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Show Afjcs of Presidents. General Grant was forty-soven when elected president and G rover Cleveland forty-eight, but Mr. Roosevelt was not quite forty-tluec years of ago when ho became president at the death of Mc-Klnloy. Mc-Klnloy. Picsldents Pierce and Garfield Gar-field entered the White House at tho ano of forty-uine, and James K. Polk and Miliard Fillmore had reached the half century milestone. Presidents Arthur and Tyler wero llfty-oneears old when the) reached that exalted position In life, Lincoln was llfty-two, Mckinley llfty-three, Hayes fifty four Benjamin Harrison and Martin van Huron llfty-tlve, Washington and Johnson fifty -seven, Jefferson, Madison and J Q Adams fifty-eight, Monroe ilfty-nluc, John Adams and Andrew Jackson sixty-two, Taylor slxty-tive, Huchanan sixty-six and W II Harrf son sixty-eight. |