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The first incumbent U.S. president to die was William Henry Harrison, on April 4, 1841, only one month after Inauguration Day. He died from complications of what at the time was believed to be pneumonia. [3] The second U.S. president to die in office, Zachary Taylor, died on July 9, 1850, from acute gastroenteritis. [4]
Died in Modena, Italy of pneumonia resulting from pancreatic cancer. Afonso Pena: 6th President of Brazil and 4th Vice President of Brazil: 1909-06-14 Died at 61 in the Catete Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was the first President of Brazil to die in office. George Peppard: American actor 1994-05-08
William Henry Harrison holds the record for serving the shortest term thus far after he died on April 4, 1841, ... which developed into pneumonia." How every dead U.S. president died.
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) 20 years, 207 days after 40th president Ronald Reagan (died June 5, 2004)
[123] Harrison died at 12:30 a.m. on April 4, 1841, Palm Sunday, nine days after becoming ill and exactly one month after taking the oath of office; [120] he was the first president to die in office. [121] Harrison's wife Anna was still in Ohio packing for the trip to Washington when she learned of her loss. [124] Anna never moved into the ...
William Henry Harrison, in 1841 of pneumonia; Harrison died 31 days into his presidency in The White House, the official home of the President, making him the President with the shortest tenure. His pneumonia supposedly escalated from a common cold , acquired after Harrison did his inaugural address, the longest in American history, in the rain ...
Josephine died of pneumonia in the town of Rueil-Malmaison in France on May 29, 1814. After divorcing Napoleon, she lived in the Château de Malmaison, and although the two were no longer together ...
This is a list of heads of state and government who died in office. In general, hereditary office holders (kings, queens, emperors, emirs, and the like) and holders of offices where the normal term limit is life (popes, presidents for life, etc.) are excluded because, until recently, their death in office was the norm.