Most of you know about the curse of Tecumseh, blamed for the majority of presidential deaths. I've been reading the book Oval Office Occult, and one of the chapters concerns then Colonel Washington's meeting with a Native prophet. While the apparent truth (at least in the book) is the prophet spells out Washington's future, I had a an idea. It starts before 1900, but I'm not sure if it belongs here or in ASB.
POD: Instead of a peaceful meeting, a fire fight erupts between Washington's group and the natives. Before a prophet dies, he curses Washington and "those whom will enter your home"
1770- Future President George Washington and his party meet with a Native soothsayer. POD- Instead of a peaceful dinner and talk, an inexperienced hunter shoots and kills one of the soothsayer's fellows, which ignites the slaughter. Barely a quarter hour later, most of Washington's group are dead and the fortune teller lives but a moment longer than his comrades. With the last of his strength, he curses Washington and all those whom shall dwell in his house.
4/30/1789 George Washington is sworn in for his 1st term as President. Although he has survived two wars and illness, there is still a touch of fear from his “reading”.
03/04/1797 George Washington is sworn in for a third term. Initially he planned his retirement, however with Vice President Adams resigning due to “boredom”, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton convinces him to seek another, perhaps hopping to wield more influence as his mentor tired. Unfortunately, a Federalist did not take second, instead Thomas Jefferson, a leading figure in the Democratic-Republicans, is elected Vice President.
12/14/1799 President Washington succumbs to pneumonia and the incompetence of his physicians, only a few months after he a made a solemn inspection of the uncompleted White House. It takes almost a week for word to spread, and a few days more before Thomas Jefferson is sworn in as the second President. Jefferson is also the first but not last widower to become President, and has survived a number of his children with both Martha Skelton and Sally Hemings.
3/4/1809 James Madison is sworn in as the third President. Outgoing President Jefferson seems the most relaxed he has been since Washington's passing.
1813 In the retreat from Washington D.C, President Madison takes charge of an artillery unit and tries to assist them. The date as well as the cause is ultimately unsure, but it is believed that the cannon either exploded or the President may have been killed by indirect fire from the British or perhaps accidentally shot by one of his own soldiers. Many newspapermen and speakers indict the redcoats as the President's murderer, leading to an even more vicious fight, shocking even the native allies of the British. Elbridge Gerry is sworn in as President soon after word arrives, however he will only hold the office a little over a year before he passes away. Largely in private, president pro tempore Joseph Varnum replaces him, although it is the generals and Madison's surviving cabinet that run the country and war. Varnum does not seek a term of his own.
03/04/1817 James Monroe is sworn in as President.
1818 President Monroe dies from a bout of a malaria. Daniel Tompkins becomes President.
03/04/1825 John Quincy Adams is sworn in as President. Although death will not come to him, his father and his son George will, the former of old age the latter suicide.
03/04/1829 Andrew Jackson defeats Adams and is sworn in, his wife dead from the toll of the dirty campaign.
01/30/1835 Andrew Jackson becomes the first president to be murdered, shot in the heart and then stabbed by the madman Richard Lawrence. Martin Van Buren becomes President, he too a widower prior to his inauguration.
04/04/1841 William Henry Harrison dies from pneumonia, exactly a month after his inauguration. John Tyler is sworn in.
02/28/1844 President Tyler is killed in the explosion of a prototype cannon. Happily though, his son would marry Julia Gardiner, whom also lost her father. President pro tempore William P. Mangum succeeds him.
06/15/1849 Former President James K. Polk dies, three months after leaving the Presidency.
07/9/1850 President Zachary Taylor passes away from possible poisoning or gastroenteritis. Millard Fillmore becomes president.
04/18/1853 President William Rufus DeVane King succumbs to tuberculosis at his Alabama plantation. He was the only president to be sworn in on foreign soil, taking a holiday in Cuba for his health. Unfortunately, with the death of President-elect Franklin Pierce in a train accident, he was not to hold office that long, only twelve days longer than Harrison. President Pro Tempore David R. Atchison becomes president.
04/30/1853 Former President Fillmore's wife passes away less than a month after leaving the White House. His daughter will follow a year later.
