Order President Date Age Cause Place In office George Washington 36! December 14, 1799 7001670000000000000 ♠ 67 acute epiglottitis Mount Vernon, Virginia 01! (1st) April 30, 1789 -- March 4, 1797 Thomas Jefferson 22! July 4, 1826 7001830000000000000 ♠ 83 toxemia from a kidney infection, uremia from kidney damage, and pneumonia Charlottesville, Virginia 03! (3rd) March 4, 1801 -- March 4, 1809 John Adams 23! July 4, 1826 7001900000000000000 ♠ 90 heart failure Quincy, Massachusetts 02! (2nd) March 4, 1797 -- March 4, 1801 James Monroe 24! July 4, 1831 7001730000000000000 ♠ 73 tuberculosis New York City, New York 05! (5th) March 4, 1817 -- March 4, 1825 5 James Madison 21! June 28, 1836 7001850000000000000 ♠ 85 heart failure Orange, Virginia 04! (4th) March 4, 1809 -- March 4, 1817 6 William Henry Harrison 12! April 4, 1841 7001680000000000000 ♠ 68 enteric fever Washington, D.C. 09! (9th) March 4, 1841 -- April 4, 1841 7 Andrew Jackson 18! June 8, 1845 7001780000000000000 ♠ 78 chronic dropsy, and heart failure Nashville, Tennessee 07! (7th) March 4, 1829 -- March 4, 1837 8 John Quincy Adams 07! February 23, 1848 7001800000000000000 ♠ 80 stroke Washington, D.C. 06! (6th) March 4, 1825 -- March 4, 1829 9 James K. Polk 19! June 15, 1849 7001530000000000000 ♠ 53 cholera Nashville, Tennessee 11! (11th) March 4, 1845 -- March 4, 1849 10 Zachary Taylor 25! July 9, 1850 7001650000000000000 ♠ 65 gastroenteritis Washington, D.C. 12! (12th) March 4, 1849 -- July 9, 1850 11 John Tyler 04! January 18, 1862 7001710000000000000 ♠ 71 stroke Richmond, Virginia 10! (10th) April 4, 1841 -- March 4, 1845 12 Martin Van Buren 27! July 24, 1862 7001790000000000000 ♠ 79 asthma Kinderhook, New York 08! (8th) March 4, 1837 -- March 4, 1841 13 Abraham Lincoln 14! April 15, 1865 7001560000000000000 ♠ 56 gunshot wound Washington, D.C. 16! (16th) March 4, 1861 -- April 15, 1865 14 James Buchanan 16! June 1, 1868 7001770000000000000 ♠ 77 respiratory failure, rheumatic gout Lancaster, Pennsylvania 15! (15th) March 4, 1857 -- March 4, 1861 15 Franklin Pierce 32! October 8, 1869 7001640000000000000 ♠ 64 inflammation of the stomach Concord, New Hampshire 14! (14th) March 4, 1853 -- March 4, 1857 16 Millard Fillmore 08! March 8, 1874 7001740000000000000 ♠ 74 stroke Buffalo, New York 13! (13th) July 9, 1850 -- March 4, 1853 17 Andrew Johnson 28! July 31, 1875 7001660000000000000 ♠ 66 stroke Carter 's Station, Tennessee 17! (17th) April 15, 1865 -- March 4, 1869 18 James A. Garfield 31! September 19, 1881 7001490000000000000 ♠ 49 septic shock resulting from gunshot wound Elberon, New Jersey 20! (20th) March 4, 1881 -- September 19, 1881 19 Ulysses S. Grant 26! July 23, 1885 7001630000000000000 ♠ 63 throat cancer Wilton, New York 18! (18th) March 4, 1869 -- March 4, 1877 20 Chester A. Arthur 34! November 18, 1886 7001570000000000000 ♠ 57 stroke New York City, New York 21! (21st) September 19, 1881 -- March 4, 1885 21 Rutherford B. Hayes 03! January 17, 1893 7001700000000000000 ♠ 70 heart disease Fremont, Ohio 