PAST PRESIDENTS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 30, 4 August 1923, Page 9

PAST PRESIDENTS

THIRTY LEADERS OF THE AMERI-

CAN NATION.

The form of Government- of the United States is based on tho Constitution' of 1787, to which ten amendments have been added. By the Constitution, the executive power is vested in a President, who holds his office during a term of four years, and is elected, together wiih a Vice-President, chosen for the same term. The quadrennial election is held every leap year, and electors are chosen in tho several States on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November; the electors meet and give their votes at the respective ' State capitals on the second Monday in January following their election. The votes of the electors of all States are opened and counted in the presence of both Houses of Congress on the second Wednesday in' February, and the Presidential term commences on 4lh March, in the year following the leap year. ' Tlie President is Commander-in-Chief of tho Army and Nayy 3 and of tho Militia in the'service- of tho Union. In t]\e> case of the death of the President during his period of office, the Vice-Presi-dent becomes the President for the remainder of the term.

Since the adoption of the Constitution the office of President has now been occupied by thirty of America's leading citizens, the first of whom was 'he famous Virginian, General 'Washington, elected in 1789. He was succeeded by the following, the (cmi of service beirg in parentheses:—John Adams (1797----1801), Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809), James Madison (1809-1817), James Monroe. (1817-1825), John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), Andrew- Jackson (1829-1837), Martin Van Bnren (1837-1841), William H. Harrison- (March-April, 1841), John Tyler (1841-1815), James K. Polk (1845----1849), Zachary Taylnr ■ (1849-1850), Millard Fillmore (1850-1853), Franklin Pierce (1853-1857), James Buchanan (1857-1861), Abraham Lincoln . (1861----1865)., Andrew Johnson (1865-1869) Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877), Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-188 L), James A. Gartield (March-Sept., 1881), Chester A. Arthur (1881-1885), 'Grover Cleveland (1885-1889), Benjamin Harrison (1889----1893), Graver Cleveland (1893-1897), William M'Kinley (1897-1901), Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909), William H. "Taffc (1909-1913), -Woodrow Wilson (1913----1921). Warren G. Harding (19211923), and Calvin Coolidge (1923-1924).

Of those who have occupied this high office six have died while in power, viz., Harrison, Taylor, Lincoln, Garlield, M'Kinley, and Harding. Only three, however, died from natural causes, the others—Lincoln, Garfield, and M'Kinley ■—being assassinated.

Six Presidents have been elevated to the office by virtue of the death of the President and their occupany of the VicePresidentship. These were Tyler, Fillmore, Johnson, Arthur, Roosevelt, and Coolidge. Of thess, Theodore Roosevelt the only one to be elected by a conibntion for a second period of four years, he being re-olected in 1905.

The following have occupied, the office for two periods of four years: —Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Grant, Cleveland, Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson. Grover Gloveland was elected on two separate occasions, first in 1885 and again in 1893.

The ■ next, election of n. President r,{ tli3 United States will take place on 4th November, 1924.