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Renew Deal

(85,349 posts) Fri Oct 2, 2020, 02:20 AM Oct 2020

The last president to die in office of illness was Zach Taylor in 1850.

He had a form of cholera and died within 2 days.

Prior to that was William Henry Harrison in 1841 from pneumonia.

The rest of the deaths are assassinations and heart attacks.

The last president to die in office was Kennedy in 1963.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_who_died_in_office up

Other fact... Woodrow Wilson caught the Spanish Flu and was ill for a few days.

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The last president to die in office of illness was Zach Taylor in 1850. (Original Post) Renew Deal Oct 2020 OP

What about FDR...? regnaD kciN Oct 2020 #1

Heart stopped Renew Deal Oct 2020 #2

IMHO, it's a bit of a false distinction... regnaD kciN Oct 2020 #7

FDR had a massive stroke brought on by severe hypertension (which he knew about in 1944), so, yeah Spider Jerusalem Oct 2020 #6

Wilson. hedda_foil Oct 2020 #3

Harding hedda_foil Oct 2020 #4

"sudden heart attack" Renew Deal Oct 2020 #8

Harding Retrograde Oct 2020 #5

regnaD kciN

(27,698 posts)

1. What about FDR...?

Reply to Renew Deal (Original post)

Fri Oct 2, 2020, 02:24 AM

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Renew Deal

(85,349 posts)

2. Heart stopped

Reply to regnaD kciN (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 2, 2020, 02:30 AM

Oct 2020

regnaD kciN

(27,698 posts)

7. IMHO, it's a bit of a false distinction...

Reply to Renew Deal (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 2, 2020, 04:24 AM

Oct 2020

...to say that someone didn't die of an "illness" because they had a heart attack. Isn't heart disease an illness? Anyway, the usual distinction is death by natural causes versus unnatural ones like assassinations or, say, automobile accidents or plane crashes. By that standard, FDR was the last to die in office from natural causes.

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)

6. FDR had a massive stroke brought on by severe hypertension (which he knew about in 1944), so, yeah

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Fri Oct 2, 2020, 03:40 AM

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hedda_foil

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3. Wilson.

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Fri Oct 2, 2020, 03:19 AM

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hedda_foil

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4. Harding

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Fri Oct 2, 2020, 03:23 AM

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Renew Deal

(85,349 posts)

8. "sudden heart attack"

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Fri Oct 2, 2020, 08:07 AM

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Retrograde

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5. Harding

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Fri Oct 2, 2020, 03:23 AM

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