The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1900-08-01
All About the Presidents.

up To date, aud II Mr.. Bryan is defeat
ed we shall not have our twenty fifth
until 1905. Hitherto presidents re
nominated by their parties have been
reelected. The four exceptions we're
John Adams, defeated for reelection
by Thos. jefferson in 1900, exactly a
century ago: Martin Van Buren,, Gro
yer Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison.
Mr.. Bryan's success would indeed
break many presidential precedents.
| He comes from the Transmississippi
West, section that has never before
supplied president. lie was born in
Illinois, the birthplace of no president
so far elected. He would be the young
est man ever chosen as president.
Our oldest president at the time of
his Inauguration was William Henry
Harrison, IS, and Grant was our young
est president on the day of his first in
auguration. II; Cleveland was 4S.
The birthplaces of the presidents
are divided among tie States as fol
lows: 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 Ten
neSsee
AS to the Christian names, there
have been four James, three Johns,
two Andrews, two Williams and one
George, Thomas, Martin, Ulysses,
Rutherford, Chester, Grover and Ben
jamin. Fourteen of them had no mid
die names and none of them was named
in honor of any previous president a
fact which shows how sadly futile it is
to name baby boy after "a president
i'll the hope that he also may grow up
and get there"
All our 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 of
the presidential office we may mention
the deaths of John Adams and Thomas
Jefferson on the same day July 4.
1876. 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 have died out of the
country, though Taylor died at Rich
mond while Virginia considered her
self out of the Union. Only one Pres
ident, John Adams, has had a son elect
ed 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 Har-
rison. The graves of their predeces-
sors 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 Lincoln,
who were assassinated. Eleven of
them lived well on into the '70s, while
John Adams lived to be 81, Madison
to be 50, jefferson 50 and Van Buren, So
y curious fact suggestive of the
youth of our country is that our sixth
president, John Quincy Adams, who
died in 1913, 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, in
Guiding Mr.. Mckinley York
IFOrM.