Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-22
FACTS ABOUT PRESIDENTS.
Numerous Little Points Concerning
Those Who Have Served.

Those Who Have Served.
We have had twenty-four Presidents
up to date. and if Mr.. Bryan lie defeat
ed we shall not have our twenty-fifth
until 1905, says the New York World
Hitherto Presidents renominated by
their parties have usually been re-
elected to office, but the exceptions are;
John Adams, defeated for reelection
by Thomas Jefferson in 1900, exactly
a century ago; Martin Van Buren,, Gro
yer Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison.
Mr.. Bryans success would indeed
break many Presidential precedents.
He comes from the trans Mississippi
West, a section that has never before
supplied President He was born III
Illinois, the birthplace of no Presi-
dent so far elected. He would be the
youngest man ever chosen as Presi-
dent.
Our Oldest President at the time of
his Inauguration was William Harri-
son (68). Buchanan was Sc, Taylor
65, John Adams and Jackson were
each 81, and all the others were in
their SOS except Pierce (49). Grant
(47) and Cleveland (48), Grant was
our youngest President on the day OF
his first Inauguration.
The birthplaces of our Presidents
are divided among the States as
follows; Six have come from Virginia,
five from Ohio, three from New York,
two each from Massachusetts and
North Carolina and one each from
New Jersey, Kentucky, New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, Pennsylvania and
Tennessee.
AS to the christian names of our
Presidents, there have been four
Jameses, three Johns. two Andrews
two Williams and one George, Thomas,
Martin, Zachary, Millard, Franklin.
Abraham, Ulysses, Rutherford, Chest
er, Grover and Benjamin. Fourteen
of them had no middle names and none
previous President fact which
shows how sadly futile it is to name
baby boys after a President in the hop
that he also may grow up and 'get
there"
All the Presidents have been mar
ried men at the time of their election
save three-Van Buren,. Buchanan
and Cleveland
Washington was the first President
to die and the only one to die in the
eighteenth century At his death
Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe
the second Adams, Jackson, Van Blu
rem, the first Harrison, Tyler, Polk
Taylor and Buchanan were all living
Among the curious condolences oil
the Presidential Office we may mention
the deaths of John Adams and Thomas
Jefferson on the same day-July 4
1926 In no subsequent year have two
Presidents died Grant and Hayes
were the only two Presidents 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 Tyler died at Rich
mond while Virginia considered her
self out of the Union. Only one Presi
dent, John Adams, has had son elect
ed to Office, and only one, William
Henry Harrison. has had grandson
chosen to fill it.
Only two eX-Presidents are now liv
ing-Grover Cleveland and Benjamin
Harrison. The graves Of their pred
8cessors are as widely separated as the
States that gave them birth. All OF
our departed Presidents lived to a
good old age except Garfield and Lin
coin, who were assassinated. Eleven OF
them lived we'll on into the 70's. while
John Adams lived to be 81. Madison
to be IS. Jefferson SO and Van Buren, 80
A curious fact suggestive of the
youth of our country is that our sixth
President. John Quincy Adams, who
died in 1848, personally knew every
President who preceded him as we'll as
two who followed him, and might have
seen, if he had been gifted with fore
knowledge and had cared to take the
journey, all the Presidents who have
succeeded him to the present time,
including Mr.. Mckinley.