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When Lincoln took office, the death of Peter Vivian Daniel had left a vacant seat on the Supreme Court. Two more vacancies arose in early 1861 due to the death of John McLean and the resignation of John Archibald Campbell. Despite the vacancies, Lincoln did not nominate a replacement for any of the justices until January 1862.
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, [2] Lincoln died of his wounds the following day at 7:22 am in the Petersen House opposite the theater. [3]
The second U.S. president to die in office, Zachary Taylor, died on July 9, 1850, from acute gastroenteritis. [4] While Abraham Lincoln was the third U.S. president to die in office, he was the first to be killed. He was shot by John Wilkes Booth on the night of April 14, 1865, and died the following morning. [5]
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. [b] The oldest president at the time of death was Jimmy Carter, who died at 100 years, 89 days.
Of the individuals elected president of the United States, four died of natural causes while in office (William Henry Harrison, [1] Zachary Taylor, [2] Warren G. Harding [3] and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, [4] James A. Garfield, [4] [5] William McKinley [6] and John F. Kennedy) and one resigned from office ...
Abraham Lincoln (/ ˈ l ɪ ŋ k ən / LINK-ən; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
Andrew Johnson, the 17th president, took the office of president in 1865 upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, a Republican, had selected Johnson, a Southern Democrat, to run on a ...
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]