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Timeline of the Joe Biden presidency, for his first-term successor and second-term predecessor This article includes a politics-related list of lists . If an internal link incorrectly led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
Prior to the passage of the 22nd Amendment, presidents could run for re-election without restriction; [1] Donald Trump is the first president to win a non-consecutive term since its passage. [2] Some presidents have been recruited, requested, or drafted to run again. This list, however, only includes those presidents who actively campaigned.
[125] [126] In the aftermath of the recession, median household income (adjusted for inflation) declined during Obama's first term, before recovering to a new record high in his final year. [127] The poverty rate peaked at 15.1% in 2010 but declined to 12.7% in 2016, which was still higher than the 12.5% pre-recession figure of 2007.
A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was first elected to the Illinois Senate in 1997 representing the 13th district, which covered much of the Chicago South Side. In 2000, Obama ran an unsuccessful campaign for Illinois's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives against four-term incumbent Bobby Rush.
“We must have only the highest standards for those who work in our aviation system,” said Trump, who claimed that he changed “Obama standards” during his first term in office “from very ...
As President Donald Trump's 100th day grows nearer, comparisons to former presidents -- especially his predecessor Barack Obama -- continue to mount. During Obama's first 100 days in office, the ...
Elections were held in the United States on November 2, 2010, in the middle of Democratic President Barack Obama's first term. Republicans ended unified Democratic control of Congress and the presidency by winning a majority in the House of Representatives and gained seats in the Senate despite Democrats holding Senate control.
Just hours after assuming the executive role as president of the United States, Trump gathered colleagues in the Oval Office on Jan. 20 to sign what would be the first of many executive orders.