Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1899 — Presidents’ Signatures. [ARTICLE]

Presidents’ Signatures.

President McKinley’s signature is, next to that of John Adams and Tyler, the plainest of any of our Chief Executives. Van Buren’s was the hardest to decipher, though Jefferson, Taylor, Hayes, Benjamin Harrison and Garfield never lifted their pen In signing their names. J. Q. Adams’ Is small, cramped and the only “back hand” In the lot Polk’s Is the most ornate; Jackson’s the longest, four inches, and Pierce’s the largest.