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Rutherford Hayes was the first president to use a telephone at the White House . Since the Bell phone was invented in 1876 when Grant was in office, it is possible that he was given the opportunity to use a phone, but I can find no record he did. Hayes talked on a telephone in 1877 and had one installed in the White House in 1879. The only call that Hayes could make was to the treasury department.

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Herbert Hoover was the first U.S. president to have a telephone in his office.

Rutherford Hayes had a telephone in the telegraph room that was connected only to the Treasury Department office.

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If you are asking which US President was the first to use a cell phone, just like "which US President was the first to use electricity (Benjamin Harrison), then I do not know the answer. Otherwise, I do believe that a federal law prohibits a sitting US President from "owning" or "subscribing" to a cellular service. I'm sure he's allowed to use the phones belonging to his aides, or his wife. He just cannot carry one as if it were his own. I'm uncertain on the authenticity of this information.

There is no restriction on the owning of a cell phone by a President. However, there are strict laws regarding retention of Presidential records - that is, everything a President does (in their official capacity) must be recorded and archived. Thus, a President can't use a traditional cell phone service. Nothing prevents them from using a cellular phone specially provided to him by the NSA (or other agency, which support the required recording and secure communications features).

To answer the original question, there is no known answer; commercial cell phones were relatively available starting in the 1980s, so any president from Reagan onward would be a candidate for first use of a cell phone.

President Obama is the first one to be known to commonly use a modern cell phone, particularly as a part of his 2008 campaign for the presidency. As noted above, however, once he became President, he was required to give up his normal commercial cell service.

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Rutherford B. Hayes was the first president to have a telephone in the White House.

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President Rutherford B. Hayes was the first President to use a telephone in the White House. He had a telephone installed in the White House in 1877.

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President Rutherford B. Hayes was the first president to use a telephone . He had it installed in the White House's telegraph room in 1879.

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Rutherford Hayes was the first president to use a telephone. He also had the first telephone installed in the telegraph room of the White House.

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Jimmy Carter would have been the first president to have a cell phone. He was president in the 1970s when cell phones came out.

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Rutherford B. Hayes

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