List of presidents of the United States by date of death
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The following is a list of presidents of the United States by date of death, plus additional lists of presidential death related statistics. Of the 45 people who have served as President of the United States since the office came into existence in 1789, 40 have died – eight of them while in office. The oldest president at the time of death was Jimmy Carter, who died at 100 years, 89 days. John F. Kennedy, assassinated at the age of 46 years, 177 days, was the youngest to have died in office; the youngest to have died by natural causes was James K. Polk, who died of cholera at the age of 53 years, 225 days.
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· Presidents in order of death
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1
Order of Death
1
President
George Washington
Date
December 14, 1799
Age
67
Cause
Acute epiglottitis, bloodletting
Place
Mount Vernon, Virginia
Presidency (order) dates
(1st) April 30, 1789 – March 4, 1797
2
2
Order of Death
2
President
Thomas Jefferson
Date
July 4, 1826
Age
83
Cause
Toxemia from a kidney infection, uremia from kidney damage, and pneumonia
Place
Charlottesville, Virginia
Presidency (order) dates
(3rd) March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1809
3
3
Order of Death
3
President
John Adams
Date
July 4, 1826
Age
90
Cause
Heart failure
Place
Quincy, Massachusetts
Presidency (order) dates
(2nd) March 4, 1797 – March 4, 1801
4
4
Order of Death
4
President
James Monroe
Date
July 4, 1831
Age
73
Cause
Tuberculosis and heart failure
Place
New York City, New York
Presidency (order) dates
(5th) March 4, 1817 – March 4, 1825
5
5
Order of Death
5
President
James Madison
Date
June 28, 1836
Age
85
Cause
Heart failure
Place
Orange, Virginia
Presidency (order) dates
(4th) March 4, 1809 – March 4, 1817
6
6
Order of Death
6
President
William Henry Harrison
Date
April 4, 1841
Age
68
Cause
Pneumonia and enteric fever
Place
Washington, D.C.
Presidency (order) dates
(9th) March 4, 1841 – April 4, 1841
7
7
Order of Death
7
President
Andrew Jackson
Date
June 8, 1845
Age
78
Cause
Chronic dropsy, and heart failure
Place
Nashville, Tennessee
Presidency (order) dates
(7th) March 4, 1829 – March 4, 1837
8
8
Order of Death
8
President
John Quincy Adams
Date
February 23, 1848
Age
80
Cause
Stroke
Place
Washington, D.C.
Presidency (order) dates
(6th) March 4, 1825 – March 4, 1829
9
9
Order of Death
9
President
James K. Polk
Date
June 15, 1849
Age
53
Cause
Cholera
Place
Nashville, Tennessee
Presidency (order) dates
(11th) March 4, 1845 – March 4, 1849
10
10
Order of Death
10
President
Zachary Taylor
Date
July 9, 1850
Age
65
Cause
Gastroenteritis
Place
Washington, D.C.
Presidency (order) dates
(12th) March 4, 1849 – July 9, 1850
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11
Order of Death
11
President
John Tyler
Date
January 18, 1862
Age
71
Cause
Stroke
Place
Richmond, Virginia
Presidency (order) dates
(10th) April 4, 1841 – March 4, 1845
12
12
Order of Death
12
President
Martin Van Buren
Date
July 24, 1862
Age
79
Cause
Asthma and heart failure
Place
Kinderhook, New York
Presidency (order) dates
(8th) March 4, 1837 – March 4, 1841
13
13
Order of Death
13
President
Abraham Lincoln
Date
April 15, 1865
Age
56
Cause
Gunshot wound
Place
Washington, D.C.
