President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he is resigning from office. 2024 presidential race.
Although the White House press office told Fox News Digital on Monday that “health was not a factor” in the president’s decision to step down, several doctors have expressed concern about signs of cognitive decline following Biden’s widely criticized performance in the June 27 presidential debate.
Two medical experts told Fox News Digital they believe Biden’s decision to resign is best for the president’s health.
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Biden, however, is not the only president whose re-election has been potentially thwarted by health problems or concerns.
Here are five more.
U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson (far left), Franklin D. Roosevelt (center), and Theodore Roosevelt (right) all experienced health problems while in office. (Getty Images)
1. Chester A. Arthur (21st President, 1881-1884)
After being elected The 21st President of the United States In 1881, Chester Arthur experienced health complications from malaria, which remained endemic in Washington, D.C., throughout the 19th century, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
By 1882, Arthur continued to suffer from progressive fatigue, extreme weight loss, and peripheral edema, the NIH reported.
After further health examination, Arthur was diagnosed with Bright’s disease, now known as chronic kidney disease.
Chester A. Arthur, 1829-1886, 21st President of the United States, appears in a portrait made in the 1880s. (Vintage Greenhouse/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The president’s health deteriorated during his last two years in office, with reported symptoms of water retention, tremors, nausea and colic. abdominal pain.
As the 1884 election approached, Arthur ran for a second term, but lost the Republican nomination to James G. Blaine, then Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Blaine then lost the election to Democrat Grover Cleveland.
Arthur died on November 18, 1886, at the age of 57, according to the Smithsonian.
2. Theodore Roosevelt (26th President, 1901-1908)
Theodore Roosevelt took office as commander in chief at nearly 43 years old in 1901 after the assassination of President William McKinley, according to the White House Historical association.
Roosevelt was then re-elected in 1904.
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After William Howard Taft’s term began in 1909, Roosevelt decided to join the race in 1912, creating his own “Bull Moose” party.
While campaigning on October 14, 1912 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Roosevelt was shot and killed in an assassination attempt outside the Gilpatrick Hotel.
President Theodore Roosevelt is photographed in his office in Washington, D.C., on February 10, 1903. (Historical Archives/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The bullet was slowed by Roosevelt’s heavy coat, his steel-reinforced eyeglass case and his 50-page speech folded in his inside right jacket pocket, History.com reported.
The bullet pierced the right side of the president’s chest, but did not damage his lungs. It remained lodged in his ribs, which was deemed a serious injury. safer than exploitation.
Roosevelt continued his campaign while convalescing, but was defeated by Democrat Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 election.
3. Woodrow Wilson (28th President, 1913-1920)
Woodrow Wilson served two full terms and intended to run for a third.
But the then president was “seriously hampered” by a neurological illness that led him to suffer from strokes before and during his presidency, according to the NIH.
Before he took office, three strokes affected his right hand and left arm, causing blindness in his left eye.
A devastating stroke during his presidency in October 1919 left Wilson paralyzed on his left side and with only partial vision in his right eye.
He was confined to bed for several weeks, the NIH reported.
The portrait of Woodrow Wilson was taken during his campaign for governor of New Jersey in 1910. (Circa Images/GHI/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Wilson has not fully recovered from this episode.
In the 1920s, Republicans demanded confirmation that he was still able to hold office as required by the Constitution.
The president’s physician, Dr. Cary Grayson, declined to comment publicly on Wilson’s decision. health as Wilson sought re-election to a third term.
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However, by the time of the Democratic Convention that summer, Grayson reported Wilson’s poor health to party leaders and dismissed the idea of a third term.
Wilson ultimately failed to secure the presidential nomination, and Republican Warren G. Harding was elected in 1921.
4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (32nd president, 1932-1945)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was the only American president to serve more than two terms, having been elected to four terms in the last decade. The Second World War.
Roosevelt had suffered from health problems since he was paralyzed by polio at age 39, according to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum.
Franklin Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd President of the United States, is photographed at his desk in Washington, DC, in 1933. (Universal Historical Archives/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
During his third term, Roosevelt was diagnosed with cardiac disease, which was kept hidden from the public before his re-election to a fourth term, the NIH reported.
Throughout 1944, Roosevelt’s team of doctors monitored his declining health, constantly recording high blood pressure measurements.
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These heart complications were attributed to the “relentless stress and strain of war,” according to the FDR Library and Museum.
Roosevelt was chosen as the Democratic candidate in 1944 and continued his campaign, even though he faced skepticism about his fitness for office.
President Franklin Roosevelt is photographed at his desk in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, in 1934. (Historical Archives/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Although he won his fourth presidential election, Roosevelt was “weakened” by his condition, according to the NIH.
On April 12, 1945, Roosevelt consulted Dr. Howard Bruenn, a cardiac specialist in New York, after complaining of a headache.
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Roosevelt’s blood pressure reached 300/190 and he lost consciousness.
Bruenn diagnosed the event as a stroke and pronounced the president dead at the age of 63.
5. Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th President, 1953-1960)
Dwight Eisenhower began his first term in 1953 and suffered from two serious illnesses, according to the NIH.
He suffered a heart attack in September 1955, which kept him out of the White House convalescing until December.
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Although Eisenhower had received clearance from his doctors, the NIH reported that his cardiologists had recommended that he not run for a second term.
The president decided to run for re-election anyway, which was followed by his second major health problem in June 1956 – resulting in a diagnosis of Crohn’s disease.
President Dwight Eisenhower is photographed with Willy Brandt, Mayor of West Berlin, in Washington, D.C., on February 11, 1959. (Circa Images/GHI/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Eisenhower underwent an exploratory laparotomy and ileal bypass for a bowel obstruction, which was successful.
After a full recovery, Eisenhower was re-elected to a second term, despite opposition questions about his fitness for office.
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The following year, in November 1957, Eisenhower suffered a stroke, but eventually returned to full office as president.
After leaving office, Eisenhower suffered multiple heart attacks in the 1960s.
He died of congestive heart failure March 28, 1969, at the age of 78.
