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:
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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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