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who. in addition to operating extern
siVe plantation interests, was engaged
in numerous other business enter
prises. OF the remaining presidents,
% were lawyers. four were public Of
ficials, two were soldiers and one was
a retired soldier, temporarily n farm
er. Three had served as college pro-
fessors: Garfield was professor of
mathematics and later president OF
Hiram college: John Quincy Adams
was professor Of belles-lettres at Har-
ward, and Wilson was first professor
of history in Bryn Mawr and Prince
ton. then president of the latter in
stitution. Taft became professor of
international law at Yale upon leav-
ing the presidency.
Presidential Families.
Only in one instance have father
and son in turn occupied the presi-
dency: John Quincy Adams was the
son of John Adams. II is an inter
esting fact that Charles f. Adams and
John @. Adams, son and grandson
respectively of the younger President
Adams. were both nominated for the
vice presidency, neither being elected
William Henry Harrison was the
grandfather of President Benjamin
Harrison and the son of Benjamin
Harrison, signer of the declaration of
independence. This Harrison family
has been prominent in the politics of
Virginia since colonial times, and
members of it haze also attained high
positions in Ohio, Indiana and other
states. The Carter Harrisons, father
and son, who each served five terms
as mayor of Chicago, are of this fam
lily.
BOyhoOd Friends.
BY strange coincidence the elder
Harrison, and Tyler, who was elected
to the ce-presidency with him and
succeeded him as president, were
born and brought up in the same COM
munity, in Charles county, virginia.
Also, Garfield and Arthur, the lat
ter succeeding 10 the presidency upon
the death of the former, were old
time friends. AS young men they
had taught school together in Yer
mont, Arthur being the principal of
the institution and Garfield the pro
fessor of mathematics.
Harrison the Unlcttcrcd.
William Henry Harrison was the
most unlettered of all the presidents.
He also served the shortest time of
any regularly elected president. Be
ing a very conscientious man, he in
sisted on giving personal attention to
all details he was so harriod by Of
flee seekers and so fearful lest he
might apopint Incompetent men that
his health was soon broken. His
death occurred a month after his in
auguration.
His was perhaps the only cabinet,
with the possible exception of wash.
ington's first. that was not at least
partially decided on before the elec.
toral vote was cast He came to Wash
ington from his home in Marietta,
Ohio, by stage coach after the cleo
toral college had chosen him, and
upon his arrival in the capital was
still under the impression that the
cabinet had been elected at the re
cent election, and that the vicepresi-
dent was one of its members.
Tyler the Dictator.
His successor. John Tyler. was our
most dictatorial president. Upon en-
tering office he at once attempted to
assume absolute leadership of his
party. He tried to do with his cabi
net what Jackson had successfully ac-
with an entirely differ
ent sort Of men-he sought to make
clerks of the department secretaries.
Every cabinet member at once re-
signed. except Webster, who was en-
gagd in diplomatic work that pre-
vented his resignation until some
months afterward.
Rebuilding Cabinets.
Tylers cabinet leads them all in
number of changes. there having been
16 vacancies created and filled in it
during the part of the four-year term
he served. Roosevelts second cabi
net stands next with IL changes, only
one secretary having remained thru
out the administration. Jackson's
second administration and Tyler's are
the only ones in which the entire cab
met was shifted. The cabinet of
Franklin Pierce is the only one in the
history of the nation that remained
intact thruout an entire presidential
term. James *. Polk is said to have
had the strongest cabinet, taken as a
whole. of any president, every mem
ber of which was fully as well quail
field to be president as the chief eX-
ecutive himself.
President for n Day.
David r. Atchison, a representa-
tive from Missouri, served as presi-