Excerpt from Eighteen Presidents and Contemporaneous Rulers While it is not proposed in this volume to give all the political'measures that came up for the consideration of the various Administrations from the Presidency of George Wash ington down to the present, or, in fact, attempt a political history of the various Administrations, it gives all the statistics relating to the Presidential office, with accurate biographical notes of all the incumbents and aspirants for the Offices of President and vice-president, as well as of every statesman connected with each Administration; a complete list of all the Cabinet Ministers, Cabinet changes, etc.; the vote for President and vice-president at every election, besides a large amount of other statistical information, compiled from the official records, relating directly, as well as indirectly, to the Presidency and the contemporaneous rulers of the principal nations of Europe, such as is to be found in no other published work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.