Michael Duvalle

Complete Book of Historic Presidential Firsts Michael Duvalle

This book can serve as an important reference guide to political reporters, historians, students, elected and non-elected officials, political campaigners, game shows and trivia buffs while at the same time offer a historical profile of presidential first with fascinating tidbits and major events during the presidency of each president (first to forty-third) is in chronological order.

The only vice president to serve two-full terms as President.[Jefferson]
First sitting congressman to be elected president.[Garfield]
First sitting senator to be elected president. [Harding]
First president to die in office.[Harrison] First/only bachelor president.[Buchanan]
First president to have blacks in the White House.[Lincoln]
First to have telephone installed the White House.[Hayes]
First/only president to be married in the White House.[Cleveland]
First to install electricity in the White House.[Ben Harrison]
First to create a war room in the White House, with maps.[ McKinley]
First president to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.[Teddy Roosevelt]
First president to introduce income tax.[Wilson] First/only president to be born on the Fourth of July.[Coolidge]
The first/only president to be elected four times.[F. D. Roosevelt]
The last president that was not a college graduate.[Truman]
First president to travel in a nuclear-powered submarine.[Eisenhower]
First/only Roman Catholic president.[Kennedy] The first president to visit all fifty states.[Nixon]
The longest living president.[Ford] (93 years and 165 days)
The first president that was born in a hospital.[Carter]
Who was the oldest president when inaugurated. [Reagan]
First son of a president to be reelected.[G. W. Bush]
The first and only African American president. [Obama]