The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-11-13
DEATHS OF OUR
VICE PRESIDENTS
Six Of SheFman's Predecessors
Died In Office
-FOUR OCCURRED IN NOVEMBER
The First Was George cIinton--others
Were Eibridge Gerry, William r..
King, Henry Wilson, Thomas A.
Hendricks and Garrett a. Hobart.


Mere Eibridge Gerry, William n.
King, Henry Wilson, Thomas A.
Hendricks and Garrett A. Hobart.
James S. Sherman was the seventh
vice president to die In Office. OF the
six deaths already on rsagfd four oc-
Cured In November. The first was
George Clinton OF New York, who
died April 90, 1912, at the age Of
seventy-threc. The others were Ell
bridge Gerry of Massachusetts, Nov.
Is, 1914, Mt the age OF seventy:
William II. King OF Alabama, April Is,
1868, at the age of ~sixty-seven; Henry
Wilson of Massachusetts,, Nov. %,
1876, at the age of sixty-three; Thomas
A. Hendricks of Indiana, Nov. %,
1886, at The age Of sixty-six, and Gar
ret A. Hobart of New Jersey, Nov.
21, 1899. at the age Of ffty-fve.
william II. King took the oath of
Office in Cuba, where he had gone on
account of Ill 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, AID, Hen
bricks In indianapolis and Hobart In
Paterson, N. ].
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
were John Tyler. Willard Fillmore,
Andrew Johnson. Chester A. Arthur
and Theodore Roosevelt.
Vice presidents who were renomlnat-
ed or reelected were John Adams, vice
president 1889 and 1892 and president
I796; Thomas Jefferson, vice president
1906 and president 1900; George Clinton,
vice president 1904 and 1908; Daniel ID.
Tompkins, vice president 1916 and
1920; John G. Calhoun, vice president
1924 and 1928; Martin Van Buren, vice
president 1882 and president 1886; X.
M. 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 cen-
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 MI. Sherman fall to the Office of
president pro tempore OF that body. an
Office which happens at the present
time to be vacant. But the president
pro tenn Of the senate does not thereby
become, ms was once the case, q link
In the chain OF the presidential success
sion. The law governing the success
sion to the presidency was enacted
Jan. 10, 1886. and Its leading section
reads:
BE 1t enacted, ETC.. That In case or re-
moval, death, resignation or inability of
both the president and the vice president
OF the United States the secretary OF state /
or $50 secretary of the treasury or .
Secretary of war or - : attorney general
or postmaster general or $50 secre- /
tary OF the navy or : secretary OF the
interior shall act as president until the
disability OF the president or vice presi-
dent is removed or a president shall be
elected.
The law also provides that when
one Of the above cabinet officers sue
ceeds to the presidency he shall call a
special session Of congress. A proviso
limits the succession to those cnbinet
officers who would be eligible to the
presidency under the terms OF the con !
stitution and who have been appointed |
with the advice and consent of the SEN
ate.