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Died in Office

The eight presidents who did not live to the end of the term.

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#	Person	Year
1	William Henry Harrison 1773–1841 Whig general elected ninth president who died one month into his term.	1841
2	Zachary Taylor 1784–1850 War hero elected twelfth president who opposed extending slavery into western territories.	1850
3	Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865 16th President who preserved the Union during the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation.	1865
4	James A. Garfield 1831–1881 Twentieth president assassinated months into office prompting federal civil service reform.	1881
5	William McKinley 1843–1901 Twenty-fifth president who led the Spanish-American War and overseas expansion before being assassinated.	1901
6	Warren G. Harding 1865–1923 Twenty-ninth president whose administration was marked by postwar retrenchment and the Teapot Dome scandal.	1923
7	Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882–1945 32nd President who led the nation through the Great Depression and most of World War II.	1945
8	John F. Kennedy 1917–1963 35th President whose brief tenure included the Cuban Missile Crisis and the launch of the Apollo program.	1963