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The following is a list of presidents of the United States by date of death, plus additional lists of presidential death related statistics.Of the 45 people who have served as President of the United States since the office came into existence in 1789, [a] 40 have died – eight of them while in office.
The 58-year-old president died eight days later on September 14 from gangrene caused by the bullet wounds. [7] McKinley had been elected for a second term in 1900. [56] He enjoyed meeting the public, and was reluctant to accept the security available to his office. [57]
President of the United States Washington, D.C. (Ford's Theatre) Gunshot John Wilkes Booth: Assailant was a Confederate sympathizer who believed the war was still ongoing [2] James A. Garfield: Republican 1881 President of the United States: Washington, D.C. (at railway station) Gunshot to spine (died three months later) Charles J. Guiteau
In the pre-Civil War era, President Andrew Jackson was shot at while attending a funeral in the Capitol. ... who took over the presidency after Roosevelt died, was shot at across from the White ...
President James A. Garfield with James G. Blaine after being shot by Charles J. Guiteau. The assassination of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, took place at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:20 AM on Saturday, July 2, 1881, less than four months after he took office.
The presidency of William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after taking office in 1841, was the shortest in American history. [9] Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest, over twelve years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945. He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. [10]
William Henry Harrison holds the record for serving the shortest term thus far after he died on April 4, 1841, just 30 days after taking over the White House. Experts had long attributed his ...
Similarly, the ABMC Records do not cover inter-war deaths such as the Port Chicago disaster in which 320 died. As of June 2018 total of US World War II casualties listed as MIA is 72,823 [94] e. ^ Korean War: Note: [20] gives Dead as 33,746 and Wounded as 103, 284 and MIA as 8,177.