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Bill Clinton was the first US president to be named a Rhodes scholar.
The first Rhodes Scholar to become president was Bill Clinton. He was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford in 1968 and went on to serve as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
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Joan Leopold was the first American Rhodes Fellow (1972-74) at Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall). This was before the Rhodes Scholarships were opened to women. It was a faculty-level position.
Alain Locke (1886-1954), a writer and educator from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the first African-American to receive the Rhodes Scholarship, in 1907.
Hiram Rhodes Revels- On February 25, 1870, he was elected the first black member of the Senate, becoming also the first black member of the Congress.
Mae Jamison was the first black female astronaut, and she is still alive. She was born in 1956.
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lady Ban Zhao was the first and greatest of the chinese woman scholars. She died in A.D. 116.
Phillis Wheatley is the first black female poet to have her works published in 1773.
Monica was not black.
Harriet Quimby, America's first licensed female pilot