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The White House, official residence of the president of the United States, in July 2008. The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, [1] indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College. [2] The officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the ...
Democratic-Republican: 113,142 32.7% Winner. Lost the popular vote and electoral college, but won the contingent election. Adams was the last member of the Democratic-Republican party elected president and the only member of the National Republican party elected president. [c] T. Coleman Andrews: 1956: States' Rights: 108,956 0.18% Third-party ...
President Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, appointed Daniel Clark, a Republican, as Judge on the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. President Rutherford B. Hayes, a Republican, appointed David M. Key, a Democrat, as Judge on the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Tennessee.
The Electoral College's electors then formally elect the president and vice president. [2] [3] The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1804) provides the procedure by which the president and vice president are elected; electors vote separately for each office. Previously, electors cast two votes for president, and the winner ...
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.He was the first Democrat to win the presidency after the Civil War and was one of only two presidents to be elected to serve non-consecutive terms.
But when experts in the U.S. Presidency are ranking the 45 presidents, and the Republicans and Conservatives rank a recent Republican President forty-third, that seems worth noticing.
A 2005 presidential poll was conducted by James Lindgren for the Federalist Society and The Wall Street Journal. [13] [14] As in the 2000 survey, the editors sought to balance the opinions of liberals and conservatives, adjusting the results "to give Democratic- and Republican-leaning scholars equal weight".
The United States has had a two-party system for much of its history, and the major parties of the two-party system have dominated presidential elections for most of U.S. history. [1] The two current major parties are the Democratic Party and the Republican Party .