First and only president to win unanimously by the Electoral College.
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First president to live in the White House.
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First president to travel on a steamboat.
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First and only president to speak eight foreign languages, either partially or fluently.
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First president born as a U.S. citizen, as he was born after the Declaration of Independence was signed.
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First president to die in office. After only 32 days, his tenure was the shortest.
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First president to leave office with no estate or independent wealth awaiting him.
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First president to be assassinated in office.
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First president to graduate from West Point, and the first to have served in the Civil War.
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First president to enact a general federal immigration law — restricting poor people, criminals and the insane from entering the country.
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First and only president to serve nonconsecutive terms.
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First president to install electricity at the White House.
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First president to campaign by telephone.
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First president and the first American to win a Nobel Peace Prize — for helping to end the Russo-Japanese War.
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First and only president to earn a Ph.D. — in political science from Johns Hopkins University.
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First president born after the Civil War, and the first elected after women gained the right to vote.
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First president born west of the Mississippi River.
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First president elected four times, and the first to address the public through regular radio broadcasts called “fireside chats.”
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First and only president to authorize the use of an atomic bomb against a foreign country.
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First and only president to serve in both world wars.
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First Catholic president, and the first and only president to receive a Purple Heart — for his battle wounds during World War II.
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First and only president to be sworn in on an airplane — aboard Air Force One after John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
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First and only president to resign from office, the result of the Watergate scandal.
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First president to live to the age of 100 after leaving the White House.
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First president to have been divorced, and the first to nominate a woman to the Supreme Court.
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First and only president to have been U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
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First president whose inauguration was streamed on the internet.
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First president to have an MBA.
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First Black president and the first president to speak Indonesian, learning the language while living in Jakarta as a child.
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First president to win without either political or military experience, and the first president to be convicted of felony crimes.
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First president to receive more than 80 million votes in an election.
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What presidential milestones will occur in the next administration? If Kamala Harris wins the 2024 election, she will become the first female president and the first president of South Asian descent. If Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, he will become the oldest president to take the oath of office, and only the second president after Grover Cleveland to serve nonconsecutive terms.