List of United States presidential firsts#John Quincy Adams (1825–1829)

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 (1789–1797)

George Washington was awarded the [[Congressional Gold Medal in 1776, 13 years before becoming president.|thumb|right|180px]]

First president of the United States.{{cite book|title=President's Day Fun|page=10}}
First president to have been born in the 18th century.The White House. "[https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/george-washington/ George Washington]". Retrieved December 28, 2020.
First president to have been a military veteran.{{efn|Colonel George Washington served in the French and Indian War, seeing action in the Braddock Expedition}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/french-indian-war/washington-and-the-french-indian-war/|title=Washington and the French & Indian War|website=George Washington's Mount Vernon}}
First president to have served in the American Revolutionary War.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenmusa.org/biographies/george-washington/|title=National Museum of the United States Army|website=www.thenmusa.org}}
First president born in Virginia.Book of Political Lists, p. 5
First president to be elected to a second term in office.{{cite web | url=https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/the-first-president/second-term-1793-1797/ | title=Second Term (1793-1797) }}
First president to own slaves.{{cite web|title=Ten Facts About Washington & Slavery|url=http://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/ten-facts-about-washington-slavery/|access-date=January 9, 2021|website=George Washington's Mount Vernon}}
First president to be an Episcopalian.{{cite web|url=http://www.adherents.com/people/pw/George_Washington.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060213115014/http://www.adherents.com/people/pw/George_Washington.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 13, 2006|title=The Religion of George Washington|publisher=adherents.com|access-date=September 19, 2008}}
First president to be a Freemason.{{cite book|title=The Book of Political Lists, from the editors of George|year=1998|page=22}}
First president to appear on a postage stamp.
First president to receive votes from every presidential elector in an election.{{efn|In both the 1789 and 1792 elections, each elector voted for Washington and for another candidate.}}{{cite book|last=Ellis|first=Joseph J.|author-link=Joseph Ellis |title=His Excellency: George Washington |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|location=New York|year=2004|isbn=978-1-4000-4031-5|title-link=His Excellency: George Washington}}
First president to be inaugurated in New York City.
First president to fill the entire body of the United States federal judges; including the Supreme Court.Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. 2021. "[https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/the-first-president/george-washington-and-the-supreme-court/ George Washington and the Supreme Court]" Retrieved January 18, 2021.
First president to deliver a State of the Union address (1790).Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. 2021. "[https://www.mountvernon.org/education/primary-sources/state-of-the-union-address/ State of the Union Address (1790)]" Retrieved January 18, 2021.
First president to have a first lady older in age.{{efn|Martha Washington, the wife of George Washington and thus the first First Lady of the United States, was born on June 2, 1731, making her {{age in days|1731|06|02|1732|02|22}} days older than her husband.}}{{cite web | url=https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/martha-washington/ten-facts-about-martha-washington/#:~:text=Martha%20was%20born%20on%20June,the%20colonial%20capital%20of%20Williamsburg | title=Ten Facts About Martha Washington }}
First president to command a standing field army while in office (during the Whiskey Rebellion).{{cite journal|last=Kohn|first=Richard H.|title=The Washington Administration's Decision to Crush the Whiskey Rebellion|journal=The Journal of American History|date=December 1972|volume=58|issue=3|pages=567–584|jstor=1900658|doi=10.2307/1900658}}
First president who was not affiliated with any political party.{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/31/george-washingtons-views-political-parties-america/|title=George Washington's views on political parties in America|date=December 31, 2014|access-date=January 30, 2019|first=Dennis|last=Jamison|work=The Washington Times}}
First president to go uncontested in an election.{{cite web|url=https://millercenter.org/president/monroe/campaigns-and-elections|title=James Monroe: Campaigns and Elections|date=2019|access-date=November 23, 2020|first=Daniel|last=Preston}}
First president to not have any biological children.{{cite web|url=https://www.history.com/news/did-george-washington-have-children|title=George Washington Raised Martha's Children and Grandchildren as His Own|first=Dave|last=Roos|website=History|date=March 27, 2023 }}
First president to be declared an honorary citizen of a foreign country, and an honorary citizen of France.{{cite web|url=https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/honorary-french-citizenship/|title=Honorary French Citizenship|website=MountVernon.org}}
First president to deliver a farewell address.{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/news/a-history-of-the-presidential-farewell-address|title=A History of the Presidential Farewell Address|date=January 10, 2017|website=History.com}}{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/mgw2.024/?sp=229|title=George Washington, September 17, 1796, Farewell Address|date=September 19, 1796|website=Library of Congress}}
First president to have a constitutional amendment passed during his tenure (the first 11 amendments were passed during his two terms).{{cite web | url=https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights/how-did-it-happen | title=The Bill of Rights: How Did it Happen? | date=April 13, 2016 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/amendments-11-27 | title=The Constitution: Amendments 11-27 | date=November 4, 2015 }}

John Adams (1797–1801)

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First president born in Massachusetts.^[3]
First president to live in the White House.{{cite book|title=Life in the White House: A Social History of the First Family and the President's House|editor-first=Robert P.|editor-last=Watson|page=18|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8e20o_p6cwgC&pg=PA18|isbn=978-0-7914-8507-1|date=February 2012|publisher=State University of New York Press }}
First president to have previously served as vice president.{{efn|Adams served as vice president under George Washington, and thus was the first vice president of the nation.}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ktR1AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA20|title=American Political Leaders 1789–2009 |publisher=CQ Press |year=2009|isbn=978-1-4522-6726-5}}
First president to have previously served as an ambassador to a foreign country.{{cite book|title=Presidential Trivia|first=Richard |last=Lederer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SEjFr9rSunwC&pg=PA49|isbn=978-1-4236-1052-6|date=February 19, 2009 |publisher=Gibbs Smith |author-link=Richard Lederer }}{{rp|49}}
First president to be a lawyer.{{cite web|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/11/05/barack-obama-the-uss-44th-president-and-24th-lawyer-president/ |title=Barack Obama: The U.S.'s 44th President (and 25th Lawyer-President!) |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=November 5, 2008}}
First president who had never served in the military.Book of Political Lists, p. 17{{cite web|title=Military Roots: Presidents who were Veterans|url=http://www.va.gov/health/NewsFeatures/20110221a.asp|publisher=U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs|access-date=October 3, 2014|archive-date=October 6, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006065456/http://www.va.gov/health/NewsFeatures/20110221a.asp|url-status=dead}}
First president to not be a slave owner.{{cite web|url=http://hauensteincenter.org/slaveholding/|title=Slaveholding Presidents|publisher=Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, Grand Valley State University|date=May 29, 2012|access-date=November 25, 2016|archive-date=March 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322012852/http://hauensteincenter.org/slaveholding/|url-status=dead}}
First president to wear a powdered wig tied in a queue in the fashion of the 18th century.{{cite book|first1=John|last1=Whitcomb|first2=Claire|last2=Whitcomb|title=Real Life at the White House: Two Hundred Years of Daily Life at America's Most Famous Residence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p1unoHtahSsC&pg=PA37|year=2002|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-415-93951-5|page=37}}{{efn|George Washington powdered his own long hair tied in a queue.}}{{cite web|url=http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/project/faq/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051120035433/http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/project/faq/index.html|archive-date=November 20, 2005|title=Frequently Asked Questions: Did George Washington wear a wig?|work=The Papers of George Washington |publisher=University of Virginia|access-date=October 4, 2010}}
First president to receive more than 45% of the electoral vote while running for re-election, without being re-elected.
First president who attended one of the Ivy League colleges.{{rp|49}}
First president to have biological children.{{efn|Adams and his wife Abigail had six children, including John Quincy Adams, the sixth president. Washington did not have any children by his own, and was only a stepfather.}}Book of Political Lists, p. 60
First president to receive the oath of office from a chief justice of the United States Supreme Court{{cite web|url=https://www.inaugural.senate.gov/6th-inaugural-ceremonies/|title=The 6th Presidential Inauguration|website=Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies|access-date=July 5, 2021}}
First president not to veto any bills while in office.{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/presvetoes17891988.pdf |title=Presidential Vetoes, 1789–1988 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |year=1992 |page=ix}}
First president to have a child (Charles Adams) die while in office.{{efn|Charles Adams, the second son of John Adams, died of liver cirrhosis on November 30, 1800, when his father was still president. He was a chronic alcoholic, and was estranged from his family at the time of his death.}}{{cite web | url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/adams/peopleevents/p_adamskids.html | title=The Adams Children | publisher=PBS | work=American Experience | access-date=July 20, 2014}}
First president to be defeated for a second term in office.{{cite book|title=Guide to the Presidency and the Executive Branch |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4iNzAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1653|editor-first=Michael |editor-last=Nelson |page=1653|isbn=978-1-4522-3428-1|date=August 13, 2012 | publisher=CQ Press }}
First president to not attend the inauguration of his successor.{{efn|Adams did not attend Thomas Jefferson's inauguration.}}
First president to have a first lady younger in age.{{cite web | url=https://www.history.com/topics/first-ladies/abigail-adams | title=Abigail Adams | date=June 22, 2023 }}
First president to have a child (John Quincy Adams) serve as president of the United States.{{Cite web|url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/john-quincy-adams/|title=John Quincy Adams|website=The White House}}
First president to live to the age of 90.{{efn|Adams, who was born on October 30, 1735, and died on July 4, 1826, the 50th Independence Day of the United States, lived for {{ayd|1735|10|30|1826|7|4}}, and was the longest-lived president until 2001, when his record was broken by Ronald Reagan.}}
First president to have signed the Declaration of Independence.{{cite web | url=https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.htmll | title=Declaration of Independence| date=October 30, 2015}}
First president to have visited Europe.{{cite web | url=https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/eyewitness/html.php?section=19 | title=Eyewitness }}
First president to meet a reigning British monarch.
First president to outlive another former president.{{cite web |url=https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2022/07/deaths-of-john-adams-and-thomas-jefferson-on-july-4th/#:~:text=Jefferson%20died%20shortly%20after%20noon,at%20the%20age%20of%2090. |title=Deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on July 4th |website=Library of Congress |access-date=July 6, 2022 |author=Amber Paranick|date=July 6, 2022 }}
First president to be multilingual.Crapo (2007), 4.
First president to not have any constitutional amendment be ratified during his term.

Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809)

First president to have previously been a governor.{{efn|Jefferson was Governor of Virginia from 1779 to 1781.}}
First president to have previously served as secretary of state.{{cite web|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/history/why-do-secretaries-state-make-such-terrible-presidential-candidates-180952327/|title=Why Do Secretaries of State Make Such Terrible Presidential Candidates?|publisher=Smithsonian|access-date=September 20, 2014|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303220439/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/history/why-do-secretaries-state-make-such-terrible-presidential-candidates-180952327/|url-status=dead}}
First president to have been widowed prior to his inauguration.{{efn|Jefferson's wife Martha died in 1782, 19 years before he was inaugurated. He was also the first president whose hostess was his daughter.}}{{rp|147}}
First president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.
First president to have his inaugural speech reprinted in a newspaper.Wolly, Brian. December 17, 2008. "[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inaugural-firsts-132224366/ Inaugural Firsts]" Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
First president whose inauguration was not attended by his immediate predecessor.{{efn|John Adams did not attend Jefferson's inauguration, due to personal problems.}}{{cite web|last1=Frantz|first1=Christine|last2=Rowen|first2=Beth|title=Inaugural Trivia Firsts and facts about presidential inaugurations|url=http://www.infoplease.com/spot/inauguralincident.html|publisher=Infoplease.com|access-date=November 26, 2016}}
First president to live a full presidential term in the White House.{{cite book|first=Robert P.|last=Watson|title=Life in the White House: A Social History of the First Family and the President's House|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8e20o_p6cwgC|year=2012|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-8507-1|page=18}}
First president to defeat an opponent he had previously lost to in a presidential election.{{rp|48}}
First president who defeated an incumbent president.{{rp|48}}
First president whose election was decided in the United States House of Representatives.{{cite journal|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/80oct/deadlock.htm |title=Deadlock: What Happens if Nobody Wins |first1=Laurence H. |last1=Tribe |first2=Thomas M. |last2=Rollins |journal=The Atlantic |date=October 1980}}
First president to have an inaugural parade; occurred during his second inauguration.
First president to cite the doctrine of executive privilege.{{cite book|title=The Little Giant Book of American Presidents |first= Glen |last= Vecchione |year=2007|page=[https://archive.org/details/littlegiantbooko0000vecc_n4r4/page/101 101]|url=https://archive.org/details/littlegiantbooko0000vecc_n4r4|url-access=registration |isbn= 978-1-4027-2692-7|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Incorporated}}
First president to have a vice president elected under the Twelfth Amendment.{{efn|Originally the runner-up in the presidential election was named vice president. Adams, Jefferson and Aaron Burr became vice presidents in this way.}}{{cite web|url=https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html |title=The Charters of Freedom: The United States Constitution|publisher=United States National Archives|date=October 30, 2015}}
First president to have two different vice presidents.{{efn|Aaron Burr served as Jefferson's Vice President from 1801–1805, and Geroge Clinton served as his Vice President from 1805–1809}}
First president to expand the country's territory{{cite web|url=https://archive.globalpolicy.org/us-westward-expansion/25994.html|title=US Territorial Acquisitions|website=archive.globalpolicy.org}}{{cite web|url=https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/louisiana-lewis-clark/the-louisiana-purchase/|title=The Louisiana Purchase|website=Monticello}}
First president to have pets at the White House; two grizzly bear cubs and a mockingbird.Presidential Pet Museum. March 30, 2014. "[https://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/pets/thomas-jefferson-grizzly-bears-white-house/ Grizzly Bears at the White House]" Retrieved January 26, 2021.Presidential Pet Museum. March 30, 2014. "[https://www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/pets/thomas-jefferson-mockingbird/ Thomas Jefferson’s Mockingbird Named Dick]" Retrieved January 26, 2021.
First president to found a university after being in office; the University of Virginia in 1819.Juliana LaBianca (November 4, 2020). "[https://www.rd.com/list/jobs-presidents-held-after-the-white-house/ 13 Unlikely Jobs U.S. Presidents Held After the White House]" Reader's Digest. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
First president to serve as rector of a university (University of Virginia).{{cite web|title=1817: The First Meeting of the Board of Visitors|url=http://uvamagazine.org/articles/1817_the_first_meeting_of_the_board_of_visitors|website=University of Virginia Magazine|publisher=UVA Alumni Association|access-date=October 18, 2023|date=Fall 2012|quote=In March 1819, Thomas Jefferson was appointed the University's first rector.}}
First president to deliver a State of the Union address via writing; this practice continued until 1913.{{cite web| url= https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/News_State_of_the_Union.htm|title = State of the Union Address |publisher= United States Senate |access-date= November 29, 2021}}
First president to die on the Fourth of July.
First president to be outlived by another former president.

James Madison (1809–1817)

First president to have served in the United States House of Representatives.Book of Political Lists, p. 18
First president to ask Congress for a declaration of war.Book of Political Lists, p. 29
First president to serve as a wartime commander-in-chief.{{cite web|url=http://www.history-of-american-wars.com/|title=History of American Wars – Three Centuries of American Wars|website=www.history-of-american-wars.com}}
First president to have an Inaugural ball.
First president to issue a pocket veto.
First president to have a parent live throughout his presidency.{{efn|Madison left office in 1817 and his mother Nelly Conway Madison died in 1829, only seven years before her son.}}
First president to have a second cousin as a future president (Zachary Taylor).{{cite book |last=Hamilton |first=Holman |title=Zachary Taylor: Soldier of the Republic |year=1941 |publisher=Bobbs-Merrill Company |location=Indianapolis, Ind. |volume=1|pages=22, 259}}
First president to have neither biologial nor adopted children.{{cite web | url=https://potus.com/presidential-facts/presidential-children/ | title=Presidential Children | Presidents of the United States (POTUS) }}
First President to host a wedding in the White House.{{cite web | url=https://www.whitehousehistory.org/questions/how-many-weddings-have-been-held-at-the-white-house | title=How many weddings have been held at the White House? }}
First president to have a vice president die in office and the first president to have a vacancy in the office of vice president.{{cite web | url=https://www.senate.gov/about/officers-staff/vice-presidents.htm | title=U.S. Senate: Vice Presidents of the United States }}

James Monroe (1817–1825)

First president to have served in the United States Senate.Book of Political Lists, p. 19
First president to have a child marry at the White House.{{efn|Monroe's daughter Mary married in 1820 at the Blue Room on the State Floor of the White House.}}{{cite web|url=https://www.whitehousehistory.org/weddings-at-the-white-house|title=Wedding Ceremonies Held at the White House|website=White House Historical Association}}
First president to ride on a steamboat.{{cite magazine|date=February 1998|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gv8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12|magazine=Boys' Life|title=Fast Facts: Hail to the Chief}}
First president to have held over 50 years of elected public office positions by the end of his presidency{{cite news|url=https://www.biography.com/news/james-monroe-biography-facts|title=13 Facts About James Monroe|newspaper=Biography}}
First president to have held two cabinet positions at once prior to assuming office
First president to have a foreign capital named after him (Monrovia, Liberia)

John Quincy Adams (1825–1829)

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First president to be the son of another president.{{efn|Adams was the eldest son of John Adams and his wife Abigail Adams.}}{{cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/1600/presidents/johnquincyadams |title=About the Presidents: John Quincy Adams |publisher= White House}}
First president whose father lived to see him become president.{{efn|Adams' father, former president John Adams, was still alive when he took office, and died in 1826.}}
First president to have a foreign-born spouse.{{Cite book |last1=Schneider |first1=Dorothy |url=https://archive.org/details/firstladiesbiogr0000schn_k5c3 |title=First Ladies: A Biographical Dictionary |last2=Schneider |first2=Carl J. |publisher=Facts on File |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-4381-0815-5 |edition=3rd |pages=42–52 |language=en}}
First president to have a son marry at the White House.{{efn|Adams' son John Adams II married in the Blue Room on February 25, 1828.}}
First president to have a surviving photograph of him.{{cite web| url = https://petapixel.com/2012/06/05/the-first-photographs-of-us-presidents/| title = The First Photographs of US Presidents {{!}} PetaPixel| date = June 5, 2012}} First photographs of US presidents
First president elected despite receiving fewer votes than his opponent.{{rp|48}}
First president to not win a majority of electoral votes.{{cite web|url=https://www.270towin.com/1824_Election/|title=Presidential Election of 1824|website=270toWin.com}}
First president to adopt a short haircut instead of long hair tied in a queue.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=00qyDwAAQBAJ&q=John+Quincy+Adams++adopt+short+haircut&pg=PA182 |title=Presidents and Presidencies in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia and Document Collection– Google Knihy |date= October 7, 2019|access-date=November 9, 2019|isbn=9781440865916 |last1=Girard |first1=Jolyon P. |publisher=Abc-Clio }}
First president to have been inaugurated wearing long trousers instead of knee breeches.{{cite web|url=http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/john-quincy-adams-takes-the-oath-of-office-wearing-pants/|title=John Quincy Adams Takes the Oath of Office – Wearing Pants|publisher=New England Historical Society|date=March 4, 2015}}
First president to serve in Congress after serving in the presidency.{{cite book|title=How to Draw the Life and Times of John Quincy Adams |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L9wcOCDvUQQC&pg=PA1828|author=Betsy Dru Tecco. |year=2006 |page=24| publisher=PowerKids Press |isbn=978-1-4042-2983-9}}
First president to die from a stroke.The White House. "[https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/john-quincy-adams/ John Quincy Adams]" Retrieved January 16, 2021.
First president to have been nominated to the Supreme Court of the United States.{{efn|Adams was nominated by James Madison in 1811 and confirmed by the Senate, but declined the appointment.}}{{cite web|last1=McMillion|first1=Barry J.|last2=Rutkus|first2=Denis Steven|date=July 6, 2018|title=Supreme Court Nominations, 1789 to 2017: Actions by the Senate, the Judiciary Committee, and the President|url=https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33225.pdf|publisher=Congressional Research Service|location=Washington, D.C.|access-date=August 26, 2018}}
First president to have any facial hair.
First president to have a foreign-born child.Lewis L. Gould, American First Ladies: Their Lives and Their Legacy (2014), p. 47
First president who was not a Founding Father.

