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FDR was in office for more than two terms. The 22nd Amendment limited presidents to two terms. FDR was in office before this was passed. Imposed by the 22nd Amendment, ratified in 1951: The President is elected indirectly through the U.S. Electoral College to a four year term, with a limit of two terms
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TaigaTheodore Roosevelt ran for a third term under his Bull Moose party, but lost the election to Woodrow Wilson. Franklin Delano Roosevelt ran for 4 terms and won them all, but he died in office during his 4th term. After his death, Congress passed the 22nd Amendment which set a limit of 2 terms for the presidency.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt served three terms plus three months as U.S. President. The most any other U.S. President served is two full four-year terms.
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What is the number of terms Washington served as president?
George Washington served two terms and then declined a third.
President to serve most terms?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He served 3 full terms and part of a fourth before his death.
How many US Presidents served only four terms?
Only four terms? That's the most any one president has served. Franklin Delano Roosevelt served three terms, starting in 1933, and died during his fourth term in 1945. Every other President has only served one or two terms.
The American president who served three terms?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Have any presidents served a split term?
No president has served a term that was split. Grover Cleveland, served two separate terms, which were split by four years served by another president, Benjamin Harrison..
