The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-08
DEATHS OF our
VICE PRESIDENTS
Six Of SheIInan'S Predecessors
DIED In 0 flee.
FOUR OCCURRED n NOVEMBER
The First Was George Clinton-others
Were EIbridse Gerry, William r.
King, Henry Wilson, Thomas A.
Hendricks and Carrot A. Hobart.

Hendricks and Garrett A. Hobart.
james S. Sherman was the seventh
vice president to die in office. OF the
six deaths already on record four oc-
Cured in November. The first was
George Clinton of New York, who
died April 20, 1912, at the age OF
seventy-three. The others were El-
bridge Gerry of Massachusetts, Nov.
%, 1914, at the age of seventy;
William r. King of Alabama, April 1S
1858, at the age of sixty-seven; Henry
Wilson of Massachusetts, Nov. 20,
1915, at the age of siXty-three; Thomas
A. Hendricks of Indiana, Nov. %,
1885, Mt the age Of sixty-siX, and Gar
ret A. Hobart Of New Jersey, Nov.
81, 1899, at the age of 1ifty-fve.
William h. King took the oath Of
office in Cuba, where he had gone on
account of i'll health. He never pre-
sided over the senate. Clinton, Gerry
and Wilson died in Washington, and
Clinton and Gerry were buried in the
Congressional cemetery. King was
buried in Dallas county, Ala, Hen
bricks in indianapolis and Hobart in
Paterson, n. j.
Became Presidents.
1t is worth noting that only four
vice presidents Of the United States
were afterward elected to the presi-
dency. They were John Adams,
Thomas jefferson, Martin Van Buren,
and Theodore Roosevelt. Five sue
ceeded to the presidency through the
death of the chief executive. These
We're John Tyler, Millard Fillmore,
Andrew johnson, Chester A Arthur
and Theodore Roosevelt,
Vice presidents who were renominat
ed or reelected were John Adams, vice
president 1889 and 1892 and president
1885, Thomas jefferson, vice president
1896 and president 1900; George Clinton.
vice president 1904 and 1908; Daniel %.
Tompkins, vice president 1916 and
1920; John c. Calhoun, vice president
1924 and 1928: Martin Van Buren, vice
president 1882 and president 1896; Il.
NJ. Johnson, vice president 1896, re-
nominated and defeated 1910; Thomas
A. Hendricks, nominated with Tilden
in 1876, elected with Cleveland in
1884
Prior to the amendment of the con
stitution in 1904 the candidate for the
presidency receiving the highest vote
was declared president and the one re
ceiving the next highest vote vice pres.
ident, there being no direct candidate
for the second place. After that date
the electors voted separately for candi
dates for the two offices.
The Senate Functions.
In the senate the functions exercised
by Mr.. Sherman fall to the Office OF
president pro tempore of that body, al
office which happens at the present
time to be vacant. But the president
pro TEN of the senate does not thereby
become, as was once the case, link
in the chain of the presidential success
sion. The law governing the success
sion to the presidency was enacted
Jan. 10, 1856, and Its leading section
reads:
Be 1t enacted, etc, That in case OF re
moval, death, resignation or inability o
both the president and the vice presiden
of the United States the secretary OF statt
or $50 secretary OF the treasury or
secretary of war or 80 . attorney genera
| or - postmaster general or ''' secre
tary of the navy or ''' secretary Of tn,
| interior shall act as president until tn,
disability of the president or vice presi
dent is removed or a president shall b.
elected.
The law also provides that wheT
one of the above cabinet officers sue
ceeds to the presidency he shall call {
special session Of congress. A provist
limits the succession TO those caSine
officers who would be eligible to tn,
presidency under the terms Of the con
stitution and who have been appointed
with the advice and consent OF the sen
ate.