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Andrew Jackson (1829–1837)

First president born in a log cabin.{{cite book|title=Meet the Presidents |first=Cindy |last=Barden |page=71}}
First president born to immigrant parents.{{efn|Jackson's parents and two brothers emigrated from Ireland in 1765, two years before he was born.}}{{Cite news|url=http://thehermitage.com/learn/andrew-jackson/legend/|title=Legend {{!}} Andrew Jackson's Effect on America|work=The Hermitage|access-date=July 21, 2017|language=en-US}}
First president to be inaugurated on the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol, facing the Library of Congress and Supreme Court.
First president to pay off the entire National Debt.{{cite web | url=http://www.nprillinois.org/post/episode-273-when-us-paid-entire-national-debt#stream/0 | title=Episode 273: When the U.S. Paid off the Entire National Debt| date=January 3, 2018}}
First president born after the death of his father.{{efn|Jackson's father, Andrew Jackson Sr., died in an accident in late February 1767, around three weeks before his son was born.}}{{cite web|url=http://www.presidentsparents.com/deaths-of-parents.html|title=Deaths of Parents|website=Presidents' Parents|access-date=July 21, 2017}}
First president elected as a Democrat to the presidency.{{cite book|title=2001 New York Times Almanac|work=New York Times|year=2001|pages=102–114}}
First president to marry a divorced woman.{{cite web|url=https://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/rachel-donelson-robards-jackson/|title=Education & Resources – National Women's History Museum – NWHM|website=www.nwhm.org|language=en|access-date=January 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108021827/https://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/rachel-donelson-robards-jackson/|archive-date=November 8, 2016|url-status=dead}}
First president to kill someone{{efn|Jackson dueled with Charles Dickinson. Jackson was injured in the chest but killed Dickinson.{{cite book |last=Remini |first=Robert V. |date=1977 |title=Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767–1821|url=https://archive.org/details/andrewjacksonco00remi|url-access=registration |location=New York, NY |publisher=Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. |isbn=978-0-8018-5912-0 |oclc=1145801830|author-link=Robert V. Remini |pages=146–147}} }} in a duel.Vecchione, 101
First president to survive an assassination attempt while in office.{{efn|On January 30, 1835, a painter named Richard Lawrence tried to assassinate Jackson by trying to shoot him with his gun, but was unsuccessful. Lawrence was arrested soon after, but was found not guilty due to mental iilness, and was sent to a mental hospital, where he lived until his death in 1861. Jackson was uninjured in the attack.}}{{cite web|url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/apr/14/line-fire/|title=In the Line of Fire|last=Apple|first=Charles|publisher=The Spokesman-Review}}{{cite web|url=http://timelines.latimes.com/us-presidential-assassinations-and-attempts/|title=U.S. presidential assassinations and attempts|date=January 22, 2012 |publisher=Los Ángeles Times}}
First president born in the Carolinas.{{cite web | url=https://www.ncpedia.org/monument/presidents-north-carolina | title=Presidents North Carolina Gave the Nation | NCpedia }}
First president to ride on a railroad train.{{cite book|title=Virginia & Maryland: Including Washington DC |publisher=Moon |editor=Michaela Riva Gaaserud |page=42}}
First president to be censured by the US Senate, although it was expunged in 1837.{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Senate_Censures_President.htm|title=U.S. Senate: Senate Censures President|website=www.senate.gov|access-date=December 21, 2017}}
First president to have previously administered the Oath of Office to a vice president of the United States (John C. Calhoun).{{cite web|url=https://www.aoc.gov/what-we-do/programs-ceremonies/inauguration/vice-president|title=Vice-Presidential Inaugurations|website=www.aoc.gov|access-date=January 21, 2020}}
First president to die outside of the original 13 colonies.{{cite web |title=The Health Of The President: Andrew Jackson |last=Marx |first=Rudolph |url=http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/8908/1/The-Health-Of-The-President-Andrew-Jackson.html |website=healthguidance.org |access-date=December 18, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222053053/http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/8908/1/The-Health-Of-The-President-Andrew-Jackson.html |archive-date=December 22, 2017 }}

Martin Van Buren (1837–1841)

First president born after the Declaration of Independence.{{efn|Van Buren was born on December 5, 1782, {{age in years and days|July 4, 1776|December 5, 1782}} after the Declaration of Independence.}}
First president to be a non-native speaker of English.{{efn|Dutch was Van Buren's first language. He was called as Careful Dutchman for this factor. He spoke English as a second language.}}{{cite web|url=http://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/buren-martin-van/ |title=Martin van Buren [1782–1862] |publisher=New Netherland Institute}}
First president not of British ancestry.{{cite web | url=https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/our-non-anglo-saxon-presidents/1933301/#:~:text=Here's%20a%20list%20of%20presidents,ancestors%20from%20the%20British%20Isles | title=Our Non-Anglo-Saxon Presidents | date=July 25, 2012 }}
First president to have Dutch ancestry.
First president from the state of New York.{{cite web|url=https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/personality/personality/not-just-trump-new-yorkers-white-house.html|title=Not just Trump: New Yorkers in the White House|first=Ben|last=Adler|date=February 16, 2018|website=CSNY|access-date=September 15, 2020|archive-date=September 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930001252/https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/personality/personality/not-just-trump-new-yorkers-white-house.html|url-status=dead}}
First president to be born a citizen of the United States and not a British subject.{{cite web|title=Martin Van Buren|url=https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/martin-van-buren|access-date=January 9, 2021|website=History|date=May 27, 2020 }}
First president to have multiple members of the same party (Whig) run against him.{{cite web|title=Presidential Election of 1836: A Resource Guide (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)|url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/elections/election1836.html|access-date=January 9, 2021|website=www.loc.gov}}
First president to receive over 1 million votes in an election while in office.{{cite web| url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/elections/election1840.html| title= Presidential Election of 1840: A Resource Guide| publisher= Library of Congress| access-date= November 29, 2021}}
First president from the Northern United States to have owned a slave.{{Cite web |last=Adamack |first=Joe |year=2008 |title=Politics versus Convictions: Martin Van Buren, Roger Sherman Baldwin, and the Trials of Mutinous Slaves |url=https://studylib.net/doc/12274715/politics-versus-convictions- |access-date=October 14, 2020}}
First president to run for presidency on a third-party ticket.In the 1844 United States presidential election, Van Buren unsuccessfully ran as a candidate for the Free Soil Party.

William Henry Harrison (1841)

First president elected as a Whig to the presidency.
First president to have 10 or more biological children.{{efn|Harrison had 10 children from his wife Anna Harrison, and is allegedly believed to have a daughter from a slave.}}
First president to be a grandfather of a future president.Benjamin Harrison was the grandson of William Henry Harrison, being the son of W. H. Harrison's son John Scott Harrison, who is thus the only person to have been both the son of a president and the father of another president.{{cite book|last=Calhoun|first=Charles William|author-link=Charles W. Calhoun|year=2005|title=Benjamin Harrison|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0-8050-6952-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5mLuIx6z1qcC}}
First president to give an inaugural address of more than 5,000 words.Book of Political Lists, p. 25
First president to not issue an executive order.{{cite web|url=https://www.history.com/topics/us-government/executive-order|title=Executive Order |author=|website=history.com|date=February 4, 2021 }}
First president to die in office.{{efn|Harrison, who fell ill after suffering from pneumonia just three weeks after taking office, died on April 4, 1841, aged 68. He served as president for just 32 days, and is the shortest-served president.}}{{cite web |url=http://www.infoplease.com/spot/prestrivia1.html |title=Presidential Trivia |access-date=December 21, 2008 |last=Brunner |first=Borgna |work=Info Please}}
First president to serve less than one full term in office.{{efn|Harrison took office on March 4, 1841, and died in office on April 4, 1841, just 32 days after taking office. His presidency remains the shortest of all presidents.}}{{cite web|url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/william-henry-harrison/|title=William Henry Harrison |website=The White House|access-date=September 15, 2020}}
First president to receive over 1 million votes in a presidential election before assuming office.{{cite web| url= https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/elections/election1840.html| title = Presidential Election of 1840: A Resource Guide| publisher= Library of Congress| access-date= November 29, 2021}}
First president to have a photograph taken while in office.{{efn|Harrison's photograph, taken shortly after his inauguration, has been lost to history. Former president John Quincy Adams was the first president to have a surviving photograph of him, taken in 1843, while James K. Polk had his photograph taken as an incumbent after he took office in 1845, which also survives.}}{{cite web| url= https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/02/the-oldest-known-photographs-of-a-us-president/272872/#| title = The Oldest Known Photographs of a U.S. President| date = February 5, 2013| publisher= The Atlantic| access-date= February 5, 2013}}

John Tyler (1841–1845)

First president to ascend to the presidency by the death of his predecessor.{{cite book|title=American Government: Brief Version |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TdI1cDI2MvoC&pg=PA273|page=273 |first1=James |last1=Wilson |first2=John Jr. |last2=DiIulio |first3=Meena |last3=Bose|date=2013| publisher=Cengage Learning |isbn=978-1133594376 }}
First president to have a veto overridden.
First president to face a vote of impeachment in the House (it was unsuccessful).Book of Political Lists, p. 28
First president to be widowed while in office{{efn|Tyler's first wife, First Lady Letitia Christian Tyler, died on September 10, 1842, due to a massive stroke. Aged only 51, she is the shortest-lived First Lady in U.S. history.}}{{cite web|url=http://robinsonlibrary.com/america/unitedstates/presidents/widowers.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150611002121/http://robinsonlibrary.com/america/unitedstates/presidents/widowers.htm |url-status=usurped |archive-date=June 11, 2015 |title=Presidents who were Widowers |publisher=The Robinson Library}}
First president to remarry while in office.{{efn|Tyler married Julia Gardiner Tyler on June 27, 1844, and had children with her.}}
First president to be born after the ratification of the United States Constitution.{{cite web|url=https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/constitution-day/ratification.html |title=Teaching With Documents: The Ratification of the Constitution |publisher=United States National Archives|date=August 15, 2016 }}
First president to be expelled from his political party while in office.{{cite web | url=https://www.biography.com/people/john-tyler-9512796 | title=John Tyler| date=March 27, 2020}}
First U.S. president to be buried under a foreign flag.{{efn|Tyler died in Richmond, Virginia, then capital of the breakaway Confederate States of America, in 1862. His casket was draped with a Confederate flag.}}{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/collections/john-tyler-papers/articles-and-essays/timeline/1846-1889/|title=John Tyler Papers|website=Library of Congress}}
First president to have links to the Confederate States of America.{{cite web | url=https://www.monroenews.com/story/news/history/2022/02/21/tom-emery-several-u-s-presidents-had-confederate-ties/6871202001/ | title=Several U.S. Presidents had Confederate ties }}
First president to never win an election.[https://www.thoughtco.com/us-presidents-who-never-won-an-election-3367509 5 U.S. Presidents Who Never Won a Presidential Election]

James K. Polk (1845–1849)

File:State-dining-room-polk-cabinet.jpg, William L. Marcy, James K. Polk, Robert J. Walker. Back row, left to right: Cave Johnson, George Bancroft. Secretary of State James Buchanan is absent. This was the first photograph taken in the White House, and the first of a presidential Cabinet.Greenberg, p. 70]]

First president to be under the age of 50 upon election and upon entering office.{{efn|Polk was aged {{age in years and days|1795|11|02|1845|03|04}} when he was inaugurated.}}{{cite web|url=http://www.jameskpolk.com/james-polk-biography.php|title=James K. Polk|publisher=James K. Polk home and Museum|access-date=September 25, 2014|archive-date=October 7, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007072649/http://www.jameskpolk.com/james-polk-biography.php|url-status=dead}}
First president to have served as speaker of the House of Representatives.{{efn|Polk served as the speaker from 1835 to 1839, during the presidency of his mentor Andrew Jackson.}}
First president to be elected despite losing his states of birth and residence.{{efn|Polk lost both North Carolina, his state of birth, and Tennessee, his state of residence, but still managed to win the elections and became the president.}}
First president to be nominated by his party as a dark horse.{{cite web|url=http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/polk/aa_polk_horse_3.html |title=The First "Dark Horse" Presidential Candidate|publisher=Library of Congress|access-date=September 25, 2014}}
First president not to seek re-election upon the completion of his one term.{{cite web | url =http://millercenter.org/president/keyevents/polk | title =American President: A Reference Resource Key Events in the Presidency of James K Polk | author =Miller Center of Public Affairs | publisher =millercenter.org | year =2013 | author-link =Miller Center of Public Affairs | access-date =June 15, 2016 | archive-date =June 6, 2013 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20130606074743/http://millercenter.org/president/keyevents/polk | url-status =dead }}
First president to die before reaching the age of 60.{{efn|Polk was aged {{age in years and days|1795|11|02|1849|06|15}} when he died of cholera on June 15, 1849. He remains the shortest-lived president to die from natural causes.}}
First president to predecease a parent and a mother.{{efn|Polk died in 1849, soon after leaving office. Jane Knox Polk, his mother, died in 1852, having outlived her son by three years.}}{{cite book|title=The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents|url=https://archive.org/details/completebookofus00degr|url-access=registration|author= William A DeGregorio|year=1993|publisher=Barricade Books |isbn=9780942637922}}{{cite web|url=http://www.presidentsparents.com/parents-at-the-inaugurations.html|title=Parents at the Inaugurations|website=Presidents' Parents|access-date=September 25, 2014|archive-date=June 2, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602171329/http://www.presidentsparents.com/parents-at-the-inaugurations.html|url-status=dead}}
First president not to keep a pet during his term in office.{{cite news|last1=Longley|first1=Robert|title=First Pets: Animals in the White House|url=https://www.thoughtco.com/white-house-pets-4144590|access-date=July 11, 2017|work=ThoughtCo.|date=June 29, 2017}}
First president to have his Cabinet photographed.
First president to have a surviving photograph taken of him while in office.

Zachary Taylor (1849–1850)

First president who had served in no prior elected office.{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/presidents/zachary_taylor_springfield.html |access-date=September 25, 2014 |title=Zachary Taylor Home, Springfield, Kentucky |publisher=National Park Service}}
First president to serve in the Mexican–American War.
First president to take office while his party held a minority of seats in the U.S. Senate.Book of Political Lists, p. 34
First president to win election with his party holding no majority in either house of Congress.{{cite web|url=https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/login.php?requested=%2Fcqalmanac%2Fdocument.php%3Fid%3Dcqal56-1347815|title=CQ Almanac Online Edition|website=library.cqpress.com}}
First president to win the U.S. presidential election in November.{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1848|title=United States presidential election of 1848 | United States government|website=Encyclopedia Britannica}}
First president to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal more than once.{{efn|Taylor was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal three times, first in 1846, second in 1847 and third in 1848.}}{{cite web| url=http://history.house.gov/HistoricalHighlight/Detail/36554?ret=True |title=Future President Zachary Taylor's unprecedented three Congressional Gold Medals |publisher=artandhistory.house.gov |access-date=March 14, 2014}}
First president to use the term "First Lady".{{cite web|url=https://www.georgewbushlibrary.smu.edu/en/The-President-and-Family/Laura-W-Bush/The-First-Lady-and-Her-Role?p=1|title=The First Lady and Her Role|publisher=George W. Bush Presidential Library|access-date=August 4, 2020|archive-date=October 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022043520/http://www.georgewbushlibrary.smu.edu/en/The-President-and-Family/Laura-W-Bush/The-First-Lady-and-Her-Role?p=1|url-status=dead}}
First president to be a second cousin of a previous president. (James Madison)

Millard Fillmore (1850–1853)

First president to establish a permanent White House library.John Y. Cole "[https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/10078/library.html Fillmore’s Foundation]" Library of Congress. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
First president born in the 1800s.{{efn|Fillmore was born on January 7, 1800, six days after the year began. He was also the first president who was born after the death of a former president, since he was born 24 days after the death of George Washington, who died on December 14, 1799.}}{{cite web|first1=Frank|last1=Freidel|first2=Hugh S.|last2=Sidey |url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/ |title=The Presidents of the United States |publisher=The White House}}
First president to leave office while his father was alive.{{efn|Fillmore left office in 1853 and his father Nathaniel Fillmore died in 1863.}}
First president to install a kitchen stove in the White House.{{cite web|url=https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ah-presidenttrivia/|title=Presidential Trivia, Fun Facts and Firsts – Legends of America|website=www.legendsofamerica.com|access-date=September 15, 2020}}
First president to formally have a direct communication with Japan.{{cite web | url=https://www.raabcollection.com/presidential-autographs/fillmore-perry-japan-ls#:~:text=1st%2C%201852-,President%20Millard%20Fillmore%20Rejoices%20in%20the%20Receipt%20of%20a%20Japanese,Made%20the%202nd%20Expedition%20Possible | title=Millard Fillmore Signed Letter Perry Expedition US Japan | Raab | date=April 1852 }}

Franklin Pierce (1853–1857)

First president born in New Hampshire.{{cite web|url=https://paulareednancarrow.com/2014/11/09/the-two-presidents-from-new-hampshire/|title=The Two Presidents from New Hampshire|date=November 9, 2014|access-date=September 15, 2020}}
First president born in the 19th century.{{efn|Pierce was born on November 23, 1804, in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Though it is believed that 19th century began on January 1, 1800, actually it began only in 1801, since there was no year zero, thus making Pierce the first president born in the 19th century.}}
First president to install central heating in the White House.
First president to deliver his inaugural address from memory.{{cite book | last= Hurja |first= Emil|date=1933|title=History of Presidential Inaugurations |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=KnY_AAAAIAAJ|publisher=New York Democrat |page= 49}}
First president to affirm the oath of office rather than to swear it.{{cite web|url=https://guides.loc.gov/presidential-inaugurations/1829-1857#s-lg-box-wrapper-31051987|title=U.S. Presidential Inaugurations: Franklin Pierce|work=Web guides|publisher=Library of Congress|access-date=January 19, 2025}}
First president who had been elected to actively seek reelection but be defeated for nomination for a second term by his party.{{cite news|last1=Rudin|first1=Ken|title=When Has A President Been Denied His Party's Nomination?|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/politicaljunkie/2009/07/a_president_denied_renominatio.html|access-date=February 15, 2017|publisher=NPR|date=July 22, 2009}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19680322&id=3qRRAAAAIBAJ&pg=7577,4390625 |newspaper=Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel |date=March 22, 1968 |access-date=September 25, 2014 |title=5 Presidents Lost Renomination Bids }}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
First president to have a Christmas tree in the White House.
First president to keep his original cabinet members for his entire four-year term.
First president to have multiple vetoes overridden.

James Buchanan (1857–1861)

First president born in Pennsylvania.{{cite web|url=https://www.pennlive.com/midstate/2015/02/the_only_president_from_pennsy.html|title=The only president from Pennsylvania ranked as the worst in U.S. history|date=February 16, 2015|website=pennlive|access-date=September 15, 2020}}
First president to serve in the military and not become an officer during their service.{{efn|Buchanan served as a private in the War of 1812 during the Battle of Baltimore, to date the first and only president to have only served in a non-officer capacity}}{{cite web | url=https://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/military-trivia-facts.html | title=Military Trivia Facts | date=March 25, 2021 }}
First president to defeat a sitting president of the same party at the nominating convention.
First president to be a bachelor.{{efn|Buchanan was actually engaged to his girlfriend Anne Caroline Calman, whom he met in Lancaster, but she broke off the engagement after hearing some rumours about him, and died soon after. This incident devastated Buchanan very much, and he vowed never to marry in his lifetime. He still remains the only bachelor to have served as the president. His niece, Harriet Lane served as the first lady during his term.}}

Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865)

File:Lincoln at his death bed.jpg

First president born in Kentucky.
First president born outside of the original 13 colonies.{{cite web |url=http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/alincoln.html |title=Abraham Lincoln |publisher=Drexel University IPL |access-date=September 24, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011195825/http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/alincoln.html |archive-date=October 11, 2011 |url-status=dead }}
First president to hold a patent.
First president to be assassinated.
First president elected as a Republican to the presidency.
First president to have a beard.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Q9kTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9wYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6855,6362329&dq=presidential+beard&hl=en Most Presidents Have Favored Beardless Look], Star-Banner (Associated Press), August 27, 1986.
First president born in the Southern United States who never owned slaves.{{cite web | url=https://millercenter.org/us-presidents-and-slavery | title=US Presidents and slavery | Miller Center | date=May 12, 2023 }}
First president to have pet cats.{{cite web | url=https://krcgtv.com/features/beyond-the-trivia/beyond-the-trivia-cat-day | title=Beyond the Trivia-Cat Day | date=October 29, 2020 }}

Andrew Johnson (1865–1869)

First president to ascend to the presidency by the assassination of his predecessor.Book of Political Lists, p. 82
First president to be impeached by the House of Representatives.{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Death_of_Andrew_Johnson.htm |title=July 31, 1875: Death of Andrew Johnson |publisher=United States Senate |access-date=September 25, 2014}}
First president to have members of his own party vote for impeachment.{{cite web|title=U.S. Senate: The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson (1868) President of the United States|url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Impeachment_Johnson.htm|access-date=January 9, 2021|website=www.senate.gov}}
First president to serve in the United States Senate after being president.
First president to issue more than twenty vetoes.
First president to have more than ten vetoes overridden.

