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Who was the first president born in a hospital?

Jimmy Carter. Carter, born in Georgia in 1924, was the first POTUS born in a hospital.

Who was the first Phi Beta Kappa to be president of the United States?

Chester A. Arthur. Arthur was also the first, and only, president alleged to have been born outside of the United States. Recent research seems to support claims that he was born in Canada, not Vermont.

Who was the first president to be born in a log cabin?

Andrew Jackson. Jackson, who was born in 1767, was also the first president not from Virginia or Massachusetts.

Who was the first president elected unanimously by the Electoral College?

George Washington. Washington, the only president elected unanimously, received all 69 votes cast in the first presidential election.

Who was the first president to play golf?

William Taft. Taft was also the first president to throw out the first pitch of the baseball season. He was also the first president to weigh in at over 300 pounds.

Who was the first U.S. president to have worked as a fashion model?

Gerald Ford. While studying law at Yale, Ford was photographed by a "Look" magazine photographer modeling ski clothes on the slopes.

Who was the first Republican president of the United States?

Abraham Lincoln. The Republican Party was formed in the early 1850's. Lincoln was it's first successful presidential nominee.

Who was the first president to appear live on national television?

Dwight Eisenhower. FDR had appeared earlier on local television, but Eisenhower was the first on national television.

Who was the first president to occupy the White House?

John Adams. When the Adams family moved into the White House in 1797 it was known simply as the President's House.

Who was the first president to hold a PhD?

Woodrow Wilson. Wilson received his PhD in political science from Johns Hopkins University in 1885.

Who was the first president to be a graduate of Harvard?

John Adams. Harvard has produced more presidents than any other school, and John Adams was the first.

Who was the first president born in the 20th century?

John F. Kennedy. Although four subsequent presidents were born earlier in the 20th century than Kennedy, he was the first in office to be born in that century.

Who was the first president to engage in combat while in office?

James Madison. Madison is the only U.S. president to see combat while in office. During the War of 1812 he briefly took command of an artillery unit trying to stop the British march on Washington.

Who was the first president to also serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

William H. Taft. Taft was president from 1909-1913. He was the Chief Justice from 1921 until his death in 1930. No other man has held both jobs.

Who was the first president to visit all 50 states while in office?

Richard Nixon. Nixon was also the first president to resign from office.

Who was the first president to speak over the radio?

Warren G. Harding. Harding spoke over the radio at the Minnesota State Fair in 1920.

Who was the first president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C.?

Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson was inaugurated in Washington D.C. on March 4, 1801. He was also allegedly the first president to have illegitimate children.

Who was the first president born on the Fourth of July?

Calvin Coolidge. Adams and Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826. Coolidge was born on the Fourth of July in 1872.

Who was the first president born on the West Coast?

Richard Nixon. Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California in 1913.

Who was the first U.S. president to be a West Point graduate?

Ulysses S. Grant. Grant graduated near the bottom of his class at West Point.

Who was the first "uneducated" president, without a formal education?

Andrew Johnson. Andrew Johnson was a tailor's apprentice in his youth and was illiterate when he got married at eighteen. His wife taught him how to read and write.

Who was the first president born west of the Mississippi?

Herbert Hoover. Hoover was born in Iowa in 1874.

Who was the first left-handed president?

James Garfield. Garfield, who served for a short period in 1881, could actually write with either hand although we was a lefty.

Who was the first president to have cancer surgery?

Grover Cleveland. A part of Cleveland's upper jaw was removed in 1893 after a cancerous growth was discovered on the roof of his mouth. The surgery was kept secret and not revealed until 1917, nine years after Cleveland's death.

Who was the first president to be assassinated?

Abraham Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln in 1865.