He was John Adams. The White House was unfinished and not very comfortable.
He moved in in December and knew that he would have to move out in March because he had lost his bid for another term as president.
He was the 2nd president so I think it was George Washington who was the first one who lived in the White House.
Though not completed, John Adams, the second President was the first to inhabit the White House. The first president to have lived in the white house would have to be President John Adams and his wife, Abigail, moved into the White House in 1800, shortly before it was completed. Construction began in 1792.
When John Adams and his wife moved into the White House in 1800 ( called the President's House, then) it was not completed. Abigail Adams hung her laundry in the East Room.
John Adams lived in the White House from November 1800 until February of 1801. The federal government was originally located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but was moved to Washington D.C. John Adams was the first president to live in the White House after it was built.
John Adams was the first. He lived there for about 4 months at the end of his term.
She lived in the white house when John Adams became president!
The first president to live in the White House was John Adams. He did not have a middle name and so is distinguished from his son, John Quincy Adams who did have a middle name.
John Adams. George Washington never lived there because it hadn't been built yet.
FDR lived in there the longest and died while in office he decided to serve more that 2 terms.
He lived in the White House which was where it is now.
The first home of the United States President was in New York City, and that is where George Washington lived when he was president. John Adams was the first president to live in the White House (then called the President's House, President's Palace or Presidential Mansion), in Washington DC.
Pierce was the 14th President, and the 13th to live in the White House. John Adams was the first to live there.
Only George Washington, who lived in New York City and then in Philadelphia, which were the nation's first capitals. He never lived in the White House. John Adams was the first to live in the White House. He moved there in November, 1800 soon after the Capital moved to Washington.