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POLITICIANS - PRESIDENTS
The last seven U.S. Presidents elected in a year ending with a zero have not lived out their elected terms.
A. 1840 - William Henry Harrison, the 9th President, ran on the slogan, "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too". President Harrison appointed a cabinet headed by Secretary of State, Daniel Webster. On March 17, 1841, Harrison called for a meeting to be held March 31st to act on the country's depressed financial situation. Harrison took ill, developed pneumonia and died April 4, 1841 after being President one month. He was the first Whig Party President and was succeeded by John Tyler.
B. 1860 - Abraham Lincoln, our 16th President, was assassinated April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth.
C. 1880 - James Abram Garfield became the 20th President after receiving his party's nomination on the 36th ballot as a "dark horse" candidate. He was shot July 2, 1881 by Charles Guiteau and died seventeen days later.
D. 1900 - William McKinley, our 25th President, was shot by an anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, on September 6, 1901. He died September 14, 1901.
E. 1920 - Warren Gamaliel Harding was our 29th President. It was during President Harding's term that the infamous Teapot Dome scandal occurred. Harding's Secretary of Interior, Albert B. Fall, was later convicted of taking a bribe for leasing naval oil reserves to private interests. An aide to the Attorney General, a man named Jesse W. Smith, committed suicide following another alleged scandal. Harry M. Daugherty, our U.S. Attorney General, escaped conviction. Some reports say Harding ate a bad meal and was food-poisoned. In any case, complications developed and he died August 2, 1923. There was no autopsy.
F. 1940 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, our 32nd President, was the only man to be elected to this high office four times. He died April 12, 1945, about a month before Germany surrendered in World War II.
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