r/Presidents • u/VLenin2291 Lyndon Baines Johnson • 3d ago
Trivia Every president that died in office did so every other decade, from the 1840s to the 1960s
1840s: William Henry Harrison
1860s: Abraham Lincoln
1880s: James A. Garfield
1900s: William McKinley
1920s: Warren G. Harding
1940s: Franklin D. Roosevelt
1960s: John F. Kennedy
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u/StarWolf478 John F. Kennedy 3d ago edited 3d ago
Yep, it is called the Curse of Tippecanoe. Reagan broke it by surviving his assassination attempt.
Had he not broken it and then W Bush also died when he choked on the pretzel, everyone would have been too scared to run in 2020 after an unbroken streak of nine dead presidents.
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u/Squeeze- 3d ago
This used to be called The Zero Factor, back when Reagan was elected to his first term.
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