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The White House, official residence of the president of the United States, in July 2008. The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, [1] indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College. [2] The officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the ...
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Vice President Henry A. Wallace won the election of 1940, and were at the helm of the nation as it prepared for and entered World War II. Roosevelt sought and won an unprecedented fourth term in office in 1944, but this time with Harry S. Truman as his Vice President.
Map denoting where each of the 40 deceased presidents of the United States died Presidents that died in New York City (4): Monroe, Arthur, Hoover, Nixon Presidents that died in Washington, D.C. (7): J.Q. Adams, W.H. Harrison, Taylor, Lincoln, Taft, Wilson, Eisenhower
As he had in 1940, Roosevelt was the third of just four presidents in United States history to win re-election with a lower percentage of the electoral vote than in their prior elections; the other three are James Madison in 1812, Woodrow Wilson in 1916, and Barack Obama in 2012.
Washington's tomb at the United States Capitol in Washington D.C., originally designed to entomb the body of George Washington. Burial places of presidents and vice presidents of the United States are located across 23 states and the District of Columbia. Since the office was established in 1789, 45 people have served as President of the United ...
Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... This is a graphical timeline listing the presidents and vice presidents of the United States.
Of the individuals elected president of the United States, four died of natural causes while in office (William Henry Harrison, [1] Zachary Taylor, [2] Warren G. Harding [3] and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, [4] James A. Garfield, [4] [5] William McKinley [6] and John F. Kennedy) and one resigned from office ...
United States non-interventionism before entering World War II Index of articles associated with the same name This set index article includes a list of related items that share the same name (or similar names).