As a consequence, Lascuráin was president for less than an hour; sources quote figures ranging from 15 to 56 minutes. To date, Lascuráin's presidency is the shortest in history.
Pedro José Domingo de la Calzada Manuel María Lascuráin Paredes (8 May 1856 – 21 July 1952) was a Mexican politician. He served as the 38th President of Mexico. He served as president for less than one hour on February 19, 1913. It is the shortest presidency in the history of the world.
The shortest presidency was that of Pedro Lascuráin, who governed Mexico on 19 February 1913 for less than one hour. Lascuráin was the legal successor to President Francisco Ignacio Maderno, who was deposed along with his vice president, Jose Maria Pino Suarez (both of whom were later assassinated on 22 February 1913).
President Porfirio Díaz at Age 80. Porfirio Díaz was president of Mexico longer than anyone else in its history.
William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military officer and politician who served as the ninth president of the United States. Harrison died just 31 days after his inauguration in 1841, the shortest presidency in United States history.
William Henry Harrison, an American military officer and politician, was the ninth President of the United States (1841), the oldest President to be elected at the time. On his 32nd day, he became the first to die in office, serving the shortest tenure in U.S. Presidential history.
The attempt failed when both of Lawrence's pistols allegedly misfired. Four sitting presidents have been killed: Abraham Lincoln (1865, by John Wilkes Booth), James A. Garfield (1881, by Charles J. Guiteau), William McKinley (1901, by Leon Czolgosz), and John F.
In October 1978, Fernandez announced his candidacy for the Republican Party's nomination for President at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. He was the first major-party presidential contender of Hispanic origin.
Antonio López de Santa Anna, a military and political leader who served as president eleven times during the course of his remarkable career, was the central figure in Mexican public life during the second quarter of the nineteenth century.
Francisco Ignacio Madero González (Spanish pronunciation: [fɾanˈsiskojɣˈnasjo maˈðeɾo ɣonˈsales]; 30 October 1873 – 22 February 1913) was a Mexican businessman, revolutionary, writer and statesman, who became the 37th president of Mexico from 1911 until he was deposed in a coup d'état in February 1913, and assassinated ...
The results were announced on 1 October and by majority of 17 states, Guadalupe Victoria was elected president of the republic. On 2 October 1824, Guadalupe Victoria was declared the first president of the United Mexican States for the period 1825–1829.
Constitutional President of Mexico, 1917–1920
Carranza had no strong opposition to his election as president. In May 1917, Carranza became the constitutional President of Mexico.
William Henry Harrison spent the shortest time in office, while Franklin D. Roosevelt spent the longest. Roosevelt is the only American president to have served more than two terms. Following ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment in 1951, presidents—beginning with Dwight D.
The amendment caps the service of a president at 10 years. If a person succeeds to the office of president without election and serves less than two years, he may run for two full terms; otherwise, a person succeeding to office of president can serve no more than a single elected term.
Francisco Madero, who had attempted to run against Porfirio Díaz in the 1910 election, led a revolt that kindled the Mexican Revolution. In May 1911 revolutionary forces captured Ciudad Juárez and forced Díaz to capitulate and flee into exile.
On May 12, 1846, the United States Senate voted 40 to 2 to go to war with Mexico. President James K. Polk had accused Mexican troops of having attacked Americans on U.S. soil, north of the Rio Grande.
Only 5 Former U.S. Presidents Are Still Alive — Including the Oldest, Jimmy Carter.
After standing out in the cold rain for two hours, President Harrison fell ill and died on April 4, 1841 -- 31 days later. He was the first president to die in office. For more on William Henry Harrison's inauguration, visit the "American Treasures" exhibition.
1901: William McKinley
McKinley was shaking hands with the public when Leon Czolgosz, a Polish-American anarchist, shot him. The 58-year-old president died eight days later on September 14 from gangrene caused by the bullet wounds.
John Tyler was the most prolific of all American President: he had 15 children and two wives. In 1813, Tyler married Letitia Christian, the daughter of a Virginia planter.
Tall, stately, stiffly formal in the high stock he wore around his jowls, James Buchanan was the only President who never married. Presiding over a rapidly dividing Nation, Buchanan grasped inadequately the political realities of the time.
The biography for President Roosevelt and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical Association.