The vice president would take office because the constitution states that if the president dies or resigns during his term in office the vice president serves the rest of the term
US Constitution, Amendment XX, Section 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President....
president who died in office that is considered to be the worst president
William Henry Harrison was the first president to die in office. He died after a month in office.
William Henry Harrison was the first president to died in office and the first vice president was George Clinton.
The previous answer was rude and uncalled for so here's what I've found: If the President-elect dies after the Electoral college votes (Dec 20th this year) then the Vice-President Elect is inaugurated as the President. If the President-elect dies after the general election and before the Electoral College votes then congress by law may select the President This comes from the twentieth Ammendment - section 3: Section 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
Rachel Jackson, wife of President-elect Andrew Johnson, died on December 22,1828.
He was Vice President and Roosevelt died in office.
If the president dies then the vice president takes office as president.
== Harrison died in a month == William Henry Harrison was the ninth president of the United States, and the first president to die in office, one month after becoming President. No American president died after just one week in office.
John Tyler
Both were vice-presidents who became president when the elected president died in office.
John Tyler was the vice-president who moved up to President when William Henry Harrison became the first US president to die in office.