How many years total can a president serve?

Answer 1

US: The legal limit is 10 years, not 8 as often but erroneously supposed. A President may serve as many as (but not more than) two years of a previous President's term and get elected to 2 full terms of his own. These restrictions are imposed by Section 1 of the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Other applicable areas of law concerning presidential succession are set forth in Article I, Section 1, Clause 6 of the Constitution, and by the 25th Amendment.

Of the "recent" Vice Presidents who assumed the Presidency after the death or resignation of their predecessors, LBJ was allowed by law to be elected to 2 terms on his own (although he declined to run a second time after being elected in 1964), while Ford could only get elected to 1 more term on his own, as LBJ had served less than 2 years of JFK's term, while Ford had served more than 2 years of Nixon's second term.

Answer 2

In the United States, the legal limit is 10 years, not 8 as often but erroneously supposed. A President may serve as many as (but not more than) two years of a previous President's term and subsequently be elected to two full terms of his own. These restrictions are imposed by Section 1 of the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Other applicable areas of law concerning presidential succession are set forth in Article I, Section 1, Clause 6 of the Constitution, and by the 25th Amendment (see Related links, below, for more information).

Of the "recent" Vice Presidents who assumed the Presidency after the death or resignation of their predecessors, President Lyndon B. Johnson ("LBJ") was allowed by law to be elected to 2 terms on his own (although he declined to run a second time after being elected in 1964), while President Gerald R. Ford could only be elected to one more term, as LBJ had served less than 2 years of JFK's term, while Ford had served more than 2 years of President Richard M. Nixon's second term.

Answer 3

According to the 22nd Amendment, if a sitting President dies just after inauguration, and the Vice President ascends to the Presidency and serves the rest of the term is then elected for an additional 2 terms, he could serve up to 11 years and 364+ days, or nearly 12 years.

The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

Answer 4

They serve 4 year terms.

Answer 5

8 - consisting of 2 four year terms .

Answer 6

8

Answer 7

6 years