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Barack Obama was the first president to have his portrait taken with a digital camera in January 2009 by Pete Souza, the then–official White House photographer, [23] using a Canon EOS 5D Mark II. [citation needed] Obama was also the first president to have 3D portraits taken, which were displayed in the Smithsonian Castle in December 2014. [24]
First president to live a full presidential term in the White House. [47] First president to defeat an opponent he had previously lost to in a presidential election. [25]: 48 First president who defeated an incumbent president. [25]: 48 First president whose election was decided in the United States House of Representatives. [48]
For the first time ever, Okamoto was allowed access to the Oval Office. [2] Oliver F. Atkins was the official photographer for Richard Nixon, but was often restricted from taking photographs. [1] However, Atkins' photograph of President Nixon and Elvis Presley is the most requested from the Library of Congress. [1]
Obama was also the first sitting president to appear on a late-night comedy program as president in 2016, although John F. Kennedy appeared on the Jack Paar show as a presidential candidate in 1960.
Daguerreotype photography wasn’t invented until the 1830s, making it impossible for a photograph of the first U.S. president to exist. In January 2009, Barack Obama became the first Black ...
Mathew Brady Studios' photograph operator, Thomas Le Mere, thought it would be a "considerable call" to capture a full-length portrait of the President. He did so in this instance with a multiple lens camera in Brady's Gallery. [94] 1863: Lewis Emory Walker [95] Collodion glass negative Library of Congress
The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidencies and the number of individuals who have served as president. [5]
In 2012, roughly two months before President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, Carter became one of the most prominent Americans to voice his support for same-sex marriage.