Statistics for Presidential Firsts

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Hint	Time In Office	Answer	% Correct
First VP to take office because of a president’s death	1841–1845	John Tyler	77%
First to shake hands with guests instead of making them bow	1801–1809	Thomas Jefferson	77%
First president to be unanimously elected	1789–1797	George Washington	69%
First president under 5 feet 5 inches (165cm)	1809–1817	James Madison	69%
First to pardon a turkey	1861–1865	Abraham Lincoln	62%
First to marry a family member (third cousin)	1797–1801	John Adams	62%
First senator to be elected president	1817–1825	James Monroe	54%
First abolitionist president	1825–1829	John Quincy Adams	54%
First to be born a citizen of the U.S.	1837–1841	Martin Van Buren	54%
First (and only) president to serve on the Supreme Court	1909–1913	William Howard Taft	54%
First to claim Native American ancestry	1923–1929	Calvin Coolidge	46%
First to be denied renomination by his party	1853–1857	Franklin Pierce	46%
First (and only) to be elected to non-consecutive terms	1893–1897	Grover Cleveland	46%
First and only president to be a bachelor	1857–1861	James Buchanan	46%
First to allow women to argue before the Supreme Court	1877–1881	Rutherford B. Hayes	46%
First president to kill someone in a duel	1829–1837	Andrew Jackson	38%
First to appear on television	1933–1945	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	38%
First vice president to have served as acting president	1989–1993	George H. W. Bush	38%
First to become vice president and president without being elected	1974–1977	Gerald Ford	38%
First to ride in a submarine and an airplane	1901–1909	Theodore Roosevelt	38%
First to see the Pacific Ocean	1869–1877	Ulysses S. Grant	38%
First to have his photograph taken while in office	1829–1937	William Henry Harrison	38%
First to have held no prior elected office	1849–1850	Zachary Taylor	38%
First to sign a law via robot	2009–2017	Barack Obama	31%
First to appoint openly gay people to government positions	1993–2001	Bill Clinton	31%
First to have both the lowest and highest approval ratings	2001–2009	George W. Bush	31%
First president to have a letter as a middle name	1945–1953	Harry S. Truman	31%
First to give all of his federal paychecks to charity	1929–1933	Herbert Hoover	31%
First to be born in a hospital	1977–1981	James Carter, Jr.	31%
First president to hold a press conference on television.	1961–1963	John F. Kennedy	31%
First to be sworn in by a woman	1963–1969	Lyndon B. Johnson	31%
First to establish a White House library	1850–1853	Millard Fillmore	31%
First (and only) president to resign	1969–1974	Richard Nixon	31%
First to be impeached	1865–1869	Andrew Johnson	23%
First president of all fifty states	1953–1961	Dwight Eisenhower	23%
First to use air conditioning	1881	James Abram Garfield	23%
First to be elected before age 50	1845–1849	James Polk	23%
First to break the “Curse of Tippecanoe”	1981–1989	Ronald Reagan	23%
First president to visit Europe while in office	1913–1921	Woodrow Wilson	23%
First to campaign by telephone	1897–1901	William McKinley	15%
First to be accused of being born outside the U.S.	1881–1885	Chester Alan Arthur	8%
First president to have women vote for him	1921–1923	Warren G. Harding	8%
First to have a billion-dollar budget	1889–1893	Benjamin Harrison	0%
First president to serve for a day	March 4, 1849	David Atchison	0%
First to decorate White House tree with electric Christmas lights	1885–1889	Grover Cleveland	0%