Answers: Presidential Firsts

December 16, 2009 RSS Feed Print

1. Who was the first president to be born an American citizen?

C. Martin Van Buren

2. Who was the first to lose re-election?

B. John Adams

3. Who was the first to throw out a ceremonial pitch at a baseball game?

B. William Taft

4. Who was the first born in a hospital?

C. Jimmy Carter

5. Who was the first to sport facial hair?

D. Abraham Lincoln

6. Who was the first to be divorced?

D. Ronald Reagan

7. Who was the first to appoint a female cabinet member?

C. Franklin Roosevelt

8. Who first visited all 50 states?

D. Richard Nixon

9. Who was the first to be born west of the Mississippi River?

C. Herbert Hoover

10. Who was the first to live to 90?

A. John Adams

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