Trivia: Theodore Roosevelt took office after the death of which President?
Abraham Lincoln
William McKinley
Warren G. Harding
Herbert Hoover
The correct answer is William McKinley
So why is this answer correct? : When Theodore Roosevelt first took office as President, it wasn’t through election. In 1901, President William McKinley was six months into his second term when he was shot at the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York. Roosevelt was the Vice President at the time, and was immediately sworn in.