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