No President has died out of the United States.

Washington died about 11 P.M. Saturday, December 14, 1799; the last year of the century, the last month of the year, the last day of the week, and nearly within the last hour of the day.

"Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives :

"The letter herewith transmitted will inform you that it has pleased Divine Providence to remove from this life our excellent fellow-citizen, George Washington, by the purity of his character and a long series of services to his country rendered illustrious through the world. It remains for an affectionate and grateful people, in whose hearts he can never die, to pay suitable honor to his memory. JOHN ADAMS.

"United States, December 19, 1799.”

"MOUNT VERNON, December 15, 1799. “Sir, — It is with inexpressible grief that I have to announce to you the death of the great and good Gen. Washington. He died last evening between 10 and 11 o'clock, after a short illness of about twenty hours. His disorder was an inflammatory sore throat, which proceeded from a cold, of which he made but little complaint on Friday. On Saturday morning about 3 o'clock he became ill. Dr. Craik attended him in the morning, and Dr. Dick of Alexandria and Dr. Brown of Port Tobacco were soon after called in. Every medical assistance was offered, but without the desired effect. His last scene corresponded with the whole tenor of his life; not a groan nor a complaint escaped him in extreme distress. With perfect resignation, and in full possession of his reason, he closed his well-spent life.

"I have the honor to be, with highest esteem, sir, your most obedient and very humble servant, TOBIAS LEAR.

"The President of the United States."

John Quincy Adams “died in harness,” being stricken with apoplexy while in his seat in the House of Representatives, February 21, 1848.

Tyler died while a member of the Confederate States Congress.

The average age of the twenty-one Presidents who died, from Washington to Arthur inclusive, was 70 years 3 months and 16 days; Washington to Tyler, 77 years 10 months and 3 days; Polk to Arthur, 63 years 5 months and 7 days.

Lincoln and Arthur were of the same age at death.

Jefferson was Adams's successor in office, and jointly, it may be said they were the producers of the "Declaration of Independence." Jefferson, its author, while Adams secured its adoption after three days' debate. They both died on the bicentennial celebration, July 4, 1826, within a few hours of each other. Jefferson died first. His last words were, "This is the fourth day of July." Adams's last words were "Thomas Jefferson still lives."

Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley were assassinated while in office.

Lincoln, while attending a performance at Ford's Theatre, Washington, April 14, 1865, from a pistol shot fired by John Wilkes Booth, a Southern sympathizer, one of a gang of conspirators. Booth was hunted by United States soldiers, and killed near Fredericksburg, Virginia, April 26, 1865, by Sergeant Boston Corbett.

Garfield in the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot, Washington, D.C., July 2, 1881, by a pistol shot fired in revenge by Charles Jules Guiteau, a disappointed office-seeker, who was hanged in the jail at Washington, D.C., June 30, 1882.

McKinley, while attending the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, New York, at 4 P.M., September 6, 1901, by shots from a revolver, fired by an anarchist, Leon F. Czolgosz (shōl-gosh). Two shots took effect, one proving fatal, McKinley dying at 2.15 A.M., September 14. The assassin was electrocuted at the State Prison at Auburn, New York, October 29, 1901.

Jackson was shot at in the Capitol, Washington, D.C., January 29, 1835, by a house painter named Richard Lawrence, Jackson escaping through the assassin's pistol missing fire.

W. H. Harrison was the oldest man elected to the Presidency, and Roosevelt the youngest who has held that office.

Jackson was the oldest of the retiring Presidents, going out of office eleven days before the completion of his seventieth year. Buchanan, fifty days prior to his seventieth year.

Cleveland was the youngest retiring President (at his first term), being within less than a month of his fifty-second year. Pierce, next youngest, went out of office not quite four months after he had completed his fifty-second year.

Four Presidents passed their fiftieth birthdays in the executive office : Grant, Cleveland, Pierce, and Polk.

Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and J. Q. Adams, each fifty-eight on entering the Presidency.

Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison, each in their sixty-sixth year on retiring.

John Adams lived the longest, dying in his ninety-first year. The shortest lived was Garfield, aged forty-nine years and ten months.

Age order of the Presidents when inaugurated:

:

W. H. Harrison, Buchanan, Taylor, Jackson, Adams, Monroe, Madison, Jefferson, Quincy Adams, Washington, Johnson, B. Harrison, Hayes, Van Buren, McKinley, Lincoln, Tyler, Arthur, Fillmore, Polk, Garfield, Pierce, Cleveland, Grant, Roosevelt.

John Adams, the only Vice-President officially presiding (April 21, 1789) prior to the inauguration of the President (April 30, 1789).

John Adams, the only Vice-President presiding (April 21, 1789) prior to taking an oath. Oath administered June 2, 1789. See page 269.

John Adams, Clinton, Tompkins, and Calhoun only Vice-Presidents reëlected.

John Adams and Tompkins, the only Vice-Presidents who were reëlected at the reëlections of their Presidents.

Tyler, Fillmore, Johnson, Arthur, and Roosevelt elected as Vice-Presidents and elevated to the Presidency by the death of their President.

Two Vice-Presidents each served under two Presidents: Clinton under Jefferson and Madison, Calhoun under Quincy Adams and Jackson.

Since 1833 no Vice-President served longer than four years.

During the nineteenth century there has been but one Vice-President elected to the Presidency, viz. Martin Van Buren.

Richard M. Johnson, the only Vice-President not elected by the Electoral College. Virginia refused to give her electoral vote, which left him without a majority. The Senate elected Johnson with 33 votes, Francis Granger receiving 16 votes.

With the exception of Tyler, Wheeler, and Hendricks, none of the Vice-President candidates for election have ever been suggested, at the time of their nomination, as candidates for President.

Four Vice-Presidents elected President: John Adams, Jefferson, Van Buren and Roosevelt.

The State "record rank" furnishing Vice-Presidents:

:

Elbridge Gerry, November 23, 1814.
William Rufus King, April 18, 1853.

Henry Wilson, November 22, 1875.

Thos. A. Hendricks, November 25, 1885.

Garret A. Hobart, November 21, 1899.

Four died within a few days of the same day of the month in the year of their respective deaths, the other two dying in the month of April.

BURIAL PLACES OF THE PRESIDENTS AND THEIR WIVES.

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

Buried at Mount Vernon, Virginia, on the south bank of the Potomac River, about sixteen miles from Washington. The present tomb was constructed agreeable to a clause in his will.

"The family vault at Mount Vernon requiring repairs, and being improperly situated besides, I desire that a new one of brick, and upon a larger scale, may be built at the foot of what is commonly called the Vineyard Enclosure on the ground which is marked out, in which my renains, and those of my deceased relatives, now in the old vault, and such others of my family as may choose to be entombed there, may be deposited."

The interior walls are of brick, arched over eight feet from the ground. This forms a roomy brick vault of about twelve feet square. The front of the tomb is rough, with a freestone casement, enclosing a plain iron door, over which on a stone panel is carved:

"I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE. HE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME, THOUGH HE WERE DEAD, YET SHALL HE LIVE."

Enclosing this tomb proper is a brick structure, twelve feet high, the entrance to which is an iron gateway, opening some distance in advance of the vault, forming an antechamber. The gateway is flanked with pilasters, surrounded with stone coping and cornice, covering a pointed Gothic arch; above the arch is a plain marble slab, bearing the inscription:

WITHIN THIS ENCLOSURE REST THE REMAINS OF GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON.