Who Were the Shortest-Lived United States Presidents? 

Johnson and Grant: died because they refused medical treatment. Garfield: died BECAUSE he had medical treatment.

I think I learned more about history from you, Mr. Beat and VTH than I did from school. Instead of showing PragerU videos in the classroom, they should show students your videos. You actually do research and are mostly unbiased. We need more people like you.

I really wish Calvin Coolidge and Teddy Roosevelt had lived longer. They both seemed like they had so much more to offer the country post-presidency.

And then there’s Jimmy Carter.

I will never understand how James Buchanan lived as long as he did. He probably drank more than Pierce but was immune to alcohol's effects. He was overweight, I would expect someone like him to die in his 50s in the 19th century. He would often drink two or three bottles in one sitting and 10 gallons of whiskey in a week during his presidency. He wasn't married so I guess that's his secret to long life?

“Buying and selling human beings” is thankfully a hobby that’s not very popular anymore

Worth mentioning with Polk that there was a cholera epidemic in Nashville around the time of his death, which probably didn't help his already poor health.

This was mentioned in the video Between Van Buren and Hoover the closest president to reach 80 was Buchanan at aged 77

"His hobby was buying and selling slaves." In the same sense that my hobby might be buyjng and selling cars, or comic books!😅

7:26 Chester got that drip 💧

Abraham lincoln was the best president ever I'm very sad that he was killed

I wonder if the shorter lifespans in the middle is because of the side effects of industrialization (pollution, medical experimentation ect)

Is it just me that despite Abraham lincoln 1 year younger than andrew Johnson Abraham lincoln looks 87 older than andrew johnson

I Wish That Kennedy And Washington Lived To 78 And 83

Washington was the shortest lived US President until Polk's death in 1849

Kinda sad how JFK was the youngest president elected but also the youngest president to die 😕

Perhaps what takes the biggest dent out of the health and life expectancy of most of the US Presidents is stress. The toll stress takes on them for having one of the most stressful jobs on Earth is visible, especially for some like Abraham Lincoln. Even in the modern era, you can see how the Presidency seems to have physically aged the Presidents. Barack Obama and George W. Bush are good examples of how they appeared to have aged dramatically from when they took office to when they left office.

Do you have details on what Lincoln planned to do post-presidency? I'd be interested to see how such an important president would've been like had he got to leave office

The thing about Pierce, he was sober damn near 20 years before he relasped. But considering he watched his son died via massive head trama and his wife dying. He lost his remaining reason to live.

Not only Calvin Coolidge died of blood clot but he also died of heart attack

Highly impressive that Taft made it to his 70s considering he was still on scotus and ate multiple 12 oz steaks a day

The longest lived ones is carter and bush.

Coolidge and Teddy could’ve been 61 but they died January 5 and January 6 day of 1919 and 1933 respectfully

This is literally my favorite RU-vid channel right now

I got a context warning for Zachary Taylor LOL

If you discount the ones killed in office, you might get a truer idea of the actual lifespan of former presidents.

Harrison and Lincoln and Garfield and McKinley and Harding and Kennedy died of curse of Tippecanoe

Yeah those young guys jfk and garfield and their natural deaths 😂

I wish that James A. Garfield has lived longer. TR, of course, but Garfield is one people don't talk about a lot. I wonder what his presidency and post-presidency would've looked like.

I wish Abe Lincoln, Calvin Coolidge, and both Roosevelts live longer. Buchanan also died of pneumonia as well as respiratory failure

This is a good video

The irony is the current resident in the WH knew many of them personally.

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There are many us presidents I wish were alive today like Andrew Jackson and Calvin Coolidge

were Garfield assasinated or did the doctors kill him?

Taylor died of gastroenteritis or stomach flu 3:58

Life expectancy needs to be taken into account here. As recently as 1900, life expectancy was mid to late 40s. It was really only in the 20th century with the advent of what we might call modern medicine and the decline in child mortality that we began to see the really dramatic increases in life expectancy. Even so when Coolidge died in 1933 at 60, that was actually the average life expectancy for that year. Then we need to consider other factors. A lot of our presidents and formers were sent off prematurely by the dreadful medical practices of the age. Of the first four presidents to die in office, three were probably killed, at least in part, by their doctors. Harrison and Taylor were basically bled to death by their attending physicians. Poor Garfield was virtually tortured to death by his doctors. And then there are lifestyle factors. In particular as the 19th century wore on, smoking and heavy drinking became fairly normative. Smoking would be extremely common among our presidents up until fairly recently and that is a source of all kinds of health problems. Some of our presidents were chain smokers. The radical decline in tobacco use is one of the main factors contributing to increased life expectancy. (Edit: typo)

0:59 I have never seen that portrait of Garfield before (the guy next to Hayes)

Important to keep in mind the life expectancy at the time for a lot of these men. You say Tyler was "only" 71 when he died but the life expectancy was around 40 at the time. That would make Tyler a very old man for his time.

Had FDR not overseen WW2 on top of his ailments, a 4th term could have been easy

What an uplifting video

He skipped harry truman and Eisenhower

4:11, That of the late 1860's, That's Enjorlas from Les Misérables, not Franklin Pierce.

Roosevelt was 2 years older than Truman not 3

This was a treat to watch. THANK you

Coolidge’s health was likely affected by the death of his youngest son Calvin Jr, who died of sepsis from blisters formed playing tennis without socks. Ever the honest man, he didn’t feel he had much to live for after that as the oldest son John said it was obvious the Calvin was the favorite.

I wish James K Polk lived longer he was such a aspiring president

Why is there a freaking pop up underneath?

Who has ever thought that Harrison died because of the water in Washington? It is generally accepted that, since he gave the longest inaugural address ever in a cold rain with no hat or coat, that we caught cold which developed into pneumonia

Theodore Roosevelt died of blood clot while in his sleep that’s why it’s a shocker to be honest

Yay! So happy you ended up doing this one! Awesome

Love the video

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I feel really bad for these presidents that have died before 80, but that's old technology for ya 😬

Grant onlie livet a few tajz longer ten roozevelt

Monroe was old when he died on July 4 1831 isn't 73 old

Carter is the longest living president after leaving office. As of today is 43 years and 8 months

Tyler died old

Presidents who didn’t live to 65: James K Polk Franklin Pierce Abraham Lincoln Ulysses S Grant James A Garfield Chester A Arthur William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt Warren G Harding Calvin Coolidge Franklin D Roosevelt John F Kennedy Lyndon B Johnson

I hate AI narration.

I have never liked LBJ but I truly feel sorry for him in his last years. In his last interview you can almost see it in his face, his knowing that his time was near. Vietnam killed LBJ's presidency and his legacy, at the time.

Could you make a video about how presidents and future presidents reacted to the white house burning?