List of United States Presidential firsts

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
  • First President of the United States.[1]
  • First President to appear on a postage stamp.[1]
  • First President to be a Freemason.[2]
  • First President to receive votes from every Presidential elector in an election (in both the 1789 and 1792 elections; each elector voted for Washington and for another candidate).[3]
  • First President to add "So help me God" to the Oath of Office.[4]
  • First President to command a standing field army while in office (during the Whiskey Rebellion).[5]
  • First President to have been a lieutenant general.
  • First President to have a parent live to see him be elected and become President (His mother Mary was still alive when he took office on April 30, 1789. She died four months later in August).
  • First President to be an Episcopalian.[6]
  • First President from Virginia.[7]
  • First President to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
  • First President to be younger than his wife.
  • First President to have signed the United States Constitution.
  • First President to have a ship named after him.
  • First President to have a submarine named after him.[8]
  • First President to appear on a US coin (1900 commemorative).

John Adams (1797–1801)

John Adams was the first President to live in the White House
  • First President to live in the White House.[9]
  • First President to have previously served as Vice-President.[10]
  • First President to have previously served as an Ambassador to a foreign country.[11]:49
  • First President elected as a Federalist.
  • First President to be a lawyer.[12]
  • First President who had never served in the military.[13][14]
  • First President to not be a slave owner.[15]
  • First President to be a Unitarian.
  • First President to wear a powdered wig.[16](Washington powdered his own hair.)[17]
  • First President from Massachusetts.[7]
  • First President who attended one of the Ivy League colleges.[11]:49
  • First President to attend Harvard College.
  • First President to have children of his own (Washington was a stepfather).[18]
  • First President whose son (John Quincy Adams) was also a President.
  • First President to have a post-presidency of more than 25 years (Adams left office in 1801, and died on 4 July 1826, 25 years, 122 days after leaving office).
  • First President to be married for 50 years (John and Abigail Adams, were married for 54 years, 3 days).
  • First President to begin his presidency on March 4 (In his case, 1797).[19]
  • First President to receive the oath of office from a Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court[20]
  • First President to veto no bills while in office.[21]
  • First President to have a child die while in office.[22]
  • First President to be defeated for a second term in office.[23]
  • First President to not attend the inauguration of his successor.[19] He did not attend Jefferson's inauguration.
  • First President to be over the age of 60 upon entering office.
  • First President to live to the age of 90.[23]
  • First President to have signed the Declaration of Independence.[24]
  • First President to have met a British monarch, having met George III of the United Kingdom while serving as Ambassador to Britain.
  • First President to have had a Secretary of the Navy.
  • First President to be widowed (His wife died on October 28, 1818. He outlived her for 7 years, 249 days.

Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809)

  • First President to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.[20]
  • First President inaugurated in the 19th century.
  • First President whose inauguration was not attended by his immediate predecessor.[25] John Adams did not attend his inauguration.
  • First President to live a full presidential term in the White House.[26]
  • First President elected as a Democratic-Republican.
  • First President to have previously been a Governor.[13]
  • First President to have been Ambassador to France.
  • First President to have previously served as Secretary of State.[27]
  • First President to defeat the man (Adams) whom he had previously lost to in a Presidential election.[11]:48
  • First President to have been widowed prior to his inauguration (Martha Jefferson, his wife, died in 1782, 19 years before he was inaugurated).[11]:147
  • First President whose election was decided in the House of Representatives.[28]
  • First President to cite the doctrine of executive privilege.[29]
  • First president to have a vice president elected under the 12th Amendment. Originally the runner-up in the presidential election was named vice president.[30]
  • First President to have two Vice Presidents (Aaron Burr and George Clinton were his Vice Presidents).
  • First President whose vice president was older than him (George Clinton was born in 1739, four years older than Jefferson).
  • First President to be a Deist.
  • First President to win election after having been previously defeated.
  • First President who died on Independence Day (Along with his predecessor John Adams).
  • First President to be survived by his predecessor as President (He was survived by John Adams, who died five hours later).
  • First President to serve as Rector of the University of Virginia.[31]

James Madison (1809–1817)

James Monroe (1817–1825)

  • First President to have served in the United States Senate.[37]
  • First President to have a child marry at the White House (His daughter Mary married in 1820 at the Blue Room on the State Floor of the White House).[38]
  • First President to ride on a steamboat.[39]
  • First President to have served as Secretary of War.
  • First President to issue a doctrine, the Monroe Doctrine.
  • First President to be physically accosted (attacked) while in office.

