Franklin Roosevelt found out just a few days before he took the oath of office in 1933 that the Presidency is a very dangerous position to hold.
Four presidents have been assassinated while in office: Abraham Lincoln (John Wilkes Booth, 1865), James Garfield (Charles J. Guiteau, 1881), William McKinley (Leon Czolgosz, 1901), and John F. Kennedy (Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963).
There have also been many attempted assassinations of the President of the United states. The first attempt (or at least the first documented attempt) happened in 1835 when an unemployed house painter tried to assassinate Andrew Jackson. Of the 44 people who have held the Presidency (Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms, so gets counted twice), 16 of them have faced an assassination plot or attempt. Of course, four of those attempts were successful.
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