The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-14
FACTS ABOUT PRESIDENTS,
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We have had twenty-four presidents |
UP to date. and if Mr.. Bryan is de-
feated we shall not have our twenty
NTH until 1905. Hitherto presidents re-
nominated by their parties have usually
been reelected. The four exceptions
were John Adams, defeated for re-elec-
ton by Thomas Jefferson in 1900, ex-
actly a century ago; Martin Van Buren,,
Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Har-
rison. Mr.. Bryan's success would in
deed break many presidential prece-
dents He comes from the transmits
sissippi west. section that has never
before supplied a president. He was
born ia Illinois, the birthplace of no
president so far elected. He would be
the youngest man ever chosen as pres
ident.
Our oldest president at the time of
his Inauguration was William Henry
Harrison (6S). Buchanan was Sc,
Taylor 60, John Adams and Jackson
were each e., and all the others were
in their 50's except Pierce (49), Grant
(4D and Cleveland (4S)- 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
n.
from Massachusetts and North Car
DINA and one each from New Jersey.
Kentucky, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
As to the Christian names of our
presidents, there have been four
James, three Johns, two Andrews. two
Williams and one George, Thomas,
Martin, Zachary, Willard, Franklin,
Abraham. Ulysses, Rutherford, Chester.
Grover and Benjamin. Fourteen of
| them had no middle names and none
of them was named in honor of any
| previous president fact which shows
how sadly futile it is to name a baby
boy after a president in the hope that
! he also may 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 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 Buren,, the
first Harrison, 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
Jefferson on the same day-July 4. 1926
In no subsequent year have two presi-
dents 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 Oul
presidents has died out of the country
though Tyler died at Richmond while
Virginia considered herself out of the
Union. Only one president, JohT
Adams, has had a son elected to the
Office, and only one, William Henry
Harrison, has had a grandson chosen
to fill it.
Only two eX-presidents are now living
I-GrOver Cleveland and Benjamin Har-
rison. The graves of their predecessor!
are as widely separated as the state!
that gave them birth. All of our de
parted presidents lived to a good ole
age except Garfield and Lincoln, who
were asSassinated. Eleven of then
lived well on into the 70's, while John
Adams lived to be 81, Madison to be IS
Jefferson SO and Van Buren, So
!. A curious fact suggestive of the you'll
of our country is that our sixth presi
dent, John Quincy Adams, who died il
1S4S, personally knew every presiden
who preceded him as we'll as two VIII
followed him, and might have seen,
! he had been gifted with fOreknOwledg
and had cared to take the journey, al
the presidents who have succeeded hin
to the present time, including Mr. Nc
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