The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-09-14
|NING SCHOOL FOR PRESIDENTS
Five of Our Chief Executives Had Previou,
Experience in Congress.

tourtn president, served during tn.
iorty-n1th, forty-sixth, and forty-sey-
ehth congresses as a representative
rom t'nlo, was unseated in the fortv-
eistn, and was again elected to tho
Iorty-ninth, fftieth, and fftv-1rst
congresses. ~
from this 1t will be seen that al, the
presidents have been members or one
or the other or both branches OF con-
sless except General Zachary Taylor.
oohelai Ulysses >. Grant General
oheseer A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland.
and Theodore Roosevelt, and it ia al.
legged hat the latter has homes of en-
resentfng his state in the senate after
the expiration of his presidential term.
Inc Continental congress-, of course.
contained the names of more future
pres1dentS-especially as it covered a
period Of fourteen years-than any Of
the regular two year term congresses.
The first five. Observation-Disclosures.
John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and
Monroe-all sat as members of that
Dody at some time during it's existence.
The tWenty-hfth congress contained
senators Pierce and Buchanan, Speak
er Polk, and Representative Fillmore.
The thfrtieth congress shows the
names of Senator Buchanan and Rep
resentatives ]. Q. Adams, Lincoln and
Johnson.
The apportiOnment Of the presidents
among the states has been very une-
qually made. But ten of the forty-fve
states have furnished presidents. OF
these Virginia has had fve-Washing-
ton, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and
Tyler. New York has had five-Van
Buren,, Fillmore, Arthur, Cleveland
and Roosevelt. Ohio has had four
NNii1in~o 1Jnrn,r 10 -~;,1- TT~--z. 49,
field and Mckinley, Tennessee has had
three-JacksOn, Polk, and Johnson.
Massachusetts, furnished two-John
and John Quincy Adams. Illi-
nois has had twO-Lincoln and Grant.
The other of the ten fortunate states
have had but one each-Louisiana,
Taylor; New Hampshire, Pierce; Penn
S~ylvania, Buchanan, and Indiana. Ben
jamin Harrison.
While Of late years there has rarely
been more thar one ex-preSident liv-
ing at the time of a new presidents
Inauguration, when Lincoln
was inauSurated there were five living
ex-presidents-Van Buren,. Fillmore,
Pierce, and Buchanan. When J. @. Ad-
ans was inaugurated there were four
John Adams and Thomas jefferson,
both of whom died July 4,126; Madi-
son and Monroe. When Buchanan was
inaugurated there were four-Van
Buren,, Tyler, Fillmore, n Pierce.
At w. H. Harrison's Tyler's Folks
Taylor's, and Pierce's in~augurations
there were but three ex-presidents liv-
ing, and never since Lincoln's inaugu-
ration lave there been more than two
nor since Harrison's Inauguration has
there been more thar n ex-president
living at the time.
Five of the presidents lived to be
eighty or more years old John Ad-
ans died at the g Of ninety-one;
James Madison, eighty-five; jefferson,
eighty-three; John Quincy Adams
eighty-one, and Martin Van Buren,,
eighty.
All the Presidents We're born in the
states from which elec-nd except Jack
son. who was BORN in North Cardinal;
William Henry Harrison, Virginia;
Polk, North Carolina; Tay'or, len
nessee; Lincoln, Kentucky; Johnson
North Carolina; Grant, Ohio Arthur,
Vermont: Benjamin Harrison, ONO,
and Cleveland, New Jerse.T.