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President Ronald Reagan

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RONALD REAGAN


  • First president born in Illinois.
  • First president to have been divorced.[363][364] He married his first wife Jane Wyman in 1940, and the couple divorced in 1949.
  • First president to be the head of a union (the Screen Actors Guild).
  • First president to nominate a woman to the Supreme Court (Sandra Day O'Connor).
  • First president to be inaugurated at the West Front of the United States Capitol Building.
  • First president to be re-elected over the age of seventy, as he was 73 years old when he was re-elected in 1984.
  • First president to visit the New York Stock Exchange, (on March 28, 1985) while in office.
  • First president to attend and open an Olympic Games (the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles) while in office.
  • First president to address both houses of the British parliament (on June 8, 1982).
  • First president to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
  • First president to win a Golden Globe Award.
  • First president to win a Razzie Award
  • First president to win a Golden Boot Award
  • First president to nominate an Italian-American to the United States Supreme Court (Antonin Scalia).
  • First president to grant civilians access to military GPS satellite technology.
  • First president to be wounded in an assassination attempt while in office and survive his injuries.
  • First president to visit an independent Jamaica, Barbados, and Grenada while in office.
  • First president to temporarily transfer power to the vice president, invoking the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution