Alternate Presidential "Firsts"

John Kennedy was also the first Navy veteran to be President. All four of his successors (Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter) were also Navy veterans.

Adlai Stevenson served in the Navy in WW I.

John Glenn would have been the first US Marine President.

George W. Bush was the first Air Force President. (Technically, Air National Guard, but the ANG flies AF planes from AF bases, and all its expenses are part of the AF budget.) Lloyd Bentsen (1988 VP candidate) served in the Army AF in WW II.

John Frémont was the only candidate with a diacritical mark in his name.

Charles Evans Hughes would have been the first President to have served on the Supreme Court.
 
James Monroe could be the first President to die in office. He was apparetnly really sick around 1818/1819 during Jacksons venture into FLorida, and supposedly he was not coherent enough to understand what was going on, hence why most of Monroe's cabinet seemed to hate Jackson alot......anyway, you could make the malaria, i think it was, worsen him and have him die.

And considering that the VP is an umpopular alcoholic, don't really think the election of 1820 will be loking good.
 
Delay Jim Jeffords' switch, and have September 11th take out Bush, Cheney, and Hastert.

Strom Thurmond becomes the first nonagenarian President, and assuming he doesn't resign, and dies on schedule, the first centenarian President.
 
Who would be first president who has served in Korean War beside obvious Douglas MacArthur?

There was never a major party nominee who served on the frontline in the Korean War. The nearest we got was Dukakis, who was stationed for about a year and a half in Korea, after the ceasefire had come into effect. As mentioned above, though he was never nominated, John Glenn flew combat missions in Korea.
 
Marco Rubio - First Hispanic President. First Cuban-American President.

John J. Pershing - First WW1 vet to be President.

John McCormack - First Speaker of the House to ascend to the Presidency.

Tulsi Gabbard - First Hindi

John McCain - First President born outside of the 50 States.
 
Fred Thompson would have been the tallest President ever at 6'6".

EDIT: I realized I didn't word it as a "first" - he would have been the first president to stand a head taller than the average American man.
 
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John Anderson or Ross Perot as the first Independent President.

Trump is the first person to take the presidency without ever holding any kind of government or military office.

Ed Brooke could be the first Black President. Have Reagan, Ford, or Nixon pick him as Veep and have the President fall down a flight of steps.

Cruz or Rubio could have been the first hispanic/latino president pretty easily. Haley is on track to be the US's first woman AND asian president.

Bobby Jindal could have perhaps have been the first asian president if he'd been the 2012 GOP nominee. A couple house terms, having been a cabinet member, and a governor makes him fairly qualified.

Elizabeth Dole could perhaps have been the first woman president.
 
Donald Trump is not the first US President to declare Bankruptcy.
8 Presidents have gone broke. Jefferson being the first to die in debt.

And unlike some Lincoln actually did pay off his debts.
 
John McCain - First President born outside of the 50 States.
People born outside of American eligable to stand as President:
- Alexander Hamilton (1800) [British Leeward Islands]
- Barry Goldwater (1964) [Arizona Territory]
- George Romney (1968) [Mexico]
- Lowell P. Weicker (1980) [France]


John Anderson or Ross Perot as the first Independent President.
George Washington was elected president in 1788 and 1792 as an Independent from any political party.

Ross Perot was for the Reform.
 

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I don't know how relevant this is to the thread, but 2016 was the first winning Republican ticket since 1928 that didn't have Richard Nixon or a member of the Bush family
1952, 1956, 1968, and 1972 all had Nixon
1980, 1984, 1988, 2000, and 2004 had Bushes.
 
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