List of Mexican presidential firsts

This list contains the distinctions of the various heads of state of Mexico.
Agustín I (1822-1823)
* First head of state of Mexico.
* First Mexican head of state to be overthrown.
* First Mexican head of state to be born in the 18th century.
Guadalupe Victoria (1824-1829)
* First president of Mexico.
* First president born in Durango.
* First president to finish his presidential term.
Vicente Guerrero (1829)
* First president with significant African ancestry.
Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga (1845-1846)
*First president born in Mexico City
*First president to be the grandfather of another president
Benito Juárez (1858-1872)
*First indigenous (Zapotec) president of Mexico and first post-colonial indigenous head of state in the Americas
*First president to die in office and first to die in office of natural causes (a heart attack)
Pedro Lascuráin (1913)
*First president to be the grandson of another president
Venustiano Carranza (1917-1920)
*First president to die in office via assassination (or possibly suicide)
*First president to serve under the Constitution of 1917
Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-1940)
*First president to serve a full six-year term
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1964-1970)
*First president to ride Line 1 of the Mexico City Metro (and first passenger on that line overall)
Luis Echeverria Álvarez (1970-1976)
*First president to be a centenarian
Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-)
*First president born in Tabasco.
*First president belonging to MORENA.

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