The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-04-21
FACTS ABOUT
THE PRESIDENTS
Interesting Incidents About Chief
and Vice Executives.

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and Vice Executives.
Possibly you have forgotten some
of these incidents relating to Presi-
dents and Vice Presidents of the I'm
tied States, says the Philadelphia
Ledger:
Washington was the one President
to be elected unanimously.
The only President or Vice Presl-
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 majority
of electoral votes.
William Henry Harrison served
the shortest time as President, hav-
ing caught a fatal cold the day ne
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.
tAre you not President Harrison?'
inquired a gushing woman sometime
after this son of Indiana had left
the White House. mo, madame, I'm
Benjamin Harrison, of Indianapolis.
Grover Cleveland is the only Presi-
dent 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 Pre-
sident BY the death of the President,
Tyler, Fillmore, Johnson, Arthur
and Roosevelt.
Nc 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 else sandwiched be-
tween his two terms. Benjamin Han
rison being the sandwich.
John Adams was not only the old
est of ex-Presidents when he died,
being more than 80, but he lived the
longest after leaving Office, about
twenty-five 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-Presi-
dents living at one time-Adams,
Jefferson, Madison and Monroe. At
ter Washington's death, during
Adams term, the country mad 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 JANE, 4.
Garfield were college presidents and
Jefferson founded the University of
Virginia after he retired frcm the
White House.
Washington, Monroe, jackson, tie
two Harrisons, Taylor, Lincoln,
Grant, Garfield, Hayes, Mckinley
and Roosevelt were soldiers.
Lincoln's Gettysburg speech and
Washington's farewell address are
quoted far nor frequently than any
other, 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 Sec
rotary of war, but there has been no