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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]
1946 Georgia lynching: In the last mass lynching in the United States, a mob of white men shoot and kill two African-American couples near Moore's Ford Bridge in Georgia. August 1 President Truman signs the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, which establishes the United States Atomic Energy Commission.
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 ...
The president's approval rating dropped from 82 percent in the polls in January 1946 to 52 percent by June. [160] This dissatisfaction led to large Democratic losses in the 1946 midterm elections , and Republicans took control of Congress for the first time since 1930.
President Truman signing a proclamation declaring a national emergency and authorizing U.S. entry into the Korean War President Truman (right) and General Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island, October 1950. Following World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union occupied Korea, which had been a colony of the Japanese Empire.
President Harry S. Truman addresses the NAACP at its 38th annual conference on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, June 29, 1947. Following the end of Reconstruction, many states adopted restrictive Jim Crow laws which enforced segregation of the races and the second-class status of African Americans. The Supreme Court in Plessy v.
The 1946 United States elections were held on November 5, 1946, and elected the members of the 80th United States Congress.In the first election after World War II, incumbent President Harry S. Truman (who took office on April 12, 1945, upon the death of his predecessor, Franklin D. Roosevelt) and the Democratic Party suffered large losses.
The 48-year tenure of veteran presidents after World War II was a result of that conflict's "pervasive effect […] on American society." [2] In the late 1970s and 1980s, almost 60 percent of the United States Congress had served in World War II or the Korean War, and it was expected that a Vietnam veteran would eventually accede to the presidency.