James Madison was the President in 1809, but the first central heating system in the White House was not installed until 1837 under Martin Van Buren.
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Herbert Hoover was the first US president to have a phone on his desk. Prior to 1929, US presidents had used a phone booth outside the office. Incidentally, the first president to have a telephone installed in the White House was Rutherford B Hayes.
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Flaws in the electoral system began to appear in 1796. The system, at that time, resulted in the President and Vice President being from different political parties.
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.
The first, and only, President of the Confederate States of America was Jefferson Davis. Jefferson Davis was the first and only president of the confederacy.