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In November of 1899, William McKinley became the first president to ride in an automobile. The car was a steam carriage driven by its inventor, F.O. Stanley, at Washington, D.C.

In August of 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt took the first public automobile ride by a president during a parade at Hartford, Connecticut, in a Columbia electric car.

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President Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to own an automobile. The first 'White House automobiles' were purchased during William Howard Taft's presidency.

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