Ulysses S. Grant (1869–1877)

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First president born in Ohio.
First president born after the War of 1812.
First president to have both parents alive during his presidency{{efn|Grant's father, Jesse Root Grant, died in 1873, and his mother Hannah Simpson Grant died in 1883. Neither attended the inauguration of their son.}}
First president to appear with a moustache in office.{{cite book |last1=Richards |first1=Leonard L. |title=The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams |date=1986 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-504026-5 |page=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0uN2AAAAMAAJ |language=en}}
First president to veto more than fifty bills.
First president to visit Ireland, Egypt, China, and Japan. (In 1878–1879, after leaving the presidency.){{cite journal|title=The Odyssey of Ulysses S. Grant|last=Hindley|first=Meredith|url=http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2014/mayjune/feature/the-odyssey-ulysses-s-grant|journal=Humanities|date=May–June 2014|volume=35|issue=3}}{{cite book|last= Brands|first= H. W.|author-link= H. W. Brands|title= The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses S. Grant in War and Peace|publisher= Doubleday|year= 2012|pages= [https://archive.org/details/manwhosavedunion0000bran/page/591 591–592]|isbn= 978-0385532419|url= https://archive.org/details/manwhosavedunion0000bran/page/591}}{{cite book |last=McFeely |first=William S. |author-link=William S. McFeely |title=Grant: A Biography |page=472 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=cv5IbR5f9oMC|publisher= Norton |year=1981 |isbn= 978-0-393-01372-6}}
First president to publish his memoirs.{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/11/08/presidential-memoirs-a-history-from-grant-to-bush.html |title=A Brief History of the Presidential Memoir |newspaper=The Daily Beast|date=November 8, 2010 |last1=Robinson |first1=Joshua }}
First president to issue more than 40 pocket vetoes.
First president to issue more than 100 executive orders[https://www.bnd.com/living/article150013807.html How many executive orders has President Donald Trump signed?]
First president to attend a synagogue service while in office{{cite web | url=https://www.jhsgw.org/history/presidential-visit | title=A Presidential Visit | Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington | Lillian and Albert Small Jewish Museum}}
First president to have served in the American Civil War.{{cite web|url=https://www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com/presidents-who-were-civil-war-veterans.html|title=StackPath|website=www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com}}
First president to host an Indian chief in the White House.
First president to approve of and sign in a National Park.{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/news/2016/02/160212-presidents-national-monuments-parks-history-photos|title=The Presidents Who Gave Us Our Best Parks|website=National Geographic Society}}{{dead link|date=November 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
First president to set aside federal land for wildlife protection.
First president to be placed under arrest.{{Cite web|url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a40850973/president-trump-fbi-search-warrant-mar-a-lago-history/|title=Is Donald Trump the First President to Have a Run-In With the Law?|date=August 9, 2022|website=Town & Country}}

Rutherford B. Hayes (1877–1881)

First president to hold a state Thanksgiving dinner.
First president to hold the White House Easter Egg Roll.
First president to have a telephone installed in the White House.{{cite web|title=White House History Timelines: Technology: 1850s–1890s |url=http://www.whitehousehistory.org/history/white-house-timelines/technology-1850s-1890s.html |publisher=The White House Historical Association |access-date=September 26, 2014}}
First president to have a typewriter installed in the White House.
First president to visit the West Coast of the United States while in office.{{cite journal|title=A President Visits Los Angeles: Rutherford B. Hayes' Tour of 1880 |first=John E. |last=Baur |journal=The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly |volume=37 |number=1 |date=March 1955 |pages= 33–47 |jstor= 41168522|doi=10.2307/41168522 }}
First president to win the electoral vote but lose the popular vote.{{cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/9/13572112/trump-popular-vote-loss|title=Trump will be the 4th president to win the Electoral College after getting fewer votes than his opponent|date=November 9, 2016}}
First president to be wounded in the American Civil War.{{cite web|url=https://www.rbhayes.org/hayes/civil-war/|title=Civil War|website=Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums}}

James A. Garfield (1881)

First president to be elected to the presidency directly from the House of Representatives.{{cite web|url=http://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1851-1900/The-election-of-President-James-Garfield-of-Ohio/|publisher=United States House of Representatives|title=The election of President James Garfield of Ohio|access-date=June 23, 2015}}
First president to be left-handed or ambidextrous.{{efn|It is widely believed that Garfield could simultaneously write Greek with his left hand and Latin with his right hand.}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/oct/24/barack-obama-mccain-white-house-left-handed|title= Revealed: The leftist plot to control the White House |last=Pilkington|first=Ed|date=October 24, 2008|work=The Guardian|access-date=October 25, 2008}}
First president to die before reaching the age of 50.{{efn|Garfield, born on November 19, 1831, was aged {{age in years and days|1831|11|19|1881|09|19|mf=yes}} when he died as a result of complications caused by gunshot.}}Book of Political Lists, p. 49
First president to have served as a university president.{{cite web|title=History of the College|url=http://www.hiram.edu/about/history|publisher=Hiram College|access-date=November 25, 2016|quote=Principals of the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (Hiram College)}}{{cite book|last1=Green|first1=F.M.|title=Hiram college and Western reserve eclectic institute; fifty years of history, 1850–1900|date=1901|publisher=The O.S. Hubbell printing co|pages=94–133|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/hiramcollegewest00gree#page/94/mode/2up/search/Garfield|access-date=November 25, 2016|chapter=Chapter III: The Garfield Administration 1857–1863}}
First president to deliver a campaign speech in a language other than English.{{cite web|url= https://www.history.com/news/first-left-handed-president-ambidextrous-multilingual|title=The First Left-handed President Was Ambidextrous and Multilingual|work=History.com|date=September 2018 }}
First president who was a mathematician (he proved the Pythagorean theorem).Mathematical Treasure: James A. Garfield's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem {{cite web| url = https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/mathematical-treasure-james-a-garfields-proof-of-the-pythagorean-theorem| title = Mathematical Treasure: James A. Garfield's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem {{!}} Mathematical Association of America| access-date = December 6, 2021| archive-date = December 6, 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211206052548/https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/mathematical-treasure-james-a-garfields-proof-of-the-pythagorean-theorem| url-status = dead}}James Garfield Was the Only U.S. President to Prove a Math Theorem {{cite web| url = https://gizmodo.com/james-garfield-was-the-only-u-s-president-to-prove-a-m-1037750658/amp| title = James Garfield Was the Only U.S. President to Prove a Math Theorem| date = August 6, 2013}}

Chester A. Arthur (1881–1885)

First president born in Vermont.
First president to take the oath of office in his own home.{{efn|Arthur was staying at his home in New York in the night of September 19, 1881, when he got the news of Garfield's death. He took oath as the president immediately, with the oath being administered by a judge of New York Supreme Court, John Brady.}}{{cite web|url=http://www.republicanpresidents.net/10-interesting-facts-about-chester-arthur/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531221134/http://www.republicanpresidents.net/10-interesting-facts-about-chester-arthur/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=May 31, 2012 |title=10 Interesting Facts About Chester Arthur |publisher=RepublicanPresidents.net|date=February 28, 2009 }}
First president to have an elevator installed in the White House.

Grover Cleveland (1885–1889, 1893–1897)

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First president born in New Jersey.{{cite web|url=https://www.state.nj.us/nj/about/famous/presidents.html|title=The Official Web Site for The State of New Jersey | NJ U.S. Presidents|website=www.state.nj.us|access-date=September 15, 2020}}
First president to get married at the White House.
First president to have a child born in the White House.Watson, p.17
First president to serve non-consecutive terms.
First president to be filmed.{{cite web |url=http://www.presidentsgraves.com/grover%20cleveland%20twenty-fourth%20president.htm |title=Grover Cleveland 24th President |publisher=Presidentsgraves.com |date=June 24, 1908 |access-date=October 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130508000809/http://www.presidentsgraves.com/grover%20cleveland%20twenty-fourth%20president.htm |archive-date=May 8, 2013 |url-status=dead }}
First president to veto more than 100 bills, with over 500, including over 200 pocket vetoes.

Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893)

First president to be the grandson of another president.{{efn|Harrison was the grandson of William Henry Harrison, being the son of W. H. Harrison's son John Scott Harrison, who is thus the only person to have been both the son of a president and the father of another president.}}
First president to have a lighted Christmas tree at the White House.{{rp|48}}
First president to have electric lighting installed in the White House.
First president to have his voice recorded.{{cite web|url=https://lib.msu.edu/vvl/presidents/harrison/|title=U.S. Presidential Audio Recordings|publisher=Michigan State University Libraries|access-date=October 23, 2017}}
First president to create and designate a United States Prehistoric and Cultural Site.

William McKinley (1897–1901)

First president to ride in an automobile.{{efn|McKinley 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.}}{{cite web|url=http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/assassins/mckinley/5.html|title=The Assassination of President William McKinley|access-date=November 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112013641/http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/assassins/mckinley/5.html|archive-date=November 12, 2014|url-status=dead}}
First president to campaign by telephone.{{cite web|url=https://mckinleybirthplacemuseum.org/2016/07/19/list-of-mckinley-firsts-part-4-mckinley-was-the-first-president-to-campaign-by-telephone/|title=List of McKinley Firsts Part 4: McKinley was the first president to campaign by telephone|date=July 19, 2016|website=The McKinley Birthplace Museum|language=en|access-date=February 28, 2020|archive-date=February 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200228000625/https://mckinleybirthplacemuseum.org/2016/07/19/list-of-mckinley-firsts-part-4-mckinley-was-the-first-president-to-campaign-by-telephone/|url-status=dead}}
First president to use a modern campaign button for an election.{{cite web | url=https://exhibitions.lib.udel.edu/trail-to-the-voting-booth/on-the-trail/campaign-buttons/ | title=Political campaign buttons – Trail to the Voting Booth }}

Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909)

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First president born in New York City.{{cite book|last1=Crochetiere|first1=Thomas|title=America's National Parks At a Glance|publisher=eBookIt.com|isbn=978-1-4566-2664-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1YcpDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT97|language=en|date=May 14, 2016}}
First president who ascended to the presidency upon the death of a predecessor, and later was elected to the presidency in his own right.{{efn|Roosevelt was elected vice president in 1900, ascended to the presidency after the assassination of William McKinley in 1901, and was elected in his own right in 1904.}}{{Sfn | Miller | pp = 346}}{{Sfn | Leech | pp=594-600}}{{cite web |url=https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL31761.pdf |title=Presidential and Vice Presidential Succession: Overview and Current Legislation |access-date=December 15, 2008 |last=Neale |first=Thomas H. |date=September 27, 2004 |work=Federation of American Scientists}}{{Sfn | Brands | 1997 | p = 504}}
First president (and first American) to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.{{efn|Roosevelt won the award in 1906, due to his successful mediation to end the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905).}}{{cite news |url=http://www.fairfieldsuntimes.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/article_2264dfbd-084e-5250-aaf2-91ea99bc6720.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140926000125/http://www.fairfieldsuntimes.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/article_2264dfbd-084e-5250-aaf2-91ea99bc6720.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 26, 2014 |title=Theodore Roosevelt First American To Win Nobel Prize |newspaper=Fairfield Sun Times |first=Bob |last=Brown |date=October 22, 2009 }}{{cite web |first=Geir |last=Lundestad |author-link=Geir Lundestad |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articles/lundestad-review/index.html |title=The Nobel Peace Prize, 1901–2000 |publisher=Nobel Foundation |date=March 15, 2001 |access-date=October 6, 2011}}{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1906/index.html |title=The Nobel Peace Prize 1906 |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=October 6, 2011}}
First president to ride in any sort of aircraft.
First president to ride in a submarine.
First president to travel outside the contiguous United States and to visit a foreign country while in office.{{efn|Roosevelt travelled to the Panama Canal Zone in 1906, where he inspected construction of Panama Canal, and visited Panama.}}{{cite web |title=Teddy Roosevelt travels to Panama |author= |work=This Day in History, history.com |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/teddy-roosevelt-travels-to-panama | date=August 21, 2018 |publication-date=November 16, 2009 |publisher=A+E Networks |access-date=November 17, 2018}}{{cite web |url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/roosevelt-theodore |title=Travels of President Theodore Roosevelt |publisher=Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, United States Department of State |access-date=November 17, 2018}}
First president to have his offices in the West Wing.{{cite web|url=http://www.whitehousehistory.org/history/white-house-timelines/west-wing-timeline.html |title=White House History Timelines: The West Wing |publisher=The White House Historical Association |access-date=September 26, 2014}}
First president to earn the Medal of Honor.{{efn|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 the then-president Bill Clinton.}}{{cite web|url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/warspain.html|title=Medal of Honor Recipients: War with Spain|access-date=September 15, 2020|archive-date=April 23, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423095635/http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/warspain.html|url-status=dead}}
First president to issue over 1000 executive orders.{{cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-theodore-roosevelts-executive-orders-reshaped-countryand-presidency-180962908/|title=The Debate Over Executive Orders Began With Teddy Roosevelt's Mad Passion for Conservation|first=Lorraine|last=Boissoneault|website=Smithsonian}}
First president to call for global governance.{{cite book|last=Powaski|first=Ronald|title=Toward an Entangling Alliance: American Isolationism, Internationalism, and Europe, 1901–1950|year=1991|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=9780313272745|page=14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZDAoVZqHwocC&pg=PA14}}[http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/espada/roosevelt_life.htm About Theodore Roosevelt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170407022005/http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/espada/roosevelt_life.htm |date=April 7, 2017 }}, "Roosevelt's attitude toward a league of nations varied with his changing emphases on realism, nationalism, and internationalism. He had called for a world league to enforce peace in his Nobel Peace Prize address of 1910, and he had affirmed the concept in 1914, two years before President Wilson espoused it."
First president to fully campaign for a third presidential term.{{cite web|url=https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/historically-odds-were-stacked-against-any-president-seeking-a-third-term|title=Historically, odds were stacked against any President seeking a third term – National Constitution Center|website=National Constitution Center – constitutioncenter.org}}
First president to be wounded in an assassination attempt while out of office.{{efn|Roosevelt was injured by a gunshot on October 14, 1912, while campaigning as a candidate for Progressive Party, a party which he formed after leaving office. The bullet, fired by a former saloonkeeper named John Flammang Shrank, lodged in Roosevelt's chest, destroying his steel eyeglass case and a 50-page manuscript of his speech. Despite warnings from doctors, Roosevelt continued his speech and went for tests only after ending it. Shrank was arrested on spot, but was later proven not guilty due to matter of insanity, and was sentenced for institutionalization.}}
First president to designate a National Wildlife Refuge.
First president to wear eyeglasses full time in office.{{efn|Roosevelt suffered from high myopia throughout his life, and could not even distinguish his children when he was not wearing glasses. He was well known for his pince-nez frames.}}{{cite web | url=https://www.downtownvisionnv.com/blog/presidential-glasses#:~:text=Theodore%20Roosevelt&text=It%20wasn%27t%20until%20right,famous%20pince%2Dnez%20style%20glasses | title=Presidential Glasses }}
First president to appoint a Jew (Oscar Straus) to a Cabinet office.{{cite web | url=https://millercenter.org/president/roosevelt/essays/straus-1906-secretary-of-commerce-and-labor | title=Oscar S. Straus (1906–1909) | date=October 4, 2016 }}
First President to be widowed and remarried prior to taking office.[https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/06/politics/presidents-biden-grief-what-matters/index.html In a White House that has suffered much death, Biden is the first president talking about grief]

William Howard Taft (1909–1913)

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First president to throw out a ceremonial first pitch.{{efn|Taft threw his pitch at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C., on the Washington Senators' Opening Day. The pitch took place on April 14, 1910.}}{{cite book|title=Baseball Yesterday & Today |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7isoh_pMSBYC&pg=PA48|page=48 |first= Josh |last= Leventhal |year=2006| publisher=MVP Books |isbn=978-0-7603-2646-6}}{{cite web|url=http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2010/04/presidents_first_pitch_100_yea.html |title=National politics – chicagotribune.com |publisher=Swamppolitics.com |date=January 1, 2012 |access-date=March 2, 2013}}
First president to have weighed over 300 pounds.{{Cite journal|last=Sotos|first=John G.|date=September 2003|url=http://journal.publications.chestnet.org/article.aspx?articleid=1081865|title=Taft and Pickwick|journal=Chest|volume=124|issue=3|pages=1133–1142|doi=10.1378/chest.124.3.1133|pmid=12970047|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130131012413/http://journal.publications.chestnet.org/article.aspx?articleid=1081865|archive-date=January 31, 2013}}
First president to own an automobile.{{efn|In fact, Taft owned four cars when he was in office.}}
First president to serve in the federal judiciary, having served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.{{cite web|url=https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/taft-william-howard|title=Taft, William Howard|publisher=Federal Judicial Center}}
First president to have been a former solicitor general.{{efn|Taft served as solicitor general from 1890{{sfn|Pringle vol 1|pp=106–111}} to 1892. He became president in 1909.}}Book of Political Lists, p. 20{{sfn|Pringle vol 1|pp=120–123}}
First president to preside over all of the 48 contiguous states.{{efn|Arizona and New Mexico were admitted to the Union under Taft's presidency.}}
First president to visit Mexico while in office.{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/taft-william-howard |title=Travels of President William Howard Taft |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}
First president to use the Oval Office.
First president to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.{{efn|Taft left office as president in 1913. He was appointed chief justice in 1921, by President Warren Harding.{{sfn|Pringle vol 2|pp=957–959}} As chief justice, he administered the oath of office to Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover.}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MvXtcBst9OIC&pg=PA39|title=The Taft Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy |page=39 |first=Peter G.|last=Renstrom|isbn=978-1-57607-280-6|year=2003 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }}
First president to serve in all three branches of the Federal Government.
First president to be honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America{{cite web |title=Taft Elected President |url=https://oa-bsa.org/history/taft-elected-president |website=Our History |publisher=Order of the Arrow}}{{cite web |last1=Wendell |first1=Bryan |title=Scouts have met with every sitting president at the White House since Taft |url=https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2019/03/12/report-to-the-nation-a-look-back |website=Bryan on Scouting |date=March 12, 2019 |publisher=BSA |access-date=March 12, 2019}}
First president to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. He was also the first member of the Supreme Court to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery upon his death in 1930.{{cite web|title=Biography of William Howard Taft, President of the United States and Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court |work=Historical Information |publisher=Arlington National Cemetery |url=http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/historical_information/william_taft.html |access-date=February 24, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061206043942/http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/historical_information/william_taft.html |archive-date=December 6, 2006 }}{{cite news|last=Gresko|first=Jessica|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/03/supreme-court-at-arlingto_n_668450.html|title=Supreme Court at Arlington: Justices are Chummy Even in Death|date=May 25, 2011|access-date=February 24, 2016}}

Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921)

First president to declare a national emergency.{{efn|With Proclamation 1354, Wilson declared a national emergency relating to water transportation and shipping in the United States.}}{{cite web|url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-1354-emergency-water-transportation-the-united-states|title=Proclamation 1354—Emergency in Water Transportation of the United States | The American Presidency Project|website=www.presidency.ucsb.edu}}
First president to have a PhD{{efn|Wilson received a PhD in political science from Johns Hopkins University.}}
First president to visit Europe while in office.{{efn|In 1918–19, Wilson visited: France, the United Kingdom, Italy (along with the Holy See, not yet a sovereign nation), and Belgium.}}{{cite web |url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/wilson-woodrow |title=Travels of President Woodrow Wilson |publisher=Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, United States Department of State |access-date=November 17, 2018}}
First president to meet with the pope while in office.{{efn|Wilson met Pope Benedict XV in 1919, during his visit to Vatican city.}}
First president to meet with a reigning British monarch while in office.{{efn|Wilson met with King George V in 1918, during his visit to the United Kingdom.}}
First president to hold a press conference or regular news briefings.
First president to appoint a Jew (Louis Brandeis) to the Supreme Court.
First president to attend a World Series game.{{efn|Wilson attended Game 2 of the 1915 World Series in Philadelphia between the Boston Red Sox and the Philadelphia Phillies.}}{{cite web|url=http://www.classroomhelp.com/lessons/Presidents/wilson.html|title=President Woodrow Wilson|website=www.classroomhelp.com}}
First president to be buried in Washington, D.C.{{efn|Wilson died in 1924, three years after he left office, and was interred in a sarcophagus in Washington National Cathedral.}}John Whitcomb, Claire Whitcomb. Real Life at the White House, p. 262. Routledge, 2002, {{ISBN|0-415-93951-8}}{{cite web|url=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/woodrow_wilson/index.html |title=Woodrow Wilson |work=New York Times |author=John Milton Cooper Jr. |date=October 1, 2010}}{{Subscription required |via=New York Times Archive Service}}
First president to have the first lady perform presidential duties.{{efn|Edith Wilson, the second wife of Woodrow Wilson, and also his second first lady, performed the duties as president when Wilson suffered a debilitating stroke while in office in October 1919, which significantly impacted his life. She is also the first woman to perform presidential duties.}}William Elliott Hazelgrove, Madam President: The Secret Presidency of Edith Wilson (Washington, D.C.: Regency Publishing, 2016); Brian Lamb, Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb?: A Tour of Presidential Gravesites (New York: Public Affairs, 2010), p. 119; Judith L. Weaver, "Edith Bolling, Wilson as First Lady: A Study in the Power of Personality, 1919–1920," Presidential Studies Quarterly 15, No. 1 (Winter, 1985), pp. 51–76; and Dwight Young and Margaret Johnson, Dear First Lady: Letters to the White House: From the Collections of the Library of Congress & National Archives (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2008), p. 91.{{cite web| last=Markel| first=Howard| title=When a secret president ran the country| date=October 2, 2015| url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/woodrow-wilson-stroke| work=PBS NewsHour| publisher=NewsHour Productions| access-date=December 27, 2019}}
First president to serve in office during a World War.{{efn|Wilson served as the president during the First World War. He was also instrumental in the founding of the League of Nations, the first global organization formed after the World War I, but never allowed his country to join it.}}{{cite web| url= https://whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/woodrow-wilson/| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171215122623/https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/woodrow-wilson/| url-status= dead| archive-date= December 15, 2017| title=Woodrow Wilson| publisher= The White House| access-date= November 22, 2021}}

