon (1969–1974)
37 Gerald Ford (1974–1977)
38 Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)
39 Ronald Reagan (1981–1989)
40 George H. W. Bush (1989–1993)
41 Bill Clinton (1993–2001)
42 George W. Bush (2001–2009)
43 Barack Obama (2009–2017)
44 Donald Trump (2017–present)
45 See also
46 References
47 Sources
48 External links
George Washington (1789–1797)[edit]
George Washington was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1776, 13 years before becoming President
First President of the United States.[1]
First President to appear on a postage stamp.[1]
First President to be a Freemason.[2]
First 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 President to command a standing field army while in office (during the Whiskey Rebellion).[5]
First President to have been a lieutenant general.
First President to have a parent live to see him be elected and become President (His mother Mary was still alive when he took office on April 30, 1789. She died four months later in August).
First President to be an Episcopalian.[6]
First President from Virginia.[7]
First President to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
First President to be younger than his wife.
First President to have signed the United States Constitution.
First President to have a ship named after him.
First President to have a submarine named after him.[8]
First President to appear on a US coin (1900 commemorative).
John Adams (1797–1801)[edit]
John Adams was the first President to live in the White House
First President to live in the White House.[9]
First President to have previously served as Vice-President.[10]
First President to have previously served as an Ambassador to a foreign country.[11]:49
First President elected as a Federalist.
First President to be a lawyer.[12]
First President who had never served in the military.[13][14]
First President to not be a slave owner.[15]
First President to be a Unitarian.
First President to wear a powdered wig.[16](Washington powdered his own hair.)[17]
First President from Massachusetts.[7]
First President who attended one of the Ivy League colleges.[11]:49
First President to attend Harvard College.
First President to have children of his own (Washington was a stepfather).[18]
First President whose son (John Quincy Adams) was also a President.
First President to have a post-presidency of more than 25 years (Adams left office in 1801, and died on 4 July 1826, 25 years, 122 days after leaving office).
First President to be married for 50 years (John and Abigail Adams, were married for 54 years, 3 days).
First President to begin his presidency on March 4 (In his case, 1797).[19]
First President to receive the oath of office from a Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court[20]
First President to veto no bills while in office.[21]
First President to have a child die while in office.[22]
First President to be defeated for a second term in office.[23]
First President to not attend the inauguration of his successor.[19] He did not attend Jefferson's inauguration.
First President to be over the age of 60 upon entering office.
First President to live to the age of 90.[23]
First President to have signed the Declaration of Independence.[24]
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.
First President to be widowed (His wife died on October 28, 1818. He outlived her for 7 years, 249 days.
Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809)[edit]
First President to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.[20]
First President inaugurated in the 19th century.
First President whose inauguration was not attended by his immediate predecessor.[25] John Adams did not attend his inauguration.
First President to live a full presidential term in the White House.[26]
First President elected as a Democratic-Republican.
First President to have previously been a Governor.[13]
First President to have been Ambassador to France.
First President to have previously served as Secretary of State.[27]
First President to defeat the man (Adams) whom he had previously lost to in a Presidential election.[11]:48
First President to have been widowed prior to his inauguration (Martha Jefferson, his wife, died in 1782, 19 years before he was inaugurated).[11]:147
First President whose election was decided in the House of Representatives.[28]
First President to cite the doctrine of executive privilege.[29]
First president to have a vice president elected under the 12th Amendment. Originally the runner-up in the presidential election was named vice president.[30]
First President to have two Vice Presidents (Aaron Burr and George Clinton were his Vice Presidents).
First President whose vice president was older than him (George Clinton was born in 1739, four years older than Jefferson).
First President to be a Deist.
First President to win election after having been previously defeated.
First President who died on Independence Day (Along with his predecessor John Adams).
First President to be survived by his predecessor as President (He was survived by John Adams, who died five hours later).
First President to serve as Rector of the University of Virginia.[31]
James Madison (1809–1817)[edit]
First President to have served in the United States House of Representatives[32]
First President to ask Congress for a Declaration of War.[33]
First President to serve as a war-time Commander-in-Chief.[34]
First President to have an Inaugural ball.[20]
First President to wear long trousers instead of knee breeches.[35]
First President to issue a pocket veto.[21]
First President to have the same vice president as his predecessor.
First President to have a vice president die while in office,
First President to have two Vice Presidents (George Clinton and Elbridge Gerry) die in office.
