The high mortality rate of Presidents (18.2%)

By Jack Brummet, Presidents Editor

With an 18.2% mortality rate, the occupation of being President is far riskier than coal mining, law enforcement, working on a bomb squad, or as a daredevil.  Of the 44 Presidents, eight went out the door feet first; four from natural causes and four from assassination.  Warren Gamaliel Harding (POTUS 29), pictured below, died of a heart attack after two scandal-filled years in office.

POTUS	President	Days in office	Date of death	Cause of death	Age
9	William Henry Harrison	31	4/4/1841	Pneumonia/pleurisy	68
12	Zachary Taylor	491	7/9/1850	Acute Gastroenteritis	65
16	Abraham Lincoln	1,503	4/15/1865	Assassinated	56
20	James A. Garfield	199	9/9/1881	Assassinated	49
25	William McKinley	1,654	9/14/01	Assassinated	58
29	Warren G. Harding	881	8/2/23	Heart attack	57
32	Franklin D. Roosevelt	4,422	4/12/45	Cerebral hemorrhage	63
35	John F. Kennedy	1,036	11/22/63	Assassinated	46

 

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