The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-03-27
SOME FACTS ABOUT EX-PREsIDENTs.


eao,,;sl Office and the lives of It's IN
cumbenIS.
washington died within less than
,hree wears after his retirement. ana
during The term Of his successor Johh
Adams whilst John Adams ouliaSed
,,is -i,rce succcssors-ThomaS ieifcr-
Son lanes Madison and lanes MON
roe-and was present. rs history 'eiis
ms al The Inauguration of ms SON
John Quincy Adams. in 49,. ana que"
au,-i,,r the presidency Of his son. John
Quincy Adams. at the advanced age
of ilinety-one years, on july T.
No other cN-prcsdcnt reached shcii All
advanced age. or survived 70 ioi'&
after leaving the presidential oltice' i'i
more nllan a quarter ol Il 'eh' w
clapscd between John Adams rctlre-
mon, from; the presidential Office IL
1901. and his death. July J. $50
Thomas jefferson reached the rape age
of eishty-ihrec and S'irTlVea more
than seventeen years after nus l'it'S'-
dental term ended. dying on the same
day of John Adams. his lmlncdia'e
,,roaocessor. OH July 4, ISL. ]alheS
Madison died in 1886, or more man
nineteen wears after he left the ffesi-
dency. Mir. Monroe died At seventy
three wears of age. in 1871. Within
al,ou, six wears after his term ended.
1obn Ouincy Adams died III ihe age OF
t.i-iliy-one. in lSiS. Mr.. Adams dled
in tho hall Gf The House OF 1iepIeseh-
1a1iyes at Washington. OF Wiiich ne
had been for many years 4 mehhhef
after his Term as President ended
Andrew jackson died al the her
mita-e. Tenn. at the age of seventy
eight. in June. 1915. or just about
eight wears after his term AS l'resl-
dent ended. whilst Martin Van Buren,
lived 10 the ripe age OF eighty ana dled
at kinderlIcok- i'll New York, III lSe-.
or lust 1wcnfy-onc years after ne W;is
President. William Henry Harrison.
his successor. died III office Al the AZ"
of six1y-eicht. and john Tyler who
succeeded him. died al the age OF sew
cnty-two in Richmond in 1S62. or
nearly eighteen years after he passed
ont of Office. James X. Polk died III
The n-e of tifty-eight and within 100
DAYS after his Term had ended Zach
AIRY TAYLOR died i'll office 1T the age o.
sixty-six al Washington in 1880, after
serving about one year and three
months as President
Willard Fillmore died AT The age OF
seventy-four. and lived about twenty
one wears after his term ended. Frank
lin Pierce lived about twelve years
after he went out OF office and died
at the age of siyty-tive. in 1869. James
Buchanan died in 1868. or seven years
after going ont OF Office. Al the age Of
seyemy-seven. Abraham Lincoln MIS-
assassinatcd during his second term.
al the age of tifty-siN years. Andrew
johnson. MIR. Lincoln-S successor. died
in 1870. Just six years after leaving
the Presidency. ut the age of sixty
seven. Mr. Johnson at the time of his
death WAS an United States senator
from Tennessee. General Grant. who
next came 10 The Presidency. died i'll
1885. Il little over eight years after the
end of his presidential term. and At
The age of siN1y-1hlec. Hayes passed
ont of office as President in 1881 and
died in 1893 living nearly twelve years
after his der'm ended. Garfield was
shot hy Guitean. and was President
only about six months. and if alive
to-day would be only seventy wears
/ 4
twenty years Arthur lived about Il
Year after he went out Of the PrcSi-
dcncy. dying AT the age OF fifty-siN.
And NOW General Harrison is dead.
just eight years after his presidential
Term ended, and at The age of sixty
eight wears.
The youngest man ever chosen Pres
ident WAS Grant. at foi'ty-eight and
the Oldest one was William Henry
Harrison, who Was siXty-eight. Only
five Presidents We're over sixty years
Al the time of The inaururasion-Jchu
Adams, SiNiy-tWo: Andrew Jackson
sixty-1wo: ". III. Harrison, six1y-eich1:
Zachary Taylor, siNty-fiye, and James
Buchanan. siNty-siX. The average of
life enjoyed 10y eN-Presidents has been
a 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 tif;v-
three years and eight months. -,iclAin-
ley Was just about the age of tiGty-
three when inauGura1ed.
President Harrison during his ad-
minstT.ation of four years had the
unique distinction of signing acts for
the admission of six States into The
Inion-North and South Dakota, Mon
tana. Idaho, Washington and Wyo-
ming No other President signed acis
admitting so many States. President
Cleveland, Who preceded and succeed
ed him. signed only one act for The ad-
mission Of q Stale, that for The en-
trance Of Utah into the Union in 1896.
Ii may he observed that the SIX States
admitted into the Union in ]SS9-9o
during H3rI-isons administration and
(which now have Twelve United States
senators, had altogether, according 10
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