The telephone was first patented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876; therefore, it can be assumed that all US Presidents before that time never used the device in office:
The President of the United States that refused to use the telephone while in office was Calvin Coolidge. He was the 30th President of the US.
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.
President Rutherford B. Hayes. His wife "Lemonade Lucy" (Real Name Lucy Ware Webb), refused to serve alcohol at the White House. Hayes was in office from March 4,1877 until March 4, 1881. During Prohibition, alcohol was not served openly at any official functions .
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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The president refused to move into the White House until it was redecorated nouveau style is Chester Arthur. Despite being successful in his presidency, he hated the job but enjoyed the social side of it.
the first telephone was installed in the white house (presidents house) (america) 1880.
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Rutherford B. Hayes had the first telephone installed in the White House in 1879, The only place he could call was the Treasury since there were no switchboards in those day. Nonetheless Hayes saw great potential use for the telephone .
Rutherford is famous for having a telephone installed in the White House, also a typewriter. He also was the first President to travel the West while still in office. He won his election by a congressional commission. He was the only President to get wounded in the Civil War- four times He began the "Easter Roll" for children on the White House lawn. His wife, Lucy Webb Hayes, was the first President's wife to graduate from college. She also was nicknamed "Lemonade Lucy" because she refused to serve alcohol in the White House.
He did while he was President. There never has a been a President who refused to live in the White House. It was burned down and uninhabitable for part of Madison's and Monroe's administration until it was rebuilt. Truman moved arcross the street for awhile so that the White House could be remodeled.
Rutherford B. Hayes. The first telephone in the white house was installed in 1879 with the phone number '1'.
Most sources say it was Rutherford B. Hayes. President Hayes benefitted from the new technologies of his era: he was not only the first to have a typewriter in the White House, but in 1877, he became the first to have a telephone installed.