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APPENDICES
NOTES TO THE TABLES OF THE PRESIDENTS, ON THE FOUR PRECEDING PAGES
- Monroe abandoned the profession of law when a young man, and was afterward, and until his election, always holding public office.
- Jackson called himself a South Carolinian, and his biographer, Kendall, recorded his birthplace in Lancaster Co., S. C.; but Parton has published documentary evidence to show that Jackson was born in Union Co., N. C., less than a quarter mile from the South Carolina line.
- Or of departure from college.
- Widows. Their maiden names are in parentheses.
- She was the divorced wife of Captain Robards.
- The Democratic party of to-day claims lineal descent from the first Republican party, and President Jefferson as its founder.
- Political parties were disorganized at the time of the election of John Quincy Adams. He claimed to be a Republican, but his doctrines were decidedly Federalistic. The opposition to his Administration took the name of Democrats, and elected Jackson President.
- Randall, the biographer of Jefferson, declares that he was a believer in Christianity, although not a sectarian.
- While President Johnson was not a church-member, he was a Christian believer. His wife was a Methodist.