11/4/1856 Former Senator John Fremont and former Congressman Abraham Lincoln (Republican) are elected President and Vice President of the United States, over Ambassador to Great Britain James Buchanan (Democrat) and former President Fillmore (American). Outgoing President Atchison had generated much disdain for the Democrats and his or their policies, also very much uncouth rumors where spread about Ambassador Buchanan's relationship with the late President King.
9/7/1861 Former President Mangum dies of a stroke. He will go down in history as a traitor, for supporting the Confederacy and for his sons whom will fight against the Union.
9/1862 Former President Atchison is killed while leading a Confederate attacks against Union troops. Like President Mangum, Atchison too will be noted as a traitor.
04/15/1865 President Fremont dies after being shot in the back of the head. He had been inaugurated for a third term just a month ago( Fremont and Lincoln had campaigned on the theme “don't change horses in cross stream” during the endgame of the Civil War). General in Chief of the Union Army Ulysses S. Grant is also dead, a mortal wound from a thrush of a dagger by the President's assassin. Secretary of State William Seward is also slain, fortunately though, the attempt on Vice President Lincoln fails. Lincoln is sworn in, will win a term in his own name, and ensure that Reconstruction and civil liberties for freed slaves are upheld (he also has the 13th amendment to incorporate guarantees of these liberties, for all men and women.)
7/1871 President Lincoln's youngest child, Tad, dies of tuberculosis.
11/29/1872 Vice President and President-elect Horace Greeley dies, following his wife. The electoral college therefore distribute his electoral votes to his running mate, B. Gratz Brown, whom will be sworn in as President in March.
8/20/1875 Former President Lincoln and his surviving son commit his wife to Bellevue Place, a sanitarium in Illinois. The former First Lady had slowly gone mad, and will spend the end of her days there.
08/4/1881 Former President Samuel J. Tilden dies. His health had deteriorated soon after the election, and failing in early 1880, therefore ending his reelection campaign.
7/2/1881 President James A. Garfield is shot and mortally wounded, eventually passing away two months later from infection. A wild shot from the assassin, struck Secretary of State James G. Blaine
in the eye, killing him almost instantly.
11/18/1886 Former President Chester A. Arthur dies from a brain hemorrhage a little over a year after leaving the White House
10/25/1892 President Benjamin Harrison's wife passes away from tuberculosis.
07/17/1893 President Grover Cleveland dies as a result of surgical error in the removal of a tumor from his mouth. It is believed that he may have accidentally ingest chloroform through a rag after the container for laughing gas was found empty. Vice President Adlai Stevenson is sworn in as President, while the physicians are eventually acquitted.
09/6/1901 President William McKinley dies as a result of a fatal gunshot wound. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeds him.
05/1909 President William Howard Taft resigns the presidency following the passing of his wife from a stroke and a powerful bout of influenza. Vice President James Sherman succeeds him.
10/14/1912 Former President Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for a third term, is fatally wounded by a gunshot from an insane bartender.
10/30/1912 President James Sherman dies of kidney ailments. With the Vice Presidency vacant, Secretary of State Philander Knox succeeds him, in the five month period until the next President is inaugurated.
08/6/1914 First Lady Ellen Wilson succumbs to Brights disease.
10/2/1919 President Woodrow Wilson dies of a stroke. Vice President Thomas R. Marshall succeeds him.
08/2/1923 President Warren Harding dies of a heart attack. Vice President Calvin Coolidge succeeds him.
7/7/1924 Calvin Coolidge Jr, son of President Coolidge, dies of blood poisoning. Coolidge soon after changes his mind and declines his party's nomination. Instead, Wisconsin Senator Robert LaFollette Sr. and Harding/ Coolidge Secretary of Commerce are nominated and win.
6/18/1925 President LaFollette dies of heart disease. Vice President Hoover succeeds him.
12/15/1928 Recently reelected President Herbert Hoover is killed in a train accident (later believed to be a bombing from Argentinian anarchists.) Vice President-elect Charles Curtis will be inaugurated on March the 4th.
