Who was the first Democrat to become President of the United States?
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Andrew Jackson was the first elected by the party that identified itself as "Democrats"\n\nThe Democratic party CLAIMS that it was Thomas Jefferson, but that's not quite true.\n\nJefferson's party was nearly always called "Republicans" (though some of the groups that supported them were called "Democratic Republican clubs").   After his election the Federalist party began to fall apart, until by Monroe's Presidency there was only ONE party.  \n\nThis one party began to splinder into two groups in the 1820s, one group associated more with John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay, the other with Andrew Jackson.\n\nIt was Jackson's supporters who began the 'convention' system and formed the Democratic party that continues to this day.   Those who disagreed with him called themselves "Whigs" (after the British party that opposed the Tories -- the Whigs compared "King Andy" to the British monarchs).\n\nEventually the Whig party collapsed over the slavery question.  It's southern wing joined the Democrats, but most Northern Whigs along with 'free soil' and abolitionist Democrats in the North quickly replaced them as the Repubican party (first stood a candidate for President in 1856, then won win Lincoln in 1860).\n\nNote that the Republicans deliberately went back to reclaim the name Jefferson & his followers had used (now discarded by the Democrats).  They too (with some justification given this complicated history) claimed some roots in the party and beliefs of Jefferson.
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President Vice President \n\nGeorge Washington (1789-1797) John Adams (1789-1797) \nJohn Adams (1797-1801) Thomas Jefferson (1797-1801) \nThomas Jefferson (1801-1809) Aaron Burr (1801-1805) \n George Clinton (1805-1809) \nJames Madison (1809-1817) George Clinton (1809-1812) \n none (1812-1813) \n Elbridge Gerry (1813-1814) \n none (1814-1817) \nJames Monroe (1817-1825) Daniel D. Tompkins (1817-1825) \nJohn Quincy Adams (1825-1829) John C. Calhoun (1825-1829) \nAndrew Jackson (1829-1837) John C. Calhoun (1829-1832) \n none (1832-1833) \n Martin Van Buren (1833-1837) \nMartin Van Buren (1837-1841) Richard M. Johnson (1837-1841) \nWilliam Henry Harrison (1841) John Tyler (1841) \nJohn Tyler (1841-1845) none (1841-1845) \nJames K. Polk (1845-1849) George M. Dallas (1845-1849) \nZachary Taylor (1849-1850) Millard Fillmore (1849-1850) \nMillard Fillmore (1850-1853) none (1850-1853) \nFranklin Pierce (1853-1857) William King (1853) \n none (1853-1857) \nJames Buchanan (1857-1861) John C. Breckinridge (1857-1861) \nAbraham Lincoln (1861-1865) Hannibal Hamlin (1861-1865) \n Andrew Johnson (1865) \nAndrew Johnson (1865-1869) none (1865-1869) \nUlysses S. Grant (1869-1877) Schuyler Colfax (1869-1873) \n Henry Wilson (1873-1875) \n none (1875-1877) \nRutherford B. Hayes (1877-1881) William Wheeler (1877-1881) \nJames A. Garfield (1881) Chester Arthur (1881) \nChester Arthur (1881-1885) none (1881-1885) \nGrover Cleveland (1885-1889) Thomas Hendricks (1885) \n none (1885-1889) \nBenjamin Harrison (1889-1893) Levi P. Morton (1889-1893) \nGrover Cleveland (1893-1897) Adlai E. Stevenson (1893-1897) \nWilliam McKinley (1897-1901) Garret Hobart (1897-1901) \n Theodore Roosevelt (1901) \nTheodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) none (1901-1905) \n Charles Fairbanks (1905-1909) \nWilliam Howard Taft (1909-1913) James S. Sherman (1909-1912) \n none (1912-1913) \nWoodrow Wilson (1913-1921) Thomas R. Marshall (1913-1921) \nWarren G. Harding (1921-1923) Calvin Coolidge (1921-1923) \nCalvin Coolidge (1923-1929) none (1923-1925) \n Charles Dawes (1925-1929) \nHerbert Hoover (1929-1933) Charles Curtis (1929-1933) \nFranklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) John Nance Garner (1933-1941) \n Henry A. Wallace (1941-1945) \n Harry S Truman (1945) \nHarry S Truman (1945-1953) none (1945-1949) \n Alben Barkley (1949-1953) \nDwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961) Richard Nixon (1953-1961) \nJohn F. Kennedy (1961-1963) Lyndon B. Johnson (1961-1963) \nLyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969) none (1963-1965) \n Hubert Humphrey (1965-1969) \nRichard Nixon (1969-1974) Spiro Agnew (1969-1973) \n none (1973) \n Gerald Ford (1973-1974) \nGerald Ford (1974-1977) none (1974) \n Nelson Rockefeller (1974-1977) \nJimmy Carter (1977-1981) Walter Mondale (1977-1981) \nRonald Reagan (1981-1989) George Bush (1981-1989) \nGeorge Bush (1989-1993) Dan Quayle (1989-1993) \nBill Clinton (1993-2001) Al Gore (1993-2001) \nGeorge W. Bush (2001- )
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1.George Washington, 1789-1797 \n2.John Adams, 1797-1801 \n3.Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809 \n4.James Madison, 1809-1817 \n5.James Monroe, 1817-1825 \n6.John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829 \n7.Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837 \n8.William Henry Harrison, 1841\n\nThe first four were actually born in Britian.  The second four were born in the Colonies, still under British rule.\n\nMartin Van Buren (who served between Jackson & Harrison) was the first natuarlly born President of the United States.
