Government

First US president to be a Rhodes Scholar
Bill Clinton

First US vice president to assume presidency upon the death of the president
John Tyler (1841)

First unelected US vice president to become president
Gerald R.Ford (1974)

First American Indian to become a US Senator
Charles Curtis (1907)

First openly gay U.S congressperson
Barney Frank (1981)

First Black to become US secretary of state
Colin Powell

First black secretary general of united nations
Trygve Lie, Norway (1946)

First prime minister of UK
Robert Walpole (1721)

First English Monarch to live in Bucking Ham Palace
Queen Victoria (1837)

First British Monarch to have a televised coronation
Elizabeth II (1953)