The shortest-serving President was William Henry Harrison. He fell ill immediately following his inauguration in 1841 and died of pneumonia a month later. He was only President for a month. The next shortest term was James A. Garfield, at about 6 months. He took office in March 1881, was shot in July, and died in September. In 3rd was Zachary Taylor. He came down with an infection of the stomach and/or intestines a little over a year into his term and died in July of 1850.
William Henry Harrison Ninth President
1841 Born: February 9, 1773 in Charles City County, Virginia Died: April 4, 1841. He died in Washington D.C. of pneumonia a month after taking office. He was the first president to die in office. http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/wh9.html
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.
find a counterexample to the statement all us presidents have served only one term to show statement is false
George Washington is the president that appointed the most Supreme Court Justices. There have been only seven US Presidents that served only one term.
Only one and that was Franklin Roosevelt.
The members of the US House of Representatives are elected for 2-year terms which is the shortest term of any federal official .
Presidents can only serve for 2 terms. 4 years are in a term.
William Henry Harrison (1773-1841), the 9th President of the US, died of pneumonia only a month after his inauguration. He served from March 4 to April 4, 1841.
Many presidents have served two full terms.
There were 25 US presidents who never served in the Senate.
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.
US Presidents do not have to have served in the military in order to be elected.
All the US presidents that served before 1956 or after April 1975.
all of them except the ones who died in office and the ones who completed their terms without winning a term of their own.
i know Woodrow Wilson did
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FDR was the only president to serve more than two consecutive terms due to the second world war.
The 22nd and 24th Presidents were the same man. Grover Cleveland served as the 22nd President from 1885 to 1889, and he served again as the 24th President from 1893 to 1897. Benjamin Harrison served in the interim as the 23rd President from 1889 to 1893.Grover Cleveland is the only President to have served two non-consecutive terms.