First President to have a parent live throughout his presidency (He left office in 1817 and his mother Nelly Conway Madison died in 1829). [36]
James Monroe (1817–1825)[edit]
First President to have served in the United States Senate. [37]
First President to have a child marry at the White House (His daughter Mary married in 1820 at the Blue Room on the State Floor of the White House).[38]
First President to ride on a steamboat.[39]
First President to have served as Secretary of War.
First President to issue a doctrine, the Monroe Doctrine.
First President to be physically accosted (attacked) while in office.
John Quincy Adams (1825–1829)[edit]
Philip Haas took this daguerrotype of John Quincy Adams in 1843.
First President to be the son of another President (He was the son of John Adams).[40]
First President whose father lived to see him become president (His father, former President John Adams, was still alive when he took office, and died in 1826). [36]
First President to have a son marry at the White House (His son John Adams II married in the Blue Room on February 25, 1828.) [38]
First President elected despite receiving less votes than his opponent.[11]:48
First President to have facial hair. (He wore long sideburns).
First President to have been inaugurated wearing long trousers instead of knee breeches.[41]
First President to serve in Congress after serving in the Presidency.[42]
First President to be succeeded by a President older than him (Both Adams and his successor Andrew Jackson were born in 1767, but Jackson was born in March, while Adams was born in July).
First President to have been Ambassador to the Netherlands, Germany, and Russia.
Andrew Jackson (1829–1837)[edit]
First President born in a log cabin.[43]
First President born in the Carolinas (Place of birth disputed between North and South Carolina).
First President born to immigrant parents (His parents and two brothers emigrated from Ireland in 1765).[44]
First President born after the death of his father (His father died in February 1767, around three weeks before he was born).[45]
First President to be a Presbyterian.
First President elected as Democrat to the Presidency.[46]
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 marry a divorced woman.
First President to kill someone in a duel.[47]
First President to be targeted by an assassin.[48]
First President to be older than his predecessor.
First President to ride on a railroad train.[49]
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 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 be an orphan. (His father died in 1767 just before he was born and his mother died in 1781 when he was fourteen).
First President to have had a Vice President resign (John C. Calhoun in 1832).
First President to be censured by the US Senate, although it was expunged in 1837.[50]
First President to win a plurality of the vote in three consecutive elections (1824, 1828, & 1832).
Martin Van Buren (1837–1841)[edit]
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.[20]
First President who spoke a language other than English as his first language.[51] (Dutch was his first language)
First President to be of the Dutch Reformed faith.
First President to have served as a State Attorney General, having served as Attorney General of New York from 1815 to 1819.
William Henry Harrison (1841)[edit]
First President elected as a Whig to the Presidency.[46]
First President from Ohio.[52]
First President to have 10 or more children (He had 10 children from his wife Anna Harrison, and is allegedly believed to have a daughter from a slave).[18]
First President to be born in the same county as his Vice-President.[53]
First President to not appoint anyone to the Supreme Court
First President to give an inaugural address of more than 5,000 words.[54]
First President whose grandson (Benjamin Harrison) was also a President.
First President to have his photograph taken while in office.[55]
First President to be over the age of 65 upon entering office (He was aged 68 when he took office).
First President to die in office.[56]
First President to have been a Brigadier general.
First President to serve as Ambassador to a South American country, having served as United States Minister to Gran Colombia from 1828 to 1829.
John Tyler (1841–1845)[edit]
First President to ascend to the Presidency by the death of his predecessor.[57]
First President to have a veto overridden.[21][47]
First President to face a vote of impeachment in the House (it was unsuccessful).[58]
First President to be widowed while in office. His wife Letitia Christian Tyler died September 10, 1842.[59]
First President to remarry while in office (to Julia Gardiner Tyler).[39][56]
First President to have been married twice. He married first Letitia Christian and, following her death, Julia Gardiner.
First President to have served as President pro tempore of the Senate.
First President to be born after the ratification of the United States Constitution.[60]
First President to be born during someone's presidency (George Washington).
First President to be expelled from his Political Party while in office.[61]
First President to have grandchildren living in the 21st Century.[62]
First President to join the Confederacy and serve in the Provisional Confederate States Congress.
