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There were eight (8) US Presidents who succeeded to the office because of the death of the previous President. John Tyler replaced William Henry Harrison (died of disease, 1841) Millard Fillmore replaced Zachary Taylor (died of disease, 1850) Andrew Johnson replaced Abraham Lincoln (assassinated, 1865) Chester A. Arthur replaced James A. Garfield (assassinated, 1881) Theodore Roosevelt replaced William McKinley (assassinated, 1901) Calvin Coolidge replaced William G. Harding (died of heart attack, 1923) Harry S. Truman replaced Franklin D. Roosevelt (died of stroke, 1945) Lyndon B. Johnson replaced John F. Kennedy (assassinated, 1963)

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