John Quincy Adams (1825–1829)

Philip Haas took this daguerrotype of John Quincy Adams in 1843.
  • First President to be the son of another President (He was the son of John Adams).[40]
  • First President whose father lived to see him become president (His father, former President John Adams, was still alive when he took office, and died in 1826).[36]
  • First President to have a son marry at the White House (His son John Adams II married in the Blue Room on February 25, 1828.) [38]
  • First President elected despite receiving less votes than his opponent.[11]:48
  • First President to not win a majority of electoral votes.
  • First President to have facial hair. (He wore long sideburns).
  • First President to have been inaugurated wearing long trousers instead of knee breeches.[41]
  • First President to serve in Congress after serving in the Presidency.[42]
  • First President to be succeeded by a President older than him (Both Adams and his successor Andrew Jackson were born in 1767, but Jackson was born in March, while Adams was born in July).
  • First President to have been Ambassador to the Netherlands, Germany, and Russia.

Andrew Jackson (1829–1837)

  • First President to pay off the entire National Debt.[43]
  • First President born in a log cabin.[44]
  • First President born in the Carolinas (Place of birth disputed between North and South Carolina).
  • First President born to immigrant parents (His parents and two brothers emigrated from Ireland in 1765).[45]
  • First President born after the death of his father (His father died in February 1767, around three weeks before he was born).[46]
  • First President to be a Presbyterian.
  • First President elected as Democrat to the Presidency.[47]
  • First President to have been a Major general.
  • First President to be inaugurated at the East Portico of the United States Capitol Building.
  • First President to marry a divorced woman.
  • First President to kill someone in a duel.[48]
  • First President to be targeted by an assassin.[49]
  • First President to be older than his predecessor.
  • First President to ride on a railroad train.[50]
  • First President to appoint a Catholic (Roger Taney) to the Supreme Court.
  • First President to be elected by white men of all classes in 1828 after most laws barring non-land-owners from voting were repealed.
  • First President whose home state was not also his birth state (His birth state is disputed between North and South Carolina, while he resided in Tennessee at the time of his election).
  • First President to be an orphan. (His father died in 1767 just before he was born and his mother died in 1781 when he was fourteen).
  • First President to have had a Vice President resign (John C. Calhoun in 1832).
  • First President to be censured by the US Senate, although it was expunged in 1837.[51]
  • First President to win a plurality of the vote in three consecutive elections (1824, 1828, & 1832).

Martin Van Buren (1837–1841)

  • First President born a citizen of the United States, rather than a British subject.
  • First President born in New York state.
  • First President born after the Declaration of Independence.[20]
  • First President who spoke a language other than English as his first language.[52] (Dutch was his first language)
  • First President to be of the Dutch Reformed faith.
  • First President to outlive four of his successors.
  • First President to have served as a State Attorney General, having served as Attorney General of New York from 1815 to 1819.

William Henry Harrison (1841)

  • First President elected as a Whig to the Presidency.[47]
  • First President from Ohio.[53]
  • First President to have 10 or more children (He had 10 children from his wife Anna Harrison, and is allegedly believed to have a daughter from a slave).[18]
  • First President to be born in the same county as his Vice-President.[54]
  • First President to not appoint anyone to the Supreme Court
  • First President to not issue an Executive order
  • First President to give an inaugural address of more than 5,000 words.[55]
  • First President whose grandson (Benjamin Harrison) was also a President.
  • First President to have his photograph taken while in office.[56]
  • First President to be over the age of 65 upon entering office (He was aged 68 when he took office).
  • First President to die in office.[57]
  • First President to have been a Brigadier general.
  • First President to serve as Ambassador to a South American country, having served as United States Minister to Gran Colombia from 1828 to 1829.

John Tyler (1841–1845)

James K. Polk (1845–1849)

Zachary Taylor (1849–1850)

  • First President who had served in no prior elected office.[70]
  • First President to serve in the Mexican–American War.[7]
  • First President to take office while his party held a minority of seats in the U.S. Senate.[71]
  • First President to win election with his party holding no majority in either house of Congress.[72]
  • First President to reside in Louisiana.
  • First President to be elected while winning the same number of states as his opponent. Both Taylor and his opponent Lewis Cass won 15 states.
  • First President to win the U.S. presidential election in November.
  • First President to have had a Secretary of the Interior.
  • First President to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal more than once (he was awarded it three times).[73]

Millard Fillmore (1850–1853)

  • First President to establish a permanent White House library.[48]
  • First President born in the 1800s.[74]
  • First President born after the death of a previous President (Fillmore was born 24 days after the death of George Washington).
  • First President to remarry after leaving office. He remarried in 1858 to Caroline Carmichael McIntosh.
  • First President to leave office while his father was alive.[36] He left office in 1853 and his father Nathaniel Fillmore died in 1863.

