Who would have made an interesting president, but never got the shot?

[thucythucy]

62. Abraham Lincoln serving out his full second term.

I think Lincoln belongs on this list because he never had the chance to serve the remaining three years, eleven months of his second term.

His idea of Reconstruction would have radically changed the south. He's often portrayed as "soft" on Reconstruction, but he was in favor of seizing the holdings of wealthy slave owners, dividing them up among poor whites and freed slaves. "Forty Acres and a mule." What today we'd call land reform. Andrew Johnson's first act as president was to sign an executive order removing jurisdiction of seized land from the Freedman's Bureau.

Lincoln's assassination was a racist act. Booth was an outspoken white supremacist.

Our nation still hasn't recovered from that single incident of racist gun violence.

On edit: meant to post this in reply to the OP. Need. More. Coffee.