1877 was the year when President Hayes was in office with the number 1
In 1879, when Rutherford B. Hayes was president.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Herbert Hoover was first to have a phone on his desk. The White House had a phone since about 1879 but it was out in the hall.
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.
Herbert Hoover was the first to have a phone on his desk. Until his phone, there was a wall phone outside of the president's office that the president could use.
President Obama uses a BlackBerry Curve 8300 cell phone.
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.
Rutherford B. Hayes. The first telephone in the white house was installed in 1879 with the phone number '1'.
Rutherford Hayes
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Rutherford Hayes
George Bush Sr was the first to actually have dial tone and the ability to dial his own calls. Herbert Hoover was the first to have a phone on his desk, but the call needed to be connected by an operator.