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Two term limit - Total of 8 years

A term of service is 4 years. The President of the US can serve two of those 4 year terms (8 years). In addition, in case something happens to the president before or after him, and he has to finish up or begin another president's term, it cannot exceed 2 years. Maximum years is 10

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Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only President who served 1st, 2nd, 3rd and the beginning of his 4th term. he died in office while serving his fourth term FDR served 12 years and some months. He died in office.

Source(s):Twenty-second Amendment (Amendment XXII) of the United States Constitution sets a term limit for the President of the United States
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A term of service is 4 years. The President of the US can serve two of those 4 year terms (8 years). In addition, in case something happens to the president before or after him, and he has to finish up or begin another president's term, it cannot exceed 2 years. Maximum years is 10

Exception:

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only President who served 1st, 2nd, 3rd and the beginning of his 4th term. he died in office while serving his fourth term FDR served 12 years and some months. He died in office.

Source(s):Twenty-second Amendment (Amendment XXII) of the United States Constitution sets a term limit for the President of the United States
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The easy answer is eight.

Technically, there's no limit to how long the President may serve; the limit is on how many times he/she may be elected to the presidency. If someone served more than two years of a term to which someone else was elected, he/she may be elected President no more than once. Otherwise, a person can be elected President no more than twice. For example, Lyndon Johnson served as President for one year and two months of the term to which John F. Kennedy was elected, so he could have stayed in the 1968 election campaign past March if he chose to, and if he won he would have served a total of 9 years and 2 months. On the other hand, Harry Truman served 3 years and 9 months of Franklin Roosevelt's last term, so he was not eligible to run for reelection in 1952; he had to stop at 7 years and 9 months.

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10 years is the most possible and that only happen only if a person finishes the term of another president and then is elected to two terms of his own. In most cases, the limit is 8 years.

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