Graduations in U.S. History
Compiled by Chris Rowan

Firsts
In 1642 the first class graduated from Harvard — the nation's oldest university.

In 1823 Alexander Lucius Twilight became the first black American to earn a degree when he graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont.

In 1841 Oberlin College in Ohio, the first co-educational institution in the United States, began granting degrees to women.

In 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the United States to receive a medical degree (from Geneva College in New York).

In 1850 Lucy Ann Stanton became the first black American woman to earn a college degree when she graduated from Oberlin College.

U.S. Presidents
(1)Who was the first U.S. President to graduate from college? Where did he attend? When did he graduate?

(2) Although 26 Presidents were lawyers, only one attended Harvard Law School. Which President?

(3) Which of these Presidents never attended Harvard:

(a) John Quincy Adams (b) William Howard Taft (c) Theodore Roosevelt (d) Franklin D. Roosevelt (e) James Monroe

(4) Which President dropped out of Princeton but graduated from Harvard?

(5) How many Presidents never attended any college?

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