Presidency (order) dates
(16th) March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865
14
14
Order of Death
14
President
James Buchanan
Date
June 1, 1868
Age
77
Cause
Respiratory failure, rheumatic gout
Place
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Presidency (order) dates
(15th) March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861
15
15
Order of Death
15
President
Franklin Pierce
Date
October 8, 1869
Age
64
Cause
Inflammation of the stomach, cirrhosis of the liver
Place
Concord, New Hampshire
Presidency (order) dates
(14th) March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1857
16
16
Order of Death
16
President
Millard Fillmore
Date
March 8, 1874
Age
74
Cause
Stroke
Place
Buffalo, New York
Presidency (order) dates
(13th) July 9, 1850 – March 4, 1853
17
17
Order of Death
17
President
Andrew Johnson
Date
July 31, 1875
Age
66
Cause
Stroke
Place
Carter's Station, Tennessee
Presidency (order) dates
(17th) April 15, 1865 – March 4, 1869
18
18
Order of Death
18
President
James A. Garfield
Date
September 19, 1881
Age
49
Cause
Septic shock resulting from medical care of gunshot wound
Place
Elberon, New Jersey
Presidency (order) dates
(20th) March 4, 1881 – September 19, 1881
19
19
Order of Death
19
President
Ulysses S. Grant
Date
July 23, 1885
Age
63
Cause
Throat cancer
Place
Moreau, New York
Presidency (order) dates
(18th) March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1877
20
20
Order of Death
20
President
Chester A. Arthur
Date
November 18, 1886
Age
57
Cause
Stroke
Place
New York City, New York
Presidency (order) dates
(21st) September 19, 1881 – March 4, 1885
21
21
Order of Death
21
President
Rutherford B. Hayes
Date
January 17, 1893
Age
70
Cause
Heart attack
Place
Fremont, Ohio
Presidency (order) dates
(19th) March 4, 1877 – March 4, 1881
22
22
Order of Death
22
President
Benjamin Harrison
Date
March 13, 1901
Age
67
Cause
Pneumonia
Place
Indianapolis, Indiana
Presidency (order) dates
(23rd) March 4, 1889 – March 4, 1893
23
23
Order of Death
23
President
William McKinley
Date
September 14, 1901
Age
58
Cause
Gangrene within gunshot wound
Place
Buffalo, New York
Presidency (order) dates
(25th) March 4, 1897 – September 14, 1901
24
24
Order of Death
24
President
Grover Cleveland
Date
June 24, 1908
Age
71
Cause
Coronary sclerosis, paralysis, or intestinal obstruction
Place
Princeton, New Jersey
Presidency (order) dates
(22nd) March 4, 1885 – March 4, 1889(24th) March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897
25
25
Order of Death
25
President
Theodore Roosevelt
Date
January 6, 1919
Age
60
Cause
Coronary occlusion by a blood clot (assumed)
Place
Oyster Bay, New York
Presidency (order) dates
(26th) September 14, 1901 – March 4, 1909
26
26
Order of Death
26
President
Warren G. Harding
Date
August 2, 1923
Age
57
Cause
Heart attack
Place
San Francisco, California
Presidency (order) dates
(29th) March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923
27
27
Order of Death
27
President
Woodrow Wilson
Date
February 3, 1924
Age
67
Cause
Stroke
Place
Washington, D.C.
Presidency (order) dates
(28th) March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921
28
28
Order of Death
28
President
William Howard Taft
Date
March 8, 1930
Age
72
Cause
Heart disease
Place
Washington, D.C.
Presidency (order) dates
(27th) March 4, 1909 – March 4, 1913
29
29
Order of Death
29
President
Calvin Coolidge
Date
January 5, 1933
Age
60
Cause
Heart attack
Place
Northampton, Massachusetts
Presidency (order) dates
(30th) August 2, 1923 – March 4, 1929
30
30
Order of Death
30
President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Date
April 12, 1945
Age
63
Cause
Cerebral hemorrhage
Place
Warm Springs, Georgia
Presidency (order) dates
(32nd) March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945
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31
Order of Death
31
President
John F. Kennedy
Date
November 22, 1963
Age
46
Cause
Gunshot wound
Place
Dallas, Texas
Presidency (order) dates
(35th) January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963
32
32
Order of Death
32
President
Herbert Hoover
Date
October 20, 1964
Age
90
Cause
Internal hemorrhage, upper gastrointestinal bleeding,strained vascular systems
Place
New York City, New York
Presidency (order) dates
(31st) March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933
33
33
Order of Death
33
President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Date
March 28, 1969
Age
78
Cause
Heart failure
Place
Washington, D.C.
