| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Virginia Dare | First Child Born in the American Colonies |
| James Cook | First Man To Cross the Antarctic Circle |
| John Jay | First U.S. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
| Frederick Muhlenberg | First U.S. Speaker of the House |
| Edmund Randolph | First U.S. Attorney General |
| Henry Laurens | First Formal Cremation in the U.S. |
| Benjamin Stoddert | First Secretary of the U.S. Navy |
| Edward Smith | First Convicted Bank Robber in the U.S. |
| William Henry Harrison | First U.S. President to die in office |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | First woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S. |
| Charles Blondin | First Person to Cross Niagara Falls on a Tightrope |
| William Carney | First Black to Receive the Congressional Medal of Honor |
| Hiram Revels | First Black U.S. Senator |
| Lucy Walker | First Woman to Successfully climb the Matterhorn |
| Jesse James | Committed the World's First Train Robbery |
| Herbert Hoover | First U.S. President born West of the Mississippi River |
| William Kemmler | First Man to be Executed by Electrocution |
| Annie Moore | First Immigrant to Pass Through Ellis Island |
| Theodore Roosevelt | First American to Be Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize |
| Thomas E. Selfridge | First Airplane Fatality |
| Arthur R. Eldred | First Eagle Scout |
| Louis D. Brandeis | First Jewish Member of the U.S. Supreme Court |
| Chuck Yeager | First Person to Break the Sound Barrier |
| Julia Child | First Woman Designated a Full-Fledged "Chef" |
| Alan Shepard | First American in Space |
| John Glenn | First U.S. Astronaut to Orbit the Earth |
| Edward Higgins White, Jr. | First American to Walk in Space |
| Thurgood Marshall | First Black Supreme Court Justice |
| Neil Armstrong | First Man to Walk on the Moon |
| Henry Kissinger | First Jewish U.S. Secretary of State |
| Diana Nyad | First Person to Swim from the Bahamas to Florida |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | First Female U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
| Guion Stewart Bluford, Jr. | First Black American in Space |
| Sally Ride | First U.S. Woman in Space |
| Kathryn Sullivan | First Female U.S. Astronaut to Walk in Space |
| Mae Carol Jemison | First Black Woman in Space |
| Madeline Albright | First Female U.S. Secretary of State |
| Craig Breedlove | First Person to break the Sound Barrier in a Car |
| Colin Powell | First Black U.S. Secretary of State |
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