Presidential Firsts

                                                 Match the Presidents with their Presidential Firsts

George Washington   __                                                                                                         a.   to get stuck in a                                                                                                                                                     bathtub

John Adams __                                                                                                                 b. to visit China while in                                                                                                                                               office

Thomas Jefferson __                                                                                                                     c.   to use the                                                                                                                                                           telephone

James Madison __                                                                                                                               d.   to die in                                                                                                                                                                   office

James Monroe  __                                                                                                                e.   to give a speech on                                                                                                                                                   T.V.

John Quincy Adams __                                                                                                             f. to appear on color                                                                                                                                                     T.V.

Andrew Jackson__                                                                                                                   g.    to live in White                                                                                                                                                        House

Martin Van Buren    __                                                                                                                    h.   won't eat                                                                                                                                                              broccoli

William Harrison   __                                                                                                       i. have a horse named                                                                                                                                           "Whitey"

John Tyler __                                                                                  j.    to serve without being chosen in a national                                                                                                              election

James Polk  __                                                                                                               k.    born as a citizen of the                                                                                                                                              U.S.

Zachary Taylor __                                                                                                        l..    picture on a postage stamp

Millard Fillmore  __                                                                                   m.   to put a Christmas tree in the White                                                                                                                         House

Franklin Pierce __                                                                                           n.      to be inaugurated in Washington                                                                                                                                D.C.

James Buchanan  __                                                                                                                   o. to have a stepmother

Abraham Lincoln  __                                                                                                       p.        to have earned a Ph.D.

Andrew Johnson __                                                                                                 q.            to voluntirily after one                                                                                                                                                term

Ulysses Grant __                                                                                                             r.         to tour the country          

Rutherford Hayes __                                                                                               s.    have a son that became                                                                                                                                      President

James Garfield  __                                                                                                t.     to survive an assassination                                                                                                                                     attempt

Chester Arthur   __                                                                                       u.   to have no Vice President the entire                                                                                                                           term

Grover Cleveland  __                                                                                      v.              to send a transatlantic telegram

Benjamin Harrison __                                                                            w.             to be photographed at his                                                                                                                               inauguration

Grover Cleveland  __                                                                                                                x.     only to be                                                                                                                                                          impeached

William McKinley __                                                                                   y.    to have both parents alive while in                                                                                                                           office

Theodore Roosevelt  __                                                                                                         z. first left handed                                                                                                                                                   president

William Taft   __                                                                                                         aa.     to take oath in his own                                                                                                                                             home

Woodrow Wilson __                                                                  bb.    to be married and have children in the White                                                                                                            House

Warren Harding __                                                                                     cc. only grandson of a president to be                                                                                                                          elected

Calvin Coolidge __                                                                                    dd.     to be elected to two nonconsecutive                                                                                                                            terms

Herbert Hoover  __                                                                                                     ee.      to campaign by a                                                                                                                                               telephone

Franklin Roosevelt __                                                                                               ff.         to win a Nobel Peace Prize

Harry Truman  __                                                                                                                        gg.      to visit Alaska

Dwight Eisenhower  __                                                                                             hh.   to be born on the Fourth of                                                                                                                                         July

John Kennedy __                                                      ii.    to approve "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the National                                                                                        Anthem

Lyndon Johnson __                                                                                                                 jj. to appear on                                                                                                                                                     televesion

Richard Nixon  __                                                                                                                    kk.   to win a Pulitzer                                                                                                                                                         Prize

Gerald Ford __                                                                                                       ll.    to take oath of office in a                                                                                                                                      airplane

Jimmy Carter __                                                                                               mm.     to have been a Rhodes scholar

Ronald Reagan __                                                                                                            nn. to graduate from                                                                                                                                               Annapolis

George Bush  __                                                                                                                oo.       to have been                                                                                                                                                      divorced

William Clinton  __                                                                                                                 pp.       to wear long pants