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The Deaths of U.S. Presidents

by Scott on February 18th, 2008

gwashington This is kind of a morbid way to celebrate Presidents Day, but take it how you want it. Out of curiosity I looked up some info on the deaths of US Presidents.  I was searching for more on something in the lines of Death By Natural Causes of U.S. Presidents but didn’t come on anything that gave the information I was looking for. Some of the information here is stuff you learned in grade school and some of it is things you had no idea about. It’s pretty interesting when you look at it and see what they don’t teach you in school. I even heard this morning on the radio that James Buchanan was allegedly homosexual. Not that it makes any difference to me. To each his own. Ironically he was engaged before he was elected but he broke off the engagement and his ex-fiance committed suicide.  Anyway, this is what I found out about U.S. Presidents Deaths.

 

Assassinated U.S. Presidents

  • Abraham Lincoln - assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
  • James Garfield - assassinated by Charles J. Guiteau
  • William McKinley - assassinated by Leon F. Czolgosz
  • John Kennedy - assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald

Presidents who died because of Incompetent Doctors

  • George Washington - bled to death from treatment for “inflammatory quinsy” at his doctors fault
  • James Garfield - doctors contaminated his bullet wound and he died of infection.

President Who Died In Office Of Natural Causes

  • William Henry Harrison - died of “bilious pleurisy”
  • Zachary Taylor - died of cholera morbus
  • Warren Harding - died of pneumonia or stroke
  • Franklin Roosevelt - died of cerebral hemorrhage

Presidents Who survived Assassination Attempts or later died from their wounds

  • Andrew Jackson - would-be assassin: Richard Lawrence (both derringers misfired)
  • Harry Truman - Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola attempted to storm Blair House, residence of Truman
  • Gerald Ford - would be assassins: Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme and Sara Jane Moore, in two separate incidences
  • Ronald Reagan - shot and wounded by John W. Hinkley, Jr

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