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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]
Roosevelt is the only American president to have served more than two terms. Following ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment in 1951, presidents—beginning with Dwight D. Eisenhower —have been ineligible for election to a third term or, after serving more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected president, to a ...
Incumbent President John Tyler, the Democratic-Republican Party presidential nominee. After the closed session Senate debates on the Tyler-Texas treaty were leaked to the public on April 27, 1844, President Tyler's only hope of success in influencing passage of his treaty was to intervene directly as a spoiler candidate in the 1844 election. [109]
The presidency of James K. Polk began on March 4, 1845, when James K. Polk was inaugurated as the 11th President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1849.He was a Democrat, and assumed office after defeating Whig Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election.
José Ballivián, Provisional President (1841–1844), President (1844–1847) Eusebio Guilarte Vera, Interim President (1847–1848) José Miguel de Velasco Franco, Provisional President (1848) Manuel Isidoro Belzu, Provisional President (1848–1850), President (1850–1855) Brazil. Colonial Brazil (complete list) – Portuguese colony, 1500/ ...
When, as President, Fillmore sided with proslavery elements in ordering enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, he all but guaranteed that he would be the last Whig President. The first modern two-party system of Whigs and Democrats had succeeded only in dividing the nation in two by the 1850s, and seven years later, the election of the first ...
February 27 – Nicholas Biddle, financier, last president of the Second Bank of the United States (born 1786) February 28 – Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of State from 1843 to 1844 (born 1790) Thomas W. Gilmer, fifteenth Secretary of the Navy (born 1802) March 6 – Gabriel Duvall, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1811 to 1835 (born 1752)
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 candidate. Bo Gritz: 1992: Populist: 106,152 0.10% Third-party candidate. Thomas Jefferson: 1804: Democratic-Republican ...