The 16th US President, Abraham Lincoln, was shot on April 14, 1865 and died on April 15.
*He was preceded by the deaths in office of the 9th US President, William Henry Harrison on April 4, 1841 (after 31 days of pneumonia), and the 12th US President, Zachary Taylor, on July 9, 1850 (gastroenteritis). Taylor's death was once suspected to have been poisoning, but forensic tests in 1991 proved negative.
Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), the 17th U.S. president, assumed office after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). Johnson, who served from 1865 to 1869, was the first American president to be impeached.
As of Spring 2012, the first and only President of the United States who was a Catholic was John F. Kennedy (1917-1963). Kennedy was the 35th President of the US, serving from January 20, 1961 until his assassination on November 22, 1963.
Andrew Jackson
He was killed because he was running for president.
Theodore Roosevelt took the oath to be President after William McKinley was assassinated in 1901.
Andrew Johnson being the first person to be president after Lincolns assassination
Garfield's assassination came first. The Pendleton Act was largely a response to the assassination .
In 1867, President Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. President assasinated.
George Washington
Chester A. Arthur
James Garfield was the second US president to fall victim to an assassin.
He was President 4 yrs 1 mo. before the assassination.
Andrew Jackson.
The assassination of the president shocked the nation and prompted increased security measures.
was the first president to ever survive an assassination attempt
One of President Johnson's first official acts as president was the investigation into the assasination of President Kennedy.
Andrew Jackson.