Our first 30 presidents

4. Apparently cared for a family of White House mice, which he called “the little fellows.”
5. shortest president
8. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence
11. The tallest president at 6’4”
12. First president to hurl the ceremonial first pitch
13. Fathered 15 children, the most of any president.
19. Invited to join Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre on the fateful evening of April 14, 1865, but was forced to decline after he and his wife made plans to visit their children in New Jersey.
21. Served non-consecutive terms
22. Lasted only 32 days in office, the shortest stint of any president.
23. The first U.S. president and Revolutionary War hero
25. Wrote a series of lurid love letters to his mistress
27. The only president to ever run essentially unopposed
28. Named in honor of Chester Abell, the doctor who delivered him.

1. First president to hire a female White House staffer.
2. Replied, “You lose,” to a visitor who bet she could get at least three words out of him.
3. Established the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.
6. Youngest president, taking office at age 42.
7. Helped draft the 1854 Ostend Manifesto, which advocated for an American invasion of Cuba.
9. Last Whig president; the party imploded soon after he left office.
10. Argued a famous Supreme Court case that freed the captive Africans who had rebelled aboard the Amistad slave ship.
14. The first president to have a telephone in the White House.
15. The only president from New Hampshire also attended college in New England
16. Secretly purchased a number of enslaved children for his Mississippi cotton plantation.
17. Appears on the $500 bill, which was discontinued in 1969.
18. Exchanged more than 1,100 letters over the course of their lengthy relationship
19. The first known left-handed presiden
20. Never voted in an election prior to being on the ballot himself.
24. Once killed a man in a duel
26. The first president to be born an American.