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That's the one, Mozart. The first Scout to become President was John F. Kennedy, who was a member of Troop 2, Bronxville, N.Y., from 1929 to 1931 and a leader of the Boston Council.The Boy Scout movement started in England in 1907, and the first US Scouts didn't appear until 1910. The Presidents before Kennedy were youths before scouting started. Kennedy was born in 1917. Truman was 26 and Eisenhower 20 when Scouting started in the US. Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, both Bushes, and Clinton (who is no longer President) could have been Boy Scouts, but weren't. (George W. bush was a Cub Scout.) Only Ford, of all Presidents after Kennedy, was a Boy Scout, becoming an Eagle Scout, the only Eagle Scout to ever hold the office of President of the US. Since Ford, however, was not elected President, only Kennedy fits the question.
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