In the view of the recent US Presidential election of 2020, today, we'll learn some interesting facts about the greatest Presidents of the United States of America.
Presidents & the Firsts
- Total no. of US Presidents – 46.
- First President of the United States – George Washington (1789).
- Father of His Country.
- First US President to appear on a Postage Stamp.
- First President to appear on the $1 bill and the quarter.
- Only US President who did not represent a Political Party.
- Only US president who received 100% of the Electoral Votes.
- Only Unanimously Elected President by the Electoral College for two times(1789 & 1792).
- First President to be born in the United States – Martin Van Buren (New York).
- First & Only US President who served more than Two Terms – Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- President for the longest duration – Franklin D. Roosevelt (12 years).
- First President who served Two Non-consecutive Terms – Grover Cleveland (1885 – 1889 & 1893 – 1897, 22nd & 24th respectively.)
- First American President to be impeached – Andrew Johnson (February 24, 1868).
- Impeached under Article Two of the United States Constitution.
- First US President to run against a Woman Candidate – Ulysses S. Grant (against Virginia Woodhull of “Equal Rights Party” in 1872).
- Established America’s First National Park, Yellowstone (March 1, 1872).
- First Hollywood Actor to be Elected as American President – Ronald Reagan (acted in 53 films).
- First US President to name an African American to his Cabinet – Lyndon B.Johnson.
- First Person to become Vice President and later President Without being Elected to either Office – Gerald Ford.
- First & Only U.S. President to Resign from Office – Richard Nixon (August 9, 1974, 37th President).
- First African American President – Barack Obama (2009).
- First President born outside the Contiguous United States – Barack Obama (Honolulu, Hawaii).
- Youngest American President – John F. Kennedy.
- First Roman Catholic President – John F. Kennedy.
- First President to have served in the U.S. Navy – John F. Kennedy.
- First & Only President to win a Pulitzer Prize – John F. Kennedy (“Profiles in Courage”, biography).
- First President to receive Purple Heart, the gallantry award (for his heroic service as a gunboat pilot in WWII on June, 1944).
- Oldest Elected President – Joe Biden (78 years old).
- Old Living US President – Jimmy Carter (96 years old).
Presidents & White House
- Official Residence of the President of America – White House (Washington, D.C.).
- The President who chose the site for the White House – George Washington (1791).
- First President to reside in White Office – John Adams (1800).
- First American President to call his residence the “White House” – Theodore Roosevelt (Former Names - Executive Mansion & President’s House)
- First US President to host an Indian Chief in the White House – Ulysses S. Grant.
- First and Only US President to be married in the White House – Grover Cleveland (June 2, 1886).
- First American President who opened the White House for public tours – Thomas Jefferson.
Presidents & Technology
- First US President to have his Inauguration Reported by Telegraph – James K. Polk.
- First American President to be Photographed – John Quincy Adams (Son of John Adams).
- First President to address the nation over the Radio – Warren Harding.
- First President to use a Telephone (Phone no: 1) – Rutherford B. Hayes.
- First US President to Campaign by Telephone – William McKinley.
- First President to ride in an Automobile – William McKinley.
- First American President to appear on TV – Franklin D. Roosevelt (April 30, 1939, opening ceremonies of the World's Fair).
- First President to ride in an Airplane – Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- First American President to give a speech on Television – Harry S. Truman.
- First US President to Travel Underwater in a Submarine.
- First President Licensed to Fly an Airplane – Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- Only US President who served in both World War I & World War II.
Presidents & Travels
- First US President to Travel Outside America – Theodore Roosevelt (to Panama).
- First U.S. President to visit all 50 states – Richard Nixon.
- First US President to visit the West Coast – Rutherford B. Hayes.
- Total No. of US Presidential Visits to India – 8.
- First American President to visit India – Dwight D. Eisenhower(1959).
- First American President to address Indian Parliament – Jimmy Carter (1978).
- First American President to visit China – Richard Nixon.
Presidents & Nobel Prize
- Total no.of Presidents to receive Nobel Prize – 4 (Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter & Barack Obama).
- First American to win the Nobel Peace Prize – Theodore Roosevelt (1906, for his efforts in Russo-Japanese War).
- US President to receive Nobel Peace Prize after leaving Office – Jimmy Carter (2002).
Presidents & Deaths
- No.of Presidents Assassinated – 4 (Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley & John F. Kennedy).
- First American president to be assassinated – Abraham Lincoln (April 14, 1865, shot by John Wilkes Booth at Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C.).
- No. of American Presidents Who Died In Office – 8 (William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, Warren G. Harding, Franklin D. Roosevelt & John F. Kennedy).
- First US President to die in Office – William Henry Harrison (32 days after being elected).
- President for the Shortest Duration – William Henry Harrison.
- Youngest President to Die in Office – John F. Kennedy (46 years old).
Miscellaneous
- Only US President who never married – James Buchanan.
- American President who won Grammy Award Twice – Bill Clinton.
- Last Founding Father to Serve as American President – James Monroe.
- The term “O.K.” is credited to be introduced by US President – Martin Van Buren.
- The U.S. President who signed the treaty to purchase Alaska from Russia – Andrew Johnson.
- Only American President who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court – William H. Taft (1921-1930).
- Also Swore in Two other US Presidents, Calvin Coolidge & Herbert Hoover.
- The President who approved “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the national anthem of the USA – Herbert Hoover.
- First U.S. Vice President who ascended to the Presidency upon the death of a President – John Tyler.
** Updated according to current statistics as of 21/1/2021.
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