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Megawati was a vice president elected by indirect votes. She then elected as President after her predecessor removed from the office. In 2004, she seek for reelection in the first direct presidential elections but lost by her former minister. 1999–2004: Rudolf Schuster Slovakia: 2004 Slovak presidential election: Ivan Gašparovič [8] 2001–2006
George Washington, widely viewed as the first president, was elected into office in 1789 after leading the Continental Army to victory over Britain in the Revolutionary War.
Nixon formally resigned on August 9, making Ford the first President of the United States who had not been elected as either president or vice president. [ 6 ] Immediately after taking the oath of office in the East Room of the White House, Ford spoke to the assembled audience in a speech broadcast live to the nation. [ 7 ]
First president to be re-elected over the age of seventy, as he was 73 years old when he was re-elected in 1984. [386] First president to visit the New York Stock Exchange, (on March 28, 1985) while in office. [387] First president to attend and open an Olympic Games (the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles) while in office. [388] [389]
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]
The 2000 presidential election, held on November 7, 2000, pitted Republican candidate George W. Bush (the incumbent governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush) against Democratic candidate Al Gore (the incumbent vice president of the United States under Bill Clinton). Despite Gore having received 543,895 more votes (a lead ...
John Adams, who served as the first U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, became the first vice president after only winning 34 electoral votes. Not even all states were able to choose the president.
Perhaps Washington wasn't first. ... Croatti suggests a number of men could reasonably be called the first president before Washington was elected in 1789. Michael, who is a descendent of the ...