Statistics for Presidential Firsts

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Historic First	President	% Correct
First Catholic president	John F. Kennedy	100%
First president to die in office	William Henry Harrison	100%
First president to be elected to more than two terms	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	83%
First president to be impeached	Andrew Johnson	67%
First president born in the 20th century	John F. Kennedy	67%
First president to appoint a black Supreme Court Justice	Lyndon B. Johnson	67%
First president not from one of the original thirteen colonies	Andrew Jackson	50%
First president to lose reelection	John Adams	50%
First president to have not fought in the American Revolution	John Quincy Adams	50%
First president to appoint a female Supreme Court Justice	Ronald Reagan	50%
First president subjected to term limits	Dwight Eisenhower	33%
First president to appoint a female Cabinet member	Franklin Delano Roosevelt	33%
First president to issue a declaration of war	James Madison	33%
First president to be photographed	John Quincy Adams	33%
First president to make a diplomatic trip overseas	Theodore Roosevelt	33%
First president to use electricity in the White House	Benjamin Harrison	17%
First president to have an official White House Chief of Staff	Harry Truman	17%
First president to be officially known by a diminutive	Jimmy Carter	17%
First president to win election while losing the popular vote	John Quincy Adams	17%
First president to have never held prior elected office	Zachary Taylor	17%
First president born west of the Mississippi River	Herbert Hoover	0%