PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES-Continued. NOTES TO THE TABLES OF THE PRESIDENTS, ON THE TWO PRECEDING PAGES. * Monroe abandoned the profession of law when a young man, and was afterward, and until his election, always holding public office. Jackson called himself a South Carolinian, and his biographer, Kendall, recorded his birthplace in Lancaster Co., S. C.; but Parton has published documentary evidence to show that Jackson was born in Union Co., N. C., less than a quarter mile from the South Carolina line. Or of departure from college. Widows. Their maiden names are in parentheses. She was the divorced wife of Captain Robards. (a) The Democratic party of to-day claims lineal descent from the first Republican party, and President Jefferson as its founder. (b) Political parties were disorganized at the time of the election of John Quincy Adams. He claimed to be a Republican, but his doctrines were decidedly Federalistic. The opposition to his Administration took the name of Democrats, and elected Jackson President. (c) Randall, the biographer of Jefferson, declares that he was a believer in Christianity, although not a sectarian. (d) While President Johnson was not a church-member, he was a Christian believer. His wife was a Methodist. Washington's first inauguration was in New York, and his second in Philadelphia. Adams was inaugurated in Philadelphia, and Jefferson and the Presidents following elected by the people, in the city of Washington. Arthur took the Presidential oath of office first in New York City. John Adams and Jefferson died on the same day, the Fourth of July, 1826, and Monroe died on the Fourth of July five years later. John Quincy Adams was a Representative and Andrew Johnson a Senator in Congress after the expiration of their Presidential terms, and both died while holding those offices. Tyler was a Representative in the Confederate Congress from Virginia, and died in office Washington, Monroe, and Jackson were soldiers in the Revolutionary War: Jackson, W. H. Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, and Buchanan in the War of 1812-15; Lincoln in the Black Hawk War: Taylor, Pierce, and Grant in the Mexican War; Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, B. Harrison, and McKinley in the Civil War, and Roosevelt was in the War with Spain. Adams and Jefferson were signers of the Declaration of Independence, and Washington and Madison of the Constitution. Grant was christened Hiram Ulysses and Cleveland Stephen Grover. W. H. Harrison was the oldest man elected to the Presidency, and Grant the youngest, but Roosevelt was the youngest to become President. Cleveland was the only President married in the White House, and his second daughter the only President's child born therein. Grant's daughter was the only child of a President married therein. Wives of Tyler and Benjamin Harrison died in the White House. W. H. Harrison was father of the largest family, six sons and four daughters. THE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION. The Presidential succession is fixed by chapter 4 of the acts of the Forty-ninth Congress, first session. In case of the removal, death, resignation, or inability of both the President and Vice-President, then the Secretary of State shall act as President until the disability of the President or Vice-President is removed or a President is elected. If there be no Secretary of State, then the Secretary of the Treasury will act; and the remainder of the order of succession is: Secretary of War, Attorney-General, Postmaster-General, Secretary of the Navy, and Secretary of the Interior (the office of Secretary of Agriculture was created after the passage of the act). The acting President must, upon taking office, convene Congress, if not at the time in session, in extraordinary session, giving twenty days' notice. This act applies only to such Cabinet officers as shall have been appointed by the advice and consent of the Senate and are eligible under the Constitution to the Presidency. Justices of the United States Supreme Court. John Jay, N. Y. 1795-1795 ... 1739 1800 NAME. Samuel Nelson, N. Y...... 1845-1872 27 1792 1873 1828 ... 1833 1837 1836 1832 2 1832 1895 1845 1837 1843 Vice-Presidents of the United States. NAME. 1 John Adams.. 2 Thomas Jefferson 3 Aaron Burr.. 4 George Clinton... 5 Elbridge Gerry. 6 Daniel D. Tompkins.. 11 George M. Dallas.. 19 William A. Wheeler.. 21 Thos. A. Hendricks 22 Levi P. Morton. 23 Adlai E. Stevenson... 24 Garret A. Hobart.. 25 Theodore Roosevelt.... *Should changes occur while THE ALMANAC is passing through the press they will be found noted on page 13. Vt.. John M. Schofield. N. Y 1868 1817 Grant •-1817 John A. Rawlins.. Ill...... 1869 William T. Sherman. [Ohio... 1869 William W. Belknap.. Ia 1869 Alphonso Taft Ohio... 1876 James Don. Cameron.. Pa..... 1876 Hayes Garfield George W. McCrary. Alexander Ramsey. Robert T. Lincoln... Arthur.... Mass... 1885 1889 Appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, but did not act. SECRETARIES OF AGRICULTURE. Cleveland Norman J. Colman...... Mo...... 1889] Cleveland ...J. Sterling Morton. Washington Samuel Osgood. POSTMASTERS-CENERAL.* N. Y... 1885 66 1889 1893 Mass... 1897 Ala Neb.... 11893 Timothy Pickering. Ga. Adams..... 46 66 ...... 66 Horatio King.. Me 1861 Montgomery Blair. William Dennison.. 1801 1869 Return J. Meigs, Jr.. Ohio John McLean. J. Q. Adams 1825 Hayes Jackson... 1829 Amos Kendall.. 66 John M. Niles.. Charles A. Wickliffe. Cave Johnson. Buchanan ... Aaron V. Brown... 1835 Garfield N. Y... 1841 James N. Tyner.. William L. Wilson.. Ct. James A. Gary ་. Iowa... 1884 Wis. 1885 Md. 1897 *The Postmaster-General was not considered a Cabinet officer until 1829. All the members of President McKinley's Cabinet at the time of his death in September, 1901, were reappointed by President Roosevelt. NOTE. Since the foundation of the Government, the individual States have been represented the following number of times in Cabinet positions: Massachusetts, 30; New York, 30; Pennsylvania, 27; Virginia, 22; Ohio, 22; Maryland, 16; Kentucky, 15; Connecticut, 9; Indiana, 9; Georgia, 8; Tennessee, 8; Illinois, 7; Missouri, 7; Maine, 6; South Carolina, 6; Delaware, 5; Wisconsin, 5; Michigan, 5; New Jersey, 5; Mississippi, 4; North Carolina, 4; Iowa, 4; Louisiana, 3; Minnesota, 3; New Hampshire, 3; West Virginia, 3; Vermont, 2; Alabama, 1; Arkansas, 1; Colorado, 1; Nebraska, 1; California, 1; Oregon, 1. The States which have not been represented in the Cabinet are: Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, Wyoming. Diplomatic Entercourse. UNITED STATES MINISTERS ACCREDITED TO PRINCIPAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, GREAT BRITAIN. * Date of commission. † Mr. Monroe was appointed alone in 1803, and then jointly with Mr. Pinkney in 1806. Lord Pauncefote. 1823 1868 1825 1881 1825 1889 1835 66 1893 Now |