Warren G. Harding (1921–1923)

First president born after the Civil War.{{efn|Harding was born on November 2, 1865, more than six months after the end of the Civil War.}}The Ohio Statehouse. "[http://www.ohiostatehouse.org/museum/ohio-presidents/warren-g-harding Warren G. Harding]" Retrieved February 2, 2021.
First president to have been a publisher.
First president to have been a lieutenant governor.{{efn|Harding served as Lieutenant Governor of Ohio from 1904 to 1906.}}{{cite web|url=https://www.sos.state.oh.us/elections/election-results-and-data/historical-election-comparisons/lieutenant-governors-of-the-state-of-ohio-1852-present/|title=LIEUTENANT GOVERNORS OF THE STATE OF OHIO: 1852 – PRESENT|website=Ohio Secretary of State}}
First president to be elected while being a sitting U.S. senator.{{efn|Harding was serving as a senator from Ohio when elected. He resigned his position as senator and was replaced by Frank B. Willis.}}{{cite web|url=http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/electoral_precedent.png |title=The Problem with statements like "No candidate has won the election without " or "No President has been reelected under " |year=2012}}
First president to learn about his victory over the radio.
First president to be elected on his birthday.
First president elected after women gained the right to vote.
First president to ride to and from his inauguration in a car.
First president to appoint a former president (William Howard Taft) to the Supreme Court.{{Cite web |title=William Howard Taft (Sept. 15, 1857 - March 8, 1930) |publisher=Supreme Court of Ohio |url=https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/courts/judicial-system/supreme-court-of-ohio/mjc/interest/grand-concourse/william-howard-taft/#:~:text=Taft%20never%20lost%20his%20desire,with%20only%20four%20negative%20votes. |access-date=2024-06-03}}
First president to give his inaugural address over an amplified system.
First president to own and install a radio in the White House.
First president to learn to drive a car.{{cite book|first=Christopher W.|last=Cummings|title=Cadillac V-16s Lost and Found: Tracing the Histories of the 1930s Classics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8VWoAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA198|year=2014|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-7570-4|page=198}}
First president to visit Canada while in office.{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/canada |title=Presidents' Travels to Canada |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}
First president to predecease his father.{{efn|Harding died in 1923, and his father, George Tryon Harding, died in 1928, five years after his son.}}
First president to be heard on a radio broadcast, over Navy radio station NOF in Anacostia, D.C.[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86058226/1922-05-23/ed-1/seq-1/ "Radio Broadcasts President Harding's Speech Praising Merchant Marine"], The Richmond (Indiana) Palladium, May 23, 1922, page 1. Speech given on May 18, 1922, before the Chamber of Commerce of the United States in Washington, D.C.
First president to use the term Founding Fathers.Bernstein, 1987{{Broken anchor|date=2024-05-26|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=#berstein1987|reason= }}, pp. 3–5

Calvin Coolidge (1923–1929)

First president to have the oath of office administered to him by a parent.{{efn|Coolidge was sworn in for the first time by his father, John Calvin Coolidge Sr., a Vermont notary public and justice of the peace in 1923.}}Calvin Coolidge, Bartleby.com: http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres47.html
First president born on the Fourth of July.{{cite web | url=https://accd.vermont.gov/press-releases/fourth-july-celebrate-births-our-great-nation-and-our-30th-president-plymouth-notch#:~:text=%E2%80%93%20President%20Calvin%20Coolidge%20is%20the,am%20to%205%3A00%20pm. | title=On the Fourth of July, Celebrate the Births of our Great Nation and our 30th President in Plymouth Notch | Agency of Commerce and Community Development }}
First president to be sworn in by a former president.{{efn|Coolidge was sworn in for the second time by William Howard Taft, who was chief justice at the time of the second inauguration of Coolidge in 1925.}}
First president to give a radio broadcast from the White House.
First president to visit Cuba while in office.{{cite web |title=The Last Time a U.S. President Visited Cuba: Calvin Coolidge attended the Pan American Conference in Havana in January 1928 |last=Calamur |first=Krishnadev |date=February 18, 2016 |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/cuba-obama-visit-colidge/463356/ |website=theatlantic.com |publisher=Atlantic Monthly Group |access-date=November 17, 2018}}
First president to be a Congregationalist.{{cite web|url=http://www.congregationallibrary.org/events/hms-calvin-coolidge-congregationalist|title=History Matters Series – Calvin Coolidge, Congregationalist | Congregational Library & Archives|website=www.congregationallibrary.org}}
First president to appear on US coinage while alive and in office.{{cite web | url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/28312/money-everything-you-ever-wanted-know-about-coin-portraits | title=On the Money: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Coin Portraits| date=July 22, 2011}}
First president to serve as both governor and lieutenant governor of a state.{{efn|Coolidge served as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1916 to 1919 and governor of Massachusetts from 1919 to 1921.}}{{cite web|url=http://massachusetts.lostsoulsgenealogy.com/governors.htm|title=Governors|website=massachusetts.lostsoulsgenealogy.com|access-date=December 1, 2016|archive-date=September 12, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912120521/http://massachusetts.lostsoulsgenealogy.com/governors.htm|url-status=dead}}
First president to be an honorary member of a Native American tribe.{{cite web|url=https://coolidgefoundation.org/blog/every-native-american-a-citizen/|title=Every Native American A Citizen|date=June 16, 2016|website=Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation}}

Herbert Hoover (1929–1933)

First president born west of the Mississippi River and first born in Iowa.
First president who was a Quaker.{{cite book|last1=Skarmeas|first1=Nancy J.|title=Our Presidents: Their Lives and Stories|publisher=Ideals Publications|isbn=978-0-8249-4199-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780824941994/page/58 58]|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780824941994|url-access=registration|language=en|date=January 1, 2001}}
First president to have a telephone on his desk.
First president to have a post-presidency of more than 30 years.{{efn|Hoover left office in 1933, and died on October 20, 1964, {{age in years and days|4 March 1933|20 October 1964}} after leaving office.}}Book of Political Lists, p. 47
First president to have a multiethnic and Native American vice president (Charles Curtis).{{efn|Charles Custis, who served as vice president under Hoover, had a Native American ancestry, and was the first such person ever to reach the post.}}{{cite news|title=January 29 – This Date in History: Kaw Member Charles Curtis Becomes US Senator|url=http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/january-29-date-history-kaw-member-charles-curtis-becomes-us-senator/|access-date=June 20, 2016|work=Native News Online|issue=January 29, 2014|archive-date=August 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810032315/http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/january-29-date-history-kaw-member-charles-curtis-becomes-us-senator/|url-status=live}}
First president to outlive his entire Cabinet.{{efn|The last surviving member of Hoover's cabinet, Patrick J. Hurley, died on July 30, 1963, more than a year before Hoover's death on October 20, 1964.}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=HU008|title = Hurley, Patrick Jay | the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture}}
First president to be filmed in color.{{cite news|last=Estepa|first=Jessica|date=March 20, 2017|title=Hoover library discovers early color film footage of the president and the White House|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/03/23/herbert-hoover-presidential-library-color-film/99467206/|work=USA Today|access-date=November 9, 2023}}
First president to have a Canadian parent.{{cite web |url=https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=1BAEF0D9-DF2C-5053-A4BDC62CA635758E#:~:text=Hulda%20Minthorn's%20family%20came%20from,in%20the%20park's%20visitor%20center. |title=Event Details |website=National Park Service |access-date=March 17, 2024}}
First president to have Swiss ancestry.{{cite web | url=https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/us-president-grew-from-swiss-roots/29221488#:~:text=Herbert%20Hoover%2C%20descended%20from%20Swiss,linked%20to%20the%20Great%20Depression | title=US president grew from Swiss roots | date=January 12, 2011 }}

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945)

First president to be inaugurated on January 20 (per the Twentieth Amendment).{{efn|Roosevelt's 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. As a result of this, his first term was cut short by 43 days.}}
First president to appoint a woman (Frances Perkins) to a Cabinet post.{{efn|Perkins was appointed United States Secretary of Labor in 1933. She served in that position until 1945, and resigned after Roosevelt died in office. She is the longest-served Secretary of Labor till date.}}{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/frances-perkins |title=Frances Perkins |date=August 21, 2018 |publisher=The History Channel}}
First president to visit Haiti.{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/haiti|title=Presidents' Travels to Haiti|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}
First president to appear five times on a national ticket, a record tied by Richard Nixon.{{cite web|url=http://www.theprogressiveprofessor.com/?p=21354|access-date=September 24, 2017|date=August 5, 2013|title=Multiple Times on National Ballot of Presidents, and Total Popular Vote Combined!|publisher=The Progressive Professor}}
First president to appear on television.{{efn|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.}}{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/30secondcandidate/timeline/years/1939.html|title=The :30 Second Candidate: Historical Timeline: 1939|website=www.pbs.org}}Barnouw, E. (1990). Tube of plenty: The evolution of American television (2nd ed.). New York : Oxford University Press
First president to serve more than two terms.{{efn|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. He still remain the longest-served president of the United States. After his death, the term limit was reduced to two terms.}}
First president to win four terms in an election.
First president to establish a presidential library{{cite web |url=http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/library/history.html |title=History of the FDR Library and Museum |publisher=Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum |access-date=December 7, 2012 |archive-date=December 3, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121203041102/http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/library/history.html |url-status=live}}
First president to veto more than 600 bills.{{efn|Roosevelt's total vetoes were 635, though 9 were overridden.}}
First president to issue more than 250 pocket vetoes.{{efn|Roosevelt issued 263 pocket vetoes.}}
First president to visit South America while in office.{{efn| Roosevelt visited Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay in his administration. However, Theodore Roosevelt visited Panama, which was considered part of South America when he visited but no longer is.

}}{{cite web |url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/roosevelt-franklin-d |title=Travels of President Franklin D. Roosevelt |publisher=Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, United States Department of State |access-date=November 17, 2018}}

First president to fly in an airplane while in office.{{cite web|url=https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-wings-of-franklin-roosevelt-1|title=The Wings of Franklin Roosevelt|website=WHHA (en-US)}}
First president to make a transatlantic flight.{{efn|Roosevelt traveled aboard a Boeing 314 Clipper during his secret 1943 mission to Casablanca. As a result of this trip, he also became the first president to visit Africa while in office. He visited Morocco, Liberia, Tunisia, Gambia, Egypt and Algeria.}}Hardesty 2003, p. 38.
First president to fly for state business in 1943.Prince George County. "[https://www.princegeorgecountyva.gov/news_detail_T6_R2139.php Amazing Facts You Never Knew About Air Force One]" Retrieved February 6, 2021.
First president to visit Iran.{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/iran|title=Iran – Travels of the President – Travels – Department History – Office of the Historian|website=history.state.gov|access-date=September 15, 2020}}
First president to visit Africa in office.{{cite magazine|url=https://time.com/3962496/obama-africa-trip-history-roosevelt/|title=This Was the First Time a Sitting U.S. President Visited Africa|magazine=Time}}
First president to establish the "First 100 Days" benchmark and tradition.{{cite web|url=https://www.jns.org/opinion/trust-and-action-the-us-presidents-first-100-days/|title=Trust and action: The US president's first 100 days|last=Burg|first=Steven|website=JNS.org|date=January 21, 2021 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/100-days-benchmark-presidential-performance|website=PBS.org|title=Why 100 days is a benchmark for presidential performance|last=Greenfield|first=Jeff|date=January 15, 2017}}
First president to be named TIME Person of the Year.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.time.com/5919492/time-person-of-the-year-president-elect-history/%3famp=true|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211071828/https://time.com/5919492/time-person-of-the-year-president-elect-history/?amp=true|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 11, 2020|title=The History Behind TIME Choosing President-Elects as Person of the Year|magazine=TIME|date=2021}}
First president to meet with a king of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud in 1945.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/01/27/the-first-time-a-u-s-president-met-a-saudi-king/|title=The first time a U.S. president met a Saudi King|newspaper=Washington Post}}
First president to visit the Soviet Union.{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/russia |title=Presidents' Travels to Russia |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}
First president to use a wheelchair.{{Cite web |title=Disability History: Presidents and Disability (U.S. National Park Service) |url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/disabilityhistorypresidents.htm |access-date=2022-09-10 |website=www.nps.gov |language=en}}
First president to have a child born in Canada.{{cite web | url=https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/dutch_americans/franklin-delano-roosevelt-jr | title=Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. :: New Netherland Institute }}

Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)

First president born in Missouri.{{cite web|url=https://www.potus.com/presidential-facts/presidents-births-by-state/|title=President Births by State | Presidents of the United States (POTUS)|access-date=September 15, 2020}}
First president to be assigned a Secret Service codename.Book of Political Lists, p. 26
First president to serve in World War I.{{efn|Truman served as an officer of the American Expeditionary Forces and commanded Battery D 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.}}Book of Political Lists, p. 15
First president to have a nationally televised inauguration.{{efn|Truman's 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.Wayne Oliver, "Millions to See Truman in Telecast of Inaugural", New York Times, January 16, 1949, p. L4; accessed [https://www.proquest.com/docview/152120901 via ProQuest]. Many schoolchildren watched from their classrooms. Truman authorized a holiday for federal employees so that they could also watch.Anthony Leviero, "Truman appeals for unity in party to aid peace aims", New York Times, January 19, 1949, p. 1; accessed [https://www.proquest.com/docview/105813470 via ProQuest]. The ceremony, and Truman's speech, were also broadcast abroad through the Voice of America, and translated into other languages including Russian and German."World to Hear Truman Inaugural Ceremonies", Christian Science Monitor. Associated Press. January 19, 1949; accessed [https://www.proquest.com/docview/507986927 via ProQuest]. According to some calculations, the 1949 inauguration had more witnesses than all previous presidential inaugurations combined."10,000,000 See Inauguration By Television: Total Greater Than All Witnessing Previous Ceremonies", Baltimore Sun. AP. January 21, 1949; accessed [https://www.proquest.com/docview/541894748 via ProQuest]."More Persons Expected to View Inauguration By Video Than Combined Previous Witnesses", New York Times, January 20, 1949; accessed [https://www.proquest.com/docview/105809204 via ProQuest].}}
First president to leave office on January 20 (after the passage of the Twentieth Amendment).{{efn|Truman left office on January 20, 1953, and was succeeded by Dwight D. Eisenhower as the 34th president of the United States.}}
First president and person to be issued a Medicare card.{{efn|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.}}{{cite web |url=http://www.trumanlibrary.org/medicarebill.htm |title=July 30, 1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson Signs Medicare Bill |publisher=Truman Library |access-date=September 26, 2014 |archive-date=September 25, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925145258/http://www.trumanlibrary.org/medicarebill.htm |url-status=dead }}
First president to have his Farewell Address broadcast from the Oval Office
First president to authorize the use of nuclear weapons against a foreign nation.{{Cite web|url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/harry-s-truman/|title=Harry S. Truman|website=The White House}}
First president to meet a Swedish prime minister (he met Tage Erlander in 1952){{cite news|title=Här Är Alla Möten Mellan Sveriges Och USA:s Ledare|date=2013-09-04|language=sv|newspaper=Dagens Nyheter|access-date=2023-08-11|url=https://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/har-ar-alla-moten-mellan-sveriges-och-usas-ledare/}}
First president to visit Germany.{{cite web|url=https://de.usembassy.gov/visits-of-u-s-presidents-to-germany-since-1945/|title=Visits of U.S. Presidents to Germany Since 1945|date=April 15, 2021 |publisher=U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Germany | access-date=December 2, 2024}}

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961)

First president born in Texas.{{cite web|url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/dwight-d-eisenhower/|title=Dwight D. Eisenhower |publisher=White House}}
First president to serve in World War II.
First president to serve in both World Wars.
First president to preside over all fifty contemporary US states.{{efn|While being territories in prior administrations, Alaska and Hawaii would be formally admitted as states on January 3rd, 1959 and August 21, 1959, respectively}}{{cite web | url=https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/who-was-the-first-president-of-all-50-states.html | title=Who Was the First President of All 50 States? | date=May 24, 2018 }}
First president to begin his presidency on January 20 (per the Twentieth Amendment).{{efn|Eisenhower began his presidency on January 20, 1953, succeeding Harry S. Truman.}}
First president awarded the Order of Muhammad.{{cite web|url=https://adala.justice.gov.ma/production/html/Fr/37549.htm|title=Décret royal n° 199-66 du 1er ramadan 1386 (14 décembre 1966) portant création des ordres du Royaume|website=Government of Morocco}}
First president to travel by jet aircraft and helicopter.{{cite news|last1=Klein|first1=Christopher|title=10 Things You May Not Know About Dwight D. Eisenhower|url=http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-dwight-d-eisenhower|access-date=April 4, 2017|work=History|date=October 9, 2015}}
First president and first American to be appointed to the British Order of Merit.
First president to have a pilot's license.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/from-pilot-to-president-35484682/|title=From Pilot to President |first=Barrett|last=Tillman|magazine=Air & Space|date=August 2009}}
First president to give a televised news conference, in 1955.{{cite news|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2011/01/22/eisenhower-held-first-televised-news-conference-in-1955/ |title=Eisenhower held first televised news conference in 1955 |newspaper=Baltimore Sun |date= January 22, 2011|first=Frederick N.|last=Rasmussen}}
First president to appear on color television.{{cite web|url=http://archives.nbclearn.com/portal/site/k-12/flatview?cuecard=53076 |title=President Eisenhower Becomes First U.S. President Broadcast in Color on Television |publisher=NBC Learn K-12}}
First president to deliver an address from a communications satellite – the first message from space.{{cite web|url=https://www.space.com/20342-library-congress-first-space-message.html|publisher=Space.com|title=Library of Congress to Preserve 1st Message from Space|first=Robert|last=Pearlman|date=2013}}{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/EisenhowerSpaceMessage.pdf|title=President's Message Relayed from Atlas Satellite-- Dwight D. Eisenhower (December 19, 1958)|publisher=Library of Congress|date=2012}}
First president to visit a mosque.{{cite web|url=https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/lessons-learned-from-president-eisenhowers-mosque-visit-59-years-ago/|title=Lessons Learned from President Eisenhower's Mosque Visit 59 Years Ago|access-date=September 15, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theislamicmonthly.com/the-mosque-in-washington/|title=The Mosque in Washington|date=April 15, 2014|website=The Islamic Monthly}}
First president to have received an honorary knighthood from a foreign nation (Eisenhower received 22 such honors).{{cite web|title=USA and Foreign Decorations of Dwight D. Eisenhower|url=https://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/awards_medals.html|website=www.eisenhower.archives.gov|publisher=The Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum, and Boyhood Home|access-date=November 24, 2016}}{{cite news|last1=Associated Press|title=Bush Is Knighted in Queen Elizabeth's Court|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-12-01-mn-62855-story.html|access-date=November 24, 2016|date=December 1, 1993|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}
First president to receive the Army Distinguished Service Medal, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, and the Legion of Merit.
First president to receive the Philippine Distinguished Service Star, the French Médaille militaire, the French Croix de guerre 1939–1945, the Belgian {{lang|fr|Croix de guerre}}, and the Luxembourgish Military Medal.
First president to be made a Grand Cordon of the Japanese Order of the Chrysanthemum.
First president and American to receive the Soviet Order of Victory, for serving as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force.
First president to receive an Emmy Award.{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/shows/dwight-d-eisenhower|title=Dwight D. Eisenhower|website=Television Academy}}
First president to authorize a National Park in a United States territory: Virgin Islands National Park.{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/viis/learn/management/lawsandpolicies.htm|title=Laws & Policies – Virgin Islands National Park (U.S. National Park Service)|first1=Mailing Address: 1300 Cruz Bay Creek St|last1=John|first2=VI 00830 Phone:776-6201 x238 Headquarters/Visitor Center phone contact Information Contact|last2=Us|website=www.nps.gov|access-date=September 15, 2020}}
First president to visit Switzerland, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Chile, South Korea, the Philippines and Taiwan while in office.{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/switzerland|title=Presidents' Travels to Switzerland|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/turkey|title=Presidents' Travels to Turkey|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/pakistan|title=Presidents' Travels to Pakistan|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/afghanistan|title=Presidents' Travels to Afghanistan|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/india|title=Presidents' Travels to India|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/greece|title=Presidents' Travels to Greece|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/spain|title=Presidents' Travels to Spain|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/portugal|title=Presidents' Travels to Portugal|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/korea-south|title=Presidents' Travels to South Korea|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/chile|title=Presidents' Travels to Chile|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}
First president of Pennsylvania Dutch descent.{{cite news | url={{GBurl|id=JUAEAAAAMBAJ|p=112}}| title=General "Ike" Eisenhower | magazine=Life | date=November 9, 1942 | access-date=May 31, 2011 | author=Barnett, Lincoln | page=112}}

