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 CONSTITUTION AND GOVERNMENT

451

Same

From State

Term of Servic

Born ' 1782

Died

Martin Van Buren

New York

1862

Richard M. Johnson

Kentucky

1S37-1841

1780

1850

John Tyler.

Virginia.

March- Apl. 1841

1790

1862

George M. Dallas.

Pennsylvania.

1845-1849

1792

1864

Millard Fillmore.

New York

1849-1850

1800



William R. King.

Alabama.

1853

1786

1853

John C. Breckinridge.

Kentucky

1861

1821

1875

Hannibal Hamlin.

Maine

1861-1865

1809

1891

Andrew Johnson.

Tennessee

Mareh-Apl. 1865

1808

1875

Schnyler Colfax.

Indiana.

1869-1873

1823

1885

Henry Wilson

Massachusetts.

1S73-1875

1812 '

1875

William A. Wheeler

New York

1 1881

1819 '

1887

Chester A. Arthur

N'W York

March-Sept 1881

1830

18S6

Thomas A. Hendricks.

Indiana

1885

1819

1885

Levi P. Morton

New York

1889-1893

1824

1920

Adlai E. Stevenson

Illinois

1893-1897

1835

1914

Garret A. Hobart

New Jersey

1897-1899

1844

1899

Theodore Roosevelt

New York

March-Sept, 1901

1858

1919

Charles W. Fairbanks.

Indiana.

1905-1909

1855

1920

James S. Sherman

New York

1909-1912

1855

1912

Thomas R. Marshall

Indiana

1913 1921

1854

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Calvin Coolidge.

Massachu>

1921-1924

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By a law which came into force Jan. 19, 1886, in case of removal, death, resignation, or inability of both the President and Vice-President, the Secretary of State, and after him, in the order of the establishment of their departments, other members of the Cabinet, shall act as President until the disability of the President is removed or a President shall be elected. On the death of a Vice-President the duties of the office shall fall to the President pro tempore of the Senate, who receives the salary of the Vice-President.

The administrative business of the nation is conducted by ten chief officers, or heads of departments, who form what is called the ' Cabinet. ' Thej are chosen by the President, but must be confirmed by the Senate. Each of them presides over a separate department, and acts under the immediate authority of the President. They are, in the order prescribed by law for their succession to the Presidency, in case both the President and the Vice- President die or become unable to take office : —

1. Secretary of State. — Charles Evans Hughes, of New York, born in New York, 1862 ; graduated at Brown University, 1881 : admitted to the Bar in New York. 1884 ; Lecturer and Professor of Law in Columbia and Cornell Universities, 1891-1900 ; Governor of New York, 1907-1910 ; Associate Justice Supreme Court of the United States, 1910-1916 : defeated candidate for President, 1916. Present appointment, March 4, 1921.

2. Secretary of the Treasury.— Andrew William Mellon, of Pennsylvania, born in Pennsylvania, 1852; educated at the University of Pittsburg'; prominent in the development of coal, coke, and iron industries, and In banking. Present appointment. March 4, 1921.

3. S-cretary of War. — Johu Wingate Wt*k» x of Massachusetts, born in New Hampshire, 1860 ; graduated at Annapolis Naval Academv, 1S81 : member of Congre*-, 1905-1913; Senator from Massachusetts, 1913 1919. Present appointment, March i, 192i.