Death of US Presidents

Eight presidents have died in office.–

- William Harrison (pneumonia)

– Zachary Taylor (gastroenteritis)

– Abraham Lincoln (assassin)

– James Garfield (assassin)

– William McKinley (assassin)

– Warren Harding (heart attack)

– Franklin D. Roosevelt (cerebral hemorrhage)

– John F. Kennedy (assassin)

– Ronald Reagan is the only divorced man to be elected president.

– James Monroe received every electoral vote but one in the 1820 election.

A New Hampshire delegate wanted George Washington to be the only president elected unanimously.

– The U.S. Marine band has played at every presidential inauguration since 1801.

– President John Tyler is believed to be the first to use "Hail to the Chief" as the official Presidential honors.

– President Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe but took his stepfather's last name when his mother remarried. He formally changed his name to William Jefferson Clinton when he was 15.

– Victoria Woodhull became the first woman to run for President in 1872.
– Jeanette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress in 1916.

– John Mercer Langston became the first elected black politician in the United States in 1855 when he was elected Town Clerk in Brownhelm, Ohio.

– Twelve of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence were thirty-five years or younger.

– Martin Van Buren was the first natural-born American to become president in 1837. Each of the seven previous presidents were born as British subjects.