The President of the United States of America (POTUS)is the elected Head of State and Head of Govt of the USA
The president leads the executive branch of the Federal Govt and is the Commander-in-Chief of the US Armed Forces
Article II vests the executive power of the United States in the president. The power includes execution of federal law, alongside the responsibility of appointing federal executive, diplomatic, regulatory and judicial officers, and concluding treaties with foreign powers with the advice and consent of the Senate
The president is indirectly elected by the people through the Electoral College to a 4-year term, and is one of only two nationally elected federal officers, the other being the Vice-President of the USA
The 22nd Amendment, adopted in 1951, prohibits anyone from ever being elected to the presidency for a third full term
It also prohibits a person from being elected to the presidency more than once if that person previously had served as president, or acting president, for more than two years of another person's term as president.
In all, 43 Individuals have served 44 Presidencies
Of the individuals elected as president -
four died in office of natural causes -William Henry Harrison,Zachary Taylor,Warren G Harding and Franklin D Roosevelt
four were assassinated -Abraham Lincoln,James A Garfield,William McKinley and John F Kennedy and one resigned -Richard Nixon
George Washington, the first president, was inaugurated in 1789 after a unanimous vote of the Electoral College
William Henry Harrison spent the shortest time in office with 32 days in 1841.
Franklin D. Roosevelt spent the longest with over twelve years, but died shortly into his fourth term in 1945; he is the only president to have served more than two terms
On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th and current president
The president leads the executive branch of the Federal Govt and is the Commander-in-Chief of the US Armed Forces
Article II vests the executive power of the United States in the president. The power includes execution of federal law, alongside the responsibility of appointing federal executive, diplomatic, regulatory and judicial officers, and concluding treaties with foreign powers with the advice and consent of the Senate
The president is indirectly elected by the people through the Electoral College to a 4-year term, and is one of only two nationally elected federal officers, the other being the Vice-President of the USA
The 22nd Amendment, adopted in 1951, prohibits anyone from ever being elected to the presidency for a third full term
It also prohibits a person from being elected to the presidency more than once if that person previously had served as president, or acting president, for more than two years of another person's term as president.
In all, 43 Individuals have served 44 Presidencies
Of the individuals elected as president -
four died in office of natural causes -William Henry Harrison,Zachary Taylor,Warren G Harding and Franklin D Roosevelt
four were assassinated -Abraham Lincoln,James A Garfield,William McKinley and John F Kennedy and one resigned -Richard Nixon
George Washington, the first president, was inaugurated in 1789 after a unanimous vote of the Electoral College
William Henry Harrison spent the shortest time in office with 32 days in 1841.
Franklin D. Roosevelt spent the longest with over twelve years, but died shortly into his fourth term in 1945; he is the only president to have served more than two terms
On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th and current president
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