Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
42 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
1st to appear on a postage stamp
|
George Washington
|
|
|
The only 2 presidents to be the father of another president
|
John Adams and George Bush
|
|
|
His grandson was the first baby born in the White House
|
Thomas Jefferson
|
|
|
The first president to wear trousers regularly
|
James Madison
|
|
|
The last president to have served as an officer in the Revolutionary War
|
James Monroe
|
|
|
The only president to name a son George Washington
|
John Quincy Adams
|
|
|
The first president to ride a train
|
Andrew Jackson
|
|
|
The first president not born a British subject
|
Martin Van Buren
|
|
|
The first president to die in office
|
William Henry Harrison
|
|
|
The first president to have a veto overridden
|
John Tyler
|
|
|
The first president to have his inauguration reported by telegraph
|
James Knox Polk
|
|
|
Rode his horse saddleside into battle
|
Zachary Taylor
|
|
|
Established the first permanent library in the White House
|
Millard Fillmore
|
|
|
Always insisted that grace be said before a meal
|
Franklin Pierce
|
|
|
The first and only bachelor president
|
James Buchanan
|
|
|
The first president to wear a beard while in office
|
Abraham Lincoln
|
|
|
His wife taught him to read and write
|
Andrew Johnson
|
|
|
The only president to get a speeding ticket while riding a horse
|
Ulysses S. Grant
|
|
|
The first president to use a telephone in the White House
|
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
|
|
|
Shot by Charles Guiteau
|
James Abram Garfield
|
|
|
The first democrat elected after the Civil War
|
Grover Cleveland
|
|
|
The first president to use electricity in the White House
|
Benjamin Harrison
|
|
|
The Baby Ruth candy bar was named after his daughter
|
Grover Cleveland
|
|
|
Always wore a red carnation in his lapel for good luck
|
William McKinley
|
|
|
The first president to fly in an airplane
|
Theodore Roosevelt
|
|
|
The first president to serve on the Supreme Court
|
William Howard Taft
|
|
|
The first president to hold a press conference
|
Woodrow Wilson
|
|
|
The first president to speak over the radio
|
Warren Gamaliel Harding
|
|
|
Had an electric horse installed in his White House bedroom
|
Calvin Coolidge
|
|
|
The first president to have an asteroid named for him
|
Herbert Clark Hoover
|
|
|
The first president to appear on television
|
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
|
|
|
The first president to travel underwater in a modern submarine
|
Harry S. Truman
|
|
|
Had a putting green installed on the White House lawn
|
Dwight David Eisenhower
|
|
|
The first boy scout president
|
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
|
|
|
The first president sworn in by a woman
|
Lyndon Baines Johnson
|
|
|
The first president to resign his office
|
Richard Milhous Nixon
|
|
|
His daughter Susan held her senior prom in the White House
|
Gerald Rudolph Ford
|
|
|
The first president born in a hospital
|
Jimmy Carter
|
|
|
The first president to have been divorced
|
Ronald Wilson Reagan
|
|
|
President when the Berlin Wall came down
|
George Herbert Walker Bush
|
|
|
The first president to have been a Rhodes scholar
|
William Jefferson Clinton
|
|
|
The first president to have fathered twins
|
George Walker Bush
|
