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FACTS
About Chief Executives That
Are Interesting
Incidents Relating To Presi.
dents And Vice Presidents
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Possibly you have forgotten some OF
these Incidents relating to Presidents
and Vice Presidents Of the United
States:
Washington was the one President
to be elected unanimously.
The only President or Vice Presi.
dent to resign was John G. Calhoun,
who gave /up the Vice Presidency to
become a United States Senator.
J. q. Adams refused to ride to the
Capitol with Andrew Jackson and left
town when Old Hickory took the OATH
Of ofilce.
Jefferson and the second Adams
were the only Presidents who were
elected by the House Of Representa-.
tives, neither having had majority
OF electoral votes.
William Henry Harrison served the
shortest time as President, having
caught q 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 tailor and could not
read until his wife taught him how.
"Are you not President Harrison ?'
inquired gushing woman some time
after this son Of Indiana had left the
White House. mo. madame. I'm Ben
jamin Harrison, of Indianapolis. Grow
or Cleveland, is the only President in
the United States"
The Senate elected only one Vice
President, Richard NJ. Johnson in
1887 having failed to receive a MAORI
ty 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 journalist
has become President.
Grant and Roosevelt are the only
two who sought three terms.
Cleveland was the only President to
have some one else sandwiced between
his two terms, Benjamin Harrison be-
ing the sandwich.
John Adams was not only the oldest
of ex-Presidents when he died, being
more than 80, but he lived the longest
after leaving Office, about 25 years
Relatively, Washington was the rich
est President, but his private income
was hardly equal to that of Roosevelt.
Colonel Roosevelt was the only Vice
President to attain the Presidency by
another's death and then be honored
by reelection.
There have been four ex-Presidents
living at one time-Adams, Jefferson.
Madison and Monroe. After Washing
toms death, during Adams's 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 of Vir-
ginia after he retired from the White
House.
Washington, Monroe, Jackson, the
two Harrisons. Taylor. Lincoln, Grant,
Garfield, Hayes, Mckinley and Roose-
velt were soldiers.
Lincoln's Gettysburg speech and
Washington's farewell address are
quoted far more frequently than any
other presidential utterances.
Cleveland's Public Office Is a public
trust" Grants Let US have peace,
Jackson's by the Eternal" and Roose
velt's 'Malefactors of great wealth be
came universal catch words.
OF Cabinet officers, the luckiest in g
presidential way were Secretaries OF
State. Grant and Taft were Secretary
of War. but there has been no Secre
tary 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 some one told
him that if he should change his poll
tics he might become President. He
did both.
Grant had always been Democrat
until after the war, when the Republic
ans elected him President.
The only President to turn his coa'
after election was Tyler. Elected by
the Wings on the "Tippecanoe and
Tyler, too" slogan, he went over tt
the Democrats when he had climbed
itno the Presidency over the coffin o.
Harrison.
When the Chancellor OF New Yorl