You keep making a monkey out of me!..Thank you for keeping it accurate! I glanced at a list...
I shall try to be better at both reading accurately and recalling those Presidents who died in office..
You have strengthened my argument that being VP does not give you an edge to being elected President
Jefferson is the only Secy of State that was President that I recall..I have not looked that up,though. Do you know how many Secy's of State have been President?
Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Van Buren, and Buchanan were all Secretary of State before being elected President. (In Van Buren's case, he was SoS for part of Jackson's first term, then VP for Jackson's second term.) For a while that seemed to be the natural stepping-stone to the Presidency, which may be part of the reason for Jackson's anger when JQA made Henry Clay Secretary of State, after Clay had helped JQA win the election in the House of Representatives.