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21 years, 111 days after 9th president William Henry Harrison (died April 4, 1841) 13 years, 39 days after 11th president James K. Polk (died June 15, 1849) 12 years, 15 days after 12th president Zachary Taylor (died July 9, 1850) 187 days after 10th president John Tyler (died January 18, 1862) 10th president John Tyler (died January 18, 1862)
One partial term; died 2 years, 4 months, and 29 days into term 43: Zachary Taylor: 492 12th • March 4, 1849 – July 9, 1850 [c] One partial term; died 1 year, 4 months, and 5 days into term 44: James A. Garfield: 199 20th • March 4 – September 19, 1881 [c] Assassinated: died 6 months and 15 days into term; 79 days after being shot 45
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]
Unknown, alleged to have been an organized crime contract killing [24] John F. Kennedy: Democratic 1963 President of the United States Dallas, Texas (in motorcade) Gunshots from sniper Lee Harvey Oswald: Disputed [25] Robert F. Kennedy: Democratic 1968 U.S. senator and a leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate: New York
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]
The Porvenir massacre was an incident on January 28, 1918, outside the village of Porvenir, in Presidio County, Texas, in which Texas Rangers and local ranchers, with the support of US Cavalry, killed 15 unarmed Mexican American boys and men. [1]: 64 The Texas Rangers Company B had been sent to the area to stop banditry after the Brite Ranch ...
U.S. presidents generally spend years in office, but the ninth president of the United States served only for a month. William Henry Harrison holds the record for serving the shortest term thus ...
He graduated from Harvard in three years in 1903 with an A.B. in history. [22] He remained there for a fourth year, taking graduate courses. [23] Like his cousin Theodore, he was a member of The Explorers Club. [24] Roosevelt entered Columbia Law School in 1904, but dropped out in 1907 after passing the New York bar examination.