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Famous Presidential Firsts

This week's column is a listing of firsts in the history of presidential first events. The source is The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2009.

1. Name the U.S. president who was the oldest when he left the White House. For Bragging Rights, how old was he at that time?

2. Who was the youngest person elected president? Again, Bragging Rights if you give the age.

3. Who was the tallest U.S. president? Bragging Rights for naming the height.

4. Now tell us the shortest president, and again, go for the measurement figure.

5. Who was the first president to address the nation on radio?

6. Name the only two presidents who were chosen to take office by the U.S. House of Representatives.

7. Who was the first president to host a live televised news conference?

8. Name the first president to be born in the 20th century.

9. Name the only president whose parents were immigrants.

10. Who was the first president to be born in a state that wasn't part of the original Colonies?

Answers

It was Ronald Reagan, who was 77 years old when he left.

2. John F. Kennedy was the youngest person elected president. He was elected in 1960 at the age of 43.

3. Abraham Lincoln was our tallest chief executive, measuring 6 feet 4 inches.

4. James Madison, our shortest president ever, was 5 feet 4 inches tall, exactly 1 foot shorter than Lincoln.

5. Warren G. Harding addressed the public by radio in 1922.

6. Thomas Jefferson, our third president, and John Quincy Adams, our sixth president, were elected after legislative procedures.

7. It was John F. Kennedy, in 1961.

8. John F. Kennedy was the first president born in the 20th century, in 1917.

9. Andrew Jackson's parents immigrated to America from Ireland in 1765.

10. It was Abraham Lincoln, who was born in Kentucky in 1809.

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