Overview

This book can serve as an important reference guide to political reporters, historians, students, elected and non-elected officials, political campaigners, game shows and trivia buffs while at the same time offer a historical profile of presidential firsts with fascinating tidbits and major events during the presidency of each president (first to forty-third) is in chronological order.

Presidential Firsts

The only vice president to serve two-full terms as President. Jefferson

First sitting congressman to be elected president. Garfield

First sitting senator to be elected president. Harding

First president to die in office. Harrison

First/only bachelor president. Buchanan

First president to have blacks in the White House. Lincoln

First to have telephone installed in the White House. Hayes

First/only president to be married in the White House. Cleveland

First to install electricity in the White House. Ben Harrison

First to create a war room in the White House, with maps. McKinley

First president to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Teddy Roosevelt

First president to introduce income tax. Wilson

First/only president to be born on the Fourth of July. Coolidge

The first/only president to be elected four times. F. D. Roosevelt

The last president that was not a college graduate. Truman

First president to travel in a nuclear-powered submarine. Eisenhower

First/only Roman Catholic president. Kennedy

The first president to visit all fifty states. Nixon

The longest living president. Ford (93 years and 165 days)

The first president that was born in a hospital. Carter

Who was the oldest president when inaugurated. Reagan

First son of a president to be reelected. G.W. Bush

The first and only African American president. Obama