The age-herald., 1900-07-22
ABOUT THE PRESIDENTS
 OF THE UNITED STATES
Twenty-four Up to Date, and Some Ins tere ng Facts Concerning
 Them.

We have had twenty-four Presidents up
 to date, and if MT. Bryan is defeated we shall not have our twenty-hfth until 1905. Hitherto Presidents renominated by their
 parties have usually been reelected. The
 four exceptions were John Adams, defeated
 for reelection by Thomas Jefferson in 1900;
 Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland and
 Benjamin Harrison. MT. Bryans success
 would indeed break many Presidential pre-
 cedents He comes from the Trans-Missis-
 sippi West, a section that has never before
 supplied a President He was born in
 Illinois, the birthplace of no President so
 far elected. He would be the youngest man
 ever chosen as President.
 Our oldest President at the time of his in-
 auguration, says the New York World,
 was William Henry Harrison, 6S, and Grant
 was our youngest President on the day of
 his first inauguration, 47; Cleveland was 4S. The birthplace of the Presidents are di- vded among the States as follows: Six have come from Virginia, five from Ohio, | three from New York; two each from Mas- l sachusetts and North Carolina, and one l each from New Jersey, Kentucky, New l Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania and | Tennessee.
 As to the Christian names there have
 been four Jameses, three Johns, two A1i drews, two Williams and one George, Thomas, Martin, Zachary, Willard, Frank4
 lin, Abraham, Ulysses, Rutherford, Chest CT, Grover and Benjamin Fourteen of
 them had no middle names and none Qt them was named in honor of any previous , President-a fact which shows how sadly l futile 1t is to name a baby boy after 1 President in the hope that he also may l grow up and "get there"
 All our Presidents have been married
 men at the time of their election save
 three-Van Buren, Buchanan and Cleve. l land.
 Washington was the first President to l die and the only one to die in the eigM | teenth century At his death Adams, Jef- | ferson, Madison. Monroe the second Adams, Jackson, VanBuren, the first Hars
 rison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor and Buchanan were all living.
 Among the curious coincidents of the Presidential office we may mention the deaths of John Adams and Thomas JeffefA son on the same day-July 4, 1926. In no subsequent year have two Presidents died, Grant and Hayes were the only two Presi- | dents born in the same year. Garfield was | born in the same year that Monroe died. | None of our Presidents has died out of the country, though Taylor died at Richmond
 while Virginia considered herself out of
 the Union. Only one President, John | Adams, has had son elected to the office,
 and only one, William Henry Harrison | has had grandson chosen to fill it. | Two ex-Presidents are now living-Grover | Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison. The 1 graves of their predecessors are as widely l separated as the states that gave them l birth. All of our departed Presidents lived l to good old age except Garfield and Linz l coln who were assaSsinated Eleven of
 them lived well on into the seventies, while | John Adams lived to be 91 Madison to ba
 S5, Jefferson S3 and Van Buren 80.
 A curious fact suggestive of the youth l of our country Is that our sixth President, | John Quincy Adams who died in 1S4S, per-
 sonally knew every President who preceded | him, as we'll as two who followed him, and | might have seen, if he had been gifted with 1 fore-knowledge and had cared to take the | journey, all the Presidents who have suc- l ceeded him to the present time, including l MT. Mckinley.