Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-06-08
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FACTS ABOUT PRESIDENTS
Interesting Incidents About Several
Chief Executives.

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to be elected unanimously.
The only president or vice president
to resign was John C. Calhoun, who
gave up the vice presidency to become
United States senator.
]. @. Adams refused to ride to the
Capitol with Andrew Jackson and left
town when Old Hickory took the oath
Of office.
Jefferson and the second Adams
were the only presidents who were
elected by the house Of representa-
tives neither having had a majority
Of electoral votes.
William Henry Harrison served the
shortest time as president, having
caught a fatal cold the day he was in
augurated and died exactly one month
later.
Impeachment was tried against but
one president or vice president, and
failed by one vote even in the case Of
Andrew Johnson.
Johnson was a tailor and could not
read until his wife taught him how.
Are you not President Harrison ?"
inquired a gushing woman sometime
after this son Of Indiana had left the
White House. "No, madame, I'm
Benjamin Harrison Of Indianapolis.
Grover Cleveland is the only president
in the United States"
The senate elected only one vice
president, Richard M. Johnson, in
1887, having failed to receive a ma
jority Of electoral votes.
Five vice presidents became presi-
dent by the death of the president:
Tyler, Fillmore, Johnson, Arthur and
Roosevelt.
No physician, preacher or journal
ist has become president.
Grant and Roosevelt are the only
two who sought three terms.
Cleveland was the only president to
have someone sandwiched between his
two terms, Benjamin Harrison being
the sandwich.
John Adams was not only the old
est Of ex-president when he died, be-
ing more than 80, but he lived the
longest after leaving office, about 25
years.
Relatively, Washington was the
richest president, but his private in
come was hardly equal to that of
Roosevelt.
Col. Roosevelt was the only vice
president to attain the presidency by
another's death and then be honored
by a reelection.
There have been four ex-presidents
living at one time-Adams, Jefferson,
Madison and Monroe. After WASH
ington's death, during Adams term,
the country had no ex-president. Now
we have two, but they don't speak to
each other.
Buchanan went through his term a
bachelor.
Woodrow Wilson and James A. Gar
field were college presidents and JEFF
ferson founded the University after he
retired from the White House.
Washington, Monroe, Jackson, the
two Harrisons, Taylor, Lincoln, Grant,
Garfield, Hayes Mckinley and Roose-
welt were soldiers.
Lincoln's Gettysburg speech and
Washingtons farewell address are
quoted more frequently than any 9TH
er presidential utterances.
Cleveland's public office is a pub
lie trust" Grants Let us have
peace" Jackson's "By the Eternal
and Roosevelt's "Malefactors of great
wealth" became universal catch words
OF cabinet officers, the luckiest in
a presidential way were secretaries Of
state. Grant and Taft were secreta-
ries of war, but there has been no
secretary Of the navy in the White
House.
Washington and Lincoln were the
tallest presidents, Cleveland and Taft
the heaviest.
When Buchanan was young man
in Lancaster county, Pa, some one
told him that If he should change his
politics he might become president.
He did both.
Grant had always been a Democrat
until after the war, when the Repub-
licans elected him president.
The only president to turn his coat
after election was Tyler. Elected by
the Wings on the "Tippacanoe and
Tyler. too" slogan, he went over to
the Democrats when he had climbed
into the presidency over the coffin of
Harrison.
When the chancellor Of New York
the oath to Washington
he ended with this: Long live George
Washington, president Of the United
States" That form was never repeat
ed.
One president was inaugurated in
New York, two in Philadelphia and all
the others in Washington.
At first the salary of the president
was 5000, and that Of the vice pres
ident $1,000. Now the president re-
ceives $4,000.
Alexander Hamilton proposed that
a president be elected for life. 9th
ers in the constitutional convention
favored two or three presidents in
stead of one.
The official salute for the president
is twenty-one guns. I heard a salute
of 1O1 guns fired for King Edward
when the proclamation was read.
When the body of Napoleon was
brought back from st. Helena and ar
rived in the river Seine, a salute Of
1000 guns was fired.-Philadelph
Ledger.
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