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Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 46 presidencies. 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 ...
George H. W. Bush (1989–1993) First president to have been a naval aviator. [ 266] First president to have served as a United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1971–1973). [ 387] First president to have served as the chief of the United States Liaison Office in China (1974–1975). [ 388]
The president of the United States ( POTUS) [ B] is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces . The power of the presidency has grown substantially [ 12] since the first president ...
A list of U.S. presidents grouped by primary state of residence and birth, with priority given to residence. Only 19 out of the 50 states are represented. Presidents with an asterisk (*) did not primarily reside in their respective birth states (they were not born in the state listed below).
The oldest person inaugurated president was Joe Biden, at the age of 78. [1] [3] Assassinated at age 46, John F. Kennedy was the youngest president at the end of his tenure, and his lifespan was the shortest of any president. [4] [5] At age 50, Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest person to become a former president. [6]
Franklin D. Roosevelt. 4,422 days. (1933–1945) William Henry Harrison. 31 days. (1841) This is a list of presidents of the United States by time in office. The listed number of days is calculated as the difference between dates, which counts the number of calendar days except the last day. The length of a full four-year presidential term of ...
Jimmy, the first president to use his nickname in an official capacity, rather than his first name James. [154] Jimmy Cardigan, got the nickname after he wore a sweater instead of a suit one day [17] The Peanut Farmer, [155] he owned a peanut farm and fostered this image in his early campaigns, as a contrast to elite Washington insiders.
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 ...