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The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidencies and the number of individuals who have served as president. [5]
Additionally, after being president, John Tyler served in the Provisional Confederate Congress and was later elected to the Confederate House of Representatives, but he died before taking his seat. [3] 17 presidents previously served as U.S. senators; only 3 immediately before election as president. Only one president, Andrew Johnson, served as ...
Of the individuals elected president of the United States, four died of natural causes while in office (William Henry Harrison, [1] Zachary Taylor, [2] Warren G. Harding [3] and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, [4] James A. Garfield, [4] [5] William McKinley [6] and John F. Kennedy) and one resigned from office ...
Became president after McKinley's assassination, later elected to own term in 1904. Calvin Coolidge: Warren G. Harding: 1921–1923 Became president after Harding's death, later elected to own term in 1924. Harry S. Truman: Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1945 Became president after Roosevelt's death, later elected to own term in 1948. Richard Nixon
Only former president to ever run for an office outside the United States. Andrew Johnson: 1865–1869: Denied nomination by his party: 1872: U.S. House of Representatives: Lost: Ran as an Independent and finished 3rd in the general election. [13] 1874: U.S. Senate: Won: Only former president to serve in the Senate, served until his 1875 death ...
Bill Clinton. Before: $1.3 million After: $241.5 million Bill and Hillary Clinton were worth $1.3 million before they came to the White House, according to the American University study.
First president to be born after World War I. First president to graduate from the United States Naval Academy; part of the class of 1947. [360] [361] First president to use a nickname (Jimmy) in an official capacity. [362] [cv] First president to appoint a Secretary of Education (and first woman) (Shirley Hufstedler). [363]
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.A member of the Democratic Party, he assumed the presidency after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death, as he was vice president at the time.