Show presidential MORTALITY AN exchange notes the fact that the detthof death of william A wheeler leaves but one man living who lever held the vice presidency ot of the united states andrew johnson who was chosen in 1864 on the ticket with abraham lincoln when he be ran for the presidency i the second term died in 1875 schuyler colfax who was chosen vice president at the next election when grant first became president is dead about two years an and henry dHenry wilson who was elected to that position for grants second term passed away a dozen years ago chester A arthur who was elected in ic 1880 on the ticket with garfield and thomas A hendricks who went in with cleveland have died recently the former afew months ago and the latter in the closing days of 1885 those gentlemen comprise the men who have been chosen to the vice presidency since abraham Lin Lincol colas ns first election twenty seven yeara year ago there is but one ex president still living rutherford B hayes only two of the unsuccessful candidates for vice president on the ticket of either of the great parties remain with us these are george H pendleton and william H english pendleton who is at present the american minister to ger many ran on the ticket with george B mcclellan in 1864 and english on the hancock ticket in 1880 all the gentlemen who have ever unsuccessfully run ran for the presidency on the ticket of either of the two big parties are dead except james G blame blaine within the I 1 past blant Ls two years two ex presidents grant aBd andl jArthur Arthur four ex vice presidents colfax wheeler arthur and hendricks four unsuccessful presidential canaida candidates tes mcclellan seymour tilden and hancock and three unsuccessful vies vice presidential nominees B gratz brown hendricks in 1876 and john A logan have crossed the dark river the only vice president remaining referred to above is hannibal hamlin of maine who was elected on the ticket wita abraham lincoln in 1860 |