02/15/1933 President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt is assassinated by Giuseppe Zangara, along with Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak in Miami. It is believed that Cermak was the only intentional kill. Vice President-elect John Garner will be inaugurated in three weeks.
1/20/1941 James Farley succeeds John Garner as President. His Vice President is former Missouri Senator Harry S. Truman, and he will serve two terms.
11/1/1950 President Harry S. Truman is assassinated by Puerto Rican nationalists. Vice President Alben Barkley will succeed him.
4/24/1953 Robert M. LaFollette Jr., son of the late President LaFollette, commits suicide.
9/1955 President Dwight Eisenhower dies of a heart attack. Vice President Richard M. Nixon succeeds him.
04/30/1956 Former President Barkley, reelected to his senate seat, dies of a heart attack.
11/22/1963 President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, along with Texas Governor John Connally, in Dallas. Vice President Johnson suffers a fatal heart attack as a result of the shock. House Speaker John W. McCormack is sworn in as President, whom made the unusual decision to appoint a Vice President, due to his advance age. He appoints Senator Humphrey of Minnesota, whom will go on to be elected President in 1964 since McCormack decided not to seek an election of his own.
04/1967 President Humphrey is assassinated in bombing on a German Military base by Communist agents from the East, posing as student protestors. Vice President Albert Gore Sr. succeeds him, but loses the Democratic nomination (the problems with Vietnam are blamed on President Gore), to Eugene McCarthy, whom has made “a deal with the devil”, in accepting George Wallace as his running mate (with some conditions). The two barely edge out former President Nixon, but it's still a win.
05/17/1972 President Eugene McCarthy is shot and crippled by Arthur Bremer, while campaigning in Maryland. Though wounded, McCarthy does not resign the presidency. He decides not seek renomination, but also tries to keep Vice President Wallace from grabbing it. By time the dust settles, the Democratic Party nominates Edmund Muskie and Thomas Eagleton, both of whom are hit by scandals (some true, but many made up by the Republican party.) and are defeated in a landslide by Nixon/Rockefeller.
09/5/1975 President Richard Nixon is assassinated by followers of Charles Manson in Sacramento. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller succeeds him, and Charles Manson and “Squeaky” Fromme are given lethal injections.
1/26/1979 President Nelson Rockefeller dies of a heart attack, caused by intimate relations with a female aide. Vice President Gerald Ford succeeds him, but will be defeated by Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy a year later.
4/3/1989 Former President Gore's grandson and the future President Gore's son, dies in a tragic car accident.
01/1990 Neil Bush, whom is incumbent President Bush's son, dies in prison following his conviction in the Savings and Loans Scandal.
05/26/1993 Former President George H.W. Bush is killed in a car bombing in Kuwait. Bush had succeeded Kennedy and fought Iraq over its invasion of Kuwait two years prior. President Bill Clinton, whom had defeated Bush, orders the Navy and Air Force to launch crippling air and missile attacks. More than half of Iraq is plunged into darkness by strikes against energy sources and supposed WMD facilities, and the sons of Hussein are killed by direct hits on their individual palaces.
07/20/1993 White House Counsel Vince Foster requests a private meeting with President Clinton. He shoots the President in the chest then turns the gun on himself before the Secret service agents can respond. The White House physician declares President Clinton died at the scene of massive blood lose. Vice President Gore succeeds him, and his presidency is a successful one. He'll win a term of his own in '96, with New Mexico Congressman Bill Richardson as his Vice President.
12/10/1995 Former President McCarthy dies of complications from Parkinson's disease. His doctors believe his life may have been shortened by 10-20 years after being shot by Arthur Bremer.
12/5/1998 Former President Gore, father of the incumbent, dies.
01/13/2002 President George W. Bush dies from choking on a pretzel. Vice President Dick Cheney succeeds him.
01/29/2002 Noelle Bush, niece and granddaughter of the late Presidents Bush, and daughter of former Governor Jeb Bush (convicted on counts of vote tampering, etc.) dies of a drug overdose.
12/15/2004 Pauline Gore, widow of the first President Gore and mother of the second, dies in her sleep.
