"J. van Baardwijk" 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.
U.S. Presidents who have died in office:
President Year elected Year died
William Henry Harrison 1840 1841
Zachary Taylor 1848 1850
Abraham Lincoln 1860 1865
James A. Garfield 1880 1881
William McKinley 1900 1901
Warren G. Harding 1920 1923
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1940 1945
John F. Kennedy 1960 1963
Lucky for someone (maybe Ronn?) I had an almanac at hand to look up all
this stuff. I knew about Harrison, Taylor, Lincoln, Roosevelt and
Kennedy off the top of my head, but had to look up year of death on the
others. Note that Taylor wasn't elected in a year ending in "0", but
died in one, at least.
Julia
