President Obama's Milestone: The Commander-in-Chief Visits All 50 States

Joining Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton, President Barack

ByABC News
May 8, 2015, 4:08 PM
President Barack Obama walks the Anhinga Trail at Everglades National Park, Fla., April 22, 2015.
President Barack Obama walks the Anhinga Trail at Everglades National Park, Fla., April 22, 2015.
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— -- Joining Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, President Obama has finally traveled to his 50th state -- South Dakota -- today as he visited the Lake Area Technical Institute in Watertown to deliver a commencement address.

"I can’t let my South Dakota friends feel neglected,” Obama told KSFY-TV, ABC’s Sioux Falls affiliate, at the White House in April.

Though Obama visited the state as a senator, seeing Mount Rushmore with wife, Michelle Obama, and kids, Sasha and Malia, this is his first time returning as Commander-in-Chief.

“Finally, there should be spring in South Dakota,” he quipped during his interview.

Luckily, spring has arrived. While it may not be Florida weather, South Dakota will reach a high of 68 while he’s there.

This visit comes on the heels of some pleading by 11-year-old, Rebecca, of Vermillion, South Dakota.

Rebecca sent a letter to Obama asking him to "visit the warmest of the Dakota's," and so he did.

To celebrate this rarely accomplished achievement, we've compiled seven pretty awesome photos of the president and the beautiful states he’s visited:

PHOTO: President Barack Obama, holding hands with Amelia Boynton, as they and the first family and others including Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga, left of Obama, walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. , Saturday, March 7, 2015.
President Barack Obama, fourth from left, walks holding hands with Amelia Boynton, who was beaten during "Bloody Sunday," as they and the first family and others including Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga, left of Obama, walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. for the 50th anniversary of the landmark event of the civil rights movement, Saturday, March 7, 2015. At far left is Sasha Obama and at far right is former first lady Laura Bush.
President Barack Obama speaks at a Democratic fundraiser at Sentinel Hotel, May 7, 2015, in Portland, Ore.
In this Feb. 7, 2014 file photo, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, left, and President Barack Obama, tour the biomass conversion process area at Michigan State University.
President Barack Obama walks the Anhinga Trail at Everglades National Park, Fla., April 22, 2015.
President Barack Obama delivers the commencement address for the University of California, Irvine, Saturday, June 14, 2014, in Anaheim, Calif.
US President Barack Obama shows his ipad case which was prototyped at TechShop Pittsburgh on June 17, 2014 in Pittsburgh, Penn.
President Barack Obama puts his clubs in a golf cart after finishing the 18th hole on the Marine Corps Base Hawaii's Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course in Kaneohe, Hawaii on Dec. 24, 2014.

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