| ZACHARYTAYLOR | President of the U.S. (1849-50) was his first elected office |
| HERBERTHOOVER | President of the U.S. (1929-33) was his first elected office |
| ULYSSESSGRANT | President of the U.S. (1869-77) was his first elected office |
| TOSCA | Which of Puccini's operas was his first of the 20th century? (5) |
| OVAL | The -- Office is the private office of the president of the U.S. (4) |
| ANNULLED | Woman among the top people, 50, was first to be set aside |
| HERALDS | The 12/50 was a popular version of these Triumphs (7) |
| OCHS | 'All the News That's Fit to Sing' was his first album |
| LAMA | At 50, was to join the Medical Association or become a Buddhist priest (4) |
| STRONGER | Song by U.S. rapper Kanye West that was his first UK No. 1 hit in 2007 (8) |
| GOV | Jerry Brown's elected office in California: Abbr. |
| AMIS | The Rachel Papers was his first novel in 1973 (6,4) |
| MARTIN | The Rachel Papers was his first novel in 1973 (6,4) |
| HARTCRANE | "White Buildings" was his first collection of poetry |
| BOWWOW | Rapper whose album "Unleashed" was his first after dropping "Lil'" from his stage name |
| NGO | --- Dinh Diem, first elected President of Republic of South Vietnam |
| GOLDA | Zionist who was among the first elected to Israel's newly formed Knesset, future prime minister, ... |
| LINCOLN | Abraham, U.S. president first elected in 1860 (7) |
| KARZAI | In 2004 he became the first elected president of Afghanistan |
| NEHRU | His sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, was the first female president of the U.N. General Assembly |