19! (19th) March 4, 1877 -- March 4, 1881 22 Benjamin Harrison 10! March 13, 1901 7001670000000000000 ♠ 67 pneumonia Indianapolis, Indiana 23! (23rd) March 4, 1889 -- March 4, 1893 23 William McKinley 30! September 14, 1901 7001580000000000000 ♠ 58 gangrene within gunshot wound Buffalo, New York 25! (25th) March 4, 1897 -- September 14, 1901 24 Grover Cleveland 20! June 24, 1908 7001710000000000000 ♠ 71 coronary sclerosis; paralysis; or intestinal obstruction Princeton, New Jersey 22! (22nd) March 4, 1885 -- March 4, 1889 24! (24th) March 4, 1893 -- March 4, 1897 25 Theodore Roosevelt 02! January 6, 1919 7001600000000000000 ♠ 60 coronary occlusion by a blood clot (assumed) Oyster Bay, New York 26! (26th) September 14, 1901 -- March 4, 1909 26 Warren G. Harding 29! August 2, 1923 7001570000000000000 ♠ 57 congestive heart failure (likely) San Francisco, California 29! (29th) March 4, 1921 -- August 2, 1923 27 Woodrow Wilson 06! February 3, 1924 7001670000000000000 ♠ 67 apoplexy, paralysis Washington, D.C. 28! (28th) March 4, 1913 -- March 4, 1921 28 William Howard Taft 09! March 8, 1930 7001720000000000000 ♠ 72 heart disease Washington, D.C. 27! (27th) March 4, 1909 -- March 4, 1913 29 Calvin Coolidge 01! January 5, 1933 7001600000000000000 ♠ 60 heart attack Northampton, Massachusetts 30! (30th) August 2, 1923 -- March 4, 1929 30 Franklin D. Roosevelt 13! April 12, 1945 7001630000000000000 ♠ 63 cerebral hemorrhage or stroke Warm Springs, Georgia 32! (32nd) March 4, 1933 -- April 12, 1945 31 John F. Kennedy 35! November 22, 1963 7001460000000000000 ♠ 46 gunshot wound Dallas, Texas 35! (35th) January 20, 1961 -- November 22, 1963 32 Herbert Hoover 33! October 20, 1964 7001900000000000000 ♠ 90 internal hemorrhage, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, strained vascular systems New York City, New York 31! (31st) March 4, 1929 -- March 4, 1933 33 Dwight D. Eisenhower 11! March 28, 1969 7001780000000000000 ♠ 78 coronary thrombosis, heart failure Washington, D.C. 34! (34th) January 20, 1953 -- January 20, 1961 34 Harry S. Truman 37! December 26, 1972 7001880000000000000 ♠ 88 minor lung congestion; organ failures; cardiovascular system collapse, hypotension Kansas City, Missouri 33! (33rd) April 12, 1945 -- January 20, 1953 35 Lyndon B. Johnson 05! January 22, 1973 7001640000000000000 ♠ 64 heart attack Johnson City, Texas 36! (36th) November 22, 1963 -- January 20, 1969 36 Richard Nixon 15! April 22, 1994 7001810000000000000 ♠ 81 stroke, paralysis, swelling of the brain New York City, New York 37! (37th) January 20, 1969 -- August 9, 1974 37 Ronald Reagan 17! June 5, 2004 7001930000000000000 ♠ 93 Alzheimer 's disease, pneumonia Los Angeles, California 40! (40th) January 20, 1981 -- January 20, 1989 38 Gerald Ford 38! December 26, 2006 7001930000000000000 ♠ 93 arteriosclerotic cerebrovascular disease and diffuse arteriosclerosis Rancho Mirage, California 38! (38th) August 9, 1974 -- January 20, 1977
who was the last american president to die
Gerald Ford