Franklin Pierce (1853–1857)

  • First President born in New Hampshire.
  • First President to install central heating in the White House.[39]
  • First President born in the 19th century (November 23, 1804).[74]
  • First President to deliver his inaugural address from memory.[75]
  • First President who had been elected to actively seek reelection but be defeated for nomination for a second term by his party.[76][77]

James Buchanan (1857–1861)

  • First President born in Pennsylvania.
  • First President to be a bachelor.[39][57]
  • First President to meet a member of the British Royal Family while in office. (He met the future King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, in 1860 during his tour of America).
  • First President to have his inauguration photographed.

Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865)

Abraham Lincoln was the first President to be assassinated.

Andrew Johnson (1865–1869)

  • First President to ascend to the Presidency by the assassination of his predecessor.[80]
  • First President to be impeached by the House of Representatives.[81]
  • First President to serve in the United States Senate after being President.[81]
  • First President to have been mayor of a town, having been mayor of Greeneville, Tennessee.
  • First President to issue more than twenty vetoes.[21]
  • First President to have more than ten vetoes overridden.[21]

Ulysses S. Grant (1869–1877)

Ulysses S. Grant, here shortly before his death, was the first President to write a memoir.

Rutherford B. Hayes (1877–1881)

James A. Garfield (1881)

  • First President to be elected to the Presidency directly from the House of Representatives.[91]
  • First President to be left-handed or ambidextrous.[92]
  • First President to die before reaching the age of 50.[93]
  • First President to have served as a University President.[94][95]

Chester A. Arthur (1881–1885)

  • First President born in Vermont.[96]
  • First President to take the oath of office in his own home.[97]
  • First President to have an elevator installed in the White House.[88]
  • First President to have been appointed to a non-cabinet or ambassadorial federal office, having been appointed Collector of the Port of New York by Ulysses S. Grant in 1871.

Grover Cleveland (1885–1889;1893–1897)

Grover Cleveland was the first President to serve non-consecutive terms, and the first President to be married (to Frances Folsom) at the White House
  • First President born in New Jersey.
  • First President to get married at the White House.[38]
  • First President to have a child born in the White House.[39][98]
  • First President to serve non-consecutive terms.[57]
  • First President to win two terms without winning a majority of the vote (1884 & 1892).
  • First President to win a plurality of the vote in three consecutive elections without ever winning a majority (1884, 1888, & 1892).
  • First President to be filmed.[99]
  • First President to veto more than 100 bills, with over 500, including over 200 pocket vetos.[21]
  • First President to have had a Secretary of Agriculture.

Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893)

  • First President to have a lighted Christmas tree at the White House.[11]:48
  • First President to be a grandson of another President (W. H. Harrison)
  • First President to have electric lighting installed in the White House.[88]
  • First President to have his voice recorded.[100]
  • First President from Indiana.

William McKinley (1897–1901)

Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909)

When Theodore Roosevelt visited the Panama Canal Zone, he was the first President to travel outside the United States when President

William Howard Taft (1909–1913)

William Howard Taft was the first President to also serve on the United States Supreme Court

Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921)

Warren G. Harding (1921–1923)

Calvin Coolidge (1923–1929)

Herbert Hoover (1929–1933)

  • First President born west of the Mississippi River and first born in Iowa.[140]
  • First President to have a telephone on his desk.[111]
  • First President to have a post-presidency of more than 30 years.[141] Hoover left office in 1933, and died in 1964. He died 31 years, 230 days after leaving office.
  • First President who was a Quaker.[142]
  • First President to have served as Secretary of Commerce.

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)

Following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson became the first President to be inaugurated on an airplane and the first President to be sworn in by a woman. The inauguration is shown in the photo above.

Richard Nixon (1969–1974)

Gerald Ford (1974–1977)

Gerald Ford, here being sworn in by Warren Burger, was the first man to ascend to the Presidency without being elected to either the offices of the President or Vice-President.

Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)

  1. Ongoing.

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–present)

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