Happy President's Day

To mark the occasion, I am posting a list of (mainly) Presidential firsts I have gathered over the years of aspiring to become a contestant on Jeopardy.  Enjoy!

Clinton is the most recent William to hold the office; this man was the first:  William Henry Harrison

First U.S. president to appear on moving film:  Grover Cleveland (signing a bill into law in 1895)

First man to receive a million votes for president in one election:  William Henry Harrison

In his first term, this president held the first press conference that would be shown on TV--later that day: Eisenhower

First president to receive full-time protection from the Secret Service:  Theodore Roosevelt

He was the first president not of British descent: Martin Van Buren (as in the first born in the United States after the country won its independence)

He was the first president to use a middle name:  John Quincy Adams

First man to become president as a result of the 25th Amendment:  Gerald Ford

The first winning presidential ticket of 2 sitting U.S. senators:  JFK & LBJ

Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president to wear a beard; this man was the second:  Ulysses S. Grant

The first & last to preside over exactly 48 states:  William Howard Taft & Dwight Eisenhower

His first term saw the turn of the 20th century & the annexation of Guam & Puerto Rico:  McKinley

First president to die in office:   William Henry Harrison

The first Republican president:  Lincoln

First president for whom all women were eligible to vote:  Warren G. Harding

First U.S. coin with the likeness of a president was this coin based on a photo taken in Mathew Brady's studio: Lincoln penny

In 1835 Richard Lawrence tried to kill this seventh president, the first time such an attempt was made: Andrew Jackson

First president born after the adoption of the U.S. Constitution:  John Tyler

First sitting president to visit Hawaii:  FDR

After serving one term, this first Quaker president was defeated for re-election in 1932 by FDR:  (Herbert) Hoover

First president to ride in a car: William McKinley

His first inaugural address, in 1801, was also the first delivered in Washington, D.C.: Jefferson

First president to make a radio broadcast (speaking to WWI troops in 1919):  Woodrow Wilson

In 1976 he was the first incumbent president to take part in a campaign debate with a rival candidate:  Gerald Ford

First (& only) president to take the oath of office aboard an airplane:  Lyndon Johnson

At his second inauguration, Coolidge took the oath of office from this former president, a first:  William Howard Taft

This former general was the first Republican to serve 2 full terms as president:  Ulysses S. Grant

In 1937 he became the first man sworn in as U.S. president on a January 20:  FDR

John Hanson is considered by some the first U.S. president, as he was the first to serve under these:  Articles of Confederation

First president inaugurated in Washington, D.C.:  Thomas Jefferson

He was the first U.S. president to serve just 4 years:  John Adams

This Ohioan was the first sitting U.S. senator elected president:  Warren G. Harding

First president born in Missouri -- Lamar, Missouri, to be exact:  Harry S. Truman

First sitting president to meet a pope in the U.S. when he met Paul VI:  Lyndon Johnson

First California native to become vice president & the first to become president:  Richard Nixon

First West Point graduate to become president:  Ulysses S. Grant

His 1934 trip to Cartagena, Colombia was the first by a sitting president to South America: FDR

First president to serve 2 terms in office: George Washington

First president who had been a U.S. senator, he represented Virginia from 1790 to 1794: Monroe

First president not born a British subject (from Kinderhook): Martin Van Buren

First president to marry in the White House; also the first to have a child born there: Grover Cleveland

First veteran of the U.S. Navy to serve as president:  JFK

First president to preside over all 50 states:  Eisenhower

First president to hold an open press conference with reporters:  Woodrow Wilson

First president who was not a college graduate:  Washington

First president to use campaign buttons:  McKinley

First president to use a phone (his phone number was 1): Hayes

First president to serve the nation from coast to coast:  Polk

First president to ride in a train:  Jackson

First living president to appear on U.S. paper money--on a $10 demand note authorized in 1861: Abraham Lincoln

First president to hold a law degree:  Pierce

Last president without a college degree:  Truman