Who was the FIRST president to RETURN to Congress after being president?
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John Quincy Adams was president 4 March 1825 to 3 March 1829.\n\nHe ran unsuccessfully for reelection as a Whig during the 1828 election.  \n\nIn 1829 he retired as a farmer.\n\nOn 4 March 1831 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Massachusetts and served until 23 February 1848.\n\nIn 1846 he had an attack of paralysis and was confined at home for 4 months.  In 1848 he had a second attack of paralysis (while he was in the Speaker’s room, House of Representatives.\n\nHe died at age 68 and 13 days 31 March 1850 in Washington D. C. and is buried in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Harry Truman was the first.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttp://www.trumanlibrary.org/trivia/turkey.htm
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John Mercer Langston is believed to have been the first African American elected to public office. He was elected clerk of Brownhelm in 1854.\n\nIn 1870, Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American senator. Five years later, Blanche K. Bruce of Missisppi took the oath of office.  It would be nearly another century, 1967, before Edward Brooke of Massachusetts followed in their historic footsteps. In 1993, Carol Moseley-Braun broke new ground again, becoming the first African American female to serve as U.S. senator.  When Senator Barack Obama of Illinois took the oath of office on January 3, 2005, he became the fifth African American to serve and the third to be popularly elected.\n\nHiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American senator in 1870.  Born in North Carolina in 1827, Revels attended Knox College in Illinois and later served as minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland.  He raised two black regiments during the Civil War and fought at the battle of Vicksburg in Mississippi.  The Mississippi state legislature sent him to the U.S. Senate during Reconstruction where he became an outspoken opponent of racial segregation.  Although Revels served in the Senate for just a year, he broke new ground for African Americans in Congress.  (Photo: Library of Congress)
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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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I disagree with the previous answerer Bush SR. only served one term not two. Thomas Jefferson was the only person to serve one term as vice president [John Adams 1797-1801] and two terms as president, 1801 to 1809.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt. The many changes he made in government made America a much better place to live than before he took office.
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The first President of the U.S. was George Washington.
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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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b. Nixon\nHe was the first U.S. president to visit China since their communist revolution in 1948.
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Actually, this is not George Washington. He was the first under the current constitution. However, there were 7 before him under the Articles of Confederation (they had the title: President of the United States in Congress Assembled). The first was John Hanson from November 5, 1781 until November 3, 1782. Under the articles, these guys had very little power, so we don't hear much about them.
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Probably George Washington because he was the first president and started it all.
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Abraham Lincoln was President during Juarez' first term. Andrew Johnson was President during the first couple of years of his second term, and Ulysses S. Grant was President for the rest.
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First president of the USA was John Hanson.\n\nThe Articles of Confederation only allowed a President to serve a one-year term during any three-year period, so Hanson actually accomplished quite a bit in such little time. He served in that office from November 5, 1781 until November 3, 1782. He was the first President to serve a full term after the full ratification of the Articles of Confederation – and like so many of the Southern and New England Founders, he was strongly opposed to the Constitution when it was first discussed. He remained a confirmed anti-federalist until his untimely death.\n\nSix other presidents were elected after him - Elias Boudinot (1783), Thomas Mifflin (1784), Richard Henry Lee (1785), Nathan Gorman (1786), Arthur St. Clair (1787), and Cyrus Griffin (1788) - all prior to Washington taking office. Why don't we ever hear about the first seven Presidents of the United States? It's quite simple - The Articles of Confederation didn't work well. The individual states had too much power and nothing could be agreed upon. A new doctrine needed to be written - something we know as the Constitution. \n\nGeorge Washington was definitely not the first President of the United States. He was the first President of the United States under the Constitution we follow today. And the first seven Presidents are forgotten in history.
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The first president of the United States of America was George Washington, who took office on April 30, 1789, following the ratification of the United States Constitution.\n\nPrevious to this, the first presidents of the various congresses were:\n\nFirst Continental Congress: Peyton Randolph, September 5, 1774\n\nSecond Continental Congress: Peyton Randolph, May 10, 1775\n\nUnited States in Congress Assembled: Samuel Huntington, March 1, 1781
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General George Washingtion was the first president to be elected. The U.S. of America was the country. All other countries were rule by Kings and Queens back then.
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Because one president, Grover Cleveland, was both the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. He is the only person to have served two non-consecutive terms.
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Washington was the better president simply because he was the first. He had no example of how he should act or conduct business. While Lincon had to deal with a split country, Washington had to run a absolutly new country that could of fallen apart at any second.