The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-07-10

The New York Sun SAYS:


"should General Harrison be elected, he will be-
the first republican president who ever served in
the United States senate. James Buchanan was the
last president who had been senator in congressS
1t is not often that our esteemed contem&
porary makes mistake in matters of this
kind, but in both of the above statements ii
is in error. Should General Harrison be
elected, he will be the second republican
president who has served in the senate. for
Andrew johnson, who was president from
1866 to 1860, was elected to the United
States senate in 1857, from the state of Tena
nessee, and represented that state in the
senate during the stormy period Just pre-
ceding the war. This upsets both OF the
Suns statements, for as johnson was presi7
dent since Buchanan, the latter is not "the,
last president who had been a senator in
congress-"
But as mistakes of this sort are so infre.
quent with our more than beloved contem-
porary, we will pass this without further
mention. Now that the question is up,
however, it will be we'll to look at the record
and see how many presidents served in the
senate prior to their elevation to the presi-
dency.
James Monroe was the first president who
held a seat in the senate prior to his cleo
ton to the presidency, having been chosen
a United States senator from Virginia in
1890.
John Quincy Adams was a senator from
Massachusetts, for the term beginning 1902
and in 1905 he was chosen professor of
rhetoric and belles-lettres of Harvard COLI
lege, which position he accepted on the con-
dition that he would be permitted to attend
to his senatorial duties during the sessions
of congress.
Andrew Jackson was elected to the senate
from Tennessee in 1897, and resigned year
later to become judge of the supreme court
OF his state, which position he held untiG
1904. He was returned to the senate in
1928, and became president in 1928.
Martin Van Buren,, the ruling master
spirit of the famous Albany regency, repre-.
sented New York in the senate for two
terms, from 1921 to 1888, becoming presis
dent in 1896.
General William Henry Harrison, who
twice opposed Van Buren, for the presiGencyt
served in the senate with his DISTINGUISHED
competitor, having been elected United
OtdteS SClldlOr from ONO IN 1874. e.
John Tyler succeeded the celebrated John
Randolph of Roanoke, as United States SEM
ator from Virginia, in 1927. He was re-
elected in 1885, and having been elected
vice~president with Harrison in 1910, be-.
came president on the death of the latter.
He served in the senate with Andrew jack
son, Van Buren, and Harrison.
Franklin Pierce, after serving two terms
as representative in congress from New
Hampshire, was elected United States sena&
tor by the legislature of that state in 1887.
and became president fifteen years later.
James Buchanan who defeated Pierce fog
the democratic denomination, and succeeded
him as president, represented Pennsylvania
in the senate for two terms, from 1888 to
1916.
Andrew johnson was elected to the United
States senate when governor of Tennessee
in 1857, and after having been president,
was again elected to the senate in January.
1915, dying the following July.
Thus it will be seen that nine of the presie
dents held seats in the senate before they
became presidents, but somehow or otheE
the custom seems to have gone out of vogue
since the war. There will be no change in
the above list for the next four years, and
not then unless the democrats nominate
some man who has served in the senate.
MARY MAGDALENE SCHREINER was the wife
! of Matthias Schreiner, of Chicago, and becom4
ing disguised at his chronic drunkenness and
bad treatment, poured kerosene oil over hing
while he was drunk and applied match. The
poor fellow was soon burned to death. The
wife surrendered herself to the police and
plead guilty to the charge of willful MURDER
She is but twenty years of age and has a six4
months-old babe, and says that she could no
longer stand to bear the burden of life with
such husband, and when he came home Oh
the fatal night dead drunk, she could not res
sist an uncomfortable desire to rid herself OF
him. Her only anxiety now seems to be cont