Presidential Firsts

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Across
  1. 2. no residence to register to vote until 62
  2. 4. to light national Christmas tree
  3. 7. only one who studied to be a doctor
  4. 9. ride in an automobile
  5. 12. to install central heating in the White House
  6. 14. used electricity in the White House
  7. 16. to have never been married
  8. 19. to reside in the White House
  9. 22. to call the White House the White House
  10. 23. to have earned a Ph.D
  11. 24. whose mother was eligible to vote for him
  12. 25. buried with head on a copy of Constitution
  13. 29. to have inauguration reported by telegraph
  14. 30. own and speak over the radio
  15. 32. to actor elected to the office
  16. 34. telephone installed in the White House
  17. 36. Rhodes Scholar
  18. 38. Father of the Constitution
  19. 39. unanimously elected to the office
  20. 40. president born in a hospital
Down
  1. 1. to die by assassination
  2. 3. named African American to his cabinet
  3. 5. licensed to pilot
  4. 6. destroyed his personal papers
  5. 8. to give a speech on television
  6. 10. to have a child born in the White House
  7. 11. to shake hands with guests
  8. 13. to ride on a railroad train
  9. 15. to wear trousers instead of knee-breeches
  10. 16. I, related to 4 presidents & Marilyn Monroe
  11. 17. to own a car
  12. 18. campaigned from front porch
  13. 20. managing general partner of a sports team
  14. 21. helped fight the fire as Library of Congress in 1851
  15. 26. to be photographed
  16. 27. born west of the Mississippi
  17. 28. standardized "Hail to the Chief" as state functions
  18. 31. born in the United States
  19. 33. to hold a press conference on television
  20. 35. only president to resign
  21. 37. to view the Pacific Ocean