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While the other accidental presidencies garner a chapter each, Truman has two chapters.

Cohen leans toward Truman being the greatest of the accidental presidents.

Truman inherited the remainder of World War II and oversaw the post-world war as well as handled the start of the Cold War upon taking office after the death of FDR. TR quickly made the office his own after the death of McKinley and had numerous political successes before and after he was elected to the office in his own right. Vice President John Tyler assumed the office of the presidency despite some cabinet members thinking he should be an "acting president." Tyler insisted that he was not the vice president acting as president but the president.Įven though he would eventually be unpopular with both his opposing party and his own party, Tyler is acknowledged as the 10th American president and established the precedent that the vice president does indeed take the office upon the death of the sitting president.Ĭohen lists Theodore Roosevelt and Truman as the two greatest accidental presidents. The Constitution had only loose guidelines in the 1840s about succession in the death of a sitting president. Harrison, the ninth president, was the first president to die in office, about a month after his inauguration. Kennedy.Ĭohen presents fascinating details on each accidental president and their predecessors who died in office. Johnson after the assassination of John F. Harding Harry S Truman after the death of Franklin D, Rooselvelt Lyndon B. Arthur after the assassination-related death of James Garfield Theodore Roosevelt after the assassination of William McKinley Calvin Coolidge after the death of Warren G.

Under Cohen's definition, the accidental presidents are John Tyler after the death of William Henry Harrison Millard Fillmore after the death of Zachary Taylor Andrew Johnson after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln Chester A. In his book, "Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America," historian Jared Cohen mentions Ford in the closing chapter but does not include him as an accidental president - a vice president who became president upon the death of a president. They are referred to as "accidental presidents." Some people argue that Gerald Ford, who became president when Richard Nixon resigned, is the ninth accidental president. Eight sitting vice presidents have stepped into the role of president upon the death of sitting presidents. 27-Eight American presidents have died in office.