The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1932. U.S. PRESIDENCY.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1932, Page 4

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1932. U.S. PRESIDENCY.

George Washington, the first President of the United States of America, was elected 153 years ago. His salary was 25,000 dollars a, year. Mr Franklin 1). Roosevelt is the thirty-second American to achieve the coveted distinction of administratively ruling (within defined limits) his own- country. He will a sumei office as President at midnight, March 4th., 1933, and' will receive a salary of 75,(00 dollars annually for travelling expenses. By virtue of position as Co-m----mander-in-Chief of the- Army and Navy of the United States, the President can use the services of a naval vessel at any time, the expenses involved falling upon the Navy Department. The Presidential oath or affirmation is ns follows:—“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States, and will, to the bast of my ability, preserve, protect, and .d'efend tire- Constitution of the United States.” The Presidential term is four years, and the Piesident cannot be removed from office except “on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery, or oth»-r high crimes rnd misdeamours.” He is invested with great -administrative no we ns. No President lias served for longer than the eight years—representing two terms of office--and only one, Grover Cleveland, has ever returned to office for a second period after having once- relinquished't. The shortest term on record is that of ■William H. Harrison, who died only a- month after his - inauguration, in 1841, f(Viewing upon a great electoral victory over Van Boren. The term of the creat patriot and statesman, James A. (Garfield, was cut down to six months by the bullet- of an,- assassin iir 1881. Abraham Lincoln, another of the nation’s greatest* had 1 just been returned for a second time when bio .life was similarly sacrificed. Having regard to the- States from which the Presidents have come, Ohio cn claim six. New York six, Virginia five, Massachusetts and Tennessee three each, Illinois two, and Pennsylvania, Louisiana, New Hampshire;-'lndiana, New Jersey-an- California. 1 one each. In its early days up to the return of Polk in 1844. the Democrat P=*rty had an almost unbroken run of successes, but since the Republics n Party returned its first President 72 y-mr-s ago, the -Democrats have 'been -able to np-' no ini onlv- two— Gyove" Ole-vel-and and Woodrow Wilson. (Both of these-, however. held office for two, ouadrennial periods. After OleveUndV second term, which -ended in ]897, came the Republicans McKinley, Rooveselt, and Taft, cove, ring the pericdi to the victory of Woodrow 'Wilson in 1913. Wilson, who retired in 1921*,. has since been followed by another succession of three Republicans, "Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover.