Presidential Firsts

first president to be assassinated

Abraham Lincoln

first president to have Blacks participate in inaugural parade

Abraham Lincoln

first president to receive a patent

Abraham Lincoln

first president to be born in a log cabin

Andrew Jackson

first president to ride in a train

Andrew Jackson

first president to survive assassination attempt

Andrew Jackson

first president to not attend school

Andrew Johnson

first black president

Barack Obama

first president to attend a baseball game

Benjamin Harrison

first president to have electricity in the White House

Benjamin Harrison

first president to be sworn in by former president

Calvin Coolidge

first president to deliver inaugural address by radio

Calvin Coolidge

first president to make a radio broadcast

Calvin Coolidge

first president sworn in at home

Chester Arthur

first president of all 50 states

Dwight Eisenhower

first president to hold pilot's license

Dwight Eisenhower

first president to recite entire inaugural speech by memory

Franklin Pierce

first president to appear on television

Franklin Roosevelt

first president to appoint a woman as Cabinet member

Franklin Roosevelt

first president to begin tradition of morning worship at St. John's church

Franklin Roosevelt

first to make Presidential flight

Franklin Roosevelt

first president on a postage stamp

George Washington

first president to have televised inaugural ceremony

Harry Truman

first millionaire to become president

Herbert Hoover

first president born west of Mississippi River

Herbert Hoover

first president to have telephone at desk

Herbert Hoover

first unmarried man to be elected

James Buchanan

first president to be born in a hospital

James Carter

first president to hold inaugural ball

James Madison

first president to wear trousers rather than breeches

James Madison

first president to ride a steam ship

James Monroe

first president to live in the White House

John Adams

first Boy Scout to become president

John Kennedy

first Catholic president elected

John Kennedy

first president born in 20th century

John Kennedy

first president married to foreign born first lady

John Q. Adams

first president to reach office without receiving popular vote

John Q. Adams

first president to assume presidency upon death of former president

John Tyler

first president to marry while in office

John Tyler

first president to be inaugurated in Washington D.C.

Thomas Jefferson

first president to begin shaking hands with guests

Thomas Jefferson

first president to host an Indian Chief at the White House

Ulysses Grant

first president to host black leaders at the White House

Ulysses Grant

first president to meet the Queen of England

Ulysses Grant

first president to run against a woman

Ulysses Grant

first president to usa a vacation home

Ulysses Grant

first president to view Pacific Ocean

Ulysses Grant

first president to visit Egypt

Ulysses Grant

first president to visit Great Wall of China

Ulysses Grant

first president to visit Hawaii

Ulysses Grant

first president to visit Holy Land

Ulysses Grant

first president to visit Japan

Ulysses Grant

first president to visit Russia/Asia

Ulysses Grant

first president to ride to and from inauguration in automobile

Warren Harding

first president to be a Rhodes Scholar

William Clinton

first president to have inauguration live on the internet

William Clinton

first president to deliver inaugural address longer thatn 8,000 words

William Harrison

first president to die in office

William Harrison

first president to own a automobile

William Taft

first president to throw out first pitch at beginning of MLB season

William Taft

first and only president buried in Washington D.C.

Woodrow Wilson

first and only president with Ph.D

Woodrow Wilson

first president to hold regular news briefings

Woodrow Wilson

first president to visit foreign country

Woodrow Wilson

first president sworn in by a woman

Lyndon Johnson

first president born after signing of Declaration of Independence

Martin Van Buren

first president born as citizen of United States

Martin Van Buren

first president to have a stepmother

Millard Fillmore

first president to resign from office

Richard Nixon

first president to visit all 50 states

Richard Nixon

first president to appoint woman to Supreme Court

Ronald Reagan

first president to be divorced

Ronald Reagan

first president to visit West Coast

Rutherford Hayes

first president to travel abroad while in office

Theodore Roosevelt