Fun Trivia : Presidential Deaths

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Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information

Presidential Deaths

Which President lived from 1784 to 1850?

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Zachary Taylor.



Which President lived from 1767-1848?

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John Quincy Adams.



Which president lived from 1767-1845?

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Andrew Jackson.



Which President lived 1837-1908?

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Grover Cleveland.



Which President was born in 1874 and died in 1964?

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Herbert Hoover.



Which President lived from 1732-1799?

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George Washington.



Which President lived from 1822-1885?

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Ulysses S. Grant.



Who lived from 1809-1865?

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Abraham Lincoln.



Which President lived from 1743-1826?

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Thomas Jefferson.



Which President lived from 1735-1826?

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John Adams.



Which President lived from 1822-1893?

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Rutherford B. Hayes.



Which President lived from 1856-1924?

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Woodrow Wilson.



Which President lived from 1833-1901?

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Benjamin Harrison.



Which President lived from 1791-1868?

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James Buchanan.



Which President lived from 1795-1849?

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James K. Polk.



Which President was buried at his home and then exhumed 44 years later? His final resting place is Nashville, Tennessee. What was his name?

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James Polk. In 1893, Polk and his wife, Sarah, were re-buried at the state Capital in Nashville.



What South American country flew its flags at half-mast upon the death of Grover Cleveland in 1908?

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Venezuela. Cleveland helped Venezuela with its border dispute with Great Britain.



Which President requested that his body be wrapped in the American flag and his head rest upon a copy of the Constitution?

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Andrew Johnson.



Which President sipped a glass of brandy, smiled at his wife and quietly died?

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John Tyler. John Tyler was in Richmond preparing to take his seat in the Confederate House. No official notice was taken of his passing in Washington.



Which First Lady refused to allow a mortician to embalm her husband's body nor did she allow a death mask to be taken?

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Margaret 'Peggy' Mackall Smith Taylor. Mrs. Taylor never recovered from her husband's sudden death. She died two years after him in August, 1852 at Pascagoula, Mississippi.



What President died addicted to cocaine?

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Hiram Ulysess Grant. Grant's throat was swabbed with a cocaine solution to ease the pain caused by tongue and throat cancer.



What president died with a {$5} Confederate bill in his pocket?

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Abraham Lincoln. The contents of Lincoln's pockets on the night of his assassination remained under seal until February 12, 1976. Among the items were a {$5} Confederate bill.



At Harry S Truman's simple funeral this president quipped, 'When it is my time make sure they know who is in the box'?

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Lyndon Baines Johnson. Harry Truman died December 26, 1972. Lyndon Johnson died less than a month later on January 22, 1973.



What was poured on the body of McKinley's assassin Leon Czolgosz after his electrocution?

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Sulfuric Acid. The acid was applied to help accelerate his decomposition.



Who died in the arms of his son Webb?

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Rutherford B. Hayes.



What Presidential assassin purportedly chose his firearm because he felt it would look good in a museum?

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Charles J. Guiteau. Guiteau fired a .44 British Bulldog.



Whose last words were, 'I have a terrific headache.'?

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.