U.S. president

for former presidents". The Washington Times. January 10, 2013. Retrieved August 14, 2013. 44 U.S.C. § 2112 "U.S. Senate: Party Division". U.S. Senate....

years, before dying early in his fourth term in 1945. He is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. Since the ratification of the Twenty-second...

served as president of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, which drafted and ratified the Constitution of the United States and established the U.S. federal...

inauguration of incoming U.S. presidents is 55 years. Article Two of the United States Constitution provides that U.S. presidents must be at least 35 years...

and Mike Pence. He is the oldest president in U.S. history, and the first to have a female vice president. As president, Biden signed the American Rescue...

(1991). The complete book of U. S. presidents (3rd ed.). New York: Barricade. p. 704. ISBN 978-0-942637-37-3. "About the Presidents Study". Archived from the...

— Frederick Douglass In surveys of U.S. scholars ranking presidents conducted since 1948, the top three presidents are generally Lincoln, Washington,...

Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was an American military officer, politician, and the 18th president of the...

vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of...

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party...

in '52" – 1852 U.S. presidential campaign slogan of Franklin Pierce; the '44 referred to the 1844 election of James K. Polk as president. "The Hero of...

served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He is the only president in U.S. history to serve non-consecutive...

unauthorizedly downed a U.S. Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft over Cuba, killing pilot Rudolf Anderson. At the president's direction, Robert Kennedy...

a successful legal practice in Boston. In 1794, President George Washington appointed Adams as the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, and Adams would...

York City—sharing a distinction with Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson of dying on the anniversary of U.S. independence. Historians have generally...

organization that provided food to occupied Belgium. When the U.S. entered the war in 1917, president Woodrow Wilson appointed Hoover to lead the Food Administration...

nation, he served the U.S. government as a senior diplomat in Europe. Adams was the first person to hold the office of vice president of the United States...

becoming president in 1801, Jefferson was the nation's first U.S. secretary of state under George Washington and then the nation's second vice president under...

is due to the public's preference for taller candidates. The tallest U.S. president was Abraham Lincoln at 6 feet 4 inches (193 centimeters), while the...

the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president in U.S. history...