US Bereaved Presidents

• John Adams, lost his one-year-old daughter, Grace, stillborn daughter, Elizabeth, and 20-year-old son Charles ( Charles died while he was president.) 
• Thomas Jefferson, had six children and only two lived to maturity. Three of his children died in infancy and one daughter, Mary, 26, died while he was president. 
• James Monroe, lost a son at 16 months of age. 
• John Quincy Adams, lost a daughter in infancy; a son died while Adams was president; and another son died five years later.  Adams and wife, Louisa, had fifteen pregnancies throughout their marriage.  10 of their pregnancies ended in miscarriage.
• Martin Van Buren, had six children, four of whom lived to adulthood.  An unnamed daughter was delivered stillborn and a son, Winfield Scott, died in infancy.
• William Harrison, had ten children; six died before he became president. 
• John Tyler, had 15 Children, two whom died at young ages.  His daughter Anne died in infancy and his ninth unnamed child died at birth.
• Zachary Taylor, had six children; two died as infants and a daughter died three months after her wedding. 
• Millard Fillmore, whose daughter Abigail died at 22. 
• Franklin Pierce, lost two sons in infancy. Two months before his inauguration to the presidency, their only living child, Benjamin, 11 years old, was killed in a railroad accident
• Abraham Lincoln, lost two sons during his lifetime: Edward, four years old, and William, 11 years old (who died while President Lincoln was in office.)
• Rutherford B. Hayes, had eight children, three of whom died in infancy. 
• James Garfield, had seven children; two (their first and last) died while still infants. 
• Chester Alan Arthur, whose eldest son died in infancy. 
• Grover Cleveland, whose eldest daughter, Ruth, died at 13 years of age. 
• William McKinley, lost both of his children: Ida, four months old, and Katherine, four years old.  It is said that his wife, Ida, descended into a deep depression after the death of her daughters and never fully recovered from the losses.
• Theodore Roosevelt, whose son died at 21 years of age. 
• Calvin Coolidge, had a son, Calvin Jr., who died at 16 while his father was in office
• Franklin Roosevelt, whose son Franklin Jr., died in infancy. 
• Harry Truman, and his wife, Bess, experienced two miscarriages prior to having their daughter, Margaret.
• Dwight Eisenhower, whose son, Doug Dwight “Icky,” three years old, died at Camp Mead, Maryland.
• John F.  Kennedy, and his wife Jackie, suffered a miscarriage in 1966, a stillbirth in 1956 (daughter Arabella) and in 1963, months before his assassination, Jack gave birth to a son, Patrick, who died after two days due to complications at birth.
• Lyndon Johnson, and wife, Lady Bird, suffered three miscarriages before giving birth to two daughters.
• Ronald Reagan, whose newborn daughter, Christine, died. Her birth was apparently 4 weeks premature and sources differ as to whether she was stillborn or whether she lived for a few hours after birth.
• George H.W. Bush, lost his daughter Robin at the age of three to leukemia in 1953.
• Joe Biden, whose first wife, Neilia, and infant daughter, Naomi, died in a car accident shortly after Joe became a US Senator-elect.  Biden was sworn into office two weeks after the crash.