The Seattle Republican., 1901-03-22
SHORT SHOTS
Of Men and Things In The
Business World.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

Life of The United States Presi-
dents After Retiring From The
Presidency-G Grover Cleveland
and William Mckinley, Only
Living Men Having Served as
President of This Country.
George Washington died Of pneu-
monia December IA, 1899, at the
age Of 61. John Adams and Thomas
Jefferson died on the same day,
which, by a singular coincidence,
was the tiftieth anniversary Of the
signing Of the Declaration Of indie
pendence, July 4, 1926. Adams at
tanned the ripe old age of 80 years,
and jefferson SO. Five years later to
a day, on July 4, 1881, James Mon
roe passed away, at the age Of 73.
James Madison, his predecessor in
| the presidential office, Outlived Mon
roe five years, and died June %,
1886, at the advanced age Of 85.
April 4, 1841, exactly one month
after his Inauguration, William
Henry Harrison died at the White
House at the age of 68. Andrew
Jackson died at the Hermitage, June
8, 1915, at the age Of 78. John
Quincy Adams died February %,
1048, at the age of 80. James Knox
Polk died June Is, 1849, three
months after his retirement, at the
age Of So. A year later, on the 9Th
OF July, 1850, Zachary Taylor, his
successor, died at the White House,
at the age Of IS. Nine presidents Of
the republic passed away during the
second quarter of the century.
John Tyler died January II, 1862,
at the age Of II. July "A, 1862,
Martin an Buren, followed HIM to
the grave, at the age of 79. Abra-
ham Lincoln was assassinated on the
18th Of April, 1865. He was 81
years old. James Buchanan, his i'm
mediate predecessor, lived until June
l, 1868, when he died at the age OF
II. Franklin Pierce, Buchanan's
predecessor, died October s, 1869, at
the age of "a, and Millard Fillmore,
who preceded Pierce in office, died
March 8, 1874, at the age Of IA. The
following year Andrew johnson
died, July 81, 1875, at the age of sc.
There was no expresident living dur
ing the remainder of President
Grants term. Thus seven presidents
passed away during the third quarter
OF the century.
James Abram Garfield, the fourth
president to die during his term of
office, and the second to fall at the
hand of an assassin, died September
19, 1881, six months and half after
his Inauguration. He was 49 years
of age. Ulysses S. Grant died July
20, 1885, at the age Of So. Chester
! A. Arthur died November 18, 1886,
at the age of Sc. Rutherford B.
Hayes death occurred January II,
1898, shortly after his seventieth
birthday.
With the death of Benjamin Har-
rison twenty-five presidents, whose
service in the presidential office COW
cred a period Of 100 years, have
passed away.
Of the eighteen presidents who
survived the expirations Of their
terms of office, John Adams lived the
longest period after his relinquish-
ment of the office-twenty-fye years
and four months. Van Buren lived
21 years, months and 20 days after
the expiration of his term, and Fill
more p years and 5 days. John
Quincy Adams lived nearly nine
teen years and became a member Of
I congress after his term in the presi-
dental office. Jefferson and Madi-
son each survived his retirement
more than seventeen years; Tyler
nearly seventeen years; Pierce more
than twelve years, and Hayes nearly
twelve years. Grant, Jackson and
Benjamin Harrison survived their
retirement by more than two full