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The final result was a victory for Cleveland by wide margins in both the popular and electoral votes, and it was Cleveland's third consecutive popular vote plurality. This made Cleveland the first U.S. president to serve two non-consecutive terms.
Virginia's George Mason denounced the life-tenure proposal as tantamount to elective monarchy. [4] An early draft of the U.S. Constitution provided that the president was restricted to one seven-year term. [5] Ultimately, the Framers approved four-year terms with no restriction on how many times a person could be elected president.
Since 1789, he said, only seven of 31 presidents served consecutive terms until Roosevelt, who was elected to a fourth term in 1944, and began that term before he died in 1945.
Grover Cleveland was president of the United States first from March 4, 1885, to March 4, 1889, and then from March 4, 1893, to March 4, 1897. The first Democrat elected after the Civil War, Cleveland is one of only two U.S. presidents to leave office after one term and later be elected for a second term, [a] and the only one to date to have served two full non-consecutive terms.
Only one previous president, Grover Cleveland, has served two non-consecutive terms beginning in 1884 and 1892. However, it is unlikely that Goldman’s resolution will make it to a vote in the ...
One partial term; Died 2 years, 4 months, and 29 days into term 43: Zachary Taylor: 492 12th • March 4, 1849 – July 9, 1850 [c] One partial term; Died 1 year, 4 months, and 5 days into term 44: James A. Garfield: 199 20th • March 4 – September 19, 1881 [c] Assassinated: died 6 months and 15 days into term; 79 days after being shot 45
He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. [7] Since the ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1951, no person may be elected president more than twice, and no one who has served more than two years of a term to which someone else was elected may be elected more than once. [8]
2 presidents served as president of the United States for two non-consecutive terms, Grover Cleveland and Donald Trump. 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 ...