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First president born west of the Mississippi River and first born in Iowa. [5] First president who was a Quaker. [234] First president to have a telephone on his desk. [190] First president to have a post-presidency of more than 30 years. [bz] [235] First president to have a multiethnic and Native American vice president (Charles Curtis). [ca ...
Born on December 5, 1782, Martin Van Buren was the first president born an American citizen (and not a British subject). [2] The term Virginia dynasty is sometimes used to describe the fact that four of the first five U.S. presidents were from Virginia.
Virginia Dare, born in 1587 at the Roanoke Colony, was the first child born in North America to English parents, and her memory was celebrated in the British colonies. Virginia Laydon (b. 1609) was the first child in Jamestown, Virginia colony. Peregrine White, born aboard the Mayflower at Provincetown Harbor in 1620, was the first Pilgrim ...
Biden was the first and only member of the aptly named silent generation, born between 1928 and 1945, to earn the title of president – and he did so two years before his 80 th birthday ...
William Halsall, Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor (1882). Peregrine White (b. 1620 – d. 1704) was the first boy born on the Pilgrim ship the Mayflower in the harbour of Massachusetts, the second baby born on the Mayflower ' s historic voyage, and the first known English child born to the Pilgrims in America. [1]
The first of their ten children, Charles, was born in January 1837 and a few months later the family set up home in Bloomsbury at 48 Doughty Street, London (on which Charles had a three-year lease at £80 a year) from 25 March 1837 until December 1839.
Virginia Dare was born in the Roanoke Colony in what is now North Carolina in August 1587, the first child born in the New World to English parents. "Elenora, daughter to the governor of the city and wife to Ananias Dare, one of the assistants, was delivered of a daughter in Roanoke".
Betty Robbins, born in Greece, was the first female cantor in the 5,000-year-old history of Judaism. [129] She was appointed cantor of the reform [130] Temple Avodah in Oceanside, New York, in 1955, [131] when she was 31 and the Temple was without a cantor for the High Holidays. [132] [133]