The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-10-10
Roosevelt the Youngest,
Facts About the Presidency, the Vice
Presidency and their lnCumbentS.

| Jlle OIIlCe OF GrcSluenU Oh Une O0l-
ted States. He has not yet com
pleted his forty-third year, having
been born on October 27, 1858.
Up to the time of President
Roosevelt's accession the young
est man to assume the functions
of Chief Executive of the Repub.
lie was General Grant, who was
forty seven when he was first in
augurated, and Grover Cleveland
was the third, being aged forty.
eight years at the beginning of
his first term.
Franklin Pierce and General
James A. Garfield were each for
ty-nine, while James X. Polk and
Millard Fillmore had each round
ed their half century. The latter
was the second of the Vice Pres
idents to succeed to the higher Of
fee.
Jonn Tyler, who became Pres
ident on the death of William
Henry Harrison, being the first
of the Vice Presidents to so attain
the highest place in the nation,
was fifty-one. "Old Tippecanoe, "
the popular appellation of his
predecessor, was the Oldest man
ever chosen to the Presidency,
being sixty eight at the time of
Inauguration. General Chester
A. Arthur, a fortuitous incum-
bent of the high Office through
the assassination of his predeces-
sor General Garfield, was fifty -one.
Abraham Lincoln was tifty-two,
William Mckinley fifty three,
General Rutherford b. Hayes
tfty-f four, Martin Van Buren, and
General Benjamin Harrison fifty
five each.
George Washington, the first
President was fifty seven when
first inaugurated, and that was
the age of Andrew Johnson, who
became President on the assassi-
nation Of Mr.. Lincoln. Thomas
Jefferson and James Madison,
were each fifty-eight when first
installed, and that was the age
of John Quincy Adams, while
James Monroe was a year older
when he began his first term.
John Adams was sixty two, as
was Andrew Jackson, "Old Hick-
ory." James Buchanan was
sixty-six, being next to the first
Harrison, the senior in the list of
Chief Magistrates of the nation.
The longest lived of the Pres.
idents was the first Adams, who
succumbed to general debility at
ripe age of ninety years. The
youngest to die was General Gar
field, who died by the assassin's
bullet when he was forty nine.
The next youngest was bis sue
cessor, General Arthur, who
came to a natural death when
aged fifty-one. President Nc
Kinley was fifty eight when laid
low by his anarchist murderer.
The only living ex-President is
Mr.. Cleveland, who is in robust
health at the age of sixty-four.
Vice Presidents who have at,
tanned the Presidency besides
those who reached the Office
through the death of their pred
ecessor were John Adams, Thom-
as Jefferson and Martin Van
Buren, all Of whom were elected
after having filled entire terms in
the second place.
All of the Presidents who sue
ceeded through the death of their
predecessors, namely, Tyler,
Fillmore, johnson and Arthur.
were candidates REORGANIZATION,
but all failed in their ambition.
Fillmore at a subsequent period
was nominated by the American
party in the quadrangular cam
paign which resulted in the first
election of Lincoln. The Pres
idents who have striven for re-
election after having served full
terms and been rejoiced by the
arbitrament Of the ballot were
John Adams, his son, John Quin-
cy Adams; Martin Van Buren.
General Benjamin Harrison and
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