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* * * RONALD WILSON REAGAN * * *

February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004

 

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PRESIDENTIAL LONGEVITIES
80 YEARS OR MORE

  1. GERALD RUDOLPH FORD..............................93 Yrs. 165 days
  2. RONALD WILSON REAGAN............................93 Yrs. 120 days
  3. JOHN ADAMS.................................................. 90 Yrs. 247 days
  4. HERBERT CLARK HOOVER.......................... 90 Yrs. 71 days
  5. HARRY S TRUMAN......................................... 88 Yrs. 232 days
  6. JAMES MADISON............................................ 85 Yrs. 104 days
  7. GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH............
  8. JAMES EARL CARTER...................................
  9. THOMAS JEFFERSON.................................... 83 Yrs. 82 days
10. RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON............................ 81 Yrs. 102 days
11. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.................................... 80 Yrs. 227 days

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MOST NUMBER OF LIVING FORMER PRESIDENTS AT ONE TIME: FIVE
March 4, 1861 to Jan 18, 1862: Van Buren, Tyler, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan

RECORD TIED IN 20TH CENTURY
Jan. 20, 1993 to Apr. 21, 1994: Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush

RECORD TIED AGAIN IN 21ST CENTURY
Jan. 20, 2001 to June 5, 2004: Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton
(Longest Sustained Five Former Presidents)


SHORTEST TERM IN OFFICE: 32 Days
William Henry Harrison (1841) Elected at age 68 (oldest until Reagan)
caught cold during inauguration -- died April 4, 1841

LONGEST TERM IN OFFICE: 12 Years 39 Days
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945)
cerebral hemorrhage while posing for picture -- died April 12, 1945

ONLY PRESIDENT TO BE SUCCEEDED BY A PRESIDENT OF ANOTHER PARTY
UPON DEATH IN OFFICE:
Abraham Lincoln (Union) succeeded by Andrew Johnson (Democrat)

"20-YEAR JINX" PRESIDENTS

PresidentZERO YEAR ELECTEDDIEDTERMCAUSE
W. Harrison
1840
 1841 1st Pneumonia
A. Lincoln
1860
 1865 2nd shot
J. Garfield
1880
 1881 1st shot
W. McKinley
1900
 1901 2nd shot
W. Harding
1920
 1923 1st heart attack
F. D. Roosevelt
1940
 1945 4th cerebral hemorrhage
J. Kennedy
1960
 1963 1st shot

**** ONLY ONE OTHER PRESIDENT HAS DIED IN OFFICE --
ZACHARY TAYLOR IN 1850 (A ZERO YEAR)


STATE THAT HAS PRODUCED THE MOST PRESIDENTS: Virginia (8)
(Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, W.H. Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Wilson)
Source: "Year Book and Daily Reminder"; Northern Central Co., Milwaukee, WI

FIRST LADY FACTS:
YOUNGEST FIRST LADY: Frances Folsom Cleveland
was 21 at Grover Cleveland's first inauguration
Edith Wilson (widow of Woodrow Wilson) lived to be 89 --
was special guest at JFK inauguration
SOURCE: "The First Ladies", Greenwich House, Crown Publishers, 1989.

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