The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-06-24
FACTS ABOUT PRESIDENTS.
Interesting Incidents About Several
Chief Executives.


dent to resign was John c. Calhoun,
who gave up the vice presidency to
become a United States senator.
J. @. 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 majori-
ty of electoral votes.
William Henry Harrison served the
shortest time as president, having
caught a fatal cold the day he was
inaugurated 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 young woman
sometime after this son of Indiana
had left the white house. "No, ma
dame, I'm Benjamin Harrison, Of In
6ianapolis. 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-presidents when he died. be-
ing more than 90, but he lived the
longest after leaving Office, about 20
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
Roosevelt were soldiers.
= Lincoln's Gettysgurg speech and
Washington's farewell address are
quoted more frequently than any
other presidential utterances.
/ Clevelands 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
presidential way were secretaries
of State. Grant and Taft were secre-
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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 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
administered the oath to Washington
he ended with this: Long live