The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-01-10
Twenty-One Presidents.
Historical Review Of Past Rulers u Our
Republic.
Buffalo Express.

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Presidential campaign has ever been
felt or manifested than in the late con-
test. The hearty and enthusiastic hard
cider campaign Of 1850, resulting in
the triumph of General Harrison("Old
Tippecanoe'') over Martin Van Buren
Nittle "Matty Van"), nor the more
notable and better remembered cam
paign of 1860, when Abraham Lincoln
| (Father Abaham-Uncle Abe-Honest
Old Abe-The rail splitter of the West)
became the choice of the people as their
chief in the dark and troublous days of
doubt and uncertainty that foreshadow-
ed the storm of secession and treason,
so soon to burst in its fury upon the
land-though both were campaigns of
remarkable interest and historical i'm
portance yet surpassed by the one
| Just closed, both in intensity of feeling
and partisan bitterness.
The close of President Arthur's term
of office on the 4th of March next will
complete the twenty-fourth Presidential
term of four years each since the adop-
ton of the Federal Constitution. Dur
ing this period of ninety-six years twen-
ty one different persons have occupied
that high office. Of these seventeen
were elected and four succeed to its
honors from the Vice Presidency upon
the death of the President. Of the
seventeen elected, two-viz..; Thomas
Jefferson (for his first term) and John
| Quincy Adams-were elected by the
House of Representatives in accordance
with the Constitution, the electoral
colleges in these two instances having
failed to make a choice; and one
viz. Rutherford B. Hayes-was de-
clared elected upon the ascertained re-
suits as declared by an electoral COM
mission especially created to adjudicate
the disputed and memorable election of
1876.
SEVEN PRESIDENTS WERE REELECTED
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson,
Lincoln and Grant-and ten to but a
single term, viz: John Adams, his son
John Quincy Adams, Van Buren, Har-
rison, Polk, Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan,
Hayes and Garfield. The contingent
Presidents have been John Tyler,
Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson and
Chester A. Arthur, they succeeding to
the Presidency upon the death of Har-
rison, Taylor, Lincoln and Garfield
respectively. But two ex-Presidents
are now living-Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
and Rutherford B. Hayes. When
Cleveland is inaugurated March next
Chester A. Arthur will make the third,
should neither be removed by death be-
fore that time. During the eight years
ofPresident Grants Presidency, begin
ming March a, 1869, ex-Presidents
Pierce, Fillmore and Johnson died in
the order named. General Grant was,
therefore, upon his retirement from the
White House in 1877, the only living
ex-President, this being the only in
stance of the kind since President WASH
ington retired to private life in 1877.
Washington's first Inauguration took
place in the city of New York; his Sec
ond in Philadelphia, where John Adams
was also inaugurated. Jefferson was the
first President inaugurated at Washing
ton, where all subsequent inaugurations
have taken place-with the possible ex-
ception of that of President Arthur.
The Vice President being in New York
at the time of Garfeld's death, the oath
of office was administered to him at his
residence in that city by Judge Brady.
General Grant was the youngest ol
the Presidents when inaugurated, being
At; Pierce and Garfield were 40; Polk
! and Fillmore, SO; Tyler, 81; Lincoln
So; Van Buren and Taylor, 55; Wash
ington and Johnson, 81; Jefferson,
Madison and John Quincy Adams, o8
{ Monroe, So; John Adams and Jackson,
62; Buchanan, &C.; Harrison, 6S.
GARFIELD DIED THE YOUNGEST,
not having reached his fiftieth birthday
Polk was 81 at his death; Lincoln, Sc
Pierce, 65; Taylor, GO; Washington
+. and Johnson, 6S; Harrison, g.; Tylel
and Monroe, 73; Fillmore, "a; Buch
AMMAN, II; Jackson, 7S; Van Buren
80; John Quincy Adams, 81; Jeffer
. son, 80; Madison, IS; John Adams
81.
Nine States of the Union have thu'
far furnished all the Presidents, ant
from ten States have come all the Vice
Presidents. The following table give
9 the names of the States that have sup
piled the Presidents and the number O
years each has had this honor:
Year:
VIRGINIA SO
Massachusetts.
tennessee
New ....l0
OhlO..
Louisiana
New Hampshlre.....
Pennsylv
Illinois
Total-17S9 to 1SS5......................-".9
Attention has been called to the fac
y more than once alluded to that no as
pirant to Presidential honors who's
, name begin with c has been successful