The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-16
THE HEAD UF THE NATION,
Some Interesting Facts about Presid emit
and the PresIdeneY.

Some Interesting Facts about President
and the Presidency.
Forty millions of people, more or less
are now talking about Presidents AMI
the presidency; and it is not out O
place to give some interesting facts, his
torical and constitutional in connection
Herewith.
To begin, then, the word president
derived from the Latin, means TO "si
before"-. e., an audience. The free
translation of the term would be "chair
man." And the Office of q chairman
is to act as presiding officer or moder
ator of an assemblage.
The President of the United States
holds his Office for four years. He mus
be a native of the United States, and al
least thirty-fve years of age.
He is not elected by the popular vote,
but by a College OF Electors chosen by
the people. Buchanan's popular vote
was about 2o0,0 0 less than half the
total cast; Lincoln's about 800, 900 less
than half; and Hayes was l56 900 votes
behind the number cast for Tilden.
From 1889 to 1924 the President was,
in most cases, chosen by the Legislatures
of the States.
The title at first conferred upon the
President was Ellis Highness the Presi.
dent of the United States and Protector
of our Liberties" After a while it was
Discontinued.
The President receives a salary of $50.
600 a year, with the White House as g
residence free Of charge, and light, fuel
and attendants thrown in.
Under the original provisions OF the
Constitution the person having the
second highest number of votes fol
President became Vice-P President.
By arrangement two men OF directly
opposite political views might, and, in
fact, did, become elected to the offices Of
President and Vice-P President in the
same administration.
The Presidents of the United States,
from the adoption of the Constitution to
the present time, have been a follows:
George Washington, 1859 to 1897.
John Adams, 1897 to 1901,
Thomas Jefferson, 1901 to 1909.
James Madison, 1909 to 1917.
James Monroe, 1917 to 1925:
John Quincy Adams, 1895 to 1929.
Andrew Jackson, 1929 to 1887.
Martin VanBuren, 1887 to l64l.
William Henry Harrison, l84I, when
he died, and was succeeded by John
Tyler. the President, who held
Office till l845.
James Knox Polk, l945 10 Ie49.
Zachary Taylor, ls49 to July 5, 1850,
when he died, and was succeeded by
Willard Fillmore, the Vice-P President,
who held Office till 1853.
Franklin Pierce, 1853 to 1857.
James Buchanan, 1857 to 1861.
Abraham Lincoln, 1861 to April Is,
1865, when he died, and was succeeded
by Andrew johnson, the Vice-P President
who held Office till 1869.
Ulysses S. Grant, 1869 to 1877.
Rutherford B. Hayes, from 1877 to
1881.
Nineteen Presidents in ali, from the
close of the provisional government til
the present.
According to the Constitution, the
President and Vice-President cannot be
chosen from the same State.
OF the nineteen Presidents, sever
came from Virginia Washington, JEFF.
ferson. Madison, Monroe, Harrison,
Tyler, and Taylor; two from Massa-
chusetts-John Adams and his son,
John Quincy Adams; n from New
York-Van Buren,; one from New
Hampshire-Pierce; one from Mary.
land-Fillmore; three from Tennessee
jackson, Polk, and Johnson two from
Illinois-Lincoln and Grant; one from,
Observation-Disclosures and one from
Ohio-Hayes.
On his denomination for n second
term the total electoral vote was in
creased by the accession of new States
to 1876, of which number Washington
received 1872.
John Adams, who was the next
President in succession to Washington,
received seventy-one votes out of a total
of 1873.
In the fourth presidential contest
Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr re-
seventy-three votes each. The
result being a tie, there was, of course,
no election, and the choice of President
devolved upon the House Of Representa-
lives, which elected JEFF srson by a vote
Of ten to four-Delaware and North
Carolina not voting.
The electoral college also failed to
elect in the tenth Presidential contest.
The total number of votes was 26l. OF
these Andrew jackson received ninety
nine, John Q. Adams eighty-four, Will
liam II, Crawford forty.one and Henry
Clay thirty-seven. The House elected
Jackson.
In 1856 the Democrats elected their
last President, James Buchanan, and
The Republicans put in the field its first
candidate, John G. Fremont. .rt.
That same year-ls56-what was
known as the Know-Nothing movement
had acquired considerable strength, and
the American party put in the field
Fillmore. He received only the
eight electoral votes of his own State
Maryland.
During the presidential election OF
1864, eleven States-all Southern-did
lot vote.
M tho nineteen Presidents ten have