John F. Kennedy (1961–1963)

First president who was Catholic.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H91_n2gev6MC&pg=PR10|title=The Everything John F. Kennedy Book|page=x|first=Jessica|last=McElrath|isbn=978-1-4405-2438-7|date=April 1, 2008|publisher=F+W Media}}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
First president born in the 20th century.{{efn|Kennedy was born in 1917 and took office in 1961. But his four successors were older than him, the oldest of them being Lyndon B. Johnson, his immediate successor, who was born in 1908, and thus is the earliest-born president of the 20th century.}}{{cite book|first=Barbara |last=Seuling |url=https://archive.org/details/onepresidentwasb0000seul|url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/onepresidentwasb0000seul/page/18 18] |title=One President was Born on Independence Day, and Other Freaky Facts about the 26th through 43rd Presidents |publisher=Capstone |year=2008|isbn=978-1-4048-4118-5}}
First president to have been a Boy Scout.
First president of entirely Irish descent.{{cite web |url=http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/John+F.+Kennedy+Miscellaneous+Information.htm |title=John F. Kennedy Miscellaneous Information |publisher=John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum |access-date=February 22, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090831043852/http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical%2BResources/Archives/Reference%2BDesk/John%2BF.%2BKennedy%2BMiscellaneous%2BInformation.htm |archive-date=August 31, 2009}}
First president who had no ancestry from the American colonial period.
First president to have previously served in the United States Navy.{{cite web |title=The Naval Careers of America's Six Sailor Presidents |date=February 16, 2015 |url=http://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/2015/02/16/the-naval-careers-of-americas-six-sailor-presidents/ |work=The Sextant |author= |publisher=Naval History and Heritage Command, Communication and Outreach Division |location=Washington, D.C. |access-date=November 17, 2018 |archive-date=November 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118081552/http://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/2015/02/16/the-naval-careers-of-americas-six-sailor-presidents/ |url-status=dead }}
First president to receive the Purple Heart, awarded in 1943 after he was wounded in action aboard PT-109.{{cite web |title=A History Of The Purple Heart | url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129711544| website=npr.org| last=Miller| first=T. Christian| date=September 8, 2010| access-date=November 17, 2018}}
First president (along with future president Richard Nixon) to participate in the first televised presidential debates.{{efn|Kennedy and Nixon took part in four televised debates in 1960.{{cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-the-great-debate-that-transformed-politics-20140925-story.html |title=The great debate that transformed politics |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |first=Ron|last=Grossman}}}}
First president to win in a case of dueling electors without counsel.{{cite web|url=https://takecareblog.com/blog/how-to-decide-a-very-close-election-for-presidential-electors-part-2|title=How To Decide A Very Close Election For Presidential Electors: Part 2|last=Rosin|first=Michael|date=October 23, 2020|website=Take Care}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/01/congress-must-fix-this-election-law-before-its-too-late/|title=Congress must fix this election law — before it's too late|last=Foley|first=Edward|date=December 1, 2020|newspaper=Washington Post}}
First president to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize.{{efn|Kennedy received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1957, for his book Profiles in Courage.}}{{cite web |title=Frequently Asked Questions | url=https://www.pulitzer.org/page/frequently-asked-questions |website=pulitzer.org |publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes |location=Columbia University, New York City |access-date=November 17, 2018}}{{cite web |title=Things You Didn't Know About the Pulitzer Prizes |url=https://thelowdown.alumni.columbia.edu/things_you_didn_t_know_about_the_pulitzer_prizes |last=Forget |first=Abigail |date=January 25, 2016 |work=The Low Down |publisher=Columbia Alumni Association |location=Columbia University, New York City |access-date=November 17, 2018}}
First president to have an inaugural poet; Robert Frost.
First president to use the Situation Room.{{cite web|url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/about-the-white-house/ |title=Tour the White House West Wing|publisher=White House}}
First president to visit Austria, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Ireland while in office.{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/austria |title=Presidents' Travels to Austria |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/venezuela |title=Presidents' Travels to Venezuela |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/costa-rica |title=Presidents' Travels to Costa Rica |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/ireland |title=Presidents' Travels to Ireland |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}
First president to have both his parents outlive him.{{efn|Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. His father Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. outlived him by six years, dying in 1969. His mother Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy outlived him by more than 30 years, dying in 1995. He has been, to date, the only president to have both parents outlive him, and also the shortest-lived U.S. president, dying at the age of {{age in years and days|1917|05|29|1963|11|22}}.}}
First president to have a grandparent outlive him.{{efn|Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. His maternal grandmother, Mary Josephine Hannon, died on August 8, 1964, at the age of 98. Already ailing at the time of her grandson's assassination, she was never told of his assassination.{{cite web|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19640808.2.11&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=Mrs. Fitzgerald Dead at 98 – JFK's Grandmother Dies Not Knowing of Assassination|publisher=Desert Sun|agency=UPI|volume=38|number=4|date=August 8, 1964}}}}
First president to receive the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, awarded for his heroism as commanding officer of the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 when the ship was rammed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri in 1943.{{cite web|title=7 Presidential War Stories| url=https://www.history.com/news/7-presidential-war-stories| website=history.com| last=Andrews| first=Evan| date=September 2, 2014| publisher=A&E Television Networks| access-date=November 17, 2018}}{{cite news |last=Alcorn |first=William K. |date=May 25, 2008 |title=Of friendship and war |url=http://www.vindy.com/news/2008/may/25/of-friendship-and-war/ |work=The Vindicator |access-date=November 17, 2018 |archive-date=March 31, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331072215/http://www.vindy.com/news/2008/may/25/of-friendship-and-war/ |url-status=dead }}
First president to ceremoniously grant a non-U.S. citizen honorary citizenship.{{efn|Kennedy granted honorary citizenship to former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill in 1963.}}{{cite web|url=https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKWHF/WHN16/JFKWHF-WHN16/JFKWHF-WHN16|title=President Kennedy Bestows Honorary Citizenship Upon Sir Winston Churchill, 9 April 1963|website=JFK Library}}{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/three_column_table/HonoraryCitizens_US.htm|title=Honorary Citizens of the United States|website=Senate.gov}}
First president to have an airport named after him.{{cite web | url=https://www.panynj.gov/port-authority/en/press-room/press-release-archives/2013_press_releases/jfk_internationalmarksmajormilestonesin2013as50thanniversaryofai.html#:~:text=On%20Dec.,Kennedy%20International%20Airport. | title=JFK International Marks Major Milestones in 2013 as 50th Anniversary of Airport Renaming Approaches }}

Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–1969)

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First president to have been party leader in the United States Senate, having been minority leader from 1953 to 1955 and majority leader from 1955 to 1961.{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Majority_Minority_Leaders.htm|title=U.S. Senate: Majority and Minority Leaders|website=www.senate.gov}}
First president to have served as Senate Majority Whip, having served in that office from 1951 to 1953.{{cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Party_Whips.htm|title=U.S. Senate: Party Whips|website=www.senate.gov}}
First president to be inaugurated on an airplane. His inauguration was held aboard Air Force One in 1963.
First president to be sworn in by a woman (Sarah T. Hughes).
First president to visit Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Suriname, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala while in office.{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/australia |title=Presidents' Travels to Australia |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/new-zealand |title=Presidents' Travels to New Zealand |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/vietnam |title=Presidents' Travels to Vietnam |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/thailand |title=Presidents' Travels to Thailand |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/malaysia |title=Presidents' Travels to Malaysia |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/suriname |title=Presidents' Travels to Suriname |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/guatemala |title=Presidents' Travels to Guatemala |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}
First president to appoint an African American (Thurgood Marshall) to the Supreme Court.{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/lbj/ |title=LBJ (Part of the collection: The Presidents). |publisher=American Experience}}
First president to appoint an African American (Robert C. Weaver) to a Cabinet post.{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/johnson-appoints-first-african-american-cabinet-member |title=This Day in History: Johnson appoints first African-American cabinet member|publisher=The History Channel|access-date=September 30, 2014}} Weaver was appointed the first United States secretary of housing and urban development in 1966.
First president to use the presidential call button{{Cite tweet |author=Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum |author-link=Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum |user=LBJLibrary |number=857265417747824646 |title=Many have asked about LBJ having a Fresca button in the White House. Short answer—yes, he did. More details from our archives |access-date=January 26, 2021 |link=yes |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131093143/https://twitter.com/LBJLibrary/status/857265417747824646 |archive-date=January 31, 2021 |url-status=live }}
First president to receive the Silver Star.{{cite web|url=https://www.history.com/news/lbj-world-war-ii-bathroom-break|title=LBJ's Luckiest Bathroom Break|first=Patrick J.|last=Kiger|website=History|date=February 15, 2019 |access-date=September 15, 2020}}

Richard Nixon (1969–1974)

First president born in California.
First president (along with past president John F. Kennedy) to have participated in the first presidential debates. He participated in four televised debates in 1960.
First non-incumbent vice president to be elected president.{{cite magazine|url=https://time.com/5549797/joe-biden-president-2020-history/|title=Does the Vice Presidency Give Joe Biden an Advantage in the Race to the Top? Here's How VPs Before Him Fared|magazine=Time}}
First president to attend an NFL game while in office.{{cite web| url = https://espnlafayette.com/this-day-in-sports-history-richard-nixon-becomes-first-president-to-attend-an-nfl-game/| title = This Day in Sports History: President Makes History at NFL Game| date = November 16, 2017}}
First president to visit the People's Republic of China, Indonesia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Israel, Poland, Iceland, Jordan and Syria while in office.{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/china |title=Presidents' Travels to China |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/indonesia |title=Presidents' Travels to Indonesia |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/romania |title=Presidents' Travels to Romania |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/yugoslavia |title=Presidents' Travels to Yugoslavia |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/israel |title=Presidents' Travels to Israel |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/poland |title=Presidents' Travels to Poland |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/iceland |title=Presidents' Travels to Iceland |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/jordan |title=Presidents' Travels to Jordan |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/syria |title=Presidents' Travels to Syria |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}
First president to meet an emperor of Japan, having met Hirohito in 1971.{{cite web|url=https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/hirohito-1|title=Hirohito|author=|website=History|date=March 27, 2023 }}
First president to visit all 50 states.{{cite web|url=https://junior.scholastic.com/pages/content-hubs/the-roles-of-the-presidency.html|title=Jobs of the President | Free Middle School Teaching Resources|website=junior.scholastic.com}}
First president to resign from the presidency.{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/080974-3.htm |first=Carroll |last=Kilpatrick |newspaper=Washington Post |date=August 9, 1974 |page=A01 |title=Nixon Resigns}} 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.{{cite book

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First president to be pardoned by another president (Gerald Ford). 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.{{cite web |last=Ford |first=Gerald |date=September 8, 1974 |url=https://fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/speeches/740061.asp|title=President Gerald R. Ford's Proclamation 4311, Granting a Pardon to Richard Nixon |work=Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum| publisher= University of Texas |access-date=December 30, 2006}}{{cite web|last=Ford|first=Gerald|date=September 8, 1974|url=http://narademo.umiacs.umd.edu/cgi-bin/isadg/viewitem.pl?item=100775|title=Presidential Proclamation 4311 by President Gerald R. Ford granting a pardon to Richard M. Nixon|work=Pardon images|publisher=University of Maryland|access-date=December 30, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011231200/http://narademo.umiacs.umd.edu/cgi-bin/isadg/viewitem.pl?item=100775|archive-date=October 11, 2007|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.upi.com/Audio/Year_in_Review/Events-of-1974/Ford-Pardons-Nixon/12305808208934-3/ |title=Ford Pardons Nixon – Events of 1974 – Year in Review |publisher=UPI.com |access-date=November 4, 2011}}
First president to relinquish their Secret Service detail.{{cite news |title=Follow-Up On The News; Nixon Guards |date=July 28, 1985 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B00E6DC1338F93BA15754C0A963948260 |access-date=November 18, 2008 |first=Nancy |last=Sharkey |quote=His sole reason was to save money for the government, according to his assistant, John Taylor....Mr. Nixon's wife, Pat, dropped Secret Service protection last year. The others on the agency's permanent-protection rolls are former Presidents Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter, and President Lyndon B. Johnson's widow, Lady Bird. |archive-date=January 31, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131150610/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/28/nyregion/follow-up-on-the-news-nixon-guards.html |url-status=live }}

Gerald Ford (1974–1977)

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First president born in Nebraska.{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/dec/27/20061227-115902-5720r/ |title=Only President Born in Nebraska|publisher=The Washington Times|date=December 27, 2006}}
First president to be an Eagle Scout, and receive the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.{{cite web|url=https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2015/02/16/gerald-ford-eagle-scout-president/|title=Remembering Gerald R. Ford, our only Eagle Scout president|first=Bryan|last=Wendell|date=February 16, 2015|website=Bryan on Scouting}}
First president to serve as House Minority Leader, having served in that office from 1965 to 1973.{{cite web|url=https://history.house.gov/People/Office/Minority-Leaders/|title=Minority Leaders of the House (1899 to present) | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives|website=history.house.gov|access-date=September 15, 2020}}
First president to serve as Republican Conference Chairman of the United States House of Representatives.{{cite web|url=https://history.house.gov/People/Office/Republican-Conference-Chairmen/|title=Republican Conference Chairmen | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives|website=history.house.gov|access-date=September 15, 2020}}
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.
First president to pardon another president (Richard Nixon).{{cite web|url=http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/grford.html|title=Gerald Rudolph Ford |publisher=iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology}} 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.
First president to visit Japan and Finland while in office.{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/japan |title=Presidents' Travels to Japan |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/finland |title=Presidents' Travels to Finland |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}
First president to release a full report of his medical checkup to the public.
First president to have Polish ancestry.[https://www.poles.org/db/f_names/Ford_GR/Ford_Sad.html Edward Pinkowski, "President Ford was Sadowski Descendant", Poles in America Foundation, 2007]
First incumbent president to testify in a criminal trial (against Squeaky Fromme, who had attempted to assassinate him).{{cite news|page=22 |newspaper= The New York Times |date=November 2, 1975|title= Ford's Testimony Is Recorded for Fromme Trial|access-date=November 27, 2012|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/11/02/archives/fords-testimony-is-recorded-for-fromme-trial.html}}

Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)

First president born in Georgia.
First president who was born in a hospital.{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jimmy-carter-is-born |title=This Day in History: Jimmy Carter is Born|access-date=September 19, 2014}} He was born in the Wise Sanitarium of Plains, Georgia, in 1924.
First president to be born after World War I.
First president to graduate from the United States Naval Academy; part of the class of 1947.NCC Staff. October 1, 2020."[https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/10-fascinating-facts-about-former-president-jimmy-carter 10 fascinating facts about former President Jimmy Carter]" National Constitution Center. Retrieved January 9, 2021.United States Naval Academy. "[https://www.usna.edu/Notables/presidents/index.php Notable Graduates – Presidents]" Retrieved January 9, 2021.
First president to use a nickname (Jimmy) in an official capacity.{{cite news|last1=Sidey|first1=Hugh|title=The Question Now: Who Carter?|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,915809,00.html|access-date=April 4, 2017|magazine=Time|date=December 12, 1977}}{{efn|Jimmy Carter's full name is James Earl Carter Jr, but he is better known by his nickname, "Jimmy" Carter, which was used on all official documents while he was president.}}
First president to walk on Pennsylvania Avenue during the inauguration parade.{{cite web|url= https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/photos-and-video/photo/2013/02/jimmy-and-rosalynn-carter-walk-down-pennsylvania-avenue-during-1977-i|title=Jimmy Carter walking during his inauguration with Rosalynn Carter | access-date=December 31, 2024}}
First president to appoint a Secretary of Education (and first woman) (Shirley Hufstedler).Education Week Library – August 18, 2017. "[https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/shirley-hufstedler-first-u-s-education-secretary-biography-and-achievements/2017/08 Shirley Hufstedler, First U.S. Education Secretary: Biography and Achievements]" EducationWeek. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
First president to visit Nigeria and Guadeloupe while in office.{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/nigeria|title=Presidents' Travels to Nigeria|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum (part of the National Archives and Records Administration). (no date listed). "[https://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/about_us/trips_as_president President Carter's Trips as President]" Retrieved January 2, 2021.
First president to appoint a woman to be Secretary of Commerce (Juanita M. Kreps).U.S. Department of Commerce. "[https://www.commerce.gov/about/history/past-secretaries Secretaries of Commerce]" Retrieved January 9, 2021.
First president who completed at least one full term in office and never made a nomination to the United States Supreme Court.{{cite web|url=http://intelligentcollector.com/blog/only-four-presidents-never-appointed-a-supreme-court-justice/|title=Only Four Presidents Never Appointed a Supreme Court Justice|website=The IC Blog|access-date=October 17, 2019|archive-date=November 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101093801/http://intelligentcollector.com/blog/only-four-presidents-never-appointed-a-supreme-court-justice/|url-status=dead}}
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.{{cite web|title=Papal Visits to the White House|url=https://www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room/press-timelines/papal-visits-to-the-white-house |website=WHHA}}{{cite news|last1=Zorthian|first1=Julia|title=The First Time a Pope Visited the White House|url=https://time.com/4044254/pope-white-house-1979/|magazine=Time}}
First president to visit North Korea (post-office, on a diplomatic mission).{{cite magazine |last1=Kaplan |first1=Fred |author-link=Fred Kaplan (journalist) |date=May 2004 |title=Rolling Blunder |magazine=Washington Monthly |url=https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/may-2004/rolling-blunder-2/ |access-date=June 8, 2010 |archive-date=December 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161205113603/http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/may-2004/rolling-blunder-2/ |url-status=live }}
First president to become a centenarian.{{efn|Carter celebrated his 100th birthday on October 1, 2024, nearly three months before his death on December 29.}}{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-carter-100th-birthday-1e540c277dea07bd84242d290b4ebcdc|title=Jimmy Carter and his hometown of Plains celebrate the 39th president's 100th birthday|last1=Barrow|first1=Bill|last2=Kramon|first2=Charlotte|website=Associated Press|date=October 1, 2024|access-date=October 1, 2024}}{{Cite web|last=Grande|first=Peggy|title=Happy birthday to America's first presidential centenarian|url=https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/happy-birthday-americas-first-presidential-centenarian|website=Fox News|date=October 1, 2024|access-date=October 1, 2024}}
First president to have been married for 77 years.{{Cite web|last=Chamlee|first=Virginia|date=2023-07-07|title=Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Celebrate 77th Anniversary in Same Small Town as Their 1946 Wedding|url=https://people.com/jimmy-and-rosalynn-carter-celebrate-77-years-marriage-anniversary-7557884|access-date=2023-07-07|website=People|language=en}} (Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were married for {{ayd|1946|7|7|2023|11|19}}.)
First president to live to 40+ year post-presidency, Carter left the White House in 1981 and lived another 43 years after being president, until 2024.{{Cite web|date=September 7, 2012|title=Blog Jimmy Carter Sets Record for Longest Post-White House Career|website=The Carter Center |url=https://www.cartercenter.org/news/features/blogs/2012/jimmy-carter-sets-record-for-longest-post-white-house-career.html|access-date=January 1, 2025}}
First president to live to the year when his official White House Christmas ornament was unveiled.{{Cite web |last=Superville |first=Darlene|date=February 21, 2024|title=Jimmy Carter becomes first living ex-president with official White House Christmas ornament|website=Associated Press News |url=https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-carter-ornament-christmas-white-house-65f99904dde73812e7e6db9c91726e67|access-date=February 24, 2024}}

Ronald Reagan (1981–1989)

