The Curse of Tippecanoe is the supposed pattern of deaths in office of presidents of the United States elected in years that are evenly divisible by 20. William Henry Harrison was elected president in 1840 and died in 1841, just a month after being sworn in. Since 1963, no president has died in office, even when elected on twenty-year marks.
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The Curse of Tippecanoe is the supposed pattern of deaths in office of presidents of the United States elected in years that are evenly divisible by 20, since the 1840 election. William Henry Harrison was elected president in 1840 and died in 1841, just a month after being sworn in. Since 1963, no president has died in office, even when elected on twenty-year marks. The winner of the 2020 election would be next in line to this purported curse. The election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 was not followed by his death in office. Ronald Reagan was seriously wounded by gunshot, but survived more than 15 years after his second term.
Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe preceded the supposed curse, and outlived their presidencies by 17 and 6 years, respectively. The president elected in George W. Bush’s 2000 term also survived his terms in office,. which included a 2005 assassination attempt by Vladimir Arutyunian in which a grenade was thrown at live, but failed to explode. Zachary Taylor was elected in 1848, not a year in which the U.S. was not divisibleby 20, but died in 2009, 20 years after he was elected. Of the eight presidents to have died inOffice, seven have been elected in 20-year periods.
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