Show wa haat D DU ff 1 oil U of all 0 00 4 ia ir 56 1 1 F ge kuh d re W calvi chief juhue 7 t 1 7 C ona N V 1 M I 1 1 U Z q p J t IR r V 11 ll Z WA twel 4 g n i 1 I iq adams john ader by ELMO SCOTT WATSON HUN HEN ceibert hoover of california takes the oath of office mee as president of the united states on march 4 calvin coolidge of kif mass will become a member of one of the exclusive organizations in the world at no time in its history has it had more than ove five members and that occurred only once to in since then there have never been more than two members in this club at any 4 one time find and since wilsons Wll WIl sons death on february 3 1924 it has h is had only one william howard taft for this organization a very important one even though it Is small in membership Is the unon iclal ux x presidents or of the united states club just what call calan in coolidge will do when lie joins the ax presidents club was unknown at the time this article wits was written ritten although it mai ma be announced hy by the time it appears in print when that question came up some time ago he Is said to have hae remarked alint lie was just going to whittle which may haie hae been the new england way of saying that lie was going to spend a leisurely lel surely vacation catlon before taking up uny tiny other occupation there has been talk of his resuming his law practice in northampton mass talk of his joining a now new york law firm and also talk of his becoming tin an important olli cial in various business firms if eventually lie he turns te tc politics there will be plenty plenay of ex presidential precedent three ex presidents occupied important federal positions after they left the lie white louse house john quincy adams was elected to the united stites states house of represent representatives tit ives andrew johnson was elected to the united states senate william howard taft became and Is now chief justice in the supreme court of the united stites states despite his historic 1 I do not cleonse cli onse it Is even possible that he be may decide sometime to put the po fo called tradition against the third term to a test and again run for president in this he again will have haie precedent train ills his predecessors martin van buien was the first ex president to attempt a corre back before the new yorker ell all the american presidents had served their two terms save the two adamsey Ad amses van buren boren slipped miserably in his two attempts attempt i falling failing despite strenuous efforts to get the alon of and in 1849 IS ts with alth the nomination falling to gather a single electoral vote after him Fil willinore linore tried tiled will scarcely better success general grant was the first man to attempt to fill a third term running well for the nomination atlon on the first ballots but finally giving way to james A garfield that wits was in ISSO cleveland was the only ex president to regain the crown several before him film tried to turn the trick roosevelt noo sevelt exactly twenty years later attempted the same thing all failed where cleveland succeeded for defeated to in by benjamin harrison cle cleveland cleeland eland waged a campaign that found him film on march 4 1803 riding to the capitol clevela cleveland nd was the only man to make this ride more than three times in issa tie rode with the outgoing president arthur to in he be pave gave over the reins to the incoming president harrlson harrison in 1893 he took viem them back from the kama fame man it if 18 he rode the hie trill trail for the last time carrying carryl ns with him the its ill fated william bI Kinley of i lie careers of the other ex presidents wil liam A millen milieu writing in the washington star offers tills oils enelse summary jeorge retired to the th quiet of 0 his hi beloved mount vernon after he surrendered the on march 4 1787 1797 but lied hied orly a couple if 1 scarp faim to enjoy his well carried rest true tf bw A palled P to lo philadelphia in 1198 8 when war seemed about to break with france the old ally of the united states and spent some tinie re the army which he had led so BO well in the strenuous years of the nations birth A cold contracted arted while riding about hla his broad acres acre camped his death following a brief on december 14 1799 he was oaty seven years year old john adams a signer of the declaration of independence and veteran of the continental congress retired from the presidency on march 4 1801 ile he died july 4 1826 at hla his native quincy wass mass at the ripe old ago age of ninety years having lived to see fee his eldest son become the sixth president or ci the united states thomas jefferson surrendered the presidency march 4 1809 and curiously enough died on the same day as his ble predecessor in office both of them passing paaul ie away on the birthday of calvin coolidge july 4 ile H retired to private life at his residence in virginia in took a leading part in the founding of the university of virginia at charlottesville and was rector of that institution until his death in 1826 at the age affe of eighty three years james bla madison illson left the chief on march 4 1817 lie he retired to his estate at orange county va to enjoy private life he was a delegate to the virginia constitutional convention of 1829 1929 and was rector of the university of virginia lie he died june 28 1836 1936 age ae eighty three james monroe laid down the duties of the presidency on march 4 1825 and died july 4 1831 at the age ot of seventy three years he fie retired to hit hie farm at loudoun county virginia and in the virginia constitutional convention of 1829 in which madison likewise served he was chosen president of that group lie he moved to new york city in 1831 and died there john quincy adami left jeff the white house march 4 1829 a coincidence in that coolidge another main from massachusetts stepped out of the presidency in 1929 adams was wai defeated as candidate for governor of massachusetts in 1834 but the say bay state elected him to the house of representatives as a whig to the twenty second and the eight succeeding congresses serving from march 4 1831 until his death at the capitol on february 2 22 1848 of a paralytic stroke tit at the age of eighty years andrew jackson closed yet another chapter in his colorful career when he left the th presidency on march 4 1837 then lie he retired to the hermitage his home near tenn