The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-04-19

their State legislatures Al OF them ex-
icept Taylor, Grant, Arthur, Cleveland.
Harrison. and President Roosevelt were
tCongreSsmen. Jefferson, Jackson, Van
Buren,, Harrison, Tyler. Polk. johnson,
Hayes. Cleveland. and Mckinley were
lgovernOrs Of their respective states for
one or more terms Both Harrisons. the
younger Adams, Monroe. Jackson, Van
Buren,, Tyler, Pierce. Buchanan. johnson,
| and Garfield were United States Senator's.
Garfield was elected Senator. but he never
served, having been elected President
shortly afterward. Jackson never spoke
in the Senate. Seven Of them were Cabi-
net officials. Jefferson, Madison. Monroe,
John Quincy Adams, Van Buren,, and
/ Buchanan served as secretaries Of state,
and Gen Grant as Secretary of War for
/ five months. President Roosevelt served
as Assistant Secretary OF the Navy. Both
the Adamses, Jefferson, Monroe, Tippe-
canoe Harrison and Buchanan were Min
/ listers 10 foreign countries. Only one Pres
/ ident was a sheriff. that was Cleveland, !
/ and one was a police commissioner. and
/ that was Roosevelt, and only one an al
/ derman, Andrew Johnson. Both Johnson |
/ and Cleveland were mayors. OF Presi- /
dents inaugurated, Gen. Grant was the
youngest. forty-seyen, and old Tippe |
canoe" the oldest, sixty-eight. Fourteen /
of our Presidents were of English pater- /
nal ancestry, eight were Scotch-Irish and |
Scotch. two Of Dutch, and one Of Welsh /
paternal ancestry.
Many EpiscopaIians.
Noting the sectarian bias OF the various 1
Presidents. there can be found among /
them a large number of Episeopalians-I /
Washington. Madison. Monroe. William /
Henry Harrison. Tyler, Pierce. and Ar
thur. Taylor gave the subject of religion /
little thought, but he regularly paid his |
wife's dues 10 the Episcopal church. and /
he probably favored that church more /
than any other. John Adams and his
son John Quincy Adams. came of a long /
line of Puritan ancestors. They were
both members of the Unitarian church,
finding that they could not assent TO the
Puritan doctrines.
Thomas Jefferson Joined no church, and
was accused by the religious people of
his day of being an infdel because he de-
lighted in reading the works of Thomas
Paine. Andrew Jackson was VIGOROUSLY
iTTeligiOus in early life, but after his re-
tirement from the Presidency he Joined
the Presbyterian church. Martin Van
Buren, was supposed TO have been a MEM
Der of the Reformed-Dutch church, but
he never made any profession of religion
James X. Polk on his deathbed asked
to be baptized into the Methodist faith,
Willard Fillmore affiliated with the Bap-
list church. and James Buchanan was
Presbyterian. but joined the church after
he retired from Office Abraham Lin
coin was a member of no particular sect.
and Andrew Johnson, though bur tacit
IA,
We're Grant and Hayes, neither Of whom.
however were known to be aggressive
type of relgionists Garfield was a mem
Der of the Church of the Disciples. or
Campbellite church. and sometimes
preached in churches of that faith.
Harrison a Presbyterian.
Benjamin Harrison was an elder in
the Presbyterian church. and Grover
Cleveland also professed that religious
belief, his father having been Presby-
terrain minister. President Mckinley was
a communicate in the Methodist church,
and President Roosevelt is member in
good standing Of the Dutch-Reformed
church.
With all the Marys there are in the
world it seems odd that only one Of our
Presidents had Mary for his wife: Mary /
Todd, wife Of Abraham Lincoln; and only
three Marys have been mothers of Pres
idents: Mary Ball, mother Of George
Washington: Mary Armistead. mother of
John Tyler and Mary McDonough moth
eT of Andrew Johnson. Nancys have
brought into the world two men. who J
through strange providences. have been r
called 10 Office in great periods OF far
reaching consequences TO this nation !
Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lin
coin, and Nancy Campbell Allison. moth >
er Of William Mckinley. Only seven, or I
less than one-third Of our Presidents. O
have had double names All Of the early {
Presidents. except John Quincy Adams. n
bore single b9ptismal names, as George ii
Washington, Thomas Jefferson and :
James Madison.
In the early days of the government Il
changes among Cabinet officers during
The service Of the President who appoint a
ed them were varer than they have been
since. Washington made no altratiOn in
his council at the beginning Of his second / =
term, but there were some retirements
n il before that term ended.
Retained by Adams.
All the members who were in Wash :,
ngtons Cabinet at its close were re-
-ained by Adams at his accession 10
power. Adams belonging to the same =
larty as Washington Jefferson ana
Madison each made only one change in
heir Cabinets at the beginning of their n
second terms, and Monroe made none. t.
Jackson, the next President who was re- b
elected, made many changes at the be- n
Timing Of his second term, and at other
ines in his service. .
All the men who were in IincoIn's Cab y
net at the close Of his first term were T,
continued in his second. Boutwelrs m
as Secretary Of the Treasury a
vas the only change made in Grants Il
'abinet at the beginning of his second
ERIN. although many changes occurred -
efore and after. Cleveland, the only -,
ther President except Mckinley who le,
vas elected twice, had an interval of re- al
irement between his first and second Il
ern, and constructed an entirely new
'abinet when he entered Office the second CT
ime. al
Tyler and Johnson, two of the Vice Iii
residents who became President by the fl'
cath of the President, retained their hi
Cabinets, but trouble began "
Don after their service commenced, and
lost Of the Cabinets stepped out. is
In ROOseveIf's Cabinet. 10
President Roosevelt retained MS prede- .,
essOr's Cabinet until some of them, "
ONE time after his accession, rendered tn
heir designations. In the case of FIJI de
lore and Arthur, the other two Vice es
residents whom death sent to the White pa
louise. there was a sweeping change in
&c "iiei my entered power be
kept that Robert Lincoln, one of his
redecessors appointees, remained in the st
OSf of Secretary oF War tt,ro,,r-b A.. h,