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(I'm going to assume that when you said "first" you meant "fastest," because otherwise the question is nonsense.)

Because of Kepler's Third Law. The orbital period for a body is related to the semimajor axis of its orbit. Mercury's orbit has the shortest semimajor axis of all the Solar planets, and therefore it has the shortest orbital period.

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