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Can a president serve 4 terms if not how did Franklin D. Roosevelt get elected to 4 terms?
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Currently, presidents of the US are limited to two elected terms by the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution. FDR was elected to four terms because the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution wasn't proposed until after FDR died during his fourth term.
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Who was the first president to serve 4 terms?
The ONLY president to be elected to 4 terms was Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What president was the only president to serve four terms?
Franklin Roosevelt was the only one to serve for four terms as president.
Did any president serve more than 3 terms?
Franklin Roosevelt was the only president to serve three terms . It is now illegal for a president to serve more than two terms, so FDR's record will stand for a long time.
How was the only president to serve four terms?
Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was elected to a fourth term but died about three months into it.
22nd Amendment was passed as a reaction to what event?
Franklin D. Roosevelt being elected to serve four terms as President.
Who was The only President to serve beyond two terms?
the only president to serve more than two terms in office was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt held office for three and one half terms.
Which president serve the most terms?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected four times and although he died just over a year into his fourth term he still served longer than any other President (March 4, 1933 - April 12, 1945) The president to serve the most terms is President Theodore Roosevelt.
What man did not serve as president in 1920s?
Franklin Roosevelt
Who was President 4 terms?
The only President to have been elected to serve four terms was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who won the 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944 elections. President Roosevelt ("FDR") died in office, 12 April, 1945, and was succeeded by Vice President Harry S. Truman, who served out the remainder of Roosevelt's fourth term (and was subsequently elected President in his own right in 1948, in the famous "Dewey Wins" election).
Did Franklin Delano Roosevelt serve a third term as president?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was (and is) the only US President who will ever be elected to more than two terms. He was elected to four terms. They were 1933-1937, 1937-1941, 1941-1945 and 1945 until death 12 April 1945.
Who overcame the impediment of polio to serve four terms as president?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Why did Franklin D Roosevelt want to serve the nation?
to make a change
