The Vice President of the United States shares the President's term of office. The President is elected along with the Vice President to serve 4 years.
Gerald Ford was elected to office as a U.S. Representative in 1949 at the age of 36. He was not elected to the office of Vice President. He was appointed after Spiro Agnew resigned. He was also not elected to the office of President, and became President after Richard Nixon resigned.
There are several men who rose to the office of President of the US but were not elected to it. Gerald Ford is the only man who was not elected to either the office of President or Vice President though. Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson were all sworn in after the presidents they served under died.
All but 4 of the 43 Presidents held an elected office before they were President. Those that did not were Taylor, Grant, Hoover and Eisenhower. George Washington did not serve any elected office under the US Constitution, but he was elected to serveral positions in the colonial government. Herbert Hoover was Secretary of Commerce which is a national office, but is not elected.
Grover Cleveland was elected president two nonconsective terms to be America's 22nd and 24th president!!!!!
Both were vice-presidents who became president when the elected president died in office.
The president who was not inaugurated and only took an oath on his residence was President John Tyler. This was after the death of President William Henry Harrison a month after his inauguration.
Gerald Ford. Richard Nixon chose Ford as his Vice President after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew. Ford then became President upon Nixon's resignation. The other vice-presidents who assumed the Presidency were elected as vice-presidents.
Presidents are not appointed- they are elected. A senator or representative can run for president , but if elected president , he must resign any previous office before he takes office as president.
Presidents who did not hold elected office before they were President are Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Herbert Hoover and Dwight Eisenhower.
There were 14 vice presidents who became president of the United States.Eight of these became President upon the death of the sitting president.John Adams, elected president in 1796, defeated in 1800.Thomas Jefferson, elected president in 1800 and reelected in 1804.Martin Van Buren, elected president in 1836, defeated in 1840.John Tyler, became president when William Henry Harrison died in office, not nominated in 1844.Millard Fillmore, became president when Zachary Taylor died in office, not nominated in 1852.Andrew Johnson, became president when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in office, not nominated in 1868.Chester A. Arthur, became president when James A. Garfield was assassinated in office, not nominated in 1884.Theodore Roosevelt, became president when William McKinley was assassinated in office, elected in 1904.Calvin Coolidge, became president when Warren G. Harding died in office, elected in 1924.Harry S. Truman, became president when Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office, elected in 1948.Lyndon B. Johnson, became president when John F. Kennedy was assassinated in office, elected in 1964.Richard Nixon, elected president in 1968 and reelected in 1972.Gerald Ford, became president in 1974 when Richard Nixon resigned, defeated in 1976.George H. W. Bush, elected president in 1988, defeated in 1992.Of the nine vice presidents who ascended to the presidency after their predecessor's death or resignation, only 4 were subsequently elected in their own right: Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S. Truman, and Lyndon B. Johnson.
The presidents either died or resigned, and their vice presidents took office, or the vice presidents were elected on their own.
In the US, Presidents are elected, not appointed. President Obama was elected in November 2008, and he took office in January 2009.
Argentina has one president at a time. Counting elected president, vice president that became president and military leaders that held the office of president of Argentina, there have been 52 presidents.
All presidents have been elected to some government office, but Gerald Ford was the only one who was never elected as vice president or president. He did serve as a congressman, but was appointed, not elected, as vice president by Richard Nixon and took office after Nixon's resign without election.
The Vice President of the United States shares the President's term of office. The President is elected along with the Vice President to serve 4 years.
There have been several presidents that have not been elected as president. However, these men have all been elected as vice president, and became president on the death or exit of office of the president they served under. But only one was not elected as president or vice president. That was Gerald Rudolph Ford. He was not the vice president Richard Milhous Nixon was elected with, but appointed after Spiro Theodore Agnew left. Nixon was caught with The Watergate Scandal, and resigned before impeachment. Upon resignation, Gerald Rudolph Ford became preisdent.