Presidential Firsts The first president to.... Tools A B First to live in the White House John Adams First to lose a bid for re-election John Adams First to ask Congress to declare war James Madison First from a state west of the Appalachians Andrew Jackson First born in a log cabin Andrew Jackson First to appear on televison as president Franklin Delano Roosevelt First baby boomer elected president Bill Clinton First to fly in a heliocopter Dwight D. Eisenhower First to have never attended any type of school Andrew Johnson First to win a Nobel Prize Theodore Roosevelt First born in a hospital Jimmy Carter First elected president to be impeached Bill Clinton First to survive being shot while in office Ronald Reagan First to pardon a former president Gerald Ford First Catholic president John F. Kennedy First vice president to become president on the death of the president John Tyler First president to have a beard Abraham Lincoln First president to have earned a P.H.D. Woodrow Wilson First president born in the twentieth century John F. Kennedy First president to own a car William Howard Taft