Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1917 — Wilson 28th President 8th Virginian to Serve. [ARTICLE]

Wilson 28th President 8th Virginian to Serve.

Woodrow Wilson is the twenty-twenty-eighth president of the Uni-, ted State®, reckoning Cleveland’s two terms as separate ones because he was the only president serving twice who was not re-elected. Virginia leads in the nativity of presidents. Eight of her sons—Washington, Jefferson, Madisom, Monroe, William Henry Harrison, Tyler, Taylov and Wilson—have held the highest office in the gift of the nation. Ohio has given six native sons to the penridency. They were Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, McKinley and Taft. Of all the vocations in life the law has furnished most presidents. Nineteen chief executives of the United States were lawyers at the time they were elected. Three are classified as statesmen, two as soldiers, two as farmers, one os a public official. Seventeen presidents have been college men: one was graduated from West . Point, nine had no collegiate education, * English paternal ancestry bus predominated among all the' presidents. Fifteen were of English extraction. Six were Scotch-Irish, three were Scotch, two were Dutch, one was Welsh. . The youngest president at the time of inauguration was Roosevelt, who was 46. The oldest was William Henry Harrison, who was 68. Of all the presidents John Adams lived to the oldest age. He was 90 when be died.