Election for the Twelfth term, commencing 4th March, 1833, and terminating 3d March, 1837.

Andrew Jackson, elected President, took the oath of office, and continued the duties 4th March, 1833.

Martin Van Buren, elected Vice President, took the oath of office, and entered upon its duties 4th March, 1833.

Election for the Thirteenth term, commencing 4th March, 1837, and terminating 3d March, 1841.

Martin Van Buren, elected President, took the oath of office, and entered upon its duties 4th March, 1837.

Richard M. Johnson, elected Vice President, took the oath of office, and attended in Senate 4th March, 1837. * Elected by the Senate.

Election for the Fourteenth term, commencing 4th March, 1841, and terminating 3d March, 1845.

William H. Harrison, elected President, took the oath of office, and entered upon its duties on 4th March, 1841.

John Tyler, elected Vice President, took the oath of office, and entered upon its duties on 4th March, 1841.

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TUESDAY, April 6, 1841.

Immediate after the decease of the President, Mr. Webster, jr., Chief Clerk in the Department of State, accompanied by Mr. Beall, an officer of the Senate, set out for the residence of the Vice President, in Virginia, bearing to him the following letter:

TO JOHN TYLER,

Vice President of the United States.

WASHINGTON, April 4, 1841.

SIR: It has become our most painful duty to inform you that William Henry Harrison, late President of the United States, has departed this life.

This distressing event took place this day, at the President's Mansion in this city, at thirty minutes before one in the morning.

We lose no time in despatching the Chief Clerk in the State Department, as a special messenger, to bear you these melancholy tidings. We have the honor to be, with the highest regard, your obedient servants,

DANIEL WEBSTER,

Secretary of State.

THOMAS EWING,

Secretary of the Treasury.

JOHN BELL,

Secretary of War.

JOHN J. CRITTENDEN,

Attorney General.

FRANCIS GRANGER,

Postmaster General.

CITY OF WASHINGTON, D. C.
Wednesday April 7, 1841.

By the extraordinary despatch used in sending the official intelligence to the Vice President, at Williamsburg, and similar despatch by him in repairing to the seat of Government, John Tyler, now President of the United States, arrived in this city yesterday morning, at 5 o'clock, and took lodgings at Brown's Hotel.

At 12 o'clock, all the Heads of Departments, except the Secretary of the Navy, (who has not yet returned to the city from his visit to his family,) waited upon him, to pay him their official and personal respects They were received with all the politeness and kindness which charac terize the new President. He signified his deep feeling of the public calamity sustained by the death of President Harrison, and expressed his profound sensibility to the heavy responsibilities so suddenly devolved upon himself. He spoke of the present state of things with great concern and seriousness, and made known his wishes that the several Heads of Departments would continue to fill the places which they now respectively occupy, and his confidence that they would afford all the aid in their power to enable him to carry on the administration of the Government successfully.

The President then took and subscribed the following oath of office : I do solemnly swear, that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

JOHN TYLER.

APRIL 6, 1841.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,

City and County of Washington, ss.

I, William Cranch, Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, certify, that the above-named John Tyler personally appeared before me this day, and, although he deems himself qualified to perform the duties, and exercise the powers and office of President on the death of William Henry Harrison, late President of the United States, without any other oath than that which he has taken as Vice President, yet, as doubts may arise, and for greater caution, took and subscribed the foregoing oath before me.

APRIL 6, 1841.

W. CRANCH.