James K. Polk (1845–1849)[edit]
First President to be elected to the office before reaching the age of 50.[63]
First President to be under the age of 50 upon entering office.[63]
First President to have served as Speaker of the House of Representatives.[63]
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.[64]
First President to be nominated by his party as a dark horse.[65]
First President not to seek re-election upon the completion of his one term.[66]
First President to die before reaching the age of 60.[63]
First President to predecease a parent (Polk died in 1849, soon after leaving office. Jane Knox Polk died in 1852, having outlived her son by three years.)[67][36]
First President not to keep a pet during his term in office.[68]
Zachary Taylor (1849–1850)[edit]
First President who had served in no prior elected office.[69]
First President to serve in the Mexican–American War.[7]
First President to take office while his party held a minority of seats in the U.S. Senate.[70]
First President to win election with his party holding no majority in either house of Congress.[71]
First President to reside in Louisiana.
First President to be elected while winning the same number of states as his opponent. Both Taylor and his opponent Lewis Cass won 15 states.
First President to win the U.S. presidential election in November.
First President to have had a Secretary of the Interior.
First President to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal more than once (he was awarded it three times).[72]
Millard Fillmore (1850–1853)[edit]
First President to establish a permanent White House library.[47]
First President born in the 1800s.[73]
First President born after the death of a previous President (Fillmore was born 24 days after the death of George Washington).
First President to remarry after leaving office. He remarried in 1858 to Caroline Carmichael McIntosh.
First President to leave office while his father was alive. [36] He left office in 1853 and his father Nathaniel Fillmore died in 1863.
Franklin Pierce (1853–1857)[edit]
First President born in New Hampshire.
First President to install central heating in the White House.[39]
First President born in the 19th century (November 23, 1804).[73]
First President to deliver his inaugural address from memory.[74]
First President who had been elected to actively seek reelection but be defeated for nomination for a second term by his party.[75][76]
James Buchanan (1857–1861)[edit]
First President born in Pennsylvania.
First President to be a bachelor.[39][56]
First President to meet a member of the British Royal Family while in office. (He met the future King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, in 1860 during his tour of America).
First President to have his inauguration photographed.
Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865)[edit]
Abraham Lincoln was the first President to be assassinated.
First President born outside of the original 13 colonies.[77]
First President born in Kentucky
First President from Illinois.
First President to hold a patent.[77]
First President to be photographed at his inauguration.[77]
First President to be assassinated.[56]
First President elected as a Republican to the Presidency.[46]
First President who was a Republican to be assassinated.
First President to be elected from the National Union party to the Presidency.
First President to wear a beard.[78]
First President inducted into the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
First President to appear on a circulating (non commemorative) US coin (1909 penny).
First President to appear on US paper money while in office.
Andrew Johnson (1865–1869)[edit]
First President to ascend to the Presidency by the assassination of his predecessor.[79]
First President to be impeached by the House of Representatives.[80]
First President to serve in the United States Senate after being President.[80]
First President to have been mayor of a town, having been mayor of Greeneville, Tennessee.
First President to issue more than twenty vetoes.[21]
First President to have more than ten vetoes overridden.[21]
Ulysses S. Grant (1869–1877)[edit]
Ulysses S. Grant, here shortly before his death, was the first President to write a memoir.
First President born in Ohio.[7]
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 have served as Commanding General of the United States Army, though Washington held a similar post under a different name.
First President to have both parents alive during his presidency (His father Jesse Root Grant died in 1873, and his mother Hannah Simpson Grant died in 1883).[36]
First President to veto more than fifty bills.[21]
First President to visit Ireland, Egypt, China, and Japan. (In 1878–79, after leaving the presidency.)[81][82][83]
First President to publish his memoirs.[84]
First President to issue more than 40 pocket vetoes.[21]
Rutherford B. Hayes (1877–1881)[edit]
First President to hold a state Thanksgiving dinner.[39]
First President to hold the White House Easter Egg Roll.[39]
First President to have a telephone installed in the White House.[49][85]
First President to have a typewriter installed in the White House.[49][85]
First President to visit the West Coast of the United States while in office.[86]
First President to win the electoral vote but lose the popular vote. [87]
First President to win the election despite his opponent winning a majority of the vote.
First President to be wounded in the American Civil War.
James A. Garfield (1881)[edit]
First President to be elected to the Presidency directly from the House of Representatives.[88]
First President to be left-handed or ambidextrous.[89]
First President to die before reaching the age of 50.[90]
First President to have served as a University President.[91][92]
Chester A. Arthur (1881–1885)[edit]
First President born in Vermont.[93]
First President to take the oath of office in his own home.[94]
First President to have an elevator installed in the White House.[85]
First President to have been appointed to a non-cabinet or ambassadorial federal office, having been appointed Collector of the Port of New York by Ulysses S. Grant in 1871.
