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President Obama

First president born outside of the 48 contiguous states.

First president born in Hawaii.

First president to be multiethnic; his European-American mother was from Kansas and his African father was from Kenya.

First president to be African-American.

First president to have a Catholic vice president (Joe Biden).

First president to appoint a former first lady to the Cabinet (Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State).

First president to publicly endorse same-sex marriage.

First president to appoint a Latino American to the Supreme Court (Sonia Sotomayor).

First president to visit a federal prison.

First president to have his official photograph portrait taken with a digital camera.

First president to light a diya for Diwali at the White House.

First president to address the African Union while in office.

First president to have visited the Arctic Circle while in office.

First president to visit Hiroshima, Japan, the location where the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare in 1945.

First president to write a scholarly article in a scholarly journal while president.

First president to visit an independent Trinidad and Tobago, Cambodia, Myanmar, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Laos while in office.

First president to make his presidential library digital, as opposed to a physical facility.

First president to visit Wales while in office.

First president to appear on a podcast while in office.