02/11/2006 President Dick Cheney shoots and wounds another man while quail hunting in Texas. Three days later the victim dies and Cheney resigns, pending a possible criminal trial, but dies of a severe heart attack before anything happens. Vice President Rudy Giuliani succeeds him.
POD: Instead of a peaceful meeting, a fire fight erupts between Washington's group and the natives. Before a prophet dies, he curses Washington and "those whom will enter your home"
1770- Future President George Washington and his party meet with a Native soothsayer. POD- Instead of a peaceful dinner and talk, an inexperienced hunter shoots and kills one of the soothsayer's fellows, which ignites the slaughter. Barely a quarter hour later, most of Washington's group are dead and the fortune teller lives but a moment longer than his comrades. With the last of his strength, he curses Washington and all those whom shall dwell in his house.
4/30/1789 George Washington is sworn in for his 1st term as President. Although he has survived two wars and illness, there is still a touch of fear from his “reading”.
03/04/1797 George Washington is sworn in for a third term. Initially he planned his retirement, however with Vice President Adams resigning due to “boredom”, Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton convinces him to seek another, perhaps hopping to wield more influence as his mentor tired. Unfortunately, a Federalist did not take second, instead Thomas Jefferson, a leading figure in the Democratic-Republicans, is elected Vice President.
12/14/1799 President Washington succumbs to pneumonia and the incompetence of his physicians, only a few months after he a made a solemn inspection of the uncompleted White House. It takes almost a week for word to spread, and a few days more before Thomas Jefferson is sworn in as the second President. Jefferson is also the first but not last widower to become President, and has survived a number of his children with both Martha Skelton and Sally Hemings.
3/4/1809 James Madison is sworn in as the third President. Outgoing President Jefferson seems the most relaxed he has been since Washington's passing.
1813 In the retreat from Washington D.C, President Madison takes charge of an artillery unit and tries to assist them. The date as well as the cause is ultimately unsure, but it is believed that the cannon either exploded or the President may have been killed by indirect fire from the British or perhaps accidentally shot by one of his own soldiers. Many newspapermen and speakers indict the redcoats as the President's murderer, leading to an even more vicious fight, shocking even the native allies of the British. Elbridge Gerry is sworn in as President soon after word arrives, however he will only hold the office a little over a year before he passes away. Largely in private, president pro tempore Joseph Varnum replaces him, although it is the generals and Madison's surviving cabinet that run the country and war. Varnum does not seek a term of his own.
03/04/1817 James Monroe is sworn in as President.
1818 President Monroe dies from a bout of a malaria. Daniel Tompkins becomes President.
03/04/1825 John Quincy Adams is sworn in as President. Although death will not come to him, his father and his son George will, the former of old age the latter suicide.
03/04/1829 Andrew Jackson defeats Adams and is sworn in, his wife dead from the toll of the dirty campaign.
01/30/1835 Andrew Jackson becomes the first president to be murdered, shot in the heart and then stabbed by the madman Richard Lawrence. Martin Van Buren becomes President, he too a widower prior to his inauguration.
04/04/1841 William Henry Harrison dies from pneumonia, exactly a month after his inauguration. John Tyler is sworn in.
02/28/1844 President Tyler is killed in the explosion of a prototype cannon. Happily though, his son would marry Julia Gardiner, whom also lost her father. President pro tempore William P. Mangum succeeds him.
06/15/1849 Former President James K. Polk dies, three months after leaving the Presidency.
07/9/1850 President Zachary Taylor passes away from possible poisoning or gastroenteritis. Millard Fillmore becomes president.
04/18/1853 President William Rufus DeVane King succumbs to tuberculosis at his Alabama plantation. He was the only president to be sworn in on foreign soil, taking a holiday in Cuba for his health. Unfortunately, with the death of President-elect Franklin Pierce in a train accident, he was not to hold office that long, only twelve days longer than Harrison. President Pro Tempore David R. Atchison becomes president.
04/30/1853 Former President Fillmore's wife passes away less than a month after leaving the White House. His daughter will follow a year later.
