| Eight of our 43 U.S. Presidents have died in office; | | | | 1896. He runs and wins re-election in 1900. He is |
| and of those seven were elected in the twenty | | | | shot by his assassin, Leon F. Czlogosz at a public |
| year cycle beginning in 1840, and ending in 1960. | | | | reception in Buffalo, New York on September 6th, |
| Is there truly a curse on U.S. Presidents who win | | | | 1901. He lived another eight days and died on |
| elections in years ending in Zero? | | | | September 14th, 1901. |
| Numerology is a science of cycles, so when we | | | | 1920 |
| find a cycle like this among people's lives, we try | | | | Warren G. Harding is elected our 29th president. |
| to give it a closer look. Here then is a detailed list | | | | While returning from a trip to Alaska in June 1923, |
| of this curious cycle. | | | | Harding arrives in San Francisco suffering from |
| 1840 | | | | food poisoning. He develops pneumonia and dies |
| William Henry Harrison is elected our 9th president. | | | | suddenly on August 2nd, 1923. |
| He gives an inaugural speech of one hour and 45 | | | | 1940 |
| minutes, and catches a cold. It turns into | | | | Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected our 32nd |
| pneumonia and he dies on April 4th, 1841. He is | | | | president in 1932. He wins re-election in 1936, |
| the first president to die in office, and has the | | | | 1940, and 1944. He dies in office on June 12th, |
| shortest presidency on record; just 30 days. | | | | 1945 of a cerebral hemorrhage. |
| 1860 | | | | 1960 |
| Abraham Lincoln is elected our 16th president. He | | | | John F. Kennedy is elected our 35th President. He |
| completes his first term and is re-elected in 1864. | | | | is shot and killed, presumably by Lee Harvey |
| He is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's | | | | Oswald in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas on |
| Theater on April 15th, 1865; just 5 days after | | | | November 22nd, 1963. |
| Robert E. Lee's surrender ended the Civil war. | | | | 1980 |
| 1880 | | | | Ronald Regan is elected our 40th president. Two |
| James A. Garfield is elected our 20th president. He | | | | months into his presidency, he is shot by John |
| is shot by his assassin Charles J. Guiteau, at the | | | | Hinckley Jr. in Washington D.C. on March 30th, |
| Washington train station on July 2nd, 1881 less | | | | 1981. Regan is critically wounded, but the bullet |
| than four months into his presidency. Garfield lived | | | | misses his heart, and emergency surgery saves |
| for another eleven weeks, but repeated probing | | | | him. Regan survives, and runs for and wins |
| for the bullet caused infection to set in, and he | | | | another term in 1984. Regan breaks the chain of |
| died of blood poisoning on September 19th, 1881. | | | | seven presidents elected in the twenty year cycle |
| 1900 | | | | to die in office. |
| William McKinley was elected our 25th president in | | | | |