Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1900-07-20
ABOUT THE PRESIDENTS.
Tweuty-Four Up to Date and IN
teresting Facts Concerning
Them.

EleslucnlN denomination Oy tnci
parties have usually been reelected
The four exceptions were John
Adams, defeated for reelection b,
Thomas Jefferson ia 1900; Martir
Van Bureu, Grover Cleveland anc
Benjamin Harrison. Mr. Bryan s
success would indeed break many
presidential precedents. He comes
from the Trans. Mississippi West, a
section that has never before sup
: piled 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 inauguration, says the New
York World, was William Henry
Harrison, 6S, and Grant was our
youngest President on the day of
his first Inauguration, ~; Cleveland
was 48.
The birthplace of the Presidents
are divided among the States as
follows: Six have come from Vir-
ginia, FIVE from Ohio, three from
New York, two each from Massa-
chusetts and North Carolina, and
one each from New Jersey, Ken
lucky. New Hampshire, Vermont,
Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
AS to the Christian names, there
have been four Jameses, three Johns,
two Andrews, two Williams and
one George Thomas, Martin,
Zachary, Millard, Franklin, Abra-
ham, Ulysses, Rutherford, Chester
Grover and Benjamin. Fourteen J
of them had no middle names and /
none OF them was named in honor of
any previous President--a tact |
which shows how sadly futile it is
to name baby boy after a Prcsi-
dent in the hope that he may .also
grow up and get there.
All our Presidents have been
married men at the time of their
election save three-Van Buren,
Buchanan and Cleveland.
Washington was the first Presi- !
dent to die and the only one to die
inythe eighteenth century. AT his
death Adams, Jefferson, Madison, |
Monroe, the second Adams, Jack
son, Vanburen, the first Harrison,
Tyler, Polk, Taylor and Buchanan
were all living.
Among the curious condolences
of the Presidential Office we may
mention the deaths of John Adams
and Thomas Jefferson on the same
day-July 4, 1926. In no other sub
sequent year have two Presidents
died. Grant and Hayes were the
only two Presidents born in the
same wear. Garfield was born in
the same year that Monroe died.
None of our Presidents have 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 a son elected to the office,
and only one, William Henry Har-
rison, has had a grandson chosen
to fill It.
Two x-Presidents are now liv-
ing-Grover Cleveland and BenJa-
min Harrison. The graves OF their
predecessors are as widely sePa-
rated as the States that gave them
birth. All of our departed Presi-
dents lived to a good old age eX-
cept Garfield and Lincoln, who
were assassinated. Eleven OF them
lived we'll on into the seventies,
while John Adams lived to be 81,
Madison to be IS, Jefferson IS, and
Van Buran 80.
A curious fact suggestive of the
youth of our country is that our
sixth President, John Quincy Ad-
ans, who died in 1848, personally
knew every President who preced-
ed 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 sue
ceeded him to the present time, in
GLIDING Mr.. Mckinley.
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