Grover Cleveland (1885–1889;1893–1897)[edit]
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 get married at the White House.[38]
First President to have a child born in the White House.[39][95]
First President to serve non-consecutive terms.[56]
First President to win two terms without winning a majority of the vote (1884 & 1892).
First President to win a plurality of the vote in three consecutive elections without ever winning a majority (1884, 1888, & 1892).
First President to be filmed.[96]
First President to veto more than 100 bills, with over 500, including over 200 pocket vetos.[21]
First President to have had a Secretary of Agriculture.
Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893)[edit]
First President to have a lighted Christmas tree at the White House.[11]:48
First President to be a grandson of another President (W. H. Harrison)
First President to have electric lighting installed in the White House.[85]
First President to have his voice recorded.[97]
First President from Indiana.
William McKinley (1897–1901)[edit]
First President to ride in an automobile. He 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.[98]
First President to serve as Permanent Chairman of the Republican National Convention.
First President inaugurated in the 20th century.
First President to have his inauguration filmed.
Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909)[edit]
First President born in New York City. [99]
First President who ascended to the Presidency upon the death of a predecessor, who later was elected to the Presidency in his own right (He was elected Vice-President in 1900, ascended to the Presidency in 1901, and was elected in his own right in 1904). [100] [101][102] [103]
First President (and first American) to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.[104] Roosevelt won the award in 1906, due to his successful mediation to end the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905).[105][106]
First President elected in the 20th Century.
First President to ride in an airplane.[39][49]
First President to ride in a submarine.[39][49]
First President to travel outside the United States while in office (to the Panama Canal Zone), first President to visit Panama.[49][107]
First President to have his offices in the West Wing.[108]
First President to earn the Medal of Honor.[109] 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 President Bill Clinton.
First President to receive the Freedom of the City of the City of London.
First President to have had a Secretary of Commerce and Labor.
First President to serve as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
William Howard Taft (1909–1913)[edit]
William Howard Taft was the first President to also serve on the United States Supreme Court
First President to throw out a ceremonial first pitch.[110] Taft threw his pitch at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C., on the Washington Senators' Opening Day. The pitch took place on April 14, 1910.[111]
First President to own an automobile (He in fact owned four while in office)[39]
First President to serve in the federal judiciary, having served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
First President to have been a former Solicitor General.[112] Taft served as Solicitor General from 1890[113] to 1892.[114] He became President in 1909.
First President to receive the Silver Buffalo Award.
First President to preside all of the 48 contiguous states (Arizona and New Mexico were admitted to the Union under his Presidency).[108]
First President to visit Mexico while in office[115]
First President to use the Oval Office.[108]
First President to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.[116] Taft left office as President in 1913. He was appointed Chief Justice in 1921, by President Warren Harding.[117]
First President to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery[56] He was also the first member of the Supreme Court to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery upon his death in 1930.[118][119]
Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921)[edit]
First President to have a Ph.D.[120]
First President to visit Europe while in office (he visited France, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Holy See (Vatican City, not yet a sovereign nation), and Belgium).[121]
First President to meet with the Pope while in office.[121] Wilson met Pope Benedict XV in 1919, during a visit at Vatican City.[122]
First President to meet a British monarch while in office, having met George V in 1918.
First President to hold a press conference or regular news briefings.[123]
First President to appoint a Jew (Louis Brandeis) to the Supreme Court.[120][123]
First President to attend a World Series game.[123] Wilson attended Game 2 of the 1915 World Series in Philadelphia, viewing a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Philadelphia Phillies.
First President to be buried in Washington, D.C..[120] Wilson died in 1924, and was interred in a sarcophagus in Washington National Cathedral.[124]
First President to have separate Secretaries of Commerce and Labor.
First President to serve as President of Princeton University.[125]
Warren G. Harding (1921–1923)[edit]
First President to be elected while being a sitting U.S. Senator.[64] 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 been a Lieutenant Governor. He served as Lieutenant Governor of Ohio from 1904 to 1906. [126]
First President elected after women gained the right to vote.[46]
First President to ride to and from his inauguration in an automobile.[20] The inauguration of Harding took place in 1921.
First President to learn to drive a car. [127]
First President to visit Canada while in office.[128]
First President to be a Baptist.
First President to have had a Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
First President to serve as Temporary Chairman of the Republican National Convention.
First President to have been keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention.
First President to be elected on his birthday (he was elected on November 2, 1920, his 55th birthday).
