Presidential Facts Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 2. signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957
- 6. nickname was “Handsome Frank”
- 10. got stuck in the white house bathtub
- 11. worked as a radio announcer for the Chicago Cubs
- 13. married to Elizabeth Kortright
- 14. nickname is "Old Hickory"
- 18. had three dogs and a cat at the White House
- 22. scared of electricity
- 24. only president to be born and raised in California
- 25. Texas lake named after him
- 26. made the Louisiana Purchase
- 27. was a “dark horse” presidential candidate in 1976
- 29. born on the 4th of July
- 30. only president never to be married
- 31. elected into office four times
- 34. richest president in history
- 35. wore the number 48 at the University of Michigan
- 36. nickname was "Father of the Constitution"
- 37. first President to be impeached
- 38. first president to travel to Europe while in office
- 40. had the biggest feet (size 19)
- 41. had no political experience before becoming president
- 42. first president to be born as a citizen of the United States
- 43. first president to be born west of the Mississippi River
Down
- 1. first black president of the United States
- 3. had a pet goat with him at the White House
- 4. president with the most children (15)
- 5. first president to have his picture taken in 1849
- 7. had a pet parrot named Washington Post
- 8. only president in the 1900s who did not attend college
- 9. one of 2 vice presidents to be elected president
- 12. became a lawyer without going to law school
- 13. had a childhood stutter
- 15. blind in his left eye
- 16. first left handed President
- 17. stored letters in his tall hat
- 19. assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald
- 20. only president to be married at a White House ceremony
- 21. only president who was a Rhodes Scholar
- 23. died on the same day as Thomas Jefferson
- 28. wife started the first white house library
- 29. one of 4 presidents without a vice president
- 32. had a siamese cat named siam
- 33. first President of the United States
- 39. in the army for 40 years before he became president