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Who was the first President to have a phone on his desk?
Herbert Hoover
1929: Herbert Hoover was the first president to have a telephone installed on his desk on March 27.
Which President was afraid of electricity?
Electricity is installed in the White House during the presidency of Benjamin Harrison. However, President and Mrs. Harrison feared electrocution and never touched the light switches themselves.
What was the white houses original phone number?
| Mailing Address The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 | |
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| Phone Numbers Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414 FAX: 202-456-2461 | TTY/TDD Comments: 202-456-6213 Visitors Office: 202-456-2121 |
Who was the first and only President to be married in the White House?
“I must go to dinner,” he wrote a friend, “but I wish it was to eat a pickled herring a Swiss cheese and a chop at Louis’ instead of the French stuff I shall find.” In June 1886 Cleveland married 21-year-old Frances Folsom; he was the only President married in the White House.
When was the first phone in the White House?
May 10, 1877
On May 10, 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes has the White House’s first telephone installed in the mansion’s telegraph room. President Hayes embraced the new technology, though he rarely received phone calls. In fact, the Treasury Department possessed the only other direct phone line to the White House at that time.
What U.S. president never touched a light switch?
| Benjamin Harrison | |
|---|---|
| In office March 4, 1889 – March 4, 1893 | |
| Vice President | Levi P. Morton |
| Preceded by | Grover Cleveland |
| Succeeded by | Grover Cleveland |
What president and his wife never touched a light switch?
President Benjamin Harrison and his wife Caroline were the first to live in an electrified White House, but electricity was so new at the time that the couple refused to touch the light switches for fear of electric shock.
What was Rutherford B Hayes phone number?
1
President Rutherford B. Hayes’ phone number was “1,” and could be reached from only the Treasury Department.
Which president was called The Big Cheese?
The Mammoth Cheshire Cheese PressMonument, in Chesire Massachusetts: This monument commemorates the making and presentation of the Giant cheese for President Thomas Jefferson. Oddly enough, this was not the only giant cheese given to a U.S. President. President Andrew Jackson was gifted an even bigger one in 1837.
When was the first phone installed?
While Italian innovator Antonio Meucci (pictured at left) is credited with inventing the first basic phone in 1849, and Frenchman Charles Bourseul devised a phone in 1854, Alexander Graham Bell won the first U.S. patent for the device in 1876.