The World's Most Exclusive Boys Club

1789

1797

1799

The nation's first president dies on Dec. 14, 1799.

1800

1817

1825

1826

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson would die just hours apart on Independence Day in 182.

1827

1829

1831

James Monroe would also die on July 4, in 1831.

1832

1836

James Madison dies on June 28, 1836.

1837

1841

The first president to die in office, William Henry Harrison contracts pneumonia and dies a month after his inauguration.

1842

1845

Andrew Jackson dies on June 8, 1945.

1846

1848

John Quincy Adams was elected to the House of Representatives a year after he left the White House. He dies at his desk in 1848.

1849

James K. Polk dies June 15, 1849.

1850

War hero Zachary Taylor dies 16 months into his term, on July 19, 1850.

1851

1853

1857

1861

With the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln in March 1861, the U.S. has six living presidents.

1862

With the deaths of John Tyler in January and Martin Van Buren in July, the boys club would soon be back down to four.

1863

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated a month into his second term as president.

1866

1868

James Buchanan dies on June, 1868.

1869

Franklin Pierce dies Oct. 8, 1869.

1874

Millard Fillmore dies March 8, 1874.

1875

Andrew Johnson was elected to a special session of the Senate in 1871, six years after he left the White House. He dies July 31, 1875.

1876

For the first time since George Washington's death, the nation has just one living president.

1877

1881

James Garfield is shot four months into his term as president. He dies 11 weeks later.

1882

1885

Ulysses S. Grant dies July 23, 1885.

1886

Chester Arthur dies Nov. 18, 1886.

1889

1893

Rutherford B. Hayes dies Jan. 17, 1893. Grover Cleveland, meanwhile, becomes the first president to serve a nonconsecutive term.

1894

1897

1901

Benjamin Harrison dies March 13, 1901. William McKinley is killed six months into his second term; he's the third president in 36 years to be assassinated in office.

1902

1908

The death of Grover Cleveland on June 24, 1908, would briefly leave then-President Theodore Roosevelt as the only living president.

1909

1913

Defeated in his bid for a second term, Taft left office at age 55. Eight years later, President Harding appointed him chief justice of the Supreme Court. Taft served on the court for nine years.

1919

Theodore Roosevelt dies six days into 1919.

1920

1921

1923

Warren Harding dies of a heart attack 2 1/2 years into his term, on Aug. 2.

1924

Woodrow Wilson dies on Feb. 3, 1924

1925

1929

1930

William Howard Taft dies on March 8, 1930.

1931

1933

Calvin Coolidge dies on Jan. 5, 1933.

1934

1941

Franklin Roosevelt is the only president elected to more than two terms.

1945

Roosevelt becomes the first president to serve a fourth term, then dies of a cerebral hemorrahge a month into it, on April 12, 1945.

1953

1961

1963

Kennedy is assassinated less than three years into his term as president, on Nov. 22, 1963.

1964

Herbert Hoover dies Oct. 20, 1964.

1965

1969

Eisenhower dies March 28, 1969.

1970

Eisenhower dies March 28, 1969.

1972

Harry Truman dies Dec. 26, 1972.

1973

Lyndon Johnson dies Jan. 22, 1973, leaving Richard Nixon as the only living president.

1974

Nixon leaves office on Aug. 9, 1974.

1977

1981

1987

1989

1993

For the first time in 130 years, the boys club boasts six members when Bill Clinton takes office in January 1993.

1994

Richard Nixon dies April 22, 1994.

1995

2001

2004

Ronald Reagan dies June 5, 2004.

2005

2006

Gerald Ford dies Dec. 26, 2006.

2007

2009

2017

2018

George H.W. Bush dies Nov. 30, 2018.

2019

2021

2024

Forty-three years after leaving office, Jimmy Carter dies, at 100 years old, on Dec. 29, 2024.

2025