List of United States Presidents by date of death

This is a complete list of United States Presidents by date of death. August 2008, there are three living former Presidents (George H. W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, in order from oldest to youngest), as well as the current President George W. Bush.

List

James E. (Jimmy) Carter, George H. W. Bush, William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton, and George W. Bush are alive.

Facts

Died in office

# William Henry Harrison (1841)
# Zachary Taylor (1850)
# Abraham Lincoln (1865, assassinated)
# James Garfield (1881, assassinated)
# William McKinley (1901, assassinated)
# Warren G. Harding (1923)
# Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1945)
# John F. Kennedy (1963, assassinated)

Died on the same day in the same year

* John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4 (Independence Day), 1826.
* James Monroe also died on Independence Day in 1831, meaning three of the first five Presidents died on the same day of the year.

Died on the same day

* Millard Fillmore in 1874 and William Howard Taft in 1930 both died on March 8.
* Harry Truman in 1972 and Gerald Ford in 2006 both died on December 26

Died on the same day of a month

* Four presidents each have died on the fourth and eighth day of a month.

Died earliest and latest in the calendar year

* Calvin Coolidge died on January 5, 1933, the earliest in the calendar year a president has died.
*Gerald Ford died on December 26, 2006 at 6:45 PM, the latest in the calendar year a president has died. Harry Truman also died on December 26 exactly 34 years earlier in 1972 but he died earlier in the day at 7:50 AM.

Died one year, buried the next

* Gerald Ford is the only president to die in one year (Dec. 26, 2006) and be buried in the next (Jan. 3, 2007). [Ford is the only president whose immediate burial following death is in a different year. Other presidents have been reinterred years after death, such as Monroe (see Note 3, above), Garfield, Hayes, and McKinley.]

Most and least deaths by month

* Seven presidents have died during the month of July
* None have died during May

Most former presidents to die during a single presidential administration

* Three presidents died during the Grant administration (Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore, and Andrew Johnson)
* Three during the Nixon administration (Dwight Eisenhower, Harry S Truman and Lyndon Johnson).
* George W. Bush is the ninth president to have multiple former presidents die during an administration (Ronald Reagan, and Gerald Ford).
* 2 presidents died during the Hoover administration (William Howard Taft and Calvin Coolidge)Note: Coolidge died on January 5, 1933. Although Hoover's term ended on March 4, 1933. Hoover was not yet out of office at the time of Coolidge's death.

Presidential couples who died during a single administration or term

* James and Elizabeth Kortright Monroe both died during Andrew Jackson's first term.
* Margaret Taylor died before Millard Fillmore finished her late husband Zachary's only term.
* Andrew and Eliza McCardle Johnson both died during Ulysses S. Grant's second term.
* Rutherford and Lucy Webb Hayes both died during Benjamin Harrison's only term.
* Florence Harding died before Calvin Coolidge finished her late husband Warren's only term.
* Richard and Pat Nixon both died during Bill Clinton's first term.

Presidents and first ladies who died during these presidential administrations

*Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, and Lady Bird Johnson all died during George W Bush's administration.
*Richard Nixon, Pat Nixon, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis all died during Bill Clinton's administration.
*Mamie Eisenhower died during Jimmy Carter's administration.
*Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson all died during Richard Nixon's administration.
*Herbert Hoover died during Lyndon Johnson's administration.

urvived by a parent

# James K. Polk was survived by his mother. [The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents.]
# James Garfield was survived by his mother.
# Warren G. Harding was survived by his father.
# John F. Kennedy is the only president to have both parents survive him as well as the only president to have predeceased a grandparent. His grandmother, Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald, died in 1964 at the age of 98.

Tecumseh's curse

Tecumseh's curse is attributed to the famous Shawnee leader. From 1841 to 1963, all U.S. Presidents who had been elected in a year ending in "0" died in office. These seven Presidents were:
*1840 - William Henry Harrison, who died in 1841 during his first term;
*1860 - Abraham Lincoln, who died in 1865 during his second term;
*1880 - James A. Garfield, who died in 1881 during his first term;
*1900 - William McKinley, who died in 1901 during his second term;
*1920 - Warren G. Harding, who died in 1923 during his first term;
*1940 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who died in 1945 during his fourth term;
*1960 - John F. Kennedy, who died in 1963 during his first term.----
*1980 - Ronald Reagan, initially elected in 1980, narrowly survived an assassination attempt in 1981 during the first of his two terms.
*2000 - George W. Bush, initially elected in 2000, will serve until his second term ends on January 20, 2009. Nevertheless, there was a possible assassination plot in 2005, when Daniel Cvijanovich brought a gun to a rally.----
*Of all the Presidents who have died in office, Zachary Taylor was the only one not elected in a "0" year.

