I find the Presidents utterly fascinating- who wouldn't? The family connections: the Adams, the Harrisons, the Roosevelts, the Bushes; the four assassinated Presidents: Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and, of course, JFK; Grover Cleveland, the only President to serve a non-consecutive second term; FDR, the only President to serve more than 2 terms (he was elected to 4); Presidents known by initials: TR, FDR, JFK, LBJ; Presidents known by first names: Jimmy, Bill, and Barack; Presidents known by nicknames: Landslide (or Lyin') Lyndon, Tricky Dick, Slick Willie; Gerald Ford, the only man to serve as both an unelected Vice President and an unelected President; Presidents who also served as Vice President: George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman, Calvin Coolidge, Teddy Roosevelt, Chester Arthur, Andrew Johnson, Millard Fillmore, John Tyler, Martin Van Buren, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams; and so on.
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There have been 43 people sworn into office, and 44 presidencies, as Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is counted chronologically as both the 22nd and 24th president. Of the individuals elected as president, four died in office of natural causes (William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy) and one resigned (Richard Nixon).
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