First president to ascend to the presidency by the resignation of his predecessor

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First president to reach the age of 70 prior to his election to the presidency.

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First president who was born in a hospital. He was born in the Wise Sanitarium of Plains, Georgia.

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First president to appoint a Latino American to the Supreme Court (Sonia Sotomayor).

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First president to have been divorced. He married his first wife Jane Wyman in 1940, and the couple divorced in 1949.

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First president to attend an Olympic Games in a foreign country, the Summer Games in Beijing.

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First president to have served as acting president (when Reagan was sedated for eight hours due to colon surgery).

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First president from the Baby Boomer generation.

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First president to have a 90% approval rating in the history of modern political polling.

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First president born outside of the 48 contiguous states.

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First president to have a female campaign manager (Kellyanne Conway)

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First president to formally recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day.

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First president to appoint a Secretary of Education, Shirley Hufstedler.

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First president to pardon another president.

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First president to visit the New York Stock Exchange while in office.

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First president to formally pardon a turkey, officially sparking the Turkey Pardon Tradition.

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First president to be the head of a union (the Screen Actors Guild).

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First president to appoint an African-American secretary of state; Colin Powell.

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First president to have his official photograph portrait taken with a digital camera.

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First president whose inauguration was streamed on the internet.

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First president to visit Hiroshima, Japan, the location where the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare in 1945.

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First president to be an Eagle Scout, and receive the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.

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First incumbent president to testify in a criminal trial, against Squeaky Fromme, who had attempted to assassinate him.

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First president to release a full report of his medical checkup to the public.

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First president to have hosted an official papal visit, when Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit a sitting president at the White House.

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First president to attend and open an Olympic Games (Summer Olympics in Los Angeles) while in office.

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First president to be wounded in an assassination attempt while in office and survive their injuries.

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First president to have been a naval aviator.

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First president to have served as director of Central

Intelligence (office is now the director

of the Central Intelligence Agency).

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First president to be a Rhodes Scholar.

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First president to send an email.

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First president to have an MBA.

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First president to have State of the Union live broadcast on the Internet.

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First president to appoint a former first lady to the Cabinet (Hillary Clinton).

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First president to write a scholarly article in a scholarly journal while president.

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First president to grant 1,715 commutations of sentences while in office; the most to date.

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First president to marry three times.

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First president to assume the office without having had any prior public service experience, military or political.

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First president to be impeached twice by the U.S. House of Representatives.

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First president to directly support and oversee private spaceflight in the United States.

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First president to win over 80 million votes in an election.

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First president to be a billionaire prior to assuming office.

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First president to address the African Union while in office.

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First president to leave office with both parents still alive - both died nine years after he left office.

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