The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-11-10


and June are not President months Tive
have died in January and April each; one
each in February, March, September,
October, and December; four in June and
seven in July; none has died in May,
August, and November; indeed, May does
not appear to be in it at all, having neither
births nor deaths. OF the years, Grant
and Hayes were the only two born in the
same year, and Adams and Jefferson the
only two who have died in the same year.
Garfield was born the same year that saw
the end of Mr.. Monroe. Before the death
of Washington those who had been Presi-
dent or were waiting to be were Adams,
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe. Adams, Jr. /,
jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler,
Polk, Taylor, and Buchanan
Mr.. Buchanan was the last President
born in the eighteenth century, and Mr..
Pierce was the first President born in the
nineteenth, although he was succeeded by
an eighteenth century man Buehanan)
Eleven reached or passed threescore and
ten; John Adams col reached the most
advanced age; Madison (s5), Jefferson
(S3), and Van Buren (90) were the
other fourscore men; Monroe, Adams, Jr..
jackson, Tyler, Fillmore, Buchanan, and
Hayes passed the threescore point; Gar
field 600 was the youngest to die. w.
Fl. Harrison (6S) was the oldest at the
time Of his Inauguration; Buchanan was
&C. and Taylor 65; John Adams and
Jackson were 62, and all the others were
in the SOS, except Pierce C49), Grant
(47), and Cleveland (48), Grant being
the youngest man ever elected President.
w. II. Harrison served the shortest time.
one month; Taylor served sixteen months
and four days, Lincoln one month and
eleven days on his second term and Gar
field served six months and fifteen days.
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, jackson.
Lincoln, Grant, and Cleveland were twice
elected, but Cleveland alone had to make
three trials for his two elections.
Harrison l., Taylor. Lincoln, and
Garfield died in office. the latter two by
assassination.
'All were married men at their election
except Van Buren, Buchanan. and Cleve-
land.
Evan Buren was the only one to die in
the town of his birth (Kinderhook. n. Y..)
No President has died out of the country,
though Tyler died at Richmond, while Vir-
ginia was out of the Union, or at least try
ing to get out. Adams, Jefferson. and
Monroe died on the Fourth of July; Mon
roe five years after the other two. Ofthe
four Presidents born in April, three (Jef-
ferson, Monroe, and Grant) died in July.
and the other, buchanan missed it by
only month"; of the four born in March
two died in June, one in january, and one
Mr.. Cleveland) is still living: of the
twenty three, twelve were born in the first
half of the year, and eleven in the latter
half, which is dividing it very fairly. It
mightn occur to you, concluded the
statistician, but John Quincy Adams
who died in 1913, having. no doubt seen
Washington, Adams CHS father, and the
only man whose son was President, while
Harrison 5 grandson caught it, jefferson.
Madison, and Monroe, with jackson and
Harrison, who died before 1913. could. if
he had been 50 minded and had had the
requisite fore-knowledge, have seen all the
others, for the oldest Van BUREN, was at
that time 66, Lincoln was 80, Grant and
Hayes young men of %, while Garfield,
Arthur, and Harrison III, were youngsters
of Is to IS, and Cleveland, the last-born
President (1S37, was II.
Washington, the first President elected.
was the first to die, and he was the only
President to die in the eighteenth century,
with onl y seventeen days to 90 on Al
his death, Adams, jefferson, Madison.
Monroe, Adams, Jr, jackson, Van Buren,
Harrison l., Tyler, Polk, Taylor and
Buchanan were living. 1t was twenty-six
and half years until the next died, and
then Adams and Jefferson died on the same
day (1S26;) in that year two died, and
two have not died in any year since; two
died in the thirties, five in the forties, none
in the fifties, four in the sixties, two in the |
seventies, three in the eighties, and one
{ Hayes 50 far in the nineties. No Pres
ident died between 1849 and 1862, the
next longest time after Washington death.
One hundred and five years elapsed between
the birth of Washington and that of Cleve-
land (1732-1S37."