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List of firsts in the United States

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This is a [[list of firsts]] in the [[United States]].

==Presidents==
*[[President of the United States|President]] of the [[United States]]: [[George Washington]] ([[1789]])
*President to reside in the [[White House]]: [[John Adams]] ([[1797]])
*President who was not born a [[British subject]]: [[Martin Van Buren]] (b. [[Kinderhook (village), New York|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 [[photography|photographed]]: William Henry Harrison ([[daguerrotype]], 1841)
*President [[assassination|assassinated]]: [[Abraham Lincoln]] (1865)
*President to be [[impeachment|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 broadcast [[Woodrow Wilson]] (1919) (to US troops)
*Presidential inauguration to be broadcast on the radio [[Warren G. Harding]] (1921)
*President elected to a third (or fourth) term: [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] ([[1940]])
*President to appear on television [[Harry 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 [[Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|25th Amendment]], succeeded to the Presidency on the resignation of Richard Nixon (1974)
*Female Presidential candidate: [[Victoria Woodhull]] (1872)
*African American president: [[Barack Obama]] (2009)

==Vice-Presidents==
*[[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 (politician)|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==
*[[Chief Justice of the United States]]: [[John Jay]] (1789)
*Minority [[List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States|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 [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]]: [[Jeannette Rankin]] (1916)
*Female [[United States Senate|senator]]: [[Rebecca Felton]] (appointed 21 November, 1922)
*Female elected to the Senate: [[Hattie Wyatt Caraway]] (1932)
*Female named to a presidential [[cabinet]]: [[Frances Perkins]] ([[Secretary of Labor]], 1933)
*Female [[Speaker 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 Frenchman [[Jean-Pierre Blanchard]], in a hydrogen-filled [[balloon (aircraft)|balloon]], from a prison yard in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] to [[Gloucester County, New Jersey]]. [[January 9]] [[1793]].
[[Category:History of the United States]]

List of firsts in the United States

2009-01-20T20:05:32Z

195.240.42.60:

This is a [[list of firsts]] in the [[United States]].

==Presidents==
*[[President of the United States|President]] of the [[United States]]: [[George Washington]] ([[1789]])
*President to reside in the [[White House]]: [[John Adams]] ([[1797]])
*President who was not born a [[British subject]]: [[Martin Van Buren]] (b. [[Kinderhook (village), New York|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 [[photography|photographed]]: William Henry Harrison ([[daguerrotype]], 1841)
*President [[assassination|assassinated]]: [[Abraham Lincoln]] (1865)
*President to be [[impeachment|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 broadcast [[Woodrow Wilson]] (1919) (to US troops)
*Presidential inauguration to be broadcast on the radio [[Warren G. Harding]] (1921)
*President elected to a third (or fourth) term: [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] ([[1940]])
*President to appear on television [[Harry 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 [[Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|25th Amendment]], succeeded to the Presidency on the resignation of Richard Nixon (1974)
*Female Presidential candidate: [[Victoria Woodhull]] (1872)
*African American president: [[Barack Obama]] (2008)

==Vice-Presidents==
*[[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 (politician)|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==
*[[Chief Justice of the United States]]: [[John Jay]] (1789)
*Minority [[List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States|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 [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]]: [[Jeannette Rankin]] (1916)
*Female [[United States Senate|senator]]: [[Rebecca Felton]] (appointed 21 November, 1922)
*Female elected to the Senate: [[Hattie Wyatt Caraway]] (1932)
*Female named to a presidential [[cabinet]]: [[Frances Perkins]] ([[Secretary of Labor]], 1933)
*Female [[Speaker 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 Frenchman [[Jean-Pierre Blanchard]], in a hydrogen-filled [[balloon (aircraft)|balloon]], from a prison yard in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] to [[Gloucester County, New Jersey]]. [[January 9]] [[1793]].
[[Category:History of the United States]]