First President to predecease his father. Dr. George Tryon Harding died in 1928, five years after his son.[36]
First President to appear on a radio broadcast, over Navy radio station NOF in Anacostia, D.C.[129]
Calvin Coolidge (1923–1929)[edit]
First President to be sworn in by his father, John Calvin Coolidge, Sr, following the death of Harding.
First President to be sworn in by another President (William Howard Taft, who was Chief Justice at the time of the second inauguration of Coolidge in 1925).[20]
First President to give a radio broadcast from the White House.[47][49]
First President to be filmed with sound recording.
First President to visit Cuba while in office.[130]
First President to be a Congregationalist.
First President to appear on US coinage while alive.[131]
First President to appear on US coinage while in office.[132]
First President to claim Native American ancestry.[133][134][135][136] Coolidge's mother Victoria Moor was claimed to be of a mixed-race family in Vermont.[137]
First President born on Independence Day.
First President to serve as both governor and lieutenant governor of a state, having served as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1916 to 1919 and Governor of Massachusetts from 1919 to 1921.[138]
Herbert Hoover (1929–1933)[edit]
First President born west of the Mississippi River and first born in Iowa.[139]
First President to have a telephone on his desk.[108]
First President to have a post-presidency of more than 30 years.[140] Hoover left office in 1933, and died in 1964. He died 31 years, 230 days after leaving office.
First President who was a Quaker.[141]
First President to have served as Secretary of Commerce.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945)[edit]
First President to serve more than two terms.[57] 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.
First President to be inaugurated on January 20 (per the Twentieth Amendment).[20] His 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.
First President to be elected after losing as Vice-President on a major party ticket. Roosevelt was Democratic nominee for Vice-President in the United States presidential election, 1920. He was the Democratic nominee for President in United States presidential election, 1932, and was successfully elected.
First president to appear five times on a national ticket, a record tied by Richard Nixon.[142]
First President to appear on television[49][143] 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.[144]
First President to nominate a woman (Frances Perkins) to a Cabinet post.[145] Perkins was appointed United States Secretary of Labor in 1933.
First President to establish a presidential library[146]
First President to veto more than 600 bills.[21] His total vetoes were 635, though 9 were overridden.
First President to issue more than 250 pocket vetos.[21] He issued 263 pocket vetoes.
First President to visit South America (he visited Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay), Africa (he visited Morocco, Liberia and Egypt), Haiti, Iran, the Soviet Union, as well as Hawaii while in office.[147][148][149]
First President to make a transatlantic flight. During World War II, Roosevelt traveled on the Dixie Clipper, a Pan Am-crewed Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat to the 1943 Casablanca Conference in Morocco, a flight that covered 5,500 miles (8,890 km) in three legs.[150]
First President to have had no full siblings. He only had a half-brother, James Roosevelt Roosevelt.
First President to receive a British monarch during a visit to the U.S., having met George VI in 1939.
First President to meet a King of Saudi Arabia, having met Ibn Saud in 1945.[151]
First President to be named Time Man of the Year.
First President who was Democrat to die in office.
First President to have a National Library administered by the National Archives and Records Administration.
First President to have three Vice Presidents (John Nance Garner, Henry A. Wallace, & Harry S. Truman).
First president with a significant physical disability, he was paralyzed due to polio.
Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)[edit]
First President born in Missouri.
First President to be assigned a Secret Service codename.[152]
First President to visit Germany while in office. He visited the Allied-occupied Germany.
First President to serve in World War I.[153] Truman served as an officer of the American Expeditionary Forces and commanded a unit 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.
First President to have a television set installed in the White House.
First President to have a nationally televised inauguration.[20] His 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.[154] Many schoolchildren watched from their classrooms.[155] Truman authorized a holiday for federal employees so that they could also watch.[156] The ceremony, and Truman's speech, were also broadcast abroad through the Voice of America, and translated into other languages including Russian and German.[157] According to some calculations, the 1949 inauguration had more witnesses than all previous Presidential inaugurations combined.[155][158]
First President to leave office on January 20 (after the passage of the Twentieth amendment).[20] He left office on January 20, 1953.
First President and person to be issued a Medicare card.[159] 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.[160]
First President to address a joint session of the Canadian Parliament.
First President to have had a Secretary of Defense.
First President to have had a White House Chief of Staff.
First President who was a Democrat to ascend to the office upon the death of his predecessor.
First President to pardon a turkey (This presidential pardon of the Thanksgiving turkey is a tradition subsequent presidents have practiced every year).
