Baber's Early History of Greene County Indiana Chapter XXXVI - The Presidents

The Presidents of the United States and their respective occupations in life, are given as follows:

John Adams was a lawyer; Thomas Jefferson, lawyer; James Madison, statesman; James Monroe, lawyer; John Quincy Adams, lawyer; Martin VanBuren, lawyer; William H. Harrison, farmer and soldier; James K. Polk, lawyer; Zachariah Taylor, soldier; Millard Fillmore, lawyer; Franklin Pierce, lawyer; James Buchanan, lawyer; Abraham Lincoln, lawyer; Andrew Johnson, lawyer; Ulysses S. Grant, saddler, tanner and soldier.

Remarks:

We will say that old General Jackson was also a prominent Judge, a good lawyer and a true soldier; but it was being a good General that made him President. So was Pierce a Brigadier-General in the Mexican War, but he did not distinguish himself as much of a fighter.

It should be explained with respect [end of pg. 95] to James Madison. He studied law, but seems to have been dragged into public life too soon to make any progress in practice. [Part of pg. 96]