Washington DC, United States
The United States is polling in the presidential elections of 2024 on November 5. The president of the United States serves as the head of state and head of government. He is elected for a four-year term through the Electoral College. He leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces
The office was first established in 1789, with George Washington serving as the first president of the United States after winning a unanimous vote of the Electoral College.
The country has had 46 presidents till now, with 45 men serving in the position. This is because one of them served two non-consecutive terms and is counted twice. Grover Cleveland is counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, first serving from 1885 to 1889 and then again from 1893 to 1897.
The record of the longest presidential term belongs to Franklin D Roosevelt who was president for over twelve years. He died during the initial days of his fourth term in 1945. This was before the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1951 which barred anyone from serving as president for more than two terms.
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Roosevelt is the only US president to have served more than two terms.
Four US presidents passed away while in office of natural causes – William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G Harding, and Franklin D Roosevelt.
Four of them were assassinated - Abraham Lincoln, James A Garfield, William McKinley, and John F Kennedy.
Richard Nixon is the only one to have resigned as he faced impeachment and removal from office over the Watergate scandal.
Below is the list of all the US presidents:
1 George Washington 1789–97
2 John Adams 1797–1801
3 Thomas Jefferson 1801–09
4 James Madison 1809–17
5 James Monroe 1817–25
6 John Quincy Adams 1825–29
7 Andrew Jackson 1829–37
8 Martin Van Buren 1837–41
9 William Henry Harrison 1841*
10 John Tyler 1841–45
11 James K. Polk 1845–49
12 Zachary Taylor 1849–50*
13 Millard Fillmore 1850–53
14 Franklin Pierce 1853–57
15 James Buchanan 1857–61
16 Abraham Lincoln 1861–65*
17 Andrew Johnson 1865–69
18 Ulysses S. Grant 1869–77
19 Rutherford B. Hayes 1877–81
20 James A. Garfield 1881*
21 Chester A. Arthur 1881–85
22 Grover Cleveland 1885–89
23 Benjamin Harrison 1889–93
24 Grover Cleveland 1893–97
25 William McKinley 1897–1901*
26 Theodore Roosevelt 1901–09
27 William Howard Taft 1909–13
28 Woodrow Wilson 1913–21
29 Warren G. Harding 1921–23*
30 Calvin Coolidge 1923–29
31 Herbert Hoover 1929–33
32 Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933–45*
33 Harry S. Truman 1945–53
34 Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953–61
35 John F. Kennedy 1961–63*
36 Lyndon B. Johnson 1963–69
37 Richard M. Nixon 1969–74**
38 Gerald R. Ford 1974–77
39 Jimmy Carter 1977–81
40 Ronald Reagan 1981–89
41 George Bush 1989–93
42 Bill Clinton 1993–2001
43 George W. Bush 2001–09
44 Barack Obama 2009–17
45 Donald Trump 2017–21
46 Joe Biden Pennsylvania 2021–