On the Fourth of July in 1850, President Zachary Taylor snacked on cherries and milk while attending a ceremony at the Washington Monument. It was a hot day, and the heat made him sick.
He grew sicker and died on July 9.
He remains the only U.S. president to have died from indigestion (with the possible exception of Warren G Harding, who may or may not have been poisoned by his wife – which could be considered death by extreme indigestion – but that’s another story.)
His last words were, “I regret nothing, but I am sorry to leave my friends.“
I firmly believe he actually regretted eating the cherries-and-milk that caused his fatal indigestion, but I’m not going to quibble with a man’s dying words. He was succeeded by Millard Fillmore, possibly one of the worst president. Although Fillmore did oversee the installation of indoor plumbing in the White House, which made extreme indigestion a tad more comfortable there.
The Haus of Dcaligari 