The Earlier Leaders

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Across
  1. 2. first to have a telephone in the White House
  2. 3. named after the doctor who delivered him
  3. 4. argued a famous Supreme Court case that freed the captive Africans who had rebelled aboard the Amistad slave ship
  4. 12. never voted in an election prior to being on the ballot himself
  5. 17. first to hire a female White House staffer
  6. 20. blind in his left eye due to an injury in a boxing match
  7. 22. turned down offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers
  8. 23. had 15 children
  9. 24. stored letters and documents in his tall stove-piped hat
  10. 27. officially established the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day
  11. 28. all of the state representatives voted for him
  12. 29. last Whig president
  13. 30. helped to advocate the American Invasion of Cuba
Down
  1. 1. first president to have his photo taken while in office
  2. 5. only president to speak English as a second language, his first being Dutch
  3. 6. only president who signed the constitution with George Washington
  4. 7. only president from New Hampshire
  5. 8. fifth president, but third to die on July 4th
  6. 9. appeared on the $500 bill
  7. 10. died the same day Thomas Jefferson died, July 4th, 1826
  8. 11. worked on his family's peanut farm
  9. 13. died the same day John Adams died, July 4th, 1826
  10. 14. exceptional poker player
  11. 15. first president to hurl the ceremonial first pitch at a Major League Baseball game
  12. 16. died just 32 days after becoming president
  13. 18. first known left-handed president
  14. 19. cared for a family of White House mice, which he called “the little fellows.”
  15. 21. served as a journalist during WW2
  16. 25. was shot and had a bullet inside him for 40 years
  17. 26. the "s" in his name does not stand for anything