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Vice Presidents Who Became President

Vice President	Reason	Days as Presidnt	Re-election
John Tyler	Harrison died of pneumonia in 1842	1,430	Didn't run for President
Millard Fillmore	Taylor died in1850 from illness	969	Lost nomination.
Andrew Johnson	Lincold assassinated in 1865	1,419	Failed to win the nominationin1868
Chester A. Arthur	Garfield was assassinated in 1881	1,262	Was not nominated
Theodore Roosevelt	McKinley was assasinated in 1901	1,267	Elected to a full term. Did not run in 1908. Was defeated in 1912
CalvinCoolidge	Harding died of a heart attack in 1923	580	Elected to a full term. Did not run for a second term.
Harry S. Truman	Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1945	1,379	Elected to a full term but did not run again.
Lyndon B. Johnson	Kennedy assassinated in 1963	425	Elected to a full term but didn't seek relection in 1968
Gerald R. Ford	Nixon resigned in 1974	895	Lost election ot Jimmy Carter in 1976

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Kane, Joseph Natan. Facts about the Presidents from Washington to Johnson. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1964.
National Park Service Web Site on Presidential Trivia: http://www.nps.gov/pub_aff/pres/trivia.htm.

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