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Presidents of the United States who died in office William Henry Harrison April 4, 1841: Zachary Taylor July 9, 1850: Abraham Lincoln April 15, 1865: James A. Garfield September 19, 1881: William McKinley September 14, 1901: Warren G. Harding August 2, 1923: Franklin D. Roosevelt April 12, 1945: John F. Kennedy November 22, 1963
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]
He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, under whom he had served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963. A Southern Democrat, Johnson previously represented Texas in Congress for over 23 years, first as a U.S. representative from 1937 to 1949, and then as a U.S. senator from 1949 to 1961.
333 days after 35th president John F. Kennedy (died November 22, 1963) 33rd president Harry S. Truman (died December 26, 1972) 9 years, 34 days after 35th president John F. Kennedy (died November 22, 1963) 3 years, 273 days after 34th president Dwight D. Eisenhower (died March 28, 1969) 39th president Jimmy Carter (died December 29, 2024)
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 ...
John F. Kennedy: 1961–1963 Became president after Kennedy's assassination, later elected to own term in 1964. Gerald Ford: Richard Nixon: 1973–1974 Became president after Nixon's resignation, lost 1976 election in bid for own term. George H. W. Bush: Ronald Reagan: 1981–1989 Incumbent vice president succeeded Reagan after winning the 1988 ...
President Johnson and members of his staff watch TV news reports concerning the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. Following the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as mass shootings such as the one perpetrated by Charles Whitman, Johnson pushed for a major gun control ...
John F. Kennedy's assassination was the first of four major assassinations during the 1960s, coming two years before the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and five years before the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. [309] For the public, Kennedy's assassination mythologized him into a heroic figure. [310]