List of Presidents of The United States By Date of Death - Facts - Died in Office

Died in Office

  1. William Henry Harrison (1841, pneumonia and pleurisy from undisclosed illness)
  2. Zachary Taylor (1850, gastroenteritis)
  3. Abraham Lincoln (1865, assassinated)
  4. James Garfield (1881, assassinated)
  5. William McKinley (1901, assassinated)
  6. Warren G. Harding (1923, suspected heart attack)
  7. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1945, cerebral hemorrhage)
  8. John F. Kennedy (1963, assassinated)

Note: Of the presidents listed above, Zachary Taylor, Abraham Lincoln and William McKinley are the only ones to have a former president die during their administrations and prior to their subsequent deaths; James Polk died on Zachary Taylor's 103rd day in office, John Tyler and Martin Van Buren died during Abraham Lincoln's administration and Benjamin Harrison died 187 days before the assassination of William McKinley. William Henry Harrison, James Garfield and Warren G. Harding did not have a former president, vice president or First Lady die during their administrations. All these Presidents were survived by at least one predecessor, though William McKinley and Franklin Roosevelt are the only ones with only one living predecessor at the time of their deaths (Grover Cleveland and Herbert Hoover respectively).

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