Show WHITE HOUSE FEW presidents haitt LIVED LONG IN retirement grover cleveland at present in good he ith ranks well up in the list st II 11 Is engaged in the practice of law only ten men who have held the office of president reached or sur passed mr cleveland s present age of 68 only six exceeded it by so much as ten ears and none exceeded it by luite twenty years only ten dents have their retirement from office longer than mr cleveland and tour of these lived to a great age washington who survived his re ti rement less than three years thought himself an old when he was first made president at the age of 57 john adams survived his retirement ti a quarter of a century and his john quincy who outlived hie retirement nearly twenty years was the only president who had nearly as conspicuous a public career after oc cupping the presidency as before monroe s six years after his ment from office were passed in corn lve obscurity as a resident of this city and his dying hours were embittered by scandalous accusations in connection with jackson s seizure of spanish forts in florida during the first seminole war polk outlived his retirement less than a year and there Is every reason to suppose that had arthur compassed his ambition of an election to the presidency in 1884 he would have died early in his term for he outlived his retirement less than two years oyier who outlived his retirement twenty years emerged from obscurity near the end of his life to preside over the vain peace convention on the eve of the civil war he afterward served n the congress of the confederate states buchanan lived more than seven years after his and took the opportunity to write what was in effect a defense of his administration jefferson and jackson were the only presidents who exercised a really powerful influence over party councils after their permanent retirement from public office though van buren was an acthen as long as he had hope of at the hands of any party johnson was the only retired dent to enter the united states sen ate and the younger adams was the only one to serve in the house of representatives cleveland and harrlson have been the only retired presidents to be con successful in private busl ness it Is not generally known that mr cleveland still serves as consult ing counsel in law cases in which his experience in the office of president may be supposed to have given him special qualifications as an adviser hi fees in such cases are large as were those of mr harrlson as a legal adviser and a lecturer on constitution al law new york sun |