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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]
Grover Cleveland is currently the only president to leave office and return for a second non-consecutive term. Consequently, while there have been 46 presidencies in the nation's history, only 45 people have been sworn into office as Cleveland is numbered as both the 22nd and 24th president. It is anticipated that Donald Trump will become the ...
March 4, 1833 – President Jackson begins second term; Van Buren becomes the eighth vice president. 1834 – Slavery debates at Lane Theological Seminary are one of the first major public discussions of the topic. 1835 – Mexican President Santa Anna annuls the 1824 constitution, precipitating a civil war which spawns the Texas War for ...
Confederate States of America March 4: Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th U.S. president Hannibal Hamlin becomes the 15th U.S. vice president. January 3 – American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the Union. January 9 – Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union, preceding the American Civil War.
Notable best presidents include George Washington at No.2, Thomas Jefferson at No. 7, and Barack Obama at No. 12.
A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents 1837–1861. pp. 155–72. Skaggs, David Curtis (2014). William Henry Harrison and the Conquest of the Ohio Country: Frontier Fighting in the War of 1812. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-0546-9.
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/ ...
John Tyler becomes the 10th president of the United States upon the death of President William Henry Harrison on April 4, 1841; The extralegal Provisional Government of Oregon governs the Oregon Country, May 2, 1843 – August 14, 1848; Illinois Mormon War, June 7, 1844 – September 17, 1846 Assassination of Joseph Smith, Jr. on June 27, 1844