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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]
Washington Territory had 14 territorial governors from its organization in 1853 until the formation of the state of Washington in 1889. Territorial governors were appointed by the president of the United States. Elisha P. Ferry had the longest term of eight years and went on to become the state's first governor.
Twenty-one states have the distinction of being the birthplace of a president. One president's birth state is in dispute; North and South Carolina (British colonies at the time) both lay claim to Andrew Jackson, who was born in 1767 in the Waxhaw region along their common border. Jackson himself considered South Carolina his birth state. [1]
The best 10% and worst 10% remain unchanged from their 2018 poll (top five: F. D. Roosevelt, Lincoln, Washington, T. Roosevelt, Jefferson; bottom five: A. Johnson, Buchanan, Trump, Harding, Pierce). 41% of the scholars polled said that if a president were to be added to Mount Rushmore, it should be FDR. 63% believed that the president should be ...
Johnson and Kennedy both served under Vice President Nixon (1953–1961). Biden served under vice presidents Ford (1973–1974) and Bush (1981–1989) and later served with Obama (2005–2008). James A. Garfield was elected senator for Ohio in 1880, but he did not take up the office due to being elected president later that year.
1 president served as president pro tempore of the United States Senate, John Tyler. 1 president served as party leader of the United States Senate, Lyndon B. Johnson. 1 president had a PhD, Woodrow Wilson. 1 president had neither prior government nor military experience before becoming president, Donald Trump.
Washington of the West, [39] a reference to Harrison's victories at the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe and 1813 Battle of the Thames. John Tyler His Accidency , a nickname given by his opponents; the first president to be elevated to the presidency by the death of his predecessor, William Henry Harrison.
First president from the state of New York. [99] First president to be born a citizen of the United States and not a British subject. [100] First president to have multiple members of the same party (Whig) run against him. [101] First president to receive over 1 million votes in an election while in office. [102]