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12 Comments to "Six Rulers Who Didn’t Spend Much Time in Office"
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Ronnie
April 24th, 2008 at
10:22 am
Yay for some Lady Jane Grey mentions! My family is descended from the Tudors; we’re actually directly descended from Jane’s younger sister. It was very interesting to read the various histories of these (so-called) rulers!
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Sofar
April 24th, 2008 at
10:56 am
Man, there was a Louis XIX? That’s a lot of Louis.
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Linnea
April 24th, 2008 at
12:24 pm
William Henry Harrison– he was President of the USA for about a month before dying. I believe his inaugural parade was held in the rain and he fell ill shortly afterward, passing away about two weeks later …
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Idil
April 24th, 2008 at
12:43 pm
Awesome post!! Thanks. It would be great to have more posts like this… they’re very interesting and I find I’ve learned so much!
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peacefulvalley
April 24th, 2008 at
2:27 pm
I read somewhere that there was a man who served as President for 24 hours, because the previous president’s term had ended, and the newly elected president would not take his oath on a Sunday. I can’t find anything to back me up at the moment, though.
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fnordikins
April 24th, 2008 at
4:23 pm
since you ask: If Lady Jane was Henry’s sister’s grandchild, then she and Edward VI were first cousins once removed.
If Henry had grandchildren, they would have been Jane’s second cousins.
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Jules
April 24th, 2008 at
5:51 pm
That would be David Rice Atchison,which said to have happened on Mar 4 1859, however this claim is based on the fact that Polk’s term had already expired and Talyor had not taken the oath of office. but neither did Atchison so technically I guess it’s false, but debatable.
According to at least one book I read, he spent most of that day sleeping also.
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jen
April 24th, 2008 at
7:42 pm
FYI, hemophilia is not curable at this time either.
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Gorf
April 24th, 2008 at
8:24 pm
Down in Argentina, there were three Presidents who held office for just three days: General Arturo Rawson (June 4-7, 1943); Ramón Puerta (December 21-23, 2001) and Eduardo Camaño (December 31, 2001-January 2, 2002).
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Justin
April 24th, 2008 at
10:34 pm
Great post!
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wonder_al
April 25th, 2008 at
2:00 am
If Dipendra had survived, do you think Nepal would have kept him as King?
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DS
April 25th, 2008 at
3:51 am
Honorable mention should probably go to a slightly longer short-reigning Pope, John Paul I, who lasted thirty-three days and may have been assassinated for proposing to clean up corruption in the Vatican Bank.
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