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First man's US president (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

adams

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'us president' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'first man's' is the wordplay.
'first' becomes 'a' (first letter of the alphabet).
'man' becomes 'dams' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'a'+'dams'='ADAMS'

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(Other definitions for adams that I've seen before include "John Quincy --, sixth US president" , "American composer" , "Sort of apple" , "Former US president" , "Name of two early US presidents" .)

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