the first President to die in officeApril 4, 1841

July 4,1850 - Taylor fell ill; within five days he was dead

April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington

Lincoln won re-election in 1864 , as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the

war

the symbol of Union victory during the Civil War

On July 2, 1881, in a Washington railroad station, shot the President.

the only President to leave the White House

and return for a second term four years later

His second term, which had begun auspiciously,came to a tragic end in September 1901He was standing in a receiving lineat the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition when a deranged anarchist shot him twice. He died eight days later.