The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-11-09
DEATHS OF OUR
VICE PRESIDENTS
Six Of SheTnan'S Predecessors
Died In Office.
FOUR OCCURRED IN NOVEMBER
The First Was George clinton-Others
Were Elbridge Gerry, William r.
King, Henry Wilson, Thomas A.
Hendricks and Garret 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
seyenty-three. The others were Ell
bridge Gerry of Massachusetts. Nov.
%, 1914, ut the age of seventy:
William r. King of Alabama, April IS,
1858, at the age of sixty-seven; Henry
Wilson of Massachusetts, Nov. -.
1875, at the age of sixty-three; Thcmas
A. Hendricks of Indiana, Nov. 20,
1885, at the age of sixty-six, and Gar
ret A. Hobart of New Jersey. Nov.
21, 1899, at the age of fifty-five.
William r. 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 We're 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, 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
1796; Thomas jefferson, vice president
1796 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 1923: Martin Van Buren, vice
president 1882 and president 1896; X.
NJ Johnson, vice president 1886, 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, an
office which happens at the present
time to be vacant. But the president
pro tenn Of the senate does not thereby
become, as was once the case, a link
in the chain of the presidential success
sion. The law governing the success
sion to the presidency was enacted
Jan. 10, 1886, and It's leading section
reads:
BE 1t enacted. etc, That In case of re-
moval. death. resignation or inability Of
both the president and the vice president
or the United States the secretary of state
or secretary of the treasury or I"
secretary of war or . . attorney general
or - postmaster general or - secre-
tary OF the navy or - secretary OF the
interior shall act as president until the
of the president or vice presi-
dent is removed or president shall be
elected
The law also provides that when
one of the above cabinet officers sue
ceeds to the presidency he shall call
special session Of congress. A proviso
limits the succession to those cabinet
officers who would be eligible to the
under the terms OF the con-
stitution and who have been appointed
with the advice and consent Of the sen
ate.