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Rutherford Birchard Hayes

Hayes was the first President to use a telephone while in office. The first telephone was installed in the White House in 1879.
Of the five presidents who served in the Civil War, Hayes was the only one to be wounded.
He won the presidency by only one electoral vote.
Hayes was the first president to visit the West Coast while in office.
His wife, Lucy Hayes, banned alcohol, smoking, dancing, and card playing from the White House.
Hayes and his wife conducted the first Easter egg roll on the White House lawn.
He was named after his father, Rutherford Hayes, and his mother, Sophia Birchard.
Hayes never knew his father, who died a few months before he was born.