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Presidents Ascending to the Presidency

1840   -   1850   -   1865   -   1881   -   1901   -   1923   -   1945   -   1963   -   1974

John Tyler   -   Millard Fillmore   -   Andrew Johnson   -   Chester Arthur
Theodore Roosevelt   -   Calvin Coolidge   -   Harry Truman
Lyndon Baines Johnson   -   Gerald Ford

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1840

John Tyler Ascended to the presidency on April 6th after Harrison's death on April 4th.
Tyler who was expelled from the Whig Party failed to garner support for a third party to facilitate a promising re-election bid.
Rather than run and lose, splitting votes away from Polk, he withdrew from the race around the end of August 1844.

1850

Millard Fillmore ascended to the presidency on July 10th the day after Zachary Taylor's death.

1865

Andrew Johnson ascended to the Presidency on the same day (April 15, 1865) as the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Although having ran on the Union ticket in 1864, President Johnson was known as a War Democrat who never became a Republican but also refused to ask the Democrats to support him for president.

1881

Chester Arthur ascended to the presidency on September 20th the day after President James A. Garfield's death.

1901

Theodore Roosevelt ascended to the presidency on September 14th the same day as President William McKinley's death. McKinley was shot on September 6th.

Theodore Roosevelt served a second term when he was elected in the Election of 1904.

1923

Calvin Coolidge ascends to the presidency on August 3rd the day after the death of President William Harding.

Calvin Coolidge served a second term when he was elected in the Election of 1924.

1945

Harry S. Truman ascends to the presidency the same day as the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12th.

Harry S. Truman served a second term when he was elected in the Election of 1948.

1963

Lyndon Baines Johnson ascends to the presidency November 22nd, the same day as President John F. Kennedy's assassination.

L. B. J. served a second term when he was elected in the Election of 1964.

1974

Gerald Ford was appointed to the Vice Presidency when Agnew resigned and then ascended to the presidency when Nixon resigned on August 9th, following the Watergate scandal. Ford was the only President to have not been elected as either Vice President or President.

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Presidents Ascending to the Presidency

1840   -   1850   -   1865   -   1881   -   1901   -   1923   -   1945   -   1963   -   1974

John Tyler   -   Millard Fillmore   -   Andrew Johnson   -   Chester Arthur
Theodore Roosevelt   -   Calvin Coolidge   -   Harry Truman
Lyndon Baines Johnson   -   Gerald Ford

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