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Hail to the chiefs Two friends took a road trip to places where some of our presidents took their last breaths, including these locations.
William Henry Harrison, ninth president of the United States, and Zachary Taylor, 12th president of the United States, are the only two presidents to have died within the White House.
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An undated portrait-daguerreotype of Zachary Taylor, who died in office in 1850.
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William Henry Harrison by Rembrandt Peale. Harrison died in 1841.
Courtesy Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mrs. Herbert Lee Pratt Jr.
John Quicy Adams died in 1848 in the Speaker’s Room at the Capitol, now the Lindy Claiborne Boggs Congressional Women’s Reading Room.
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John Quincy Adams was the sixth president, and the first who was the son of a president.
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The entryway into Room 700R at the Waldorf Astoria & Towers in New York City, where Dwight D. Eisenhower died in 1969, according to hotel lore.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president, had never before held public office.
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The doorway to room 31A at the Waldorf Astoria. Herbert Hoover had his final moments there in 1964.
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Herbert Hoover, the 31st president, usually started each morning playing a game with a medicine ball, coined Hooverball.
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The exterior to Kalustyan's Middle Eastern Market in New York. President Chester Arthur once lived within the building, and passed away there in 1886.
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Chester A. Arthur, 21st president of the United States, learned after taking office that he was suffering from a fatal kidney disease but kept it secret.
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The house of James Monroe once stood between 63 and 65 Prince Street in New York City. Monroe, the fifth president of the United States, died there from heart failure and tuberculosis in 1831.
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James Monroe began his presidency by embarking on a presidential tour, which resulted in more Americans seeing him than they had any other sitting president.
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The bedroom of Woodrow Wilson at his former home, which has since become the Woodrow Wilson House Museum in Washington. Wilson died here in 1924 from complications of a stroke.
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Woodrow Wilson, the 28th U.S. president, was the second sitting president to win the Nobel Peace Prize (Theodore Roosevelt was the first; Barack Obama, the third.)
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The exterior to the Syrian National Embassy, which once belonged to William Howard Taft, who died there in 1930.
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William Howard Taft, the 27th president, was the country's largest, weighing in at more than 300 pounds.
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The interior of the back bedroom of the Petersen House in Washington, where President Abraham Lincoln passed away in 1865 after being shot across street at the Ford's Theatre. The Petersen House is now part of the National Park Service which has maintained it as a historic house museum since 1933.
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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president, had four sons, only one of whom lived past his teenage years.
Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints &Photographs Division Washington
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