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Franklin Pierce
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Ulysses S. Grant
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James A. Garfield
Chester A. Arthur
Grover Cleveland
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William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
Gerald R. Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George Bush
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George W. Bush
Barack Obama



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Vice President Became President Days as Presidnt Re-election
John Tyler Harrison died of pneumonia in 1842
1,430
Didn't run for President
Millard Fillmore Taylor died in1850 from illness
969
Lost nomination.
Andrew Johnson Lincold assassinated in 1865
1,419
Failed to win the nominationin1868
Chester A. Arthur Garfield was assassinated in 1881
1,262
Was not nominated
Theodore Roosevelt McKinley was assasinated in 1901
1,267
Elected to a full term. Did not run in 1908. Was defeated in 1912
CalvinCoolidge Harding died of a heart attack in 1923
580
Elected to a full term. Did not run for a second term.
Harry S. Truman Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1945
1,379
Elected to a full term but did not run again.
Lyndon B. Johnson Kennedy assassinated in 1963
425
Elected to a full term but didn't seek relection in 1968
Gerald R. Ford Nixon resigned in 1974
895
Lost election ot Jimmy Carter in 1976


Sources:

The Presidents of the United States. 22 September 2004: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/

Davis, Gibbs and Ilus. David A. Johnson. Wackiest White House Pets. New York: Scholastic Press, October 2004

James, Barber and Amy Pastan. Smithsonian Presidents and First Ladies. New York: DK Publishing, 2002

Kane, Joseph Natan. Facts about the Presidents from Washington to Johnson. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1964.

Pine, Joslyn, Presidential Wit and Wisdom: Memorable Quotes from George Washington to Barack Obama . Dover Publications, Mineola, New York, 2009

Huffington Post web site.

Lang, Stephen, The Complete Book of Presidential Trivia, Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna, 2011

O'Reilly, Bill, and Dugard, Martin, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2011

St. George, Judith In the Line of Fire: Presidents' Lives at Stake , Scholastic Inc. New York, 2001


I have set a goal of reading a book about all of the deceased presidents. I share the ones that I have read as well as my current reading. You can view the books on my book page. I am open to suggestions of books to read. (jim@anewadventure.org.)

What I am currently reading:

Gurzman, Kevin R.,James Madison and the Making of America, St. Martin's Press, New York, 2012


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