FDR..... is that the only ?
Franklin Roosevelt is the only president who served for more than two terms or more than 8 years.
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FDR..... is that the only ?
Franklin Roosevelt is the only president who served for more than two terms or more than 8 years.
lost count at 80 lost count at 80
Only one and that was Franklin Roosevelt.
No, President Bush cannot serve any more terms since he has already done two. No president can do any more than two terms under our current U.S. law.
Presidents who served two full terms were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. Then Franklin D. Roosevelt served three full terms and died in his 4th. Barack Obama has been elected to a second term which will soon begin. Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley and Richard Nixon were elected to two terms but failed to complete them.
United States presidents are elected to terms that last 4 years. George Washington served 2 terms (8 years) setting the precedent for all subsequent presidents until FDR - who was elected to 4 terms but died during his 4th. Shortly thereafter, the Constitution was amended to limit all future presidents to a maximum of 2 terms unless they were first elected vice president and then assumed office when the president they are serving under leaves office with less than half his term remaining. In that case then can finish the unexpired term and then serve two additional full terms for a total of just less than 10 years maximum. No president since FDR has served more than 8 years.
12 Presidents (J Adams, JQ Adams, Van Buren, Polk, Pierce, Buchanan, Hayes, B Harrison, Taft, Hoover, Carter and GHW Bush) each served one term. 10 Presidents (WH Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Fillmore, A Johnson, Garfield, Arthur, Harding, Kennedy and Ford) each served part of a term. 12 Presidents (Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Grant, Cleveland, Wilson, Eisenhower, Reagan, Clinton and Bush) each served two complete terms. Cleveland is the only one of these whose terms were not consecutive. 7 Presidents (Lincoln, McKinley, T Roosevelt, Coolidge, Truman, LB Johnson and Nixon) served one complete term and (either before or after) part of another. 1 President (FD Roosevelt) served three complete terms and part of a fourth. The current President, Obama, is partway through his first term as of Feb 2011.