Question: Which president has the oldest known voice recording?
Answer: In 1889, during the first year of his presidency, President Benjamin Harrison gave a speech about the first Pan-American Congress. The address was recorded on an Edison phonograph wax cylinder, making Harrison the first president to have his voice preserved. You can hear that recording here—it’s the oldest known recording of a U.S. president’s voice. Years earlier, President Rutherford B. Hayes also had a speech recorded, but that recording has since been lost.
