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Four presidents died in office of natural causes (William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy), and one resigned (Richard Nixon, facing impeachment and removal from office). [12]
5 presidents taught at a university: James A. Garfield, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. 2 presidents served as president of the United States for two non-consecutive terms, Grover Cleveland and Donald Trump. 2 presidents served as party leaders of the House of Representatives, James A. Garfield and Gerald Ford.
Of presidents since 1960, only Ronald Reagan and (in interim results) Barack Obama placed in the top ten; Obama was the highest-ranked president since Harry Truman (1945–1953). Most of the other recent presidents held middling positions, though George W. Bush placed in the bottom ten, the lowest-ranked president since Warren Harding (1921 ...
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 ...
Abraham Lincoln <1 Republican / National Union: 1861–1865 1809–1865 Andrew Johnson <1 National Union / Democratic: 1865–1869 1808–1875 Ulysses S. Grant <1 Republican: 1869–1877 1822–1885 James A. Garfield <1 Republican: 1881 1831–1881 Chester A. Arthur <1 Republican: 1881–1885 1829–1886 Woodrow Wilson <1 Democratic: 1913 ...
Obama and Raul Castro reversed over 60 years of tension between the U.S. and Cuba by restoring diplomatic ties. 4. He urged states in 2013 to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Since then ...
A disputed theory holds that Lincoln's height is the result of the genetic condition multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2b (MEN2B); see medical and mental health of Abraham Lincoln. [ 83 ] Only slightly shorter than Lincoln was Lyndon B. Johnson ( 6 ft 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in or 192 cm), the tallest president who originally entered office without being ...
President John F. Kennedy's 1961 Lincoln Continental was originally a stock car, built in Wixom, Michigan, and retailing for $7,347 (equivalent to $74,910 in 2023). The federal government leased it from the Ford Motor Company for $500 (equivalent to $5,098 in 2023) annually, and then commissioned Hess and Eisenhardt to modify it for ...