Harry S Truman never attended college.
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President Coolidge went to Amherst College in Amherst, Mass. He earned a liberal arts degree with a special interest in history, philosophy, rhetoric, speech and classical Greek. His senior thesis was about the American Revolution.
Grover Cleveland was the most recent to never take college classes.Harry Truman was the most recent to have not earned a degree or go to college in the usual sense, but he attended Kansas City Law School and took some college-level classes there.
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Woodrow Wilson was the only president that earned a PhD degree. Several were awarded honorary degrees. Obama holds a JD ( Doctor of Jurisprudence) which is the first law degree at many law schools.
W.E.B. DuBois graduated from Harvard College and received a PhD there in 1896. He was the first black person to receive a PhD from Harvard. But he was not the first black to ever attend college. John Russwurm, editor of the first black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal," was one of the first to receive a degree-- he graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine in 1826.