First President to address the nation on television
First President to deliver an oval office address
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961)[edit]
First President to serve in World War II.[47]
First President to serve in both World Wars.[47]
First President to have been a Five-star General of the Army.
First President to have served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
First President to have served as Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
First President to have an aircraft carrier named after him.
First President to be born in Texas.[161]
First President from Kansas.
First President to begin his presidency on January 20 (per the Twentieth Amendment).[20] He began his presidency on January 20, 1953.
First President to celebrate his 70th birthday while in office. Eisenhower was born in 1890 and turned 70 in 1960. His office term ended in 1961.
First President to have had both major parties attempt to recruit him for the presidential nomination of their party. Eisenhower was a popular military figure of World War II, and was encouraged by Democrats and Republicans to run for their party’s presidential nomination after the war. President Truman reportedly offered to serve as Eisenhower’s Vice President if he ran as a Democrat. Eisenhower ultimately ran as a Republican.
First President to travel by jet aircraft and helicopter.[162]
First President to get a pilot's license.[163]
First President to visit the independent nations of Switzerland, Vatican City, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Greece, Tunisia, Spain, Chile, Portugal, the Philippines, and Taiwan while in office.
First President to give a televised news conference, in 1955.[164]
First President to appear on color television.[165]
First President of all 50 states (Alaska and Hawaii were admitted during his Presidency).
First President to be term-limited, due to the 22nd Amendment.
First President to have served more than one full term with a Congress controlled by the opposing party.
First President to have received an honorary knighthood from a foreign nation (Eisenhower received 22 such honors).[166][167]
First President to receive the Army Distinguished Service Medal, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, and the Legion of Merit.[166]
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.[166]
First President and first American to be appointed to the British Order of Merit.[166]
First President to be made a Grand Cordon of the Japanese Order of the Chrysanthemum.[166]
First President and American to receive the Soviet Order of Victory, for serving as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force.[166]
First President to receive an Emmy Award.[168]
First President to have had a Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
First President to have had a National Security Advisor.
First President to serve as President of Columbia University.[169]
John F. Kennedy (1961–1963)[edit]
First President who was Catholic.[170]
First President born in the 20th Century[171] (Kennedy was born in 1917 and took office in 1961).
First President (along with future President Richard Nixon) to participate in the first televised Presidential debates.[172] He took part in four televised debates in 1960.
First President to have been a Boy Scout.[47]
First President to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize.[173] He won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1957, for his biographical work Profiles in Courage.
First President to have previously served in the United States Navy.[153][173]
First President to have a brother serve in the Senate (Ted Kennedy) and another brother (Robert Kennedy) serve in the Cabinet while in office.
First President to be survived by both his parents. Kennedy died in 1963. His father Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. outlived him for six years, dying in 1969. His mother Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy outlived him for more than three decades, dying in 1995.[36]
First President to be younger than four of his successors.
First President who died on the same date as his assassination attempt occurred.
First President who was a Democrat to be assassinated.
First President to use the Situation Room.[174]
First President to win fewer states than his opponent while winning a majority of the Electoral vote.
First President to visit Ireland while in office.[175]
First President to receive a Presidential Medal of Freedom (awarded posthumously on December 6, 1963).
First President to receive the Navy and Marine Corps Medal.[173]
First President to receive the Purple Heart.[173]
Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–1969)[edit]
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.
First President to be inaugurated on an airplane.[20] His inauguration was held aboard Air Force One in 1963.
First President to be sworn in by a woman (Sarah T. Hughes).[20]
First President to visit Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Guatemala, Austria, and Venezuela while in office.[176]
First President to ride to and from his inauguration in a bullet-proof limousine (to and from his second inauguration).[20]
First President to appoint an African-American (Thurgood Marshall) to the Supreme Court.[177]
First President to appoint an African-American (Robert C. Weaver) to a Cabinet post.[178] 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 1953–1955 and Majority Leader from 1955–1961.[179]
First President to have served as Senate Majority Whip, having served in that office from 1951–1953.[180]
First President to receive the Silver Star.
First President to have had a Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and a Secretary of Transportation.
Richard Nixon (1969–1974)[edit]
First President who did not immediately succeed the President (Dwight Eisenhower) for whom he served as Vice President. He served as Vice-President from 1953 to 1961. He ran to succeed Eisenhower in 1960 but lost the general election. He was first elected President in 1968 and took office in 1969.
First President to be elected twice to both the Presidency (1968 and 1972) and Vice-Presidency (1952 and 1956).
