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President of the United States in 1881
Complete, authoritative counts of every U.S. political figure ever assassinated are not presented in the supplied sources; available reporting instead catalogs notable cases (including four presidents...
Available reporting identifies at least a half‑dozen U.S. presidents with documented Mayflower ancestry — most commonly cited are John Adams (and his son John Quincy Adams), Zachary Taylor, Franklin D...
A notable handful of U.S. presidents have verifiable lines to one or more Mayflower passengers; those most consistently documented in the genealogical literature include John Adams and John Quincy Ada...
The historical record shows that no single U.S. president clearly stands apart as the undisputed target of the most assassination attempts; instead, , with four presidents killed in office (Abraham Li...
Freemasonry features prominently among U.S. presidents: at least a dozen presidents from George Washington through Gerald Ford were Freemasons, and historians trace Masonic membership and Enlightenmen...
Across U.S. history the most certain, consistently reported figures are that four sitting U.S. presidents have been assassinated while in office and — separately — 14 members of the U.S. Congress have...
A line of —from 19th‑century presidents to civil‑rights leaders to recent high‑profile murders—has often yielded a named, legally identified perpetrator; those actors variously cited personal grievanc...
A clear set of Mayflower pilgrims — notably John Alden and Priscilla Mullins (including their connection via William Mullins), William Brewster, John Billington, and Richard Warren — are documented an...
There is no recorded instance in U.S. history in which a court or Congress compelled a sitting president to undergo a formal psychiatric or medical evaluation; the mechanisms that do exist have been u...
Historical patterns and the provided analyses indicate , with stabbing, poisoning, and explosives also recurring but less frequent in modern major cases. The sources differ on emphasis and scope: some...