Who was the first president to decorate an official Christmas Tree?

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This information comes from the site indicated. <<Franklin Pierce was the first president to introduce the Christmas tree to the White House in 1856 for a group of Washington Sunday School children. The first national Christmas Tree was lighted in the year 1923 on the White House lawn by President Calvin Coolidge.>> http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/trees/tradition/html

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