At 03:30 PM 9/3/01, Jeroen wrote:
>At 15:00 3-9-01 -0500, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
>
>>> > either died in office or been shot while in office (Reagan being the
>>> > only one that did not die.)
>>>
>>>Hm. Interesting. How were the deaths of the various presidents distributed
>>>over the years ending in 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4?
>
>>AFAIK, _every_ president of the US ever elected in years ending in the
>>digits 1, 2, or 3 is still alive! Amazing, isn't it?
>>
>>(The US holds Presidential elections in years evenly divisible by 4.)
>>
>>I suspect what you meant was what has happened to Presidents elected in
>>years ending in 2, 4, 6, or 8 (those years divisible by 4 and not also by
>>5), and I don't know the answer off the top of my head.
>
>That is not what I meant. What I meant was: of all those presidents
>elected in a year ending with 0, how many died in a year ending with 1
>(i.e. 1901), how many in a year ending with 2 (i.e. 1902), etcetera.
Oh.
Anyway, the _World Almanac_ and similar publications have brief biographies
of every POTUS, which give dates of birth and death, year of election,
cause of death if they died in office, etc., and that or something similar
is almost certainly somewhere on the web.
--Ronn! :)
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