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
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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.
