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An election year is one in which all four numbers are evenly divisible
by four (1944, 1948, etc). Since 1840, American presidents elected
in years ending in zero have been destined to die in office. William
H. Harrison, the man who served the shortest term, died of pneumonia
5 several weeks after his inauguration.
Abraham Lincoln was one of four presidents who were assassinated.
He was elected in 1860, and his untimely death came just five years
later.
10
James A. Garfield, a former Union army general from Ohio, was shot
during his first year in office (1881) by a man to whom he wouldn't
give a job.
15 While, in his second term of office (1901), William McKinley, another
Ohioan, attended the Pan-American Exposition at buffalo, New York.
During the reception, he was assassinated while shaking hands with
some of the guests.
20 Three years after his election in 1920, Warren G. Harding died in
office. Although it was never proved, many believe he was poisoned.
Franklin D. Roosevelt had been elected four times (1932, 1936, 1940
and 1944), the only man to serve so long a term. He had contracted
25 polio in 1921 and died of the illness in 1945.
John F. Kennedy, the last of the line, was assassinated in 1963, only
three years after his election. Will 1980's candidate suffer the same fate?
1. Which of the following was not an election year?
2. Which president served the shortest term in office?
3. Which of the following is true?
4. How many president elected in years ending in zero since 1840 have died in office?
5. In this reading what does inauguration mean?
6. Who of the following was not assassinated?
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