Presidency (order) dates
(34th) January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961
34
34
Order of Death
34
President
Harry S. Truman
Date
December 26, 1972
Age
88
Cause
Minor lung congestion, organ failures, cardiovascular system collapse, hypotension, pneumonia
Place
Kansas City, Missouri
Presidency (order) dates
(33rd) April 12, 1945 – January 20, 1953
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35
Order of Death
35
President
Lyndon B. Johnson
Date
January 22, 1973
Age
64
Cause
Heart attack
Place
Johnson City, Texas
Presidency (order) dates
(36th) November 22, 1963 – January 20, 1969
36
36
Order of Death
36
President
Richard Nixon
Date
April 22, 1994
Age
81
Cause
Stroke, paralysis, swelling of the brain
Place
New York, New York
Presidency (order) dates
(37th) January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974
37
37
Order of Death
37
President
Ronald Reagan
Date
June 5, 2004
Age
93
Cause
Alzheimer's disease, pneumonia
Place
Los Angeles, California
Presidency (order) dates
(40th) January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989
38
38
Order of Death
38
President
Gerald Ford
Date
December 26, 2006
Age
93
Cause
Arteriosclerotic cerebrovascular disease, diffuse arteriosclerosis
Place
Rancho Mirage, California
Presidency (order) dates
(38th) August 9, 1974 – January 20, 1977
39
39
Order of Death
39
President
George H. W. Bush
Date
November 30, 2018
Age
94
Cause
Parkinson's disease
Place
Houston, Texas
Presidency (order) dates
(41st) January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993
40
40
Order of Death
40
President
Jimmy Carter
Date
December 29, 2024
Age
100
Cause
Natural causes
Place
Plains, Georgia
Presidency (order) dates
(39th) January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981
| Order of Death | President | Date | Age | Cause | Place | Presidency (order) dates |
| 1 | George Washington | December 14, 1799 | 67 | Acute epiglottitis, bloodletting | Mount Vernon, Virginia | (1st) April 30, 1789 – March 4, 1797 |
| 2 | Thomas Jefferson | July 4, 1826 | 83 | Toxemia from a kidney infection, uremia from kidney damage, and pneumonia | Charlottesville, Virginia | (3rd) March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1809 |
| 3 | John Adams | July 4, 1826 | 90 | Heart failure | Quincy, Massachusetts | (2nd) March 4, 1797 – March 4, 1801 |
| 4 | James Monroe | July 4, 1831 | 73 | Tuberculosis and heart failure | New York City, New York | (5th) March 4, 1817 – March 4, 1825 |
| 5 | James Madison | June 28, 1836 | 85 | Heart failure | Orange, Virginia | (4th) March 4, 1809 – March 4, 1817 |
| 6 | William Henry Harrison | April 4, 1841 | 68 | Pneumonia and enteric fever | Washington, D.C. | (9th) March 4, 1841 – April 4, 1841 |
| 7 | Andrew Jackson | June 8, 1845 | 78 | Chronic dropsy, and heart failure | Nashville, Tennessee | (7th) March 4, 1829 – March 4, 1837 |
| 8 | John Quincy Adams | February 23, 1848 | 80 | Stroke | Washington, D.C. | (6th) March 4, 1825 – March 4, 1829 |
| 9 | James K. Polk | June 15, 1849 | 53 | Cholera | Nashville, Tennessee | (11th) March 4, 1845 – March 4, 1849 |
| 10 | Zachary Taylor | July 9, 1850 | 65 | Gastroenteritis | Washington, D.C. | (12th) March 4, 1849 – July 9, 1850 |
| 11 | John Tyler | January 18, 1862 | 71 | Stroke | Richmond, Virginia | (10th) April 4, 1841 – March 4, 1845 |
| 12 | Martin Van Buren | July 24, 1862 | 79 | Asthma and heart failure | Kinderhook, New York | (8th) March 4, 1837 – March 4, 1841 |
| 13 | Abraham Lincoln | April 15, 1865 | 56 | Gunshot wound | Washington, D.C. | (16th) March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865 |
| 14 | James Buchanan | June 1, 1868 | 77 | Respiratory failure, rheumatic gout | Lancaster, Pennsylvania | (15th) March 4, 1857 – March 4, 1861 |
| 15 | Franklin Pierce | October 8, 1869 | 64 | Inflammation of the stomach, cirrhosis of the liver | Concord, New Hampshire | (14th) March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1857 |
| 16 | Millard Fillmore | March 8, 1874 | 74 | Stroke | Buffalo, New York | (13th) July 9, 1850 – March 4, 1853 |
| 17 | Andrew Johnson | July 31, 1875 | 66 | Stroke | Carter's Station, Tennessee | (17th) April 15, 1865 – March 4, 1869 |
| 18 | James A. Garfield | September 19, 1881 | 49 | Septic shock resulting from medical care of gunshot wound | Elberon, New Jersey | (20th) March 4, 1881 – September 19, 1881 |
| 19 | Ulysses S. Grant | July 23, 1885 | 63 | Throat cancer | Moreau, New York | (18th) March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1877 |
| 20 | Chester A. Arthur | November 18, 1886 | 57 | Stroke | New York City, New York | (21st) September 19, 1881 – March 4, 1885 |
| 21 | Rutherford B. Hayes | January 17, 1893 | 70 | Heart attack | Fremont, Ohio | (19th) March 4, 1877 – March 4, 1881 |