First President (along with past President John F. Kennedy) to have participated in the first Presidential debates.[172] He participated in four televised debates in 1960.
First President born in California.
First President to visit the People's Republic of China, Indonesia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Israel, Poland, Iceland, and Jordan while in office.[181][182]
First President to resign from the Presidency.[183] 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.[184]
First President to appoint a Vice President under Section 2 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
First President to be pardoned by another President (Gerald Ford).[185] 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.[186][187][188]
First President born on the West Coast.[189]
First President to receive the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal.
First President to meet an Emperor of Japan, having met Hirohito in 1971.[190]
First President to be named Time Man of the Year for his reelection.
Gerald Ford (1974–1977)[edit]
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.
First President born in Nebraska.
First President from Michigan.
First President to ascend to the Presidency by the resignation of his predecessor.
First President to ascend to the Presidency without being elected to either the offices of the President or Vice-President.[56]
First President to have been appointed as Vice President. (He was appointed Vice-President in 1973 to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Spiro Agnew. He succeeded President Richard Nixon in 1974, following the resignation of Nixon).
First President to succeed to the office under the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which codified the previously established precedent of the Vice President succeeding to the presidency.
First President to be an Eagle Scout[191]
First President to receive the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.
First President to visit Japan and Finland while in office.[192]
First President to pardon another President (Richard Nixon).[185] 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.[186][187][188]
First President to release a full report of his medical checkup to the public.[185]
First President to serve as House Minority Leader, having served in that office from 1965–1973.[193]
First President to serve as Republican Conference Chairman of the United States House of Representatives.[194]
First President to be under consideration for the vice presidency after leaving office (in 1980 by Ronald Reagan; see 1980 Republican National Convention)
Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)[edit]
First President born in Georgia.
First President to visit Nigeria while in office.[195]
First President born in a hospital.[196] He was born in the Wise Sanitarium of Plains, Georgia, in 1924.
First President to attend the United States Naval Academy.
First President to use a nickname in an official capacity.[197] His actual name is James Earl Carter Jr, but he is better known by the nickname Jimmy Carter.
First President to receive the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights.
First President to have separate Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Education.
First President to have had a Secretary of Energy.
First President who completed at least one full term in office and never made a nomination to the Supreme Court.
First President to win fewer States than his opponent while winning both a majority of Electoral votes and a majority of total votes.
First President to have a post-presidency of 35 years. Carter left office in 1981 and is still alive. He left office 37 years, 129 days ago.[a]
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.[198][199]
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Ronald Reagan (1981–1989)[edit]
First President born in Illinois.[200]
First President to be reelected over the age of 70, as he was 73 when he was reelected in 1984.[201]
First President to celebrate his 75th birthday while in office. Reagan was born in 1911 and turned 75 in 1986. His office term ended in 1989.
First President to have been divorced.[202][203] He divorced his first wife Jane Wyman in 1949.
First President to have been a professional actor.[citation needed]
First President to be the head of a union (the Screen Actors Guild).[204][205]
First President to be inaugurated at the West Front of the United States Capitol Building.[206]
First President to visit Jamaica, Barbados, and Grenada while in office.
First President to appoint a woman to the Supreme Court (Sandra Day O'Connor).
First President to visit the New York Stock Exchange, (on March 28, 1985) while in office.[207]
First President to invoke Section 3 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
First President to attend and open an Olympic Games (the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles) while in office.[208]
First President to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom while alive and the first to be Awarded with Distinction.
First President to have served in the United States Army Air Forces.
First President to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[209]
First President to receive a Golden Globe Award. He received the Hollywood Citizenship Award at the 14th Golden Globe Awards.
First President to serve two full terms with a House of Representatives controlled by the opposing party.
First President to nominate a Hispanic-American (Lauro Cavazos) to a Cabinet post. Cavazos was appointed United States Secretary of Education in 1988.
George H. W. Bush (1989–1993)[edit]
First President to have served as Acting President (when Reagan was sedated for eight hours due to colon surgery).[210]
First President to visit Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Singapore, Somalia, and the Russian Federation, as well as reunified Germany while in office.[211][212]
First President to have served as Director of Central Intelligence.(office is now the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency)[213][214][215]
First President to have served as a United States Ambassador to the United Nations.[216]
First President whose son (George W. Bush) was reelected President.
First President to have been a naval aviator.[163]
First President to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal.
