Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-01-03
FACTS ABOUT PRESIDENTS.
Some Incidents During the Rsigns q
Our Chief Executives.

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Some Incidents During the Rsigns of
Our Chief Executives
We have had "a presidents up to
date. Hitherto presidents renomin-
ated by their parties have usually been
reelected. The four exceptions we're
John Adams, defeated for reelection
by Thomas Jefferson in 1900, exactly
q 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 tie transmits
sissippi west, section that has never
before supplied . president. He was
born in Illinois, the birthplace Of no
president so far elected. He would
De the youngest man ever chosen as
president.
Our oldest presi6en: at the time Of
his Inauguration was William Henry
Harrison (68). buchanan was 66,
Taylor Is, John Adams and Jackson
were each 60, and all the Others were
;s their ffties except Pierce (49),
Gl.pt \47) and Cleveland (48).
Grant was our youngest president on
the day Of his first Inauguration.
The birthplaces Of our presidents
are. divided among the 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
Tennessee.
As to the Christian names of our
presidents, there have been four
Jameses, three Johns, two Andrews,
two Williams and one George, Thorn
as, Martin, Zachary, Miilard, Frank
lin, Abraham, Ulysses, Rutherford,
Chester, Grover and Benjamin. Four
teen Of them had no middle names
and none Of them was named in honor
of any previous president-a fact
which shows how sadly futile it is to
name a baby boy after president in
the hope that he also may grow up
and ssget 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
Buren,, the first Harrison, Tyler, Polk,
Taylor and Buchanan were all living
Is Among the curious condolences Of
! the presidential office we may men
ton the deaths Of John Adams and
Thomas Jefferson on the same day
July 4, 1926. 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 has died
out Of the country, though Tyler died
at Richmond while Virginia consid-
cred herself out Of the union. Only
one president, John Adams, has had
son elected to the Office, and only
one, William Henry Harrison, has
had grandso chosen to fllit. :
Only two ex-presidents are now
living Grover Cleveland and Benja-
min Harrison. The graves Of their
predecessors 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 we'll on into the
seventies, while John Adams lived to
be 81, Madison to be IS, Jefferson SO
and Van Buren, 80.
A curious fact suggestive Of the
youth of our country is that our sixth
president, John Quincy Adams, who
died in 1848, 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
foreknowledge and had cared to take
the journey. all the presidents who
have succeeded him to the present
time, including Mr.. Nc inley. Chi
cago American.