Longevity

tate funerals

# Abraham Lincoln
# James A. Garfield
# William McKinley
# Warren G. Harding
# William Howard Taft
# John F. Kennedy - State funeral of John F. Kennedy
# Herbert Hoover
# Dwight David Eisenhower
# Lyndon B. Johnson
# Ronald Reagan - Death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan
# Gerald Ford - Death and state funeral of Gerald Ford

Burial sites

*Eighteen states (California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Vermont), as well as the District of Columbia, lay claim to Presidential burial sites.
* More Presidents (7) are buried in Virginia than any other state.
* The only President buried in the District of Columbia is Woodrow Wilson, who was interred in the National Cathedral.
* Additionally, there are three sites - United First Parish Church, Quincy, Massachusetts, Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, and Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia - which are home to two Presidents. John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams are entombed in the crypt of the United First Parish Church. William Howard Taft and John F. Kennedy are buried in Arlington National Cemetery. John Tyler and James Monroe are both buried in Hollywood Cemetery (although Monroe was originally interred in New York City, the place of his death). Because Richmond was part of the Confederate States of America at the time of his death, Tyler could technically be considered the only President to not only die in a "foreign" country, but be buried in one. Tyler was also the only U.S. President to have a Confederate flag draped over his coffin.

Presidential re-interments

* George Washington was interred in the "old tomb" at Mount Vernon in 1799. In 1831 he was moved to the current tomb that was built to specifications laid out in his will.
* John Adams was buried at Hancock Cemetery in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1826 and then moved across the street to the basement of the United First Parish Church in 1828.
* James Monroe was interred in New York in 1831 and Virginia in 1858.
* John Quincy Adams was temporarily interred in Washington, D.C. before being moved to Hancock Cemetery in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1848. In 1852 he was moved across the street to the basement of the United First Parish Church.
* William Henry Harrison was temporarily interred in Washington D.C. in April 1841 before his final interment in Ohio in June 1841.
* James Knox Polk was first interred at the City Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee in 1849. In 1850 his widow had him moved to Polk Place. His remains were again moved to the state Capitol building in 1893.
* Zachary Taylor, after being temporarily interred in Washington, D.C., was interred in Louisville, Kentucky in 1850 and re-interred at the same place in 1991 after an autopsy.
* Abraham Lincoln was interred at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois in 1865 and re-interred at the same cemetery, yet in a more protective vault in 1901.
* Ulysses S. Grant was interred at Riverside Park in New York City in 1885 and in the General Grant National Memorial (better known as Grant's Tomb) overlooking the Hudson River in 1897.
* Rutherford B. Hayes was interred in Oakwood Cemetery in 1893 and Spiegel Grove estate in 1915, both in Fremont, Ohio.
* James Garfield was interred at the mausoleum in Cleveland, Ohio's Lake View Cemetery in 1881. He was moved to the Garfield Monument when it was completed in 1890.
* William McKinley was interred in Westlawn Cemetery in 1901 and McKinley National Memorial in 1907, both in Canton, Ohio.
* Woodrow Wilson was interred at the Bethlehem Chapel in the Washington National Cathedral in 1924. He was then moved to the Woodrow Wilson Bay in the cathedral nave in 1956.
* Warren G. Harding was interred in Marion Cemetery in 1923 and Harding Memorial in 1927, both in Marion, Ohio.
* John Kennedy was interred at Arlington National Cemetery during the public funeral on November 25, 1963. He was moved to the current location in the cemetery on March 14, 1967.

John Quincy Adams, William H. Harrison, and Zachary Taylor were each temporarily interred in the same vault at Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. [http://www.thecemeteryproject.com/index.htm]

Notes and references

Some times of death are approximate, and all are made in local times.

External links

* [http://www.diplom.org/manus/Presidents/ Presidential obituaries]