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