- List of firsts in the United States
This is a
list of firsts in theUnited States .Presidents
*President of the
United States :George Washington (1789 )
*President to reside in theWhite House :John Adams (1797 )
*President who was not born aBritish subject :Martin Van Buren (b. Kinderhook, New York,5 December ,1782 )
*President to serve without a Vice President:James Madison (1812-13)
*President to die in office:William Henry Harrison (1841)
*President to be photographed: William Henry Harrison (daguerrotype , 1841)
*President assassinated:Abraham Lincoln (1865)
*President to be impeached:Andrew Johnson (1868 )
*President elected to a second non-consecutive term:Grover Cleveland (First term 1885–1889, second term 1893–1897)
*Presidents to have their voice recorded:Benjamin Harrison (1889),Grover Cleveland (second term) (1892)
*President to make a radio broadcastWoodrow Wilson (1919) (to US troops)
*Presidential inauguration to be broadcast on the radioWarren G. Harding (1921)
*President elected to a third (or fourth) term:Franklin D. Roosevelt (1940 )
*President to appear on televisionHarry S. Truman (1947)
*President to resign from office:Richard Nixon (1974)
*President not elected as either President or Vice President:Gerald Ford , appointed Vice President (1973) under the terms of the 25th Amendment, succeeded to the Presidency on the resignation of Richard Nixon (1974)
*Female Presidential candidate:Victoria Woodhull (1872)
*Female presidential candidate from one of the two major parties to come closest to clinching the party's nomination:Hillary Rodham Clinton (2008)
*African American Presidential candidate for a major party:Barack Obama (2008)Vice-Presidents
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Vice President of the United States :John Adams (1789)
*Vice President to be subsequently elected President: John Adams (1797)
*Vice President to die in office: George Clinton (d. 1812)
*Vice President to resign from office:John C. Calhoun (28 December 1832)
*Vice President to assume the office of president upon the death of his predecessor:John Tyler (1841)
*Vice President sworn in outside the United States:William R. King , (Havana ,Cuba , 1853)Other
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Chief Justice of the United States :John Jay (1789)
*Minority Justice of the United States Supreme Court:Thurgood Marshall (1967)
*Female Justice of the United States Supreme Court:Sandra Day O'Connor (1982)
*Woman elected to the House of Representatives:Jeannette Rankin (1916)
*Female senator:Rebecca Felton (appointed 21 November, 1922)
*Female elected to the Senate:Hattie Wyatt Caraway (1932)
*Female named to a presidentialcabinet :Frances Perkins (Secretary of Labor , 1933)
*FemaleSpeaker of the United States House of Representatives :Nancy Pelosi (elected 3 January, 2007)
*Black mayor of a major US City: Carl B. Stokes, Cleveland, 1968 (elected 1967)
* Manned flight: by FrenchmanJean-Pierre Blanchard , in a hydrogen-filled balloon, from a prison yard inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania toGloucester County, New Jersey .January 9 1793 .
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