Making Waves Before Being President

Know this one?

By Kathryn Rubino on August 08, 2017 6:29 pm

White House (by Cezary p via Wikimedia)

Which New York attorney who went on to be President of the United States is noted for his 1854 representation of an African-American woman kicked off of a Third Avenue streetcar reserved for whites?

Hint: Mark Twain is quoted as saying of this president: “I am but one in 55,000,000; still, in the opinion of this one-fifty-five millionth of the country’s population, it would be hard to better President [blank’s] administration.”