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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 49, 5 December 1901, Page 15

Regarding past Presidents of the United Statet, it is intaraiting to note their national origin. Three — Washington, Madiion, »nd Lincoln — were English ; McKinlay was of Irish origin , Monroe, Grant and Hayes were of Scottish origin ; Buchanan, Polk, Jackson, and Arthur were of a mixed Scottish-Irieh origin : Van Buren, like Roosevelt, was of Dutch descent ; while Jefferson, whom someone ha» called ' the noblest Roman of them all,' was a Welshman. Abraham Lincoln has the dintinction of being the tallest, while the late Benjamin Harrison is believed to have been the •hortest. Inter