The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-04-03
FACTS ABOUT PRESIDENTS.
interesting Statement Regarding
the Lives Of Our Rulers.

"Sh'I"i olllCe anu the NNcS of Its il
$ cumbcnts. Washington died With
i less than three years after his retir
ment and during the term of his su,
cessor, John Adams, whilst job
Adams outiived his three successors
mo mas Jefferson, James Madison an
James Nom oe--and was present, q
. history tells US, at the inauguration G
MS son, John Quincy Adams, in 1925
: ana dled during The presidency of In
son, John Quincy Adams, at the ad
Vanced age of niEcty-one wears, O,
July 4, 1926. No other ex.Presiden
reached such an advanced age, or sur
viVed so long after leaving the Prcsi
dental Office, for more than a quartz
OIL century elapsed between Johr
Adams retirement from the Prcsidcn
tlal office, in 1901, and his death, Jul,
4, 1926.
Thomas Jefferson reached the rlp,
age of eighty-three and survived NOR,
Aan seventeen " arS after his Presi
den tia! term ended, dying on the sam,
day of John Adams, his iumcdiat,
pred eccssor, july 4, 1926. James
Madison died in 1896, or more than
nineteen years after he left the Prcsl.
uency. Mr.. Monroe died at seventy
thrce years of age, in 1881, within
ABOUT SIX years alter his term ended.
John Quincy Adams died at the age of
eightY-onc, in 1913. Nj. Adams died
In the hall of the House of Rcprcscn-
tatlvcs at Washington, of which he
had been for many Years member
after his term as President ended.
Andrew Jackson died at the Her.
| mltagc, Tenn, at the age of seventy
eight, III Juue, 1915, or Just about
elSht years after his term as President
en'cd, whilst Martin Van Buren, lived
10 the ripe age of eighty and died at
klndcrhook, in New York, in 1862
or Just twcnty-Onc years after he was
President. William Henry HARRISON.
ms successor, died i'm Office at the ave
or slXty-ei%ht, aud J Dhn Tyler, who
succeeded him, died at the age of sew
cnty-two III Richmond in lSG2, or
nearly eighteen years after he passed
out of office. James *. Polk died AT
he age of tifty.eight and within one
hundred days after his term had ended.
Zachary Taylor died in office at the age
CT siXly-siX at Washington in 1850,
allef ScrVln" about one year and three
months as :r>idrnt.
Mlllard Fillmore died at the age of
sevcnty-four, and lived about twenty
one years after his terra ended. Frank
IN Fierce lived about twelve wears
after he went out of flee, and died
al the age OF slXty-liVc, in 1869. James
Buchanan died in lS6S, or seven wears
after going out of ciice, at the age of
seventy. Y.seven. Abraham Lincoln was
nSsasslnated during his second term.
at the age of lifty-siX years. Andrew
Johnson, Mr.. lincOln's successor, led
III 1915, just slN years after leaving
Tue Iresidcn y, ut the age of sixty
seven. Mr. Johnson at the time of his
death was Cnitcd etoles Senator from
Tennessee. General Grant, who next
came to the P.csld,ncy, Idied in 1885.
IA little over eight years after the end
OF his Presidential term, and at the
age OF sixty three. Hayes passed out
OF office as President in 1881 and died
IN 1893, living nearly twelve years
after his term ended. Garfield was
shot by Gui!eau, and was President
only about SIX months, and if alive
to-day would be only seventy years
old. He has been dead very nearly
twenty years. Arthur lived about a
year after he went out of the Presi-
dency, dying at the aye of Glty-six.
And now Gcucra Harrison is dead,
just eight year, after his PRESIDENTIAL
tenn ended, and at the age of sixty
eight years.
The youngest man ever chosen Pres
idcnt was Grant, at forty-eight. and
the oldest one was William Henry
Harrison, who WAS siXty-cight. Only
five Presidents were over slXly wears
at the time OF the inauguration-Joh ohm
Adams, siXty-two; Andrew jackson,
siXty-two; W. II. Harrison. sixty-cisht;
Zachary Taylor, siXty-iive, and James
buchanan, siXty-siX. The average of
life enjoyed by eX-Pre,idcnts has been
little less than ten years after pass
ing out OF power, whilst the average
age at which Presidents have entered
upon their office has been about fifty
three years and eight months. Nc
l\lnley was just about the age of fifty
| three when nauguraled.
President HARRISON during his adj
mlnistratlon OF four years had the
unique distinction of signing acts for
the admission of six Staets into the
Union North and South Dakota.
Montana, Idaho, Washington anil
Wyoming. No other President signed
acts admitting so many States. Presi-
dent Cleveland, who preceded and
succeeded him, signed only one act
Tor the admission of a State, that for
the entrance of Utah into the Union
in 1896. 1t may be observed that the
six States admitted into the Union IN
lSS9-9O during Harrlsons adminislra.
ton and which now have twelve
United States Senators, had altogether,
according to the United States census
OF 1900, less population by 10000,
people than the State of Virginia.
OF the twcnty-four Presidents of the
United States onc-half, or twelve, were
born in Virginia aud Ohio, Virginia
being the birthplace of seven and
ONO OF iivc-W ashington, jefferson,
Madison, Monroe, William Henry
Harrison, John Tyler and Zachary
Taylor being born in Virginia, whilst
Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison and
Mckinley were born in Ohio, and
three, Andrew Jackson, James *