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Of presidents since 1960, only Ronald Reagan and (in interim results) Barack Obama placed in the top ten; Obama was the highest-ranked president since Harry Truman (1945–1953). Most of the other recent presidents held middling positions, though George W. Bush placed in the bottom ten, the lowest-ranked president since Warren Harding (1921 ...
The incumbent president is Joe Biden, who assumed office on January 20, 2021. [13] The president-elect is Donald Trump, who 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 president. [16]
Roosevelt is the only American president to have served more than two terms. Following ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment in 1951, presidents—beginning with Dwight D. Eisenhower —have been ineligible for election to a third term or, after serving more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected president, to a ...
2 presidents served as party leaders of the House of Representatives, James A. Garfield and Gerald Ford. 1 president served as an ordained minister, serving as a pastor in the Disciples of Christ (Christian) Church, James A. Garfield. [4] [5] 1 president served as speaker of the House of Representatives, James K. Polk.
In this list of presidents of the United States by age, the first table charts the age of each president of the United States at the time of presidential inauguration (first inauguration if elected to multiple and consecutive terms), upon leaving office, and at the time of death. Where the president is still living, their lifespan and post ...
The margin of victory in a presidential election is the difference between the number of Electoral College votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes (since 1964, it has been 270 out of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate (currently in the range of 2 to 538, a margin of one vote is only possible with an odd total number of electors or a ...
George H. W. Bush (1989–1993) First president to have been a naval aviator. [270] First president to have served as a United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1971–1973). [386] First president to have served as the chief of the United States Liaison Office in China (1974–1975). [387]
The following list indicates lifetime electoral votes received across multiple elections in which the candidate was the nominee of a political party or was otherwise on a presidential ballot. Note that the counting for Electoral College votes for this purpose is complicated by the fact that in the earliest elections, the Electoral College did ...