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First president to have been divorced. [379] [380] He married his first wife in 1940, and the couple divorced in 1949. First president to be the head of a union (the Screen Actors Guild). [381] [382] First president to have been an actor. [383] First president to nominate a woman to the Supreme Court (Sandra Day O'Connor). [384]
John Tyler was the first vice president to assume the presidency during a presidential term, setting the precedent that a vice president who does so becomes the fully functioning president with a new, distinct administration. [13] Throughout most of its history, American politics has been dominated by political parties. The Constitution is ...
Rachel Jackson died just after Jackson's election but before his inauguration as president; she never served as First Lady. The role was assumed by her niece, Emily Donelson until 1834 and from then by Sarah Yorke Jackson, Jackson's daughter-in-law. She was the final first lady to be born before the Declaration of Independence. [k]
And John Edgar Hoover, who was the first Director of the FBI and certainly not a fan of JFK, kept declassified FBI files that claim the two eloped in 1939 and then divorced in 1953 — the same ...
The first lady of the United States is the hostess of the White House.The position is traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, but, on occasion, the title has been applied to women who were not presidents' wives, such as when the president was a bachelor or widower, or when the wife of the president was unable to fulfill the duties of the first lady.
Three years after his divorce from his first wife, Maples gave birth to the couple's only child together in 1993, Tiffany Trump (named after "Tiffany & Co"). He and Maples wed two months later.
9 presidents were out of office (for at least one year) immediately before election as president. 8 presidents previously served as Cabinet secretaries; 6 as secretary of state; 5 of the 8 served immediately before election as president. 7 presidents had previous experience in foreign service. [c]
Notable best presidents include George Washington at No.2, Thomas Jefferson at No. 7, and Barack Obama at No. 12.