The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-06-02

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and yet he reached the considerable
age Of s~ixty-seven. Only three Of the
eleven presidents from Polk to Arthur
attained a greater age. These were
Fillmore. Buchanan and Hayes. John
Adams, one Of the sturdiest of all the
presidents. reached the most advanced
age. He lived to be ninety, and Is the
only nonagenarian among them. Curl
ously enough, the second in longevity
was Madison, though at the age of
twenty-one, shortly after he was
graduated from Princeton college, he
was in SO poor health that he wrote to
q friend intimating that he did not
expect a long or healthy life. Yet
Madison grew stronger in due time.
and lived to the ripe old age Of eighty
five. Next in longevity comes Madi-
sons life long friend and counselor.
Thomas Jefferson, who lived to be
eighty-three. John Quincy Adams
reached eighty. The youngest Of all
the presidents to die was Garfield, who
was cut down in the prime Of life by
an assassin's bullet. Had he lived just
two months more he would have reach
ed fifty. The youngest Of the presi-
dents to die a natural death was Polk,
who lived to be f1fty-three. Next to
him came Arthur, who died at fifty
six. The ages Of all the dead presi-
dents, arranged in the order of long
,evity are: John Adams ninety, Madi-
son eighty-nve, Jefferson eighty-three.
John Quincy Adams eighty, Van Buren,
seventy-nine, Jackson seventy-eight,
Buchanan sev~enty-seven. Fillmore sew
e~nty-four, Monroe seventy-three. Tyler
seventy-one. Hayes seventy. William
Henry Harrison sixty-eight. Washing
ton sixty-seven, Johnson sixty-stx.
Taylor sixty-hve, Pierce sfxty-four,
Grant sixty-three, Lincoln hfty-six,
Garfield forty-nine. It vii be seen that
no two Of the presidents died at the
same age except Lincoln and Arthur.
Tho most remarkable coincidence re-
lating to the deaths Of the presidents
IL the circumstance that John Adams
and Thomas Jefferson died on the
same day, July 4. 1926. Washington
was the only president to pass his life
entirely in the last century. and Pierce
was the drst to be born during the
present century.
Four Of the presidents died in ONCE,
William Henry Harrison. who served
only one month; Zachary Taylor, who
served ono year and four months; Lin
coin. who served one full term and
about sfx weeks Of his second term,
and Garfield, who died after he had
held the ONCE six months OF the
three presidents now living BENJAMIN
Harrison IL sixty-six, and resides at
Indianapolis; Grover Cleveland il six
ty-three, and lives at Princeton; Prest-
dent Mckinley Is ~dfty-seven. Buffalo
enjoys the distinction Of being the.
only city in the country that has fur
.nished two presidents. They arc Fill
more and Cleveland. Each Of the i'm:
portant wars Of the United States has
given one or 0 presidents to the
country. The war Of the revolution
rave Washington, the war Of 1872
Jackson and Harrison. Taylor and
Pierce went to the White House on
the strength Of their records during
the Mexican war, while every president
chosen since the civil, war except
Cleveland took part In that struggle.
Since Van Buren, no vice president has
been chosen to the presidency. and 10
far from the vice presidency being re-
.sarded a. in line Of promotion to the
presidency, the less important once 10
now looked upon by some politicians
a. a convenient shelf upon which to
,place an inconvenient candidate for
higher honors.