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First president born in Illinois.{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/presidents/ronald_reagan_boyhood_home.html |title=Ronald Reagan's Boyhood Home-Presidents: A Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary |publisher=Nps.gov|access-date=July 20, 2015}}
First president to have been divorced.{{cite web|author=National Constitution Center|url=http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/02/10-interesting-facts-on-president-ronald-reagans-birthday/|title=10 interesting facts on Ronald Reagan's birthday|work=National Constitution Center|access-date=July 12, 2013|date=February 6, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011213636/http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/02/10-interesting-facts-on-president-ronald-reagans-birthday/|archive-date=October 11, 2014|url-status=dead}} He married his first wife (Jane Wyman) in 1940, and the couple divorced in 1949.
First president to be the head of a union (the Screen Actors Guild).{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001654/bio |title=Ronald Reagan Biography|publisher=IMDb}}{{cite web|title=Presidents of the SAG|url=https://www.sagaftra.org/content/sag-presidents|website=SAG Presidents|publisher=SAG-AFTRA|access-date=October 25, 2017|archive-date=October 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026053905/https://www.sagaftra.org/content/sag-presidents|url-status=dead}}
First president to have been an actor.{{cite web| url = https://whatsupnewp.com/2024/02/50-famous-firsts-in-us-presidential-history/ | title = 50 famous firsts in US presidential history | date = February 19, 2024 }}
First president to nominate a woman to the Supreme Court (Sandra Day O'Connor).History.com (February 9, 2010). "[https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/oconnor-nominated-to-supreme-court Sandra Day O'Connor nominated to Supreme Court]" Retrieved January 2, 2021.
First president to be inaugurated at the West Front of the United States Capitol Building.{{cite web|url=https://www.inaugural.senate.gov/days-events/presidents-swearing-in-ceremony/|title=President's Swearing-In Ceremony | The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies|website=www.inaugural.senate.gov}}
First president to be re-elected over the age of 70, as he was 73 years old when he was re-elected in 1984.{{cite web| url = https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/bonus-video/presidents-age-reagan/| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111128061635/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/bonus-video/presidents-age-reagan/| archive-date = 2011-11-28| title = Reagan . Bonus Video . American Experience . WGBH | website = PBS}}
First president to attend a NASCAR race while in office.{{cite web| url = https://www.autoweek.com/racing/nascar/a42297398/ronald-reagan-becomes-first-sitting-president-to-attend-nascar-race/ | title = Ronald Reagan Becomes First Sitting President To Attend NASCAR Race | date = December 24, 2022 }}
First president to visit the New York Stock Exchange, (on March 28, 1985) while in office.{{cite web |url=http://www1.nyse.com/about/newsevents/1173438599705.html |title=NYSE, New York Stock Exchange > About Us > News & Events > NYSE Calendar |publisher=nyse.com |date=March 28, 1985 |access-date=July 20, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015110323/http://www.nyse.com/about/newsevents/1173438599705.html |archive-date=October 15, 2012 |url-status=dead }}
First president to attend and open an Olympic Games (the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles) while in office.{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/726803/who-was-the-first-u-s-president-to-attend-the-olympics/|last=Biery|first=Maria|title=Who was the first U.S. president to attend the Olympics?|publisher=Washington Examiner|date=August 5, 2016|access-date=July 22, 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.whitehousehistory.org/photos/fotoware?id=9C1926B408074458%20A3C6821676F70CCF|title=President and Mrs. Reagan Attend the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles|publisher=The White House Historical Association|access-date=October 12, 2024}}
First president to address both houses of the British parliament (on June 8, 1982).{{cite web|url=https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2011/may/us-president-address/|title=President Obama addresses MPs and Members of the Lords|publisher=UK Parliament|date=May 25, 2011}}
First president to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.{{cite web | url=http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/reference/prepreschrono.html | title=Ronald Reagan's Pre-Presidential Time Line, 1911–1980 | publisher=Ronald Reagan Presidential Library | access-date=May 2, 2012 | archive-date=January 11, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160111232807/http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/reference/prepreschrono.html | url-status=dead }}
First president to win a Golden Globe Award.{{cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/ronald-reagan|title=Golden Globe Winners and Nominees|publisher=goldenglobes.com}}
First president to be wounded in an assassination attempt while in office and survive his injuries.
First president to visit an independent Jamaica, Barbados, and Grenada while in office.{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/jamaica |title=Presidents' Travels to Jamaica |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/barbados |title=Presidents' Travels to Barbados |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/grenada |title=Presidents' Travels to Grenada |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}
First president to temporarily transfer power to the vice president, invoking the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.{{cite news|url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/local-history/story/2021-01-08/from-the-archives-ronald-regan-first-invoked-the-25th-amendment-in-1985|title=From the Archives: Ronald Regan first invoked the 25th Amendment in 1985|first=Merrie| last=Monteagudo| date= January 8, 2021|work=San Diego Union Tribune}}

George H. W. Bush (1989–1993)

First president to have been a naval aviator.
First president to have served as a United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1971–1973).{{cite web|title=Timeline – George H.W. Bush – American Experience|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/bush/|website=www.pbs.org|publisher=PBS (American Experience)|access-date=December 1, 2014|archive-date=December 18, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218102418/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/bush/|url-status=dead}}
First president to have served as the chief of the United States Liaison Office in China (1974–1975).CNN Library. December 1, 2018. "[https://www.cnn.com/2012/12/14/us/george-h-w-bush---fast-facts/index.html George H.W. Bush Fast Facts]" CNN. Retrieved January 23, 2021.
First president to have served as director of central intelligence (office is now the director of the Central Intelligence Agency) (January 1976 – January 1977).{{cite news|title=George H.W. Bush – Fast Facts|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/14/us/george-h-w-bush---fast-facts|website=CNN.com|publisher=CNN|access-date=December 1, 2014}}{{cite news|title=CIA Directors Fast Facts|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/12/us/cia-directors-fast-facts/|website=CNN.com|publisher=CNN|access-date=December 1, 2014}}{{cite web|title=Presidential Reflections on U.S. Intelligence: George H.W. Bush|url=https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2010-featured-story-archive/presidential-reflections-george-h.w.-bush.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100424152440/https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2010-featured-story-archive/presidential-reflections-george-h.w.-bush.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 24, 2010|website=www.cia.gov|publisher=CIA|access-date=December 1, 2014}}
First president to have served as the chairperson of the Republican National Committee (1973–1974).{{cite web |title=President Richard Nixon and the Presidents |url=https://www.nixontapes.org/presidents.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409154628/https://www.nixontapes.org/presidents.html |archive-date=April 9, 2022 |access-date=March 30, 2020 |website=nixontapes.org |quote=CDHW 156-016 11/29/1972 Unknown time between 10:10 am and 1:47 pm P, GHWB}}[https://www.nixontapes.org/ghwb/156-016.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211181759/https://www.nixontapes.org/ghwb/156-016.pdf|date=December 11, 2020}}
First president to have served as acting president (when Reagan was sedated for eight hours due to colon surgery).{{cite web|first1=John T.|last1=Wooley|first2=Gerhard|last2=Peters|title=List of Vice-Presidents Who Served as "Acting" President Under the 25th Amendment|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/acting_presidents.php|website=The American Presidency Project|publisher=University of California, Santa Barbara|access-date=December 1, 2014|archive-date=August 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802083133/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/acting_presidents.php|url-status=dead}}
First president to have the first Hispanic and first woman Surgeon General (Antonia Novello, M.D.).Oregon Health & Science University. "[https://www.ohsu.edu/womens-health/women-who-inspire-us-antonia-novello-md Women Who Inspire Us: Antonia Novello, M.D.]" Retrieved February 1, 2021.
First president to visit Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Singapore, Somalia, and the Russian Federation, as well as a reunified Germany while in office.{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/hungary|title=Presidents' Travels to Hungary|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/malta|title=Presidents' Travels to Malta|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/netherlands|title=Presidents' Travels to the Netherlands|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/czechoslovakia|title=Presidents' Travels to the Czechoslovakia|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/singapore|title=Presidents' Travels to Singapore|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/somalia|title=Presidents' Travels to Somalia|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}
First president to have received a Distinguished Flying Cross.{{cite web|url=https://www.tracesofwar.com/awards/241/Distinguished-Flying-Cross-(DFC).htm?sort=name&show=list&abc=B#abc|title=Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)|access-date=November 21, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/biographies-list/bios-b/bush-george-h-w/bush-citation.html|title=Bush Citation|website=NHHC}}
First president to formally pardon a turkey, officially sparking the Turkey Pardon Tradition.{{cite web|url=https://www.whitehousehistory.org/pardoning-the-thanksgiving-turkey|title=Pardoning the Thanksgiving Turkey|first=Betty|last=Monkman|website=The White House Historical Association}}
First president to have been married for 73 years.{{cite news |last=Delk |first=Josh |title=George H.W. Bush and wife celebrate 73 years of marriage |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/367772-george-hw-bush-and-wife-celebrate-73-years-of-marriage/ |date=January 6, 2018 |work=The Hill |access-date=July 21, 2023|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230729232505/https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/367772-george-hw-bush-and-wife-celebrate-73-years-of-marriage/ |archive-date=July 29, 2023}} (George and Barbara Bush were married for {{ayd|1945|1|6|2018|4|17}}.)
First president to have lived at both Number One Observatory Circle and the White House.{{cite web |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/1600/vp-residence |title=The Vice President's Residence |website=White House |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091021225638/http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/vp_residence/ |archive-date=October 21, 2009}}{{cite web|last=Groppe|first=Maureen|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/04/george-h-w-bush-honored-vice-presidential-residence/2209781002/|title=Second Lady Karen Pence lights up garden to honor George H.W. Bush|website=USA Today|access-date=November 28, 2023|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231128230812/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/04/george-h-w-bush-honored-vice-presidential-residence/2209781002/ |archive-date=November 28, 2023}}
First president to have Swedish ancestry.{{cite news |title=George W Bush har svenska rötter |url=https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/george-w-bush-har-svenska-rotter |access-date=17 August 2024 |work=SVT}}

Bill Clinton (1993–2001)

First president born in Arkansas.
First president to be born after World War II and to be a Baby boomer.{{cite web|url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/william-j-clinton/#:~:text=Bill%20Clinton%20is%20an%20American,first%20baby%2Dboomer%20generation%20President.|title=William J. Clinton }}
First president to be a Rhodes Scholar.{{cite web|url=https://millercenter.org/president/clinton/life-before-the-presidency|title=Bill Clinton: Life Before the Presidency|last=Riley|first=Russell|date=October 4, 2016 }}
First president whose inauguration was streamed on the internet.
First president with an official White House website.{{cite web|url=https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/archived-websites#:~:text=The%20first%20White%20House%20Website,other%20sites%20will%20not%20work|title=Archived Presidential White House Websites|date=January 9, 2017 }}
First president to nominate a woman for White House Press Secretary (Dee Dee Myers). {{cite web | url=https://www.voanews.com/a/article-1st-female-white-house-press-secretary-aims-to-empower-women-106437723/163011.htmll| title=1st Female White House Press Secretary Aims to Empower Women }}
First president to nominate a woman for United States Secretary of State (Madeleine Albright).{{cite web | url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/albright-madeleine-korbel| title=Biographies of the Secretaries of State: Madeleine Korbel Albright (1937–2022) }}
First president to nominate a woman for United States Attorney General (Janet Reno).{{cite web | url=https://millercenter.org/president/clinton/essays/reno-1993-attorney-general | title=Janet Reno (1993-2001) | date=October 4, 2016 }}
First president to appoint a Jewish woman (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) to the Supreme Court.{{cite web | url=https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ruth-bader-ginsburg | title=Biography: Ruth Bader Ginsburg }}
First president to host and perform in a jazz festival while in office.{{cite web|url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-the-40th-anniversary-the-newport-jazz-festival|title=Remarks on the 40th Anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival|publisher=The American Presidency Project}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/these-are-the-presidents-who-played-music-and-how-donald-trump-compares.html/|title=These Are the Presidents Who Played Music (and How Donald Trump Compares)|date=January 13, 2019|publisher=Show biz CheatSheet|access-date=December 31, 2020|archive-date=November 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111185842/https://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/these-are-the-presidents-who-played-music-and-how-donald-trump-compares.html/|url-status=dead}}{{cite book|url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/2524242|title=Photograph of President William J. Clinton Playing the Saxophone at the 40th Anniversary of the Newport Jazz Festival|series=Photographs of the White House Photograph Office (Clinton Administration) |publisher=Archives.gov}}
First president to visit Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Kuwait, the Czech Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Denmark, Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, post-apartheid South Africa, Botswana, Senegal, Slovenia, the Republic of Macedonia, Norway, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Bangladesh, Oman, Tanzania, Brunei, as well as reunited Vietnam while in office.{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/ukraine|title=Presidents' Travels to Ukraine|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/belarus|title=Presidents' Travels to Belarus|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/latvia|title=Presidents' Travels to Latvia|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/kuwait|title=Presidents' Travels to Kuwait|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/czech-republic|title=Presidents' Travels to Czech Republic|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/croatia|title=Presidents' Travels to Croatia|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/denmark|title=Presidents' Travels to Denmark|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/ghana|title=Presidents' Travels to Ghana|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/uganda|title=Presidents' Travels to Uganda|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/rwanda|title=Presidents' Travels to Rwanda|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/south-africa|title=Presidents' Travels to South Africa|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/botswana|title=Presidents' Travels to Botswana|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/senegal|title=Presidents' Travels to Senegal|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/slovenia|title=Presidents' Travels to Slovenia|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/macedonia|title=Presidents' Travels to Macedonia|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/norway|title=Presidents' Travels to Norway|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/bulgaria|title=Presidents' Travels to Bulgaria|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/bangladesh|title=Presidents' Travels to Bangladesh|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/oman|title=Presidents' Travels to Oman|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/tanzania|title=Presidents' Travels to Tanzania|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/brunei|title=Presidents' Travels to Brunei|publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}
First president to visit and address the Palestinian National Authority while in office.{{cite web|url= https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/ForeignPolicy/MFADocuments/Yearbook12/Pages/119%20Remarks%20by%20President%20Clinton%20to%20the%20Palestinia.aspx |title=119 Remarks by President Clinton to the Palestinian National Council and other Palestinian organizations- Gaza- 14 December 1998 |publisher=Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs}}
First president to send an email.{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/03/the-myth-about-bill-clintons-emails/387604/|title=The Truth About Bill Clinton's Emails|last=LaFrance|first=Adrienne|date=March 12, 2015|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=January 9, 2020}}
First president to appoint an Asian American to a Cabinet post (Norman Mineta).{{cite news|last1=Lacey|first1=Marc|title=First Asian-American Picked for Cabinet|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/30/us/first-asian-american-picked-for-cabinet.html|work=New York Times|access-date=November 25, 2016|date=June 30, 2000}}
First president to establish GPS modernization.{{efn|While President Reagan first granted civilians access to government GPS technology, President Clinton removed selective availability and granted civilians unrestricted access to GPS satellites, "flipping the blue switch" and unleashing a worldwide revolution in civil and commercial applications, leading to the creation of GPS Block III.}}{{cite web|url=https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/modernization/|title=GPS Modernization|publisher=GPS.gov}}{{cite web|url=https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/modernization/sa/|title=Selective Availability|publisher=GPS.gov}}{{cite web |date=June 19, 2017 |title=Why the military released GPS to the public |url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a26980/why-the-military-released-gps-to-the-public/ |publisher=Popular Mechanics}}{{cite web|url=https://clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov/WH/New/html/20000501_2.html|via=National Archives|work=whitehouse.gov|title=President Clinton: Improving the Civilian Global Positioning System (GPS)}}{{cite web|url=https://odimpact.org/case-united-states-opening-gps-data-for-civilian-use.html|title=United States Opening GPS Data For Civilian Use|publisher=The Gov Lab}}
First president to be married to a member of Congress.{{efn|Clinton's wife Hillary took office as a Senator from New York on January 3, 2001, which was 17 days before Clinton's term ended.}}{{cite journal|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0310/p01s01-uspo.html|title=Clinton's Quiet Path to Power|journal=Christian Science Monitor|date=March 10, 2003}}

George W. Bush (2001–2009)

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First president born in Connecticut.
First president to have an MBA.Michael Higham. April 25, 2013, Ten Facts About George Bush You Did Not Know"
First president to have completed a marathon.{{cite web | url=https://whatculture.com/offbeat/22-mind-blowing-facts-about-george-w-bush?page=19 | title=Bush Ran The Houston Marathon In A Very Respectable 3 Hours and 44 Minutes... The First Person Elected President To Have Completed A 26.2-Mile Race | date=March 9, 2015 }}
First president whose election victory was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States (Bush v. Gore).{{cite web|url=https://whatsupnewp.com/2024/02/50-famous-firsts-in-us-presidential-history/ |title=50 famous firsts in US presidential history | date=February 19, 2024 }}
First president to have a State of the Union live broadcast on the Internet.{{cite web|title=George W. Bush|url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/george-w-bush/|website=whitehouse.gov|access-date=February 13, 2017}}
First president to nominate an African American for Secretary of State (Colin Powell).{{cite web | url=https://www.gzeromedia.com/news/analysis/pioneering-black-american-leaders-in-us-foreign-policy#toggle-gdpr| title=Pioneering Black American leaders in US foreign policy }}
First president to nominate an African American woman for Secretary of State (Condoleezza Rice).
First president to deliver a radio address in Spanish language (the weekly radio address on Cinco de Mayo in 2001 was delivered both in English and Spanish).{{Cite web |last=Fernandez |first=Maria Elena |date=2001-05-06 |title=Bush Tries His Hand at Spanish in Radio Talk |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-may-06-mn-60019-story.html |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}
First president to have a 90% approval rating in the history of modern political polling.{{cite web | url=http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/08/17/culture/politics/11-facts-presidents-approval-ratings.html | title=11 Facts about Presidents and Approval Ratings | the Saturday Evening Post| date=August 17, 2017}}
First president to attend a Papal funeral while in office (Death and funeral of Pope John Paul II).{{cite web|url=https://whatculture.com/offbeat/22-mind-blowing-facts-about-george-w-bush?page=21 | title=He Was The First Sitting US President To Attend A Papal Funeral| date=March 9, 2015}}
First president to open the Winter Olympic Games (the 2002 Winter Olympics Salt Lake City) while in office.{{cite web|url=http://www.teamusa.org/News/2009/February/04/Amazing-Moments-in-Olympic-History-Salt-Lake-City-2002-Olympic-Winter-Games-Opening-Ceremony |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171025074947/https://www.teamusa.org/News/2009/February/04/Amazing-Moments-in-Olympic-History-Salt-Lake-City-2002-Olympic-Winter-Games-Opening-Ceremony |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 25, 2017 |title=Amazing Moments in Olympic History: Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony|publisher=United States Olympic Committee|date=February 4, 2009|access-date=July 22, 2017}}
First president to attend Olympic Games in a foreign country (the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing) while in office.{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna26081584 |title=Bush turns attention from politics to Olympics |publisher=NBCNews.com | date=August 7, 2008 |access-date=July 22, 2017 }}
First president to leave office with both parents still alive.{{cite book|last1=Bush|first1=George Walker|author-link1=George Walker Bush|title=41: a Portrait of My Father|publisher=Ebury Publishing|isbn=978-0-7535-5660-3|page=40|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ww7nCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA271|access-date=February 22, 2017|language=en|date=November 12, 2015}} (George W. Bush left office in 2009, 9 years before both his parents died in 2018.)
First president to celebrate Diwali.{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/trump-celebrates-diwali-at-white-house-hails-contributions-of-indian-americans/article19881550.ece|title=Trump celebrates Diwali at White House, hails contributions of Indian-Americans|newspaper=The Hindu|date=October 19, 2017|via=www.thehindu.com}}
First president to visit Sweden, Lithuania, Qatar, Iraq, Slovakia, Georgia, Mongolia, Estonia, Albania, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, and Benin while in office.{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/sweden |title=Presidents' Travels to Sweden |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/lithuania |title=Presidents' Travels to Lithuania |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/qatar |title=Presidents' Travels to Qatar |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/iraq |title=Presidents' Travels to Iraq |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/slovakia |title=Presidents' Travels to Slovakia |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/georgia |title=Presidents' Travels to Georgia |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/mongolia |title=Presidents' Travels to Mongolia |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/estonia |title=Presidents' Travels to Estonia |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/albania |title=Presidents' Travels to Albania |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/bahrain |title=Presidents' Travels to Bahrain |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/united-arab-emirates |title=Presidents' Travels to United Arab Emirates |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/benin |title=Presidents' Travels to Benin |publisher=U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian}}
First president to eulogize a former president who was also his father.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/12/05/george-w-bushs-grief-his-dad-george-hw-bush-is-both-intimate-historic/ |title=George W. Bush's grief for his dad, George H.W. Bush, is both intimate and historic |newspaper=The Washington Post}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-w-bushs-emotional-eulogy-for-his-father-george-h-w-bush-marks-a-first-in-u-s-history/ |title=George W. Bush's emotional eulogy for his father marks a first in U.S. history |date=December 5, 2018 |publisher=CBS News}}

Barack Obama (2009–2017)