| 22 | Benjamin Harrison | March 13, 1901 | 67 | Pneumonia | Indianapolis, Indiana | (23rd) March 4, 1889 – March 4, 1893 |
| 23 | William McKinley | September 14, 1901 | 58 | Gangrene within gunshot wound | Buffalo, New York | (25th) March 4, 1897 – September 14, 1901 |
| 24 | Grover Cleveland | June 24, 1908 | 71 | Coronary sclerosis, paralysis, or intestinal obstruction | Princeton, New Jersey | (22nd) March 4, 1885 – March 4, 1889(24th) March 4, 1893 – March 4, 1897 |
| 25 | Theodore Roosevelt | January 6, 1919 | 60 | Coronary occlusion by a blood clot (assumed) | Oyster Bay, New York | (26th) September 14, 1901 – March 4, 1909 |
| 26 | Warren G. Harding | August 2, 1923 | 57 | Heart attack | San Francisco, California | (29th) March 4, 1921 – August 2, 1923 |
| 27 | Woodrow Wilson | February 3, 1924 | 67 | Stroke | Washington, D.C. | (28th) March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921 |
| 28 | William Howard Taft | March 8, 1930 | 72 | Heart disease | Washington, D.C. | (27th) March 4, 1909 – March 4, 1913 |
| 29 | Calvin Coolidge | January 5, 1933 | 60 | Heart attack | Northampton, Massachusetts | (30th) August 2, 1923 – March 4, 1929 |
| 30 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | April 12, 1945 | 63 | Cerebral hemorrhage | Warm Springs, Georgia | (32nd) March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945 |
| 31 | John F. Kennedy | November 22, 1963 | 46 | Gunshot wound | Dallas, Texas | (35th) January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963 |
| 32 | Herbert Hoover | October 20, 1964 | 90 | Internal hemorrhage, upper gastrointestinal bleeding,strained vascular systems | New York City, New York | (31st) March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933 |
| 33 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | March 28, 1969 | 78 | Heart failure | Washington, D.C. | (34th) January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961 |
| 34 | Harry S. Truman | December 26, 1972 | 88 | Minor lung congestion, organ failures, cardiovascular system collapse, hypotension, pneumonia | Kansas City, Missouri | (33rd) April 12, 1945 – January 20, 1953 |
| 35 | Lyndon B. Johnson | January 22, 1973 | 64 | Heart attack | Johnson City, Texas | (36th) November 22, 1963 – January 20, 1969 |
| 36 | Richard Nixon | April 22, 1994 | 81 | Stroke, paralysis, swelling of the brain | New York, New York | (37th) January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974 |
| 37 | Ronald Reagan | June 5, 2004 | 93 | Alzheimer's disease, pneumonia | Los Angeles, California | (40th) January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989 |
| 38 | Gerald Ford | December 26, 2006 | 93 | Arteriosclerotic cerebrovascular disease, diffuse arteriosclerosis | Rancho Mirage, California | (38th) August 9, 1974 – January 20, 1977 |
| 39 | George H. W. Bush | November 30, 2018 | 94 | Parkinson's disease | Houston, Texas | (41st) January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993 |
| 40 | Jimmy Carter | December 29, 2024 | 100 | Natural causes | Plains, Georgia | (39th) January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981 |
· Died before multiple predecessors
William Henry Harrison (L), Abraham Lincoln (M), and John F. Kennedy (R) were each outlived by three of their predecessors, more than any other U.S. president
William Henry Harrison (L), Abraham Lincoln (M), and John F. Kennedy (R) were each outlived by three of their predecessors, more than any other U.S. president
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William Henry Harrison (L), Abraham Lincoln (M), and John F. Kennedy (R) were each outlived by three of their predecessors, more than any other U.S. president
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| William Henry Harrison (L), Abraham Lincoln (M), and John F. Kennedy (R) were each outlived by three of their predecessors, more than any other U.S. president | ||
References
- While by the conventional numbering of U.S. presidents there have been 47 presidents, only 45 individuals have held the
- The five living presidents (in order of birth) are: Joe Biden (November 20, 1942), Donald Trump (June 14, 1946), George
- Dates of death sort by month and day
- Died in office
- For further information, see Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- For further information, see Assassination of James A. Garfield
- For further information, see Assassination of William McKinley
- For further information, see Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Resigned from office
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- Thomas Jefferson Encyclopediahttp://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/jeffersons-cause-death
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