[Liberty Valance]

LOL! I’m trying to think ... what was going on back in 1853?

[Fiji Hill]

Interestingly, King County, Washington was named for William R. D. King. However, the fact that King owned slaves on his Alabama plantation in Alabama reneers him politically incorrect in the liberal Seattle of today, so the county’s name now honors Martin Luther King.

[Verginius Rufus]

King was terminally ill when he was elected and died a month after taking office--he never made it to Washington during the time he was V.P.

There was an even bigger age difference in 1904 on the Democratic ticket--Alton B. Parker, the candidate for President, was 52 and his running mate, Henry G. Davis, was 81.

The Democratic platform of 1904 accused the Roosevelt administration of being "spasmodic, erratic, sensational, spectacular, and arbitrary." Maybe that's a line which will be applicable to the Obama administration.