First President to have been married for 55 years. (George and Barbara Bush surpassed John and Abigail Adams, who were married for 54 years, 3 days, as the longest-married presidential couple on January 10, 1999.)
First President to have been married for more than 70 years.[217] George and Barbara Bush were married for 73 years, 101 days.
First President to have had a Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
First President to serve as Chairman of the Republican National Committee.
First President to serve as a diplomat to China, having served as Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to the People's Republic of China from 1974 to 1975.
First President to be the subject of a Presidential biography written by his son.
Bill Clinton (1993–2001)[edit]
First President born in Arkansas.
First President born after World War II.
First President to visit Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Syria, Kuwait, the Czech Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Denmark, Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa, Botswana, Senegal, Slovenia, the Republic of Macedonia, Norway, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Bangladesh, Oman, Tanzania, Brunei, as well as the Palestinian National Authority and reunited Vietnam while in office.[218][219]
First President to send an email.
First President to earn a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford.
First President whose inauguration was streamed on the internet.[20]
First President to win a Grammy Award. He received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf/Beintus: Wolf Tracks at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards.
First President to appoint an Asian-American to a Cabinet post. Norman Mineta was appointed Secretary of Commerce by President Clinton in 2000.[220]
First President to have been Chair of the National Governors Association.
First President to have a spouse who was elected senator.
First President to have a spouse run for president.
George W. Bush (2001–2009)[edit]
First President born in Connecticut.
First President to serve in the Air National Guard.
First President inaugurated in the 21st century.
First President to have an M.B.A. degree.
First President to serve two terms, who was the son of a President.
First President to visit Sweden, Peru, Lithuania, Qatar, Iraq, Slovakia, Georgia, Mongolia, Estonia, Albania, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Benin while in office.
First President to have State of the Union live broadcast on the Internet.[221]
First President to have served in the military during the Vietnam War, where he performed stateside service.
First President to invoke Section 3 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution twice.
First President to have a 90% approval rating in the history of modern political polling.[222]
First President to have had a Secretary of Homeland Security.
First President to lose the popular vote in his first election but win the popular vote in his reelection.
First President to open the Winter Olympic Games (the 2002 Winter Olympics Salt Lake City) while in office.[223]
First President to attend any Olympic Games in a foreign country (the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing) while in office .[224]
First President to leave office with both parents alive.[225]
First President to be reelected without winning a Northeastern state.[original research?]
First President to be named Time Person of the Year for both of his presidential elections. He was named Time Person of the Year when he was first elected and reelected.
First President to write a Presidential biography about his father.
First President to write and illustrate an art book.
Barack Obama (2009–2017)[edit]
First President born outside of the 48 contiguous states.[226]
First President born in Hawaii.[227]
First President who was African-American.[228]
First President who was a multiracial American.[229]
First President to publicly endorse same-sex marriage.[230]
First President to have a Catholic Vice President (Joe Biden).[231]
First President to appoint a former First Lady to the Cabinet (Hillary Clinton).[232]
First President to appoint a Latino-American to the Supreme Court (Sonia Sotomayor).[233]
First President to appoint multiple women to the Supreme Court (Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan).
First President to have appointed only women to the Supreme Court (Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan). (Note: President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to fill the seat vacated by Justice Antonin Scalia, however, Garland was not confirmed)
First President to visit a federal prison.[234]
First President to publish a scientific paper while in office.[235]
First President to visit Trinidad and Tobago, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Kenya, and Ethiopia.
First President to have his official photograph portrait taken with a digital camera.[236]
First President to win a second term whilst winning fewer states, total votes, and electoral votes than for his first term.
First President to have been keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention.
Donald Trump (2017–present)[edit]
First President to defeat a female major party candidate in the Electoral College.
First President to reach the age of 70 prior to his election to the presidency and first to reach 70 before taking office.[237]
First President to assume the office without any prior military or political experience.[238][239]
First President to have an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi give a benediction at his inauguration.[240]
First President to be a billionaire prior to assuming office.[241]
First President to divorce more than once. He divorced his first wife Ivana Trump in 1992, and divorced his second wife Marla Maples in 1999.[203]
First President to marry three times.
First President to host a reality television program prior to office (The Apprentice).
First President to have children from three different wives.[203]
First President to have a female campaign manager (Kellyanne Conway).[242]
First President to appoint an Indian-American to a cabinet-level position (Nikki Haley).[243]
First President to begin tenure with a net negative approval rating in the history of modern political polling.[244][245]
See also[edit]
List of United States First Lady firsts
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