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While the Philippines consider Emilio Aguinaldo to be the first president, the First Republic fell under the United States following the Philippine-American War. Manuel L. Quezon is considered to be the first president by the United States and the first to win an election.\nmore can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Philippines
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John Quincy Adams\n\nThe earliest known photograph of a president of the United States is a faint and scratched daguerreotype likeness of John Quincy Adams, who served as chief executive from 1825 to 1829 and later as a member of Congress until his death in office in 1848. This likeness of the former President Adams was taken at the gallery of Bishop and Gray in early August 1843 in Utica, New York. President Adams, then 76 years old, was returning from a visit to Niagara Falls and stopped at Utica to see an old friend, Judge Ezeikiel Bacon. In his diary for August 1, 1843, Adams remarked, “Four daguerreotype likenesses of my head were taken, two of them jointly with the head of Mr. Bacon. All hideous.” Adams continued his diary entry the following day, “At seven this morning Mr. Bacon came and I went with him to the Shadow Shop, where three more Daguerreotype likeness were taken of me, no better than those of yesterday. They are all too true to the original.”2
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Often credited with being the first  "modern president". Rough Riders. Panama Canal. Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the end of the war between Russia and Japan. One of America's greatest presidents.
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trick question?  George Washington was born under British colonial rule....which made him the first president of the u.s. but not the first "American" president.  Martin Van Beuren was born in 1782 which would make him the first "American President"
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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland :\n\nStephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd (1885–1889) and 24th (1893–1897) President of the United States, and the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms. He was the only Democrat elected to the Presidency in the era of Republican political domination between 1860 and 1912, and was the first Democrat to be elected after the Civil War.\n\nCleveland's portrait was on the U.S. $1000 bill from 1928 to 1946. He also appeared on a $1000 bill of 1907 and the first few issues of the $20 Federal Reserve notes from 1914.
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No. The Democrat Party started out as the Anti-Federalists in the earliest years of the U.S. They gradually changed their names to the Democratic-Republicans and then finally just the Democrats. Hence, their first President was Thomas Jefferson.\n\nThe Republican Party was born during the 1850s. Their first President was Abe Lincoln.
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George Washington was the first president of the United States.  He was a tobacco farmer and the commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.\n\n\nHe also have teeth made of ivory.
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Hannibal Hamlin (August 27, 1809 – July 4, 1891) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. Hamlin served in the Maine Legislature, the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and as Governor of Maine. Hamlin began his career as a Democrat but later became a member of the Republican Party. He was the first Republican to serve as Vice President of the United States, elected as Abraham Lincoln's running mate in the 1860 presidential election.
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The short answer is yes.\n\nThe long answer is: \n\nThere are claims that John Hanson was the first president and indeed that there were others after him and before Washington. However, Hanson was the first man to serve a full term as President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation in 1781 and 1782, and it is because of this he has been called the first President of the United States; though this claim is inaccurate. Before the adoption of the Constitution in 1787, the colonies operated under the direction of the Continental Congress, although they remained in principle a confederation of independent states. Even after the adoption of the Articles of Confederation, there was no executive branch. As such the President of the Continental Congress, which was a position similar to a Prime Minister, was the highest authority; under the Articles, the position adopted the title President of the United States in Congress Assembled, and Hanson was the first presiding officer of the Congress to use that title when dealing with foreign governments, diplomats, or treaties. Congress had little authority beyond those powers, which had been specifically delegated to it by the states, and its weakness during this period led directly to a decline in influence and the 1787 Constitution. It was only after the adoption of this constitution that anyone could truthfully be called a President of the United States. George Washington was the first.
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The answer depends on how you define "President."\n\nGeorge Washington was the first President of the United States under the current US Constitution.  However, the constitution was not ratified until 1789.  \n\nPrior to the constitution, the US was run under The Articles of Confederation from 1781-1789.  The first president under the Articles of Confederation was Samuel Huntington.\n\nThe US won its independence in 1781.  However, independence was declared in 1776.  At the time, the US was run by the Continental Congress.  Its presiding officer was John Hancock.\n\nThe attached article gives a complete list of presidents prior to the constitution.
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Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 N.S. – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential founders of the United States. Major events during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase (1803), the Embargo Act of 1807, and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806).\n\nAnd check out the link below.
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George Washington (1789-1797) \nJohn Adams (1797-1801) \nThomas Jefferson (1801-1805) \nJames Madison (1809-1812) \nJames Monroe (1817-1825) \nJonh Quincy Adams (1825-1829) \nAndrew Jackson (1829-1837) \nMartin Van Buren (1837-1841) \nWilliam Henry Harrison (1841) \nJohn Tyler (1841-1845)\n\nHeres the other 10............\n\nJames K. Polk \nZachary Taylor \nMillard Fillmore \nFranklin Pierce \nJames Buchanan \nAbraham Lincoln \nAndrew Johnson \nUlysses S. Grant \nRutherford B. Hayes \nJames A. Garfield
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Reverend Jonathan Blanchard was the first president.  Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Blanchard_(Wheaton) for more information.
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technically no...John Hanson was president of the country formed under the Articles of Confederation. There is a short description of the issue at URL http://www.marshallhall.org/hanson.html. You can find the Articles at URL http://www.usconstitution.net/articles.html. This country was called the United States of America, so Hanson was the first president.\n\nGeorge Washington was the first president under the Constitution of the United States, so he was the first president of the United States of America formed under the Constitution.