11/4/1856 Former Senator John Fremont and former Congressman Abraham Lincoln (Republican) are elected President and Vice President of the United States, over Ambassador to Great Britain James Buchanan (Democrat) and former President Fillmore (American). Outgoing President Atchison had generated much disdain for the Democrats and his or their policies, also very much uncouth rumors where spread about Ambassador Buchanan's relationship with the late President King.
9/7/1861 Former President Mangum dies of a stroke. He will go down in history as a traitor, for supporting the Confederacy and for his sons whom will fight against the Union.
9/1862 Former President Atchison is killed while leading a Confederate attacks against Union troops. Like President Mangum, Atchison too will be noted as a traitor.
04/15/1865 President Fremont dies after being shot in the back of the head. He had been inaugurated for a third term just a month ago( Fremont and Lincoln had campaigned on the theme “don't change horses in cross stream” during the endgame of the Civil War). General in Chief of the Union Army Ulysses S. Grant is also dead, a mortal wound from a thrush of a dagger by the President's assassin. Secretary of State William Seward is also slain, fortunately though, the attempt on Vice President Lincoln fails. Lincoln is sworn in, will win a term in his own name, and ensure that Reconstruction and civil liberties for freed slaves are upheld (he also has the 13th amendment to incorporate guarantees of these liberties, for all men and women.)
7/1871 President Lincoln's youngest child, Tad, dies of tuberculosis.
11/29/1872 Vice President and President-elect Horace Greeley dies, following his wife. The electoral college therefore distribute his electoral votes to his running mate, B. Gratz Brown, whom will be sworn in as President in March.
8/20/1875 Former President Lincoln and his surviving son commit his wife to Bellevue Place, a sanitarium in Illinois. The former First Lady had slowly gone mad, and will spend the end of her days there.
08/4/1881 Former President Samuel J. Tilden dies. His health had deteriorated soon after the election, and failing in early 1880, therefore ending his reelection campaign.
7/2/1881 President James A. Garfield is shot and mortally wounded, eventually passing away two months later from infection. A wild shot from the assassin, struck Secretary of State James G. Blaine
in the eye, killing him almost instantly.
11/18/1886 Former President Chester A. Arthur dies from a brain hemorrhage a little over a year after leaving the White House
10/25/1892 President Benjamin Harrison's wife passes away from tuberculosis.
07/17/1893 President Grover Cleveland dies as a result of surgical error in the removal of a tumor from his mouth. It is believed that he may have accidentally ingest chloroform through a rag after the container for laughing gas was found empty. Vice President Adlai Stevenson is sworn in as President, while the physicians are eventually acquitted.
09/6/1901 President William McKinley dies as a result of a fatal gunshot wound. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeds him.
05/1909 President William Howard Taft resigns the presidency following the passing of his wife from a stroke and a powerful bout of influenza. Vice President James Sherman succeeds him.
10/14/1912 Former President Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for a third term, is fatally wounded by a gunshot from an insane bartender.
10/30/1912 President James Sherman dies of kidney ailments. With the Vice Presidency vacant, Secretary of State Philander Knox succeeds him, in the five month period until the next President is inaugurated.
08/6/1914 First Lady Ellen Wilson succumbs to Brights disease.
10/2/1919 President Woodrow Wilson dies of a stroke. Vice President Thomas R. Marshall succeeds him.
08/2/1923 President Warren Harding dies of a heart attack. Vice President Calvin Coolidge succeeds him.
7/7/1924 Calvin Coolidge Jr, son of President Coolidge, dies of blood poisoning. Coolidge soon after changes his mind and declines his party's nomination. Instead, Wisconsin Senator Robert LaFollette Sr. and Harding/ Coolidge Secretary of Commerce are nominated and win.
6/18/1925 President LaFollette dies of heart disease. Vice President Hoover succeeds him.
12/15/1928 Recently reelected President Herbert Hoover is killed in a train accident (later believed to be a bombing from Argentinian anarchists.) Vice President-elect Charles Curtis will be inaugurated on March the 4th.
02/15/1933 President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt is assassinated by Giuseppe Zangara, along with Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak in Miami. It is believed that Cermak was the only intentional kill. Vice President-elect John Garner will be inaugurated in three weeks.