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First president born outside of the 48 contiguous states.{{cite web|author=Rudin, Ken|date=December 23, 2009|title=Today's Junkie segment on TOTN: a political review Of 2009|work=Talk of the Nation (Political Junkie blog)|publisher=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/2009/12/todays_junkie_segment_on_totn_5.html|access-date=April 18, 2010|quote=We began with the historic inauguration on January 20—yes, the first president ever born in Hawaii}}
First president born in Hawaii.
First president to be multiethnic; his European-American mother was from Kansas and his African father was from Kenya.Grant Rindner. November 16, 2020. "[https://www.oprahmag.com/life/a34670592/barack-obamas-parents/ Who Were Barack Obama's Parents?]" The Oprah Magazine. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
First president to be African-American.{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/barack-obama |title=Barack Obama (U.S. Presidents) |date=May 19, 2022 |publisher=History Channel}}
First president to have a Catholic vice president (Joe Biden).{{cite web|url=http://heavy.com/news/2015/10/joe-biden-religion-faith-catholic-jewish-family-wife-children-beau-hallie-ashley-mass-church-president/|author=Stephanie Dube Dwilson |publisher=Heavy.com |date=October 20, 2015|title=Joe Biden's Religion: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know}}
First president to appoint a former first lady to the Cabinet (Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State).{{Cite news|url=https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/senate-debates-clinton-confirmation/|title=Senate Confirms Clinton as Secretary of State|last=Phillips|first=Kate|work=The Caucus|date=January 21, 2009 |access-date=November 7, 2017}}
First president to publicly endorse same-sex marriage.{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/09/obama-gay-marriage_n_1503245.html |title=Obama Backs Gay Marriage |newspaper=Huffington Post |date=May 9, 2012 |first=Sam|last=Stein}}
First president to nominate a woman for Chair of the Federal Reserve (Janet Yellen).{{Cite web |date=2013-10-09|title=President Obama nominates Yellen as first woman to lead Fed |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/businessmain/president-obama-nominates-yellen-first-woman-lead-fed-8c11363369 |access-date=2025-05-02|website=NBC News |language=en}}
First president to appoint a Latino American to the Supreme Court (Sonia Sotomayor).{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/SoniaSotomayor/story?id=8260207&page=1 |title=Senate Votes Sonia Sotomayor As First Hispanic Supreme Court Justice |first=Nitya |last=Venkataraman |date=August 6, 2009 |work=ABC News}}
First president to visit a federal prison.{{cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/2015/7/11/8933095/obama-prison-visit |title=Obama is the first president to visit a federal prison. Here's why. |publisher=Vox |date= July 11, 2015|access-date=July 20, 2015}}
First president to have his official photograph portrait taken with a digital camera.{{cite web |title=New official portrait released Wednesday |url=http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/new_official_portrait_released/ |date=January 14, 2009 |publisher=change.gov, Office of the President-Elect |access-date=November 18, 2016 |archive-date=September 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910101456/http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/new_official_portrait_released/ |url-status=dead }}
First president to light a diya for Diwali at the White House.{{cite web | url=https://www.voanews.com/a/donald-trump-celebrates-diwali-hindu-festival-lights/4078255.html | title=Trump Celebrates Diwali, Hindu Festival Lights| date=October 19, 2017}}
First president to address the African Union while in office.The Wall Street Journal. Lee, Carol & Vogt, Heidi (July 28, 2015). "[https://www.wsj.com/articles/obama-becomes-first-u-s-president-to-address-african-union-1438090849 Obama Becomes First U.S. President to Address African Union]" Retrieved December 30, 2020.
First president to have visited the Arctic Circle while in office.{{cite web|url= https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/09/150901-arctic-alaska-oil-climate-obama-kotzebue-seals-caribou-co2/|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191007121010/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/09/150901-arctic-alaska-oil-climate-obama-kotzebue-seals-caribou-co2/|url-status= dead|archive-date= October 7, 2019|title=Why Obama Is the First President to Visit the Arctic|first1=Craig|last1=Welch|date=September 1, 2015|website=National Geographic}}
First president to visit Hiroshima, Japan, the location where the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare in 1945.NPR. Hu, Elise & Domonoske, Camila (May 27, 2016). "[https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/27/479691439/president-obama-arrives-in-hiroshima-the-first-sitting-commander-in-chief-to-vis Obama Makes Historic Visit To Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park]" Retrieved December 30, 2020.
First president to write a scholarly article in a scholarly journal while president.Roberts, Jeff (July 11, 2016). "In First for Sitting President, Obama Publishes a Scholarly Article" Fortune. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
First president to visit an independent Trinidad and Tobago, Cambodia, Myanmar, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Laos while in office.Associated Press (November 19, 2012). "[https://www.deseret.com/2012/11/20/20444629/president-obama-makes-history-with-myanmar-cambodia-visits President Obama makes history with Myanmar, Cambodia visits]" DeseretNews. Retrieved December 31, 2020.BBC (July 24, 2015). "[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-33656895 President Obama starts two-day Kenya visit]" Retrieved December 30, 2020.NPR. Warner, Gregory (July 7, 2015). "[https://www.npr.org/2015/07/27/426842540/obama-becomes-first-sitting-u-s-president-to-visit-ethiopia Obama Becomes First Sitting U.S. President To Visit Ethiopia]" Heard on All Things Considered. Retrieved December 30, 2020.PBS NewsHour. Hennessey, Kathleen, Lederman, Josh, & Associated Press. (September 5, 2016). "[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/obama-laos-first-u-s-presidential-visit Obama in Laos for first U.S. presidential visit]" Retrieved December 30, 2020.
First president to make his presidential library digital, as opposed to a physical facility.{{cite web|url=https://www.obamalibrary.gov/about-us|title=Barack Obama Presidential Library About Us|website=National Archives|date=October 20, 2016}}
First president to appear on a podcast while in office.{{cite magazine | url=https://www.wired.com/2012/03/new-media-event-president-obama-on-bill-simmons-espn-podcast/ | title=(New) Media Event: President Obama on Bill Simmons' ESPN Podcast | magazine=Wired | last1=Carmody | first1=Tim }}

Donald Trump (2017–2021, 2025–present)

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First president to assume the office without having had any prior public service experience, military or political.{{Cite news |last=Yomtov |first=Jesse |date=November 8, 2016 |title=Where Trump ranks among least experienced presidents |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/11/08/donald-trump-experience-president/93504134/ |access-date=February 14, 2017 |work=USA Today}}{{Cite news |last=Montanaro |first=Domenico |date=April 23, 2017 |title=Trump's First 100 Days: An 'Entry-Level' Presidency |url=https://www.npr.org/2017/04/23/525111191/trump-s-first-100-days-an-entry-level-presidency |access-date=July 11, 2017 |work=NPR}}
First president to be a resident of Florida.{{Cite news |title=After 175 years as a state, Florida has its first president in Donald Trump {{!}} Commentary |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/guest-commentary/os-op-donald-trump-floridas-first-president-20191104-h35mmxqqbje7zdb6nhdtori4ly-story.html |work=Orlando Sentinel}}
First president to launch their own cryptocurrency ($Trump).{{Cite news |last=Hrnjic |first=Emir |date=February 6, 2025 |title=Trump meme coin: Promoting or destabilising the cryptocurrency space? |work=The Business Times |url=https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/opinion-features/trump-meme-coin-promoting-or-destabilising-cryptocurrency-space |url-status=live |access-date=February 14, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250214193804/https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/opinion-features/trump-meme-coin-promoting-or-destabilising-cryptocurrency-space |archive-date=February 14, 2025}}{{Cite news |last=Benchetrit |first=Jenna |date=January 20, 2025 |title=Trumps launch their own cryptocurrencies ahead of inauguration, setting off ethical alarms |work=CBC News |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/melania-meme-coin-1.7435916 |url-status=live |access-date=February 14, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250207140107/https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/melania-meme-coin-1.7435916 |archive-date=February 7, 2025}}
First president to own a social media platform (Truth Social).{{Cite news |last=Napoli |first=Philip M. |date=December 3, 2024 |title=Platforms and the Presidency: An Unprecedented Situation |work=Tech Policy Press |url=https://www.techpolicy.press/platforms-and-the-presidency-an-unprecedented-situation/ |url-status=live |access-date=February 14, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250123141258/https://www.techpolicy.press/platforms-and-the-presidency-an-unprecedented-situation/ |archive-date=January 23, 2025}}
First president presumed to be a billionaire prior to assuming office.{{Cite magazine |last=Vinton |first=Kate |date=November 9, 2016 |title=Billionaires React To The Election Of America's First Billionaire President |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2016/11/09/billionaires-react-to-the-election-of-americas-first-billionaire-president/#12121075bafc |magazine=Forbes}}
First president to have a personal YouTube channel and reach 1 million subscribers.{{Cite web |last=Thompson |first=Alex |date=September 6, 2020 |title=Trump deploys YouTube as his secret weapon in 2020 |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/06/trumpyoutube-election-comeback-408576 |website=Politico}}{{Cite web |title=Donald J Trump's YouTube Stats (Summary Profile) |url=https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/ucaql2dygu2un1ei2nmysqoa |website=Social Blade}}
First president to marry three times.
First president to have been divorced more than once. He married his first wife Ivana Trump in 1977 and divorced in 1992, married his second wife Marla Maples in 1993 and divorced in 1999.{{Cite news |date=November 9, 2016 |title=Will Donald Trump be the first president who has been divorced? |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/will-donald-trump-be-the-first-president-who-has-been-divorced/ |access-date=December 15, 2016 |work=CBS News}}
First president to have children from three different wives.
First president to have an Orthodox Jewish rabbi (Marvin Hier) give a benediction at his inauguration.{{Cite news |title=Rabbi Hier remembers Zion and Jerusalem in benediction for Pres. Trump – Diaspora – Jerusalem Post |url=http://m.jpost.com/Diaspora/Zion-remembered-in-Rabbi-Heirs-benediction-for-President-Trump-479113 |work=The Jerusalem Post | Jpost.com}}
First president to begin tenure with a net negative approval rating in the history of modern political polling.{{Cite news |last=Politi |first=Daniel |date=February 26, 2017 |title=Trump Is First President to Begin Tenure With Net Negative Approval Rating |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/02/26/trump_is_first_president_to_have_a_net_negative_approval_rating_in_first.html |access-date=July 11, 2017 |work=Slate}}{{Cite web |title=RealClearPolitics – Election Other – President Trump Job Approval|url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html |website=www.realclearpolitics.com}}
First president to visit the Western Wall while in office.{{Cite web |date=2017-05-23 |title=Trump becomes first sitting U.S. president to visit Western Wall |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/trump-s-first-foreign-trip/trump-becomes-first-sitting-u-s-president-visit-western-wall-n762891 |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=NBC News |language=en}}
First president to attend the March for Life rally while in office.{{Cite web |date=2020-03-24|title=Trump first president to attend anti-abortion rally |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51239795.amp |access-date=2025-01-18 |website=BBC News|language=en}}
First president to meet with two emperors of Japan while in office (Akihito and Naruhito).{{Cite web |title=Japan – Travels of the President – Travels – Department History – Office of the Historian |url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/travels/president/japan |access-date=September 15, 2020 |website=history.state.gov |publisher=United States Department of State}}
First president to cross over the DMZ and enter North Korea while in office. (2019 Koreas–United States DMZ Summit){{Cite web |last= |title=President Trump becomes 1st president to step inside North Korea ahead of meeting with Kim Jong Un |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-trump-travel-dmz-meet-kim-jong/story?id=64042883 |access-date=September 15, 2020 |website=ABC News}}
First president to be impeached twice by the U.S. House of Representatives (in 2019 and in 2021).{{Cite web |last=Chappell |first=Bill |date=January 13, 2021 |title=House Impeaches Trump A 2nd Time, Citing Insurrection At U.S. Capitol |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/trump-impeachment-effort-live-updates/2021/01/13/956449072/house-impeaches-trump-a-2nd-time-citing-insurrection-at-u-s-capitol |access-date=January 13, 2021 |website=NPR}}
First president to have a Senate impeachment trial after his presidency.{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Pete |date=January 8, 2021 |title=Can Trump be tried in the Senate on impeachment charges even after he leaves office? Some experts say yes. |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/can-trump-be-tried-senate-impeachment-charges-even-after-he-n1253544 |access-date=January 9, 2021 |work=NBC News}}
First president to run for reelection and to be reelected after being impeached.{{Cite news |date=December 19, 2019 |title=Donald Trump becomes the first impeached president to run for re-election |url=https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/12/19/donald-trump-becomes-the-first-impeached-president-to-run-for-re-election |newspaper=The Economist}}
First president to be permanently banned from a social media platform (Twitter).{{Cite web|title=Twitter permanently suspends President Donald Trump|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitter-permanently-bans-president-donald-trump-n1253588|access-date=January 8, 2021|website=NBC News|language=en}}
First president awarded the Order of Muhammad.{{cite web|url=https://adala.justice.gov.ma/production/html/Fr/37549.htm|title=Décret royal n° 199-66 du 1er ramadan 1386 (14 décembre 1966) portant création des ordres du Royaume|website=Government of Morocco}}{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-morocco/trump-receives-moroccos-highest-award-for-middle-east-work-official-idUSKBN29K2GK|title=Trump receives Morocco's highest award for Middle East work: official|website=Reuters.com|date=2021-01-15}}
First president to send a presidential text alert (in this case as a test) through the National Wireless Emergency Alert System.{{Cite web |date=September 18, 2018 |title='Presidential Alert': Trump text slides to October 3 |url=https://www.cnn.com/cnn/2018/09/15/politics/fema-presidential-alert-trump-emergency-test/index.html |website=CNN}}{{Cite magazine |date=October 2018 |title=The Long, Strange History of the Presidential Text Alert |url=https://www.wired.com/story/presidential-text-alert-fema-emergency-history/ |magazine=Wired}}
First president to directly oversee private spaceflight in the United States.{{Cite web |date=May 31, 2020 |title=Trump's New Space Policy Directive 2 Could Make Life Easier for SpaceX and Others |url=https://www.space.com/40700-trump-space-policy-private-spaceflight-deregulation.html |website=Space.com}}{{Cite web |date=May 30, 2020 |title=Remarks by President Trump at Kennedy Space Center after the NASA Space X Crew Dragon Launch |url=https://va.usembassy.gov/remarks-by-president-trump-at-kennedy-space-center-after-the-nasa-space-x-crew-dragon-launch/ |website=U.S. Embassy to the Holy See}}{{Cite web |date=May 30, 2020 |title=NASA and SpaceX launch astronauts into new era of private spaceflight |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/2244889-nasa-and-spacex-launch-astronauts-into-new-era-of-private-spaceflight/ |website=NewScientist}}
First president to not personally hand over the nuclear football to his successor since its inception.{{Cite web |date=January 19, 2021 |title=Trump won't hand Biden the nuclear football. Here's how the handoff will happen |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/ncna1254825 |website=NBC}}
First president to invite foreign heads of state or government to an inauguration (among others, Javier Milei, Viktor Orbán and Giorgia Meloni were invited to his second inauguration).{{Cite web |last=Mathur-Ashton |first=Aneeta |date=January 17, 2025 |title=Bucking Tradition, Trump Invited These Far-Right Leaders to the Inauguration |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2025-01-17/the-far-right-foreign-leaders-getting-a-historic-invite-to-trumps-inauguration |access-date=January 18, 2025}}
First president, alongside Joe Biden, to write an Oval Office letter to and receive one from their successor and predecessor who were the same person (Joe Biden).{{Cite news |last=Superville |first=Darlene |date=January 18, 2025 |title=Biden got an Oval Office letter from Trump and may leave one in the desk himself. It'd be a first |work=Associated Press |url=https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-letters-presidents-oval-office-reagan-e73534f04f124c239f13cfb470ce9e9d |url-status=live |access-date=February 16, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250212051528/https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-letters-presidents-oval-office-reagan-e73534f04f124c239f13cfb470ce9e9d |archive-date=February 12, 2025}}{{Cite news |last1=Stoddart |first1=Michelle |last2=Nagle |first2=Molly |date=January 23, 2025 |title=Biden's letter to Trump wished him 'all the best in the next four years,' Fox reports |work=ABC News |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-calls-bidens-letter-nice-make-letter-public/story?id=117974451 |url-status=live |access-date=February 16, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250124103802/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-calls-bidens-letter-nice-make-letter-public/story?id=117974451 |archive-date=January 24, 2025}}
First president to attend the Super Bowl while in office (Super Bowl LIX).{{Cite web |last=Gavin |first=Mike |date=February 9, 2025 |title=Donald Trump arrives at Super Bowl, becomes first sitting president to attend |url=https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/super-bowl/donald-trump-arrives-super-bowl-eagles-chiefs/4104553/ |website=WCAU |access-date=February 9, 2025}}{{Cite web |last=Superville |first=Darlene |date=February 9, 2025 |title=Trump's Super Bowl appearance is the latest chapter in a complicated legacy with football |url=https://apnews.com/article/trump-nfl-super-bowl-first-president-766c628f4ea3faf38d100e4f33f2ac8c |website=Associated Press |access-date=February 9, 2025}}
First president to remove their predecessor's appointed board members at the Kennedy Center, as well as the first president to be elected chairman of the center.{{Cite news |last1=Andrews |first1=Travis M. |last2=Roig-Franzia |first2=Manuel |last3=Kingsberry |first3=Janay |date=February 12, 2025 |title=New Kennedy Center board elects Trump as chair. Rutter departs as president. |work=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/02/12/trump-elected-kennedy-center-board-chair/ |url-status=live |access-date=February 16, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250212195252/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/02/12/trump-elected-kennedy-center-board-chair/ |archive-date=February 12, 2025}}
First president to be invited twice to an official state visit to the United Kingdom.{{Cite news |last=Adam |first=Karla |date=February 27, 2025 |title=Donald Trump accepts 'unprecedented' second state visit invite from King Charles|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/27/trump-starmer-visit/ |access-date=February 28, 2025 |work=The Washington Post}}
First president to formally recognize English as the official language of the United States.{{Cite web |last=Garrison |first=Joey |date=February 28, 2025 |title=President Trump to sign executive order making English the official language of US |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/28/trump-executive-order-english-official-language-us/80834679007/ |website=USA Today |access-date=March 2, 2025}}{{Cite web |last=Price |first=Michelle L. |date=March 1, 2025 |title=Trump signs order designating English as the official language of the US |url=https://apnews.com/article/trump-english-national-language-d4b000e593ae7db2ac8264a6dbc5078f |website=Associated Press |access-date=March 2, 2025}}
First president to pardon a corporation (Paul, Weiss).{{Cite web |last=Wehle|first=Kimberley|date=April 1, 2025 |title=Trump makes history by pardoning a corporation |url=https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5224229-trump-makes-history-by-pardoning-a-corporation/ |website=The Hill |access-date=April 1, 2025}}

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First president to reach the ages of 70 and 78 prior to his respective elections to the presidency.{{Cite news |last=Johnny |first=Diaz |date=January 20, 2025 |title=Trump Is the Oldest President to Take the Oath, Again |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/donald-trump-age-oldest-presidents.html |access-date=January 26, 2025 |work=The New York Times}}
First president to have a female campaign manager (Kellyanne Conway).{{Cite web |last=Morrongiello |first=Gabby |date=November 10, 2016 |title=Conway shatters glass ceiling as first woman to run a successful presidential campaign |url=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/conway-shatters-glass-ceiling-as-first-woman-to-run-a-successful-presidential-campaign/article/2607038 |publisher=Washington Examiner}}
First president to attend and speak at the Libertarian National Convention, and the first to have spoken at a convention for an opposing political party.{{Cite news |date=May 7, 2024 |title=Libertarians picked Trump to headline their convention. Then an internal revolt erupted. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/07/trump-libertarian-national-convention/ |newspaper=The Washington Post}}
First former president to participate in a televised presidential debate against an incumbent president (Joe Biden).{{Cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-trump-debated-now-men-politics-vastly/story?id=111318243|title=Biden,Trump have debated before, but now the men and politics are vastly different|first=Alexandra|last=Hutzler|publisher=ABC News|date=June 25, 2024|accessdate=June 25, 2024}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/20/politics/cnn-debate-trump-biden/index.html|title=CNN debate stage set with Trump and Biden going head-to-head|publisher=CNN Politics|date=June 20, 2024|website=cnn.com|language=en-US}} Also, the first former president to participate in a televised presidential debate against an incumbent vice president (Kamala Harris).{{Cite news |last=Elving |first=Ron |date=September 7, 2024 |title=Debates have proved a tough test for vice presidents running for president |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/09/06/nx-s1-5101642/debates-have-proved-a-tough-test-for-vice-presidents-running-for-president |url-status=live |access-date=February 16, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241226113144/https://www.npr.org/2024/09/06/nx-s1-5101642/debates-have-proved-a-tough-test-for-vice-presidents-running-for-president |archive-date=December 26, 2024}}

=Prosecutions=

First president to be indicted by a grand jury in a state case.{{Cite web |last=Feinberg |first=Andrew |date=2023-03-30 |title=Donald Trump indicted over hush money payments in Stormy Daniels probe |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-stormy-daniels-charged-b2299280.html |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=The Independent}}
First president to be indicted by a grand jury in a federal case.[https://www.npr.org/live-updates/trump-indictment-documents-grand-jury Live updates: Trump faces 37 federal counts in the grand jury's indictment]
First president to be indicted by a grand jury in a federal case for actions taken while in office.{{Cite web |last=Wilner |first=Michael |date=August 2, 2023 |title=Trump's first two indictments could mean prison. His third could change the presidency. |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article277831393.html |website=Miami Herald}}
First president to stand trial for state criminal charges.{{Cite web |last1=Katersky |first1=Aaron |last2=Charalambous |first2=Peter |last3=Bruggeman |first3=Lucien |last4=Rubin |first4=Olivia |date=April 15, 2024 |title=Trump hush money trial live updates: Judge sets hearing on holding Trump in contempt |website=ABC News |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/trump-hush-money-trial/?id=108402689 |access-date=April 15, 2024}}
First president to be found guilty of committing felony offenses.{{Cite web |date=2024-05-30 |title=Guilty: Trump becomes first former US president convicted of felony crimes |url=https://apnews.com/article/trump-trial-deliberations-jury-testimony-verdict-85558c6d08efb434d05b694364470aa0 |access-date=2024-05-31 |website=AP News |language=en}}
First president to be sentenced for a felony offense.{{Cite web | last=Ramey | first=Corinne | date=2025-01-10 | title=Trump Becomes First Former President Sentenced for Felony| url=https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-sentencing-hush-money-new-york-9f9282bc?mod=djem10point |access-date=2025-01-11 |website=Wall Street Journal}}
First president to have a police booking photograph taken of them,{{Cite news |last=Friedman |first=Vanessa |date=August 25, 2023 |title=A Trump Mug Shot for History |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/style/trump-mugshot.html |url-status=live |access-date=November 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230825043047/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/style/trump-mugshot.html/ |archive-date=August 25, 2023}} as well as display said photograph in the White House.{{Cite news |last=Roeloffs |first=Mary Whitfill |date=February 14, 2025 |title=Trump Frames 2023 Mug Shot—Hangs It Outside The Oval Office |work=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2025/02/14/trump-frames-2023-mug-shot-hangs-it-outside-the-oval-office/ |url-status=live |access-date=February 14, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250214181949/https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2025/02/14/trump-frames-2023-mug-shot-hangs-it-outside-the-oval-office/ |archive-date=February 14, 2025}}{{Cite news |author=TOI World Desk |date=February 14, 2025 |title=Spotted during PM Narendra Modi's vist, Donald Trump's mugshot in Oval Office |work=Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/modi-trump-mugshot-oval-office-white-house/articleshow/118246010.cms |url-status=live |access-date=February 14, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250214182521/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/modi-trump-mugshot-oval-office-white-house/articleshow/118246010.cms |archive-date=February 14, 2025}}

