Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1896 — AGES ON THE PRESIDENCY. [ARTICLE]

AGES ON THE PRESIDENCY.

Comparisons (thawing the Relative Youth of Nominee llrjron. William J. Bryan, scho 1 is ouiy Is<i years ohl, is the youngest Irfn.ll ever nominated for the presidential office by one of (he great parties, and if successful will lie the youngest man ever elected. The favorite decade in life from which to choose a President has b»en the sixth.. Thus their nges ran in this wise: Washington, 5*5; Jefferson, 57; Madison, 57; Monroe, 58; John Quincy Adams, 57: Van Buren, 54; Lincoln, 51;,Hayes, 54, and Benjamin Harrison, <53. The Presidents above (50 at the time of their election were John Adams. <sl; Jackson, <il; William Henry Harrison, <57; Taylor, <52. and Buchanan, <55. Those below 50 were Folk, 40: Pierce, 48; Grant. 4*5; Garfield. 40. aiid'Cleveland, 47. Mr. Cleveland wns 55 at his second election. The Vice-President* who became Presidents were at their eleetiou tl)o following ages: Tyler, 5o; Fillmore, 48; Johnson, s<l, and Arthur, 50. Mr. Bryan is ten years younger than Gen. Grant when he was. nominated, twenty-five years younger than John Adams and Jackson, and thirty-sine years younger than the eider Harrison, who wns the oldest uin’i ever yet -nominated for President, though he holds ihe ageover Janies Buchanan by only two years. The constitution roquircsfhe President to he :i5. so.that Mr. Bryan just skips over the boundary line. • News of Minor Note. - George laini; the New York millionaire, is dead, aged 5d years. Joseph A. Shuler, a farm**, w*s killed by lightning near Hutchinson, Kan. Ilerr Rohlfs. the African explorer, died at his residence,.at Uuengsdorf-on-Ithine. Rebecca Hertstneti, aged 4 years, daughter of a merchant of Marion, Ind.. has died from burns received while playing' with a ton tire, which ignited her clothes. '..'i.s "in.: . v Three robliers, who posed as detectives, and enforced their 'demands with»*pistol and chib, entered a house at 245 West Forty-second Street, at New York, forced Joseph Miska and Edward* Settle-to give tip $l,lOO in money and SI,OOO worth of jewelry, and escaped with their booty.