President Terms Of Office

This is a list of presidents of the united states by time in office the basis of the list is the difference between dates the length of a full four year presidential term of office amounts to 1 461 days three common years of 365 days plus one leap year of 366 days.

President terms of office. Roosevelt and vice president john nance garner in 1937. The first presidential and vice presidential terms to begin on this date known as inauguration day were the second terms of president franklin d. The chance for an outgoing president to make a supreme court nomination in his last year in office has only happened once in the past century in 1968.

The president of the united states is the head of state and head of government of the united states indirectly elected to a 4 year term by the people through the electoral college the officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander in chief of the united states armed forces. But presidents do continue to nominate. The shortest term in office was william henry harrison who served for only a month.

Since the office was established in 1789 44 men have served as president. So if a president died resigned or was impeached and removed from office the vice president would be sworn in. The president is directly elected by the people and is one of only two nationally elected executive officials the other being the vice president of the philippines.

The only president who assumed office without first being elected president or vice president was gerald ford. However four vice presidents have assumed the presidency without having been elected to the office by virtue of a president s intra term death or resignation. If two years or less was left on the previous president s term the new president could serve out that term and still be qualified to run for two full terms of their own.

A term of office is the length of time a person serves in a particular elected office in many jurisdictions there is a defined limit on how long terms of office may be before the officeholder must be subject to re election some jurisdictions exercise term limits setting a maximum number of terms an individual may hold in a particular office. If counted by number of calendar days all the figures would be one greater with the exception of grover cleveland who would. Before deciding on the length of the term of office for the president the framers of the constitution debated whether after a first term the president was to be reappointed by the legislature.

That means the most any president can serve in the white.