=Cabinet=

{{further|First cabinet of Donald Trump|Second cabinet of Donald Trump}}

First president to appoint an Indian American to a non-Vice President Cabinet-level position (Nikki Haley, as Ambassador to the United Nations).{{Cite news |date=January 26, 2017 |title=Trump pleased Nikki Haley first Indian-American cabinet official |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/trump-pleased-nikki-haley-first-indian-american-cabinet-official/story-79wZMt9koWYheXTlMWqa4H.html |access-date=July 10, 2017 |work=Hindustan Times}}
First president to appoint an openly gay person to serve in an acting Cabinet-level position (Richard Grenell, as Director of National Intelligence).{{Cite news |last1=Barnes |first1=Julian |last2=Haberman |first2=Maggie |date=February 19, 2020 |title=Trump Names Richard Grenell as Acting Head of Intelligence |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/19/us/politics/dni-national-intelligence-director-grenell.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201219111410/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/19/us/politics/dni-national-intelligence-director-grenell.html |archive-date=December 19, 2020 |access-date=December 21, 2020 |work=The New York Times}}
First president to appoint a female White House Chief of Staff (Susie Wiles).{{cite web | url=https://apnews.com/article/trump-susie-wiles-transition-white-house-f917aa91b030d836b3bac01659b6fab4 | title=President-elect Trump names Susie Wiles as chief of staff, making her first woman in the post | website=Associated Press News | date=November 7, 2024 }}
First president to appoint a Latino American as Secretary of State (Marco Rubio).{{cite web | url=https://katv.com/news/nation-world/florida-senator-marco-rubio-nominated-to-be-first-hispanic-secretary-of-state-donal-trump-administration-cuban-american| title=Sen. Marco Rubio nominated to be first Hispanic secretary of state | date=November 13, 2024 }}
First president to appoint a Pacific Islander American and Hindu to a Cabinet-level position (Tulsi Gabbard, as Director of National Intelligence).{{Cite news |date=November 14, 2024 |title=Who is Tulsi Gabbard, first US Hindu lawmaker named as Trump's spy chief? |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/world/us-news/story/donald-trump-cabinet-tulsi-gabbard-profile-hindu-congresswomen-director-of-national-intelligence-us-spy-agencies-2633091-2024-11-14 |access-date=January 16, 2025 |work=India Today}}{{cite web | url=https://www.muslimnetwork.tv/trump-appoints-first-hindu-to-cabinet-level-position/| title=Trump appoints first Hindu to cabinet-level position |date=November 15, 2024 }}
First president to have a vice president cast a tie breaking vote for a cabinet nominee (Betsy DeVos, as Secretary of Education).{{cite web | url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/317379-gop-senator-to-vote-no-on-betsy-devos/ | title=Two GOP senators to vote no on Betsy DeVos |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240403030537/https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/317379-gop-senator-to-vote-no-on-betsy-devos/ |archive-date=2024-04-03 |first=Jordain |last=Carney |publisher=The Hill}}
First president to have a separate vice president cast a tie breaking vote for a cabinet nominee (Pete Hegseth, as Secretary of Defense).{{cite news |title=Hegseth confirmed as Pentagon chief after Vance breaks tie vote in U.S. Senate |url=https://coloradonewsline.com/2025/01/25/dc/hegseth-confirmed-pentagon-chief/ |publisher=Colorado Newsline |last=Miranda |first=Shauneen |date=2025-01-25 |access-date=2025-02-08}}

=Other appointments=

First president to appoint a Hasidic Jew to an U.S. administration position requiring Senate confirmation (Mitchell Silk).{{Cite web |date=February 20, 2020 |title=Senate confirms Chassidic Jew for first-ever senior position in US administration |url=https://www.jns.org/senate-confirms-chassidic-jew-for-first-ever-senior-position-in-us-administration/ |access-date=April 23, 2020 |publisher=JNS.org}}{{Cite news |last=Nahmias |first=Omri |title=First-ever hassidic Jew appointed as US assistant secretary – The Jerusalem Post |url=https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/first-ever-hassidic-jew-appointed-as-us-assistant-secretary-625450 |access-date=April 23, 2020 |work=The Jerusalem Post | Jpost.com |publisher=Jpost.com}}
First president to appoint a Indian American and Hindu to FBI Director position (Kash Patel, as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation).{{Cite news |date=November 14, 2024 |title=Indian origin kash patel takes oath on bhagavad gita as fbi director |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/watch-indian-origin-kash-patel-takes-oath-on-bhagavad-gita-as-fbi-director-us-trump/articleshow/118464153.cms-2025-02-22 |access-date=February 22, 2025 |work=Times of India}}{{cite web | url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/kash-patel-sworn-in-at-white-house-as-new-fbi-director-calls-it-the-greatest-honor/article69250091.ece |title=Kash Patel sworn in at White House as new FBI Director, calls it the greatest honor |date=March 2, 2025 |access-date=March 2, 2025 |work=The Hindu}}

Joe Biden (2021–2025)

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First president to hold the office over the age of 78.{{efn| Biden was 78 years and 61 days old when he was sworn in as president, beating the previous age record held by Ronald Reagan, who was 77 years and 349 days old on his last day as president.}}{{cite web|last=McCormick|first=John|date=January 16, 2021|title=Biden to Eclipse Reagan as Oldest President as Washington Leadership Ages|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-to-eclipse-reagan-as-oldest-president-as-washington-leadership-ages-11610809201|access-date=January 21, 2021|website=The Wall Street Journal}}[https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/real-estate/a33809100/joe-biden-real-estate-homes/ All of Joe Biden's Homes, In Photos]" Town & Country. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
First president to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom prior to taking office.Shear, Michael D. January 12, 2017. "[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/politics/joe-biden-presidential-medal-freedom.html Obama surprises Biden with Presidential Medal of Freedom]" New York Times. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
First president to have a sign language interpreter participate in the White House press briefings on a daily basis.Joseph Choi. January 25, 2021. "[https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/535723-white-house-commits-to-sign-language-interpreter-at-every-press White House commits to sign language interpreter at every press briefing]" Retrieved The Hill. February 2, 2021.
First president to formally recognize the Armenian genocide.{{cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/24/joe-biden-armenian-genocide-recognition|title=Biden becomes first US president to recognise Armenian genocide|date=April 24, 2021|website=the Guardian}}{{cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/e2-80-9cof-course-it-e2-80-99s-genocide-e2-80-9d-how-biden-fulfilled-a-promise-to-armenians-that-obama-wouldn-e2-80-99t/ar-BB1g0Bom|title="Of course it's genocide": How Biden fulfilled a promise to Armenians that Obama wouldn't|website=www.msn.com}}{{cite web |last1=Arakelian |first1=Chris |title=Statement by President Joe Biden on Armenian Remembrance Day |url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/24/statement-by-president-joe-biden-on-armenian-remembrance-day/ |website=The White House |date=April 24, 2021 |access-date=April 24, 2021}}
First president to formally recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day.{{cite news

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First president to win over 80 million votes in an election (in 2020).{{cite web| url = https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-popular-vote-record-barack-obama-us-presidential-election-donald-trump/| title= Joe Biden breaks Obama's record for most votes ever cast for a U.S. presidential candidate| author= Lewis, Sophie| publisher = CBS News| date = December 7, 2020| access-date= November 25, 2021}}
First president to attend the Maccabiah Games.{{Cite news|url=https://jweekly.com/2022/07/15/biden-becomes-first-us-president-to-make-an-appearance-at-the-maccabiah-jewish-olympics/|title=Biden is first US president to attend Maccabiah 'Jewish Olympics'|newspaper=J |date=July 15, 2022 |last1=Wilensky |first1=David A. M. }}
First president to turn 80 while in office.{{cite web |date=November 20, 2022 |title=Joe Biden celebrates his 80th birthday |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/20/politics/joe-biden-80th-birthday/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230217035753/https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/20/politics/joe-biden-80th-birthday/index.html |archive-date=February 17, 2023 |website=CNN}}
First president to meet with two British monarchs while in office (Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III).{{cite news |last1=Henni |first1=Janine |title=King Charles Welcomes President Joe Biden to Windsor Castle for First Formal Meeting of Royal Reign |url=https://people.com/king-charles-president-joe-biden-windsor-castle-meeting-first-royal-reign-7558110 |access-date=28 November 2023 |work=People}}
First president to travel to an active conflict zone not controlled by the American military (Ukraine).{{Cite news |last1=Baker |first1=Peter |last2=Shear |first2=Michael D. |date=2023-02-21 |title=Biden's Surreal and Secretive Journey Into a War Zone |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/us/politics/biden-kyiv-ukraine.html |access-date=2023-02-21 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221203641/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/us/politics/biden-kyiv-ukraine.html |url-status=live }}
First president to join a picket line while in office.{{cite news |last1=Nicholas |first1=Peter |title=Biden makes history by joining striking autoworkers on the picket line |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-makes-history-striking-auto-workers-picket-line-rcna117348 |access-date=26 September 2023 |work=NBC News}}
First president to bring a rescue dog to the White House (Major).Martichoux, Alix. November 7, 2020. "[https://abc7news.com/joe-biden-dogs-dog-major-first-rescue-in-the-white-house-dotus/7752660/ Joe Biden will bring first rescue dog to the White House]" ABC7. Retrieved January 19, 2021.{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-bidens-dogs-shepherd-in-new-era-of-presidential-pets-at-the-white-house-11611160275|title=Joe Biden's Dogs Shepherd In New Era of Presidential Pets at the White House|website=Wall Street Journal}}
First president to have one of his children convicted in a criminal trial while in office.{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/11/hunter-biden-gun-trial-guilty-verdict-00162694|title=Hunter Biden found guilty on federal gun charges|first1=Betsy Woodruff|last1=Swan|first2=Josh|last2=Gerstein|work=Politico|date=June 11, 2024|accessdate=June 11, 2024}}
First president to participate in a televised debate against a former president (Donald Trump) while in office.
First president to be subject to the presidential immunity doctrine established in Trump v. United States (2024).{{Cite web |title=Biden Misfires On Presidential Immunity |url=https://www.hoover.org/research/biden-misfires-presidential-immunity |access-date=2024-12-27 |website=Hoover Institution |language=en}}
First president to suspend their reelection campaign after winning their party's primary.{{Cite web |last=Samuelsohn |first=Chris Kenning and Darren |title='It's unprecedented': Biden's exit is a history-making moment in the American presidency |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/22/biden-drops-out-presidential-history/74491426007/ |access-date=2024-07-24 |website=USA Today |language=en-US}}
First president to visit the Amazon rainforest while in office.{{cite web|title=Biden makes historic visit to the Amazon rainforest|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-makes-historic-visit-amazon-rainforest/story?id=115951084|last1=Presha|first1=Alex|last2=Stoddart|first2=Michelle|date=November 17, 2024|access-date=November 17, 2024|website=ABCNews.go.com|publisher=ABC News}}
First president to visit Cape Verde and Angola while in office.{{cite web|title=Biden first US president to visit Cape Verde. What Cape Verde's Prime Minister had to say|url=https://www.heraldnews.com/story/news/local/ojornal/2024/12/02/biden-stops-in-cape-verde-en-route-to-angola-meets-with-cape-verdes-pm/76701965007/|date=December 2, 2024|access-date=December 2, 2024|website=heraldnews.com|publisher=The Herald News}}{{cite web|title=FACT SHEET: President Biden's Trip to Angola|url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/02/fact-sheet-president-bidens-trip-to-angola/|access-date=December 2, 2024|website=White House}}
First president to grant a pardon to his child.{{cite web|title=Biden's pardon of his son makes presidential history|url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/01/politics/joe-biden-presidential-history-pardon/index.html|last1=Wolf|first1=Zachary B.|date=December 1, 2024|access-date=December 2, 2024|website=CNN.com|publisher=CNN}}
First president to become a great-grandfather while in office.{{Cite web |last=Hubbard |first=Kaia |date=2025-01-08 |title=President Biden now a great-grandfather as Naomi Biden gives birth to baby boy - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/naomi-biden-baby-joe-biden-great-grandfather/ |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}{{cite web|title=Biden is a great-grandfather|url=https://apnews.com/article/biden-great-grandfather-naomi-20c329dfb930aee351e2ea7eb237cbb1|last1=Superville|first1=Darelene|date=January 8, 2025|access-date=January 9, 2025|website=apnews.com|publisher=The Associated Press}}{{cite web|title=Biden becomes great-grandfather, in likely presidential first|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5075085-joe-biden-becomes-great-grandfather/|last1=Fields|first1=Ashleigh|date=January 8, 2025|access-date=January 9, 2025|website=The Hill}}
First president, alongside Donald Trump, to write an Oval Office letter to and receive one from their successor and predecessor who were both the same person (Donald Trump).

=Cabinet=

First president to serve with a female, Black, Asian-American, Indian American and Tamil American vice president (Kamala Harris).Honderich, Holly and Dissanayake, Samanthi. November 8, 2020. [https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-53728050 "Kamala Harris: The many identities of the first woman vice-president" ].BBC. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
First president to appoint an openly gay person confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve in a cabinet position (Pete Buttigieg, as Secretary of Transportation).{{cite news|url = https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/16/pete-buttigieg-gay-and-out-what-means-bidens-cabinet/3924110001/|title = In stirring speech, Pete Buttigieg makes history again for LGBTQ Americans as first gay cabinet nominee|last = Ramirez|first=Marc|date = December 16, 2020|access-date = December 16, 2020|work = USA Today}}Leslie Josephs. February 2, 2021. "[https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/02/pete-buttigieg-confirmed-by-senate-as-biden-transportation-secretary.html Senate confirms Pete Buttigieg as Transportation secretary]" CNBC. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
First president to appoint a Native American as a Cabinet secretary (Deb Haaland, as Secretary of the Interior).{{Cite news|last1=Dlouhy|first1=Jennifer A.|last2=Epstein|first2=Jennifer|date=December 17, 2020|title=Biden Picks Deb Haaland to Be First Native American Secretary of Interior|language=en|work=Bloomberg|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-17/biden-taps-haaland-to-be-first-native-american-head-of-interior|access-date=December 17, 2020}}{{cite web|last=Rott|first=Nathan|date=December 17, 2020|title=In Historic Move, Biden To Pick Native American Rep. Haaland As Interior Secretary|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/12/17/937259525/in-historic-move-biden-to-pick-native-american-rep-deb-haaland-as-interior-secre|access-date=December 17, 2020|website=NPR}}{{cite web|date=December 18, 2020|first=Erik|last=Ortiz|title="They feel hope": Why Rep. Haaland, nominated as first Native American interior secretary, is meaningful|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/native-americans-rep-haaland-s-nomination-interior-secretary-signals-new-n1251727|access-date=December 19, 2020|website=NBC News}}
First president to appoint an African American as United States Secretary of Defense (Lloyd Austin).{{cite web|date=December 30, 2020|first=Kate|last=Sullivan|title=Here are the historic firsts in Biden's administration|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/30/politics/historic-firsts-biden-administration/index.html |access-date=January 16, 2025|website=CNN}}
First president to appoint a Latino American as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (Xavier Becerra).
First president to appoint a female Director of National Intelligence (Avril Haines).
First president to appoint a Latino American as United States Secretary of Homeland Security (Alejandro Mayorkas).
First president to appoint a female United States Secretary of the Treasury (Janet Yellen).

=Other appointments=

First president to appoint an openly transgender federal official confirmed by the Senate (Rachel Levine, as Assistant Secretary for Health).{{cite news |last1=Rao |first1=Ankita |title=Biden health pick Rachel Levine set to become first trans Senate confirmee |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/19/joe-biden-rachel-levine-transgender-assistant-health-secretary |access-date=January 20, 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=January 19, 2021}}
First president to appoint an African American and openly gay female White House Press Secretary (Karine Jean-Pierre). {{cite news |last1=Gonzales|first=Mike |title=Karine Jean-Pierre Becomes First Black and Openly Gay Press Secretary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/19/joe-biden-rachel-levine-transgender-assistant-health-secretary |access-date=April 23, 2025 |work=The Guardian |date=May 10, 2022}}
First president to have the National Security Council include an official dedicated to climate change (John Kerry, as U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate).Smith, Allan; Bennett, Geoff; Lee, Carol and Welker, Kristen. November 23, 2020. "[https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-harris-meet-mayors-covid-cases-soar-n1248596 Biden picks John Kerry as climate czar, Janet Yellen as treasury secretary]" NBC Universal. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
First president to have a national climate advisor (Gina McCarthy).Natural Resources Defense Council. December 17, 2020. "[https://www.nrdc.org/media/2020/201217-1 NRDC CEO & President Gina McCarthy to Join Biden Administration]" Retrieved January 29, 2021.
First president to appoint an African American to lead the United States Environmental Protection Agency (Michael S. Regan).
First president to appoint a Muslim American as an Article III judge (Zahid Quraishi).{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/zahid-quraishi-united-states-senate-confirmed-first-muslim-federal-judge/|title=Senate confirms Zahid Quraishi as first Muslim federal judge in U.S. History|website=CBS News|date=June 10, 2021 }}
First president to appoint a female and Asian American United States Trade Representative (Katherine Tai).
First president to appoint a Black woman and former federal public defender to the Supreme Court (Ketanji Brown Jackson).{{Cite web |date=2022-04-07 |title=Ketanji Brown Jackson becomes the first Black woman elevated to the Supreme Court |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ketanji-brown-jackson-becomes-the-first-black-woman-elevated-to-the-supreme-court |access-date=2022-04-08 |website=PBS NewsHour |language=en-us}}{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/09/27/justice-ketanji-brown-jackson-chamber/75323573007/|title=A clock, a mural, a petition: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's chambers tell her story|website=USA Today|date=September 27, 2024}}

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External links

[http://www.american-presidents-history.com/presidential-firsts.html Presidential Firsts]
[https://www.inaugural.senate.gov/about/facts-and-firsts Inaugural Firsts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061050/http://www.inaugural.senate.gov/about/facts-and-firsts |date=March 4, 2016 }}
[http://www.ourwhitehouse.org/fieldguidestate.html List of Presidential birthplaces, libraries, museums and graves] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123172152/http://www.ourwhitehouse.org/fieldguidestate.html |date=January 23, 2009 }}

Firsts, presidential

United States Presidential

List of United States presidential firsts#John Quincy Adams (1825–1829)

George Washington (1789–1797)

John Adams (1797–1801)

Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809)

James Madison (1809–1817)

James Monroe (1817–1825)

John Quincy Adams (1825–1829)

Andrew Jackson (1829–1837)

Martin Van Buren (1837–1841)

William Henry Harrison (1841)

John Tyler (1841–1845)

James K. Polk (1845–1849)

Zachary Taylor (1849–1850)

Millard Fillmore (1850–1853)

Franklin Pierce (1853–1857)

James Buchanan (1857–1861)

Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865)

Andrew Johnson (1865–1869)

Ulysses S. Grant (1869–1877)

Rutherford B. Hayes (1877–1881)

James A. Garfield (1881)

Chester A. Arthur (1881–1885)

Grover Cleveland (1885–1889, 1893–1897)

Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893)

William McKinley (1897–1901)

Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909)

William Howard Taft (1909–1913)

Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921)

Warren G. Harding (1921–1923)

Calvin Coolidge (1923–1929)

Herbert Hoover (1929–1933)

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945)

Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961)

John F. Kennedy (1961–1963)

Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–1969)

Richard Nixon (1969–1974)

Gerald Ford (1974–1977)

Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)

Ronald Reagan (1981–1989)

George H. W. Bush (1989–1993)

Bill Clinton (1993–2001)

George W. Bush (2001–2009)

Barack Obama (2009–2017)

Donald Trump (2017–2021, 2025–present)

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Joe Biden (2021–2025)

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