William Henry Harrison, the 9th President. He fell ill with pneumonia after giving a long inaugural address in bad weather and died one month into his term. He took office on March 4,1841 and died on April 4, 1841.
William Henry Harrison, our ninth President died on 4/4/1841 from pneumonia making his term the shortest in history.
William Henry Harrison, the 9th president of the U.S.A.
William Henry HarrisonWilliam Henry Harrison became the first US president to die while in office in 1841. He served the shortest term of any American president (March 4 - April 4, 1841, 31 days, twelve hours, and 30 minutes).
The two-term tradition.
No person who is not elligible to be President can become Vice-President. No person may be elected more than twice to the office of President. There is disagreement as to whether this prevents a former President from serving as a Vice-President, since he would not have been elected to the office of President should he succeed to that office due to the death or disability of the President. But he clearly would be prevented from running for election after filling out the remainder of the term of a President who died in office.
Shortest Term held by a US PresidentThe Shortest Term held by a US President was the 9th President of the United States William Henry Harrison. President Harrison was in office from March 4, 1841 to April 4, 1841, and died on his thirty-second day in office. The oldest President to be elected until Ronald Reagan in 1980, Harrison died from complications from a cold, and was the first President to die while in office.
The first US president to die in office was William Henry Harrison who died in April, 1841. The president with the shortest term in office was also Harrison, and it lasted just 31 days.
As of 2018, the president to serve the shortest term was William H. Harrison, who was in office for all of one month back in 1841 before dying of pneumonia.
No, that honor belongs to William Henry Harrison, the 9th president.
William Henry Harrison, our ninth President, was the President with the shortest term of 30 days, 11 hours, and 30 minutes. His term was from March 4, 1841, to April 4, 1841. He died from right lower lobe pneumonia, jaundice, and overwhelming septicemia, and also becoming the first American president to die in office.
James Madison
James A. Garfield served for a shorter time than anyone but W, H. Harrison.
William Henry Harrison, our ninth President died on 4/4/1841 from pneumonia making his term the shortest in history.
William Henry Harrison, the 9th president of the U.S.A.
William Henry Harrison served the shortest term of any US President. His term lasted only 32 days. He died from pneumonia.
Shortest according to height, James Madison was the shortest President at 5' 4" or 160 cm. Shortest according to Presidential Term, William Henry Harrison was the shortest term with 31 days, 12 hours, and 30 minutes.
Shortest term: Wm Henry Harrison died of pneumonia after one month in office.Second shortest: James Garfield - died from complications of bullet wounds after about 6 month in office.