and died there june 8 1845 of tuberculosis at the age of seventy eight years martin van buren bade farewell to the white house houfe officially on march 4 1811 1841 defeated tor for reelection as the democratic candidate in 1840 eight years later he was the antislavery antl slavery candidate for president lie he died in his native kinderhook N Y july 24 1862 2 during the civil war aged seventy nine years john tyler surrendered the reins of office on march 4 1846 1845 he was delegate to the peace convention in 1861 which tried to avert the civil war and served as its pies president ident he had lived quietly on hla hie estate up to that time with the approach of the conflict he plunged into politics again and after the proposals of the peace convention had failed he threw in hla his lot with hla his native vir finla and voted tor for secession lie he was elected to the th confederate congress but died before it assembled in richmond nich mond va expiring january IS 18 1862 in the old dominion capital at the age of seventy one years james knox polk lived but a short while after he was treed freed from the duties of the presidency on march 4 1849 death came to him on june 15 1849 1649 in ID nashville tenn at the age of fifty three years millard Fl Ilmore laid down the onerous duties of ct the presidential on march 4 1853 after having been defeated for or as the whig candidate by gen winfield scott lie he resumed his law practice in buffalo N Y and was chosen at a the national american candidate for the presidency in 1966 he was president of the buffalo historical society a and during the civil war he commanded p corps of home guards he died march larch 8 1874 1374 at buffalo at the age of seventy tour four years franklin pierce turned over the affairs of state to his successor in the presidency on march 4 1857 11 5 spent the latter years of his life in traveling exten extensively avely in europe and died october 8 1869 1669 at concord N IS at the age of sixty four years james jaines buchanan left th the white house on march 4 1861 and died june burte 1 1868 at the age of seventy years ile he had retired to hie hl home in wheatland near lancaster pa andrew johnson who wat war pearly ousted by the elie senate left the white macuse with the expiration of we lill term on narra carrh 4 uy an n ironical turn of fate he wax was elected to the very body that would have turned him out of the presidential office with one vote more lie first retired to his home in tennessee and was defeated na as a candidate tor for the senate before the legislature in 1870 he was defeated as sin an independent Ind pendent candidate tor for the forty third congress but having been a senator before his election to the presidency he was reelected re elected to the senate and served from march 4 1875 until his donth july 31 1875 1876 at the home of his daughter daughd sr in carters station carter county tenn at tha th or of sixty six I 1 g ulysses sl SI down the tat aft 6 with his hl wl 1 g ot of the world 8 tor for a third against this york city t dent of the N FIL partner of tl this firm fal acute ananca to the rank t retired list write his me throat placed and 10 loi died J july ly 21 23 at mount MO mcl 0 OD atut Rutherford herford general in th L office we w ge be january 17 do 0 yo education an n seventy beart chester alt march 1 4 pro pr g death ov over toc Q more than a deur 61 div tie ne nn nan tell lett the chief ex at the ige of fifty six years grover cleveland stepped down from his high office as leader of the nation for the second time on an march 4 1897 he had first served from march 1 4 1885 to march larch 4 1889 but d irlas iraln the intervening tour four years this lone american who Is the only one in all history who was able to come back to the white house after he had left it retired to new york to engage in the practice of law he was called away from his briefs however by reelection to the presidency in 1892 accordingly he servel serve the second tim i 3 tor for four years beginning march 4 when his second term had been completed cleveland settled down in princeton N 3 at princeton university he delivered sin an annual course of lectures on public affairs and wrote numerous articles lie he died june 24 1908 1903 at the age of seventy one years benjamin harrlson harrison bade an official 1111 farewell to 1600 pennsylvania avenue on march 4 1893 1993 this grandson of president william henry harrison then returned to the practice of law and dell delivered vered a course of lectures at leland stanford university on constitutional law he served as counsel for venezuela in the anglo venezuelan boundary arid ration commission lie he represented the united states in 1899 as a member of the pence peace conference and became one of the international board of arbitration in 1897 he had written this country of ours ile fie died march 13 1901 at indianapolis ird at the age of sixty seven years theodore roosevelt left the white house on march 4 1903 1909 to plunge into another phao of his spectacular career following the outdoor life of which he was such an ardent advocate he hunted and explored over a wide stretch of territory in africa and south america disagreeing with his hi successor taft he lost his tight fight to 0 o he be choen cho en as the republican standard bearer in 1912 and formed his falcus bull moose party making a strenuous campaign find and being rewarded for it by the voters voter in running ahead of the regular republican candidate his offer to raise a division to aid america in the world war was rejected but he was active in its cause with the pen ile he died of heart trouble at oyster day bay N Y on january 6 1919 at the ago of sixty one years william howard taft surrendered his presidential dennial il toga on march 4 and Is now the only former president living he taught law at yule yale until 1921 the year harding appointed him chief justice of the supreme court the post port he now holds woodrow wilson the world war president who like his democratic predecessor cleveland had find lectured at princeton but later became lla its president elcied dried a strenuous and momentous eight years in the white house on bearch 4 1921 13 l 0 broken man ile he entered a law partnership with his hi old friend bainbridge colby and maintained an homce in washington faath summoned him on I 2 1924 at al the ase age or of six sixty ty seven learn I 1 |