1/20/1941 James Farley succeeds John Garner as President. His Vice President is former Missouri Senator Harry S. Truman, and he will serve two terms.
11/1/1950 President Harry S. Truman is assassinated by Puerto Rican nationalists. Vice President Alben Barkley will succeed him.
4/24/1953 Robert M. LaFollette Jr., son of the late President LaFollette, commits suicide.
9/1955 President Dwight Eisenhower dies of a heart attack. Vice President Richard M. Nixon succeeds him.
04/30/1956 Former President Barkley, reelected to his senate seat, dies of a heart attack.
11/22/1963 President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, along with Texas Governor John Connally, in Dallas. Vice President Johnson suffers a fatal heart attack as a result of the shock. House Speaker John W. McCormack is sworn in as President, whom made the unusual decision to appoint a Vice President, due to his advance age. He appoints Senator Humphrey of Minnesota, whom will go on to be elected President in 1964 since McCormack decided not to seek an election of his own.
04/1967 President Humphrey is assassinated in bombing on a German Military base by Communist agents from the East, posing as student protestors. Vice President Albert Gore Sr. succeeds him, but loses the Democratic nomination (the problems with Vietnam are blamed on President Gore), to Eugene McCarthy, whom has made “a deal with the devil”, in accepting George Wallace as his running mate (with some conditions). The two barely edge out former President Nixon, but it's still a win.
05/17/1972 President Eugene McCarthy is shot and crippled by Arthur Bremer, while campaigning in Maryland. Though wounded, McCarthy does not resign the presidency. He decides not seek renomination, but also tries to keep Vice President Wallace from grabbing it. By time the dust settles, the Democratic Party nominates Edmund Muskie and Thomas Eagleton, both of whom are hit by scandals (some true, but many made up by the Republican party.) and are defeated in a landslide by Nixon/Rockefeller.
09/5/1975 President Richard Nixon is assassinated by followers of Charles Manson in Sacramento. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller succeeds him, and Charles Manson and “Squeaky” Fromme are given lethal injections.
1/26/1979 President Nelson Rockefeller dies of a heart attack, caused by intimate relations with a female aide. Vice President Gerald Ford succeeds him, but will be defeated by Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy a year later.
4/3/1989 Former President Gore's grandson and the future President Gore's son, dies in a tragic car accident.
01/1990 Neil Bush, whom is incumbent President Bush's son, dies in prison following his conviction in the Savings and Loans Scandal.
05/26/1993 Former President George H.W. Bush is killed in a car bombing in Kuwait. Bush had succeeded Kennedy and fought Iraq over its invasion of Kuwait two years prior. President Bill Clinton, whom had defeated Bush, orders the Navy and Air Force to launch crippling air and missile attacks. More than half of Iraq is plunged into darkness by strikes against energy sources and supposed WMD facilities, and the sons of Hussein are killed by direct hits on their individual palaces.
07/20/1993 White House Counsel Vince Foster requests a private meeting with President Clinton. He shoots the President in the chest then turns the gun on himself before the Secret service agents can respond. The White House physician declares President Clinton died at the scene of massive blood lose. Vice President Gore succeeds him, and his presidency is a successful one. He'll win a term of his own in '96, with New Mexico Congressman Bill Richardson as his Vice President.
12/10/1995 Former President McCarthy dies of complications from Parkinson's disease. His doctors believe his life may have been shortened by 10-20 years after being shot by Arthur Bremer.
12/5/1998 Former President Gore, father of the incumbent, dies.
01/13/2002 President George W. Bush dies from choking on a pretzel. Vice President Dick Cheney succeeds him.
01/29/2002 Noelle Bush, niece and granddaughter of the late Presidents Bush, and daughter of former Governor Jeb Bush (convicted on counts of vote tampering, etc.) dies of a drug overdose.
12/15/2004 Pauline Gore, widow of the first President Gore and mother of the second, dies in her sleep.
02/11/2006 President Dick Cheney shoots and wounds another man while quail hunting in Texas. Three days later the victim dies and Cheney resigns, pending a possible criminal trial, but dies of a severe heart attack before anything happens. Vice President Rudy Giuliani succeeds him.