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The incumbent president is Joe Biden, who assumed office on January 20, 2021. [13] The president-elect is Donald Trump, who won the 2024 presidential election over Kamala Harris and will assume office on January 20, 2025. [14][15] Trump will be the second president after Grover Cleveland to serve two non-consecutive terms, as the 45th and 47th ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt. 4,422 days. (1933–1945) William Henry Harrison. 31 days. (1841) This is a list of presidents of the United States by time in office. The listed number of days is calculated as the difference between dates, which counts the number of calendar days except the last day. The length of a full four-year presidential term of ...
Oliver Ellsworth served as one of Connecticut's first two U.S. senators and as Chief Justice of the United States. He was an unsuccessful candidate for President of the United States, receiving eleven votes in the electoral college in the U.S. presidential election of 1796.
George H. W. Bush. Ronald Reagan. 1981–1989. Incumbent vice president succeeded Reagan after winning the 1988 election. Joe Biden. Barack Obama. 2009–2017. Did not run as incumbent vice president in the 2016 election, later ran and won the 2020 election becoming the second former vice president to win the presidency.
e. The president of the United States (POTUS) [B] is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. The power of the presidency has grown substantially [12] since the first president ...
5 presidents taught at a university: James A. Garfield, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. 2 presidents served as party leaders of the House of Representatives, James A. Garfield and Gerald Ford. 1 president served as president pro tempore of the United States Senate, John Tyler.
Grover Cleveland [6] 1885–1889. Defeated in the general election. 1892. Won. First president to succeed at his comeback attempt of winning a non-consecutive term, served four more years and would be the only for 132 years. Theodore Roosevelt [7] 1901–1909. Retired.
The Democrats now had complete control over the 31st United States Congress, despite the break between the anti-slavery (Free Soil Party) and pro slavery Democrats; because of this break, the Democrats would not maintain the U.S. presidency, and Whig Party member Zachary Taylor was elected the 12th president of the United States in the 1848 U.S ...