Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-09

lege Tyler was elected vice president
on the ticket with William Henry Har-
rison Al the attcr's death tyler sue
ceeded, Arthurs accession to the pres
idency was due To- the assassination Of
President James A. Garfield
Willard Fillmore and James Knox
Polk were fifty when they We're called
upon 10 accept the nations loftiest git.
Both men were the sons Of farmers,
Polk being North Carollnian Of
Scotch-lrish extraction and Fillmore a
New Yorker Of English ancestry Fill-
more did not 20 to college, but Polk
wag a student at the University Of
North Carolina. Both were lawyers
Polk served full term, but Fillmore
died In office,
There are two presidents aged forty
nine on the list-flankln Pierce and
James Abram Garfield Farmers sons,
they were both college men and be-
came lawyers. Pierce was educated mt
Bowdom and Garfield mt Williams The
former served full term but the lat
ter fell by the aSsassn's bullet
Grover Cleveland became president
at the age Of forty-cight He is Of
English descent with one exception,
his father was the only clergyman who
ever had a son destined To- reach the
presidency. IN the other case the son
Chester Alan Arthur-was not elected.
but succeeded at the death OF the pres
ident. Mr. Cleveland Is "a lawyer.
He enjoys the distinction Of being the
only president who has been married
I'm the White House and Of being the
only living eN-presideut
Since President Roosevelt was not
elected to the presidency but came into
It by virtue OF his right OF succession.
the youngest man thus far entitled TO
the honor Of actual election was Ulysses
Simpson Grant. This distinction. how
ever viii be transferred to President
Roosevelt at the coming election should
he be successful at the polls Grant was
in his forty -seventh year when he was
inPuguratcd. lie was the son Of tanner
and was OF Scotch descent Educated
at West Point, the only man on the list
of presidents who is accredited to the
military school Of the nation, General
Grant was so dissatisfied with his pro-
fesson that he abandoned it for seven
years II the civll war had not broken
out there is no evidence that Grants
name would have been added to the list
Of soldiers who afterWard We're re-
warded with the presidency
Among all the presidents jefferson
and johnson We're the only men who
were not professed members Of some
church organization. jefferson is
known TO have been believer in
Christianity though he had marked
distaste for sectaranlsm, Johnson
also made no mystery Of his faith in
the principles Of Christianity but could
never be persuaded to unite with any
church. with the exception Of Jerfer-
son, all the Virginia born men--Wash-
ington, Madison Monroe, TYLER the
elder Harrison aud Taylor--were Epis-
copalians. Pierce and Arthur were
also members OF that church. The Ad.
amses, father and son, were Cougrega-
tionaists Jackson. Polk, Buchanan,
Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison We're
Prestyterians Lincoln, Grant. Hayes
and Mckinley We're Methodists. Van
Buren, was an adherent Of the Dutch
Reformed church, and President Roose-
welt is a member Of the same religious
body, Fillmore was the solitary Unita-
rian. and Garfield was athlnted with
the Disciples sometimes improperly
called CampbeItesl. I'm whose church
es he often preached.
ARTHUR J. WHARTON