The second youngest elected president was Theodore Roosevelt. He was 42 years old (the youngest president) when he assumed office after the death of William McKinley. However, when he was elected (voted in by the citizens) he was 45 years old. JFK was the youngest elected president, he was 43 years old.
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Dwight Eisenhower left office at age 70 and is the second oldest after Reagan who left office at 77.
If you are talking about the second oldest president at the time of inauguration, that would be William Henry Harrison, 68, who was the second oldest after Reagan, 69.
The second oldest living president is Jimmy Carter who is a few months younger than Bush Sr.
Ronald Reagan was the oldest person to be elected president of the United States in 1980. He was 69 years and 349 days old.
The winner of the second U.S. presidential election was George Washington. The second person to be elected U.S. President was John Adams.
The assistant president will be sworn into office.
They could (technically) serve 10 full years. They can be elected twice (thus serving 8 years) and get the other two years by being elected V.P. and the President dying almost immediately. So, serve the first two and then be elected twice.The law does not allow a person that has served as President for more then two years to be elected a second time."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. "Realistically, you will only see 8 years though. Thanks, I didn't know this before either!
The 12th amendment to the Constitution provides for the president and vice-president to be elected in separate ballots. Prior to this amendment the person who finished second in the balloting for president was elected vice-president.
A presidential elector is a person elected by the voters to represent them in making a formal selection of the Vice President and President.
Kennedy was the youngest person to be elected president. He was also the youngest president to die when he was killed.