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Buchanan is the only U.S. President who remained a lifelong bachelor, leading some later historians and authors to speculate that he may have had a same-sex orientation. As President, Buchanan intervened to assure the Supreme Court's majority ruling in the pro-slavery decision in the Dred Scott case.
Several presidents were unmarried for all or part of their administration. Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Chester A. Arthur, and Martin Van Buren were widowed prior to becoming president and remained unmarried during their administration; in these cases, family members acted in the place of First Lady and White House host.
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]
Former President Jimmy Carter, ... a Democrat, served a single term from 1977 to 1981, losing a reelection bid to Ronald Reagan. ... Carter proved to be the right man at the right time in 1976.
In 2012, roughly two months before President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, Carter became one of the most prominent Americans to voice his support for same-sex marriage.
Jimmy Carter waving from Air Force One ca. May 1977. Credit - UM Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Images. Jimmy Carter was not a president of the first rank, but he managed by dint of unceasing ...
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 ...
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.