St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-22
OUR Ex-PREsIDENTs.
What we Shall Do With Our FIX
Presidents Solving Itself.

Presidents Solving itSoiI.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The question what we shall do with
our eX-presidents seems to be solving
itself. Mr.. Cleveland is now the only
living ex-president, and that distinction
will soon pass from him to Mr.. Harrison.
For the first ffty-two years of our eX-
istence under the Federal constitution
no president died in office. During the
second period OF fifty-two years, now
about to close, four presidents have died
i'm Office. two of them 10y assassination.
The two who died of disease-HarriSon
and TaylOr-were men who were elected
in consequence of services rendered the
country as military leaders.
Gen. Washington lived less than three
years after the close Of his second term,
but his immediate successors passed a
considerable length of time as eX-presl-
dents. AT the close OF. the first year of
the term of John Quincy Adams, thirty
seven years after the accession Of the
first president, all the eX presidents ex-
cept the first were alive. John Adams
and jefferson died July 4, 1876.
Madison lived ten years and Monroe
five years longer. Immediately after
the death of Madison, John Quincy
Adams was the only eX-president. and
he lived till 1S4S. nineteen years after
he had Quilted the office. Jackson was
eX-president for eight years. Van
Buren, lived twenty-one years after the
expiration of his term, and was twice a
candidate for reelection. Tyler was an
ex-president seventeen years. Polk
died a few months after the Inaugural
ton of his successor. Fillmore was eX
president twenty-five years, Pierce
twelve years and Buchanan seven
years.
Since TIE Inauguration of Mr.. Lin
coin, thirty-tWo years ago, sort OF IA
tally seems to have followed our presi-
dents. Two have been assassinated.
and most of the others nave died within
short time after the close OF their
terms. johnson lived six years after the
close of his term and Grant eight. Ar
thur died in the year following that in
which he quilted office. Hayes lived
nearly twelve years as an eX-presldent.
the longest period of any since Frank
lin Pierce.
Of the presidents John Adams at
tanned the greatest age, dying at ninety
one. Madison died at eighty-tive,
jefferson at eighty-three and John
Quincy Adams at eighty-one. Garfield
was the only president who died under
fifty, and he lacked two months
to day of having lived half
a century. Polk died at fifty
four, Lincoln and Arthur at ffty-six.
All the others lived more than sixty
years. and all but Gen. Grant more than
sixty-fve years. Grant died at sixty
three and Washington at siXty-seven.
Gen. Grant became president at forty
seven, beinglthe youngest man to attain
that great Office. Grover Cleveland came
next: he lacked two weeks of being for
ty-eight at his Inauguration. Gen. Will
lam Henry Harrison was older at his
Inauguration than any other president.
having attained the age OF sixty.!elght
wears. BENJAMIN Harrison was inau-
gurated when in his fifty-siXth year, and
is now in his sixtieth. Mr.. Cleveland
will not be fifty-siX until March IS, two
weeks after his second Inauguration.