Two four year terms. He/She can also serve 2 plus years as Vice President/President for the previous President.
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Many presidents have served two full terms.
John Adams: 2 full terms as V. P.; elected President onceThomas Jefferson: 1 full term as V. P.; elected President twiceMartin Van Buren: 1 full term as V. P.; elected President onceRichard Nixon: 2 full terms as V. P.; elected President twiceGeorge H. W. Bush: 2 full terms as V. P.; elected President onceRichard Nixon is the only person to have been elected U. S. Vice President twice and elected U. S. President twice. However, to date, nobody has yet served two full terms as Vice President AND two full terms as President.
Hoover served one full term.
the new President can serve only one full four-year term.
2 terms
FDR was elected to 4 terms. After he died during his fourth term, the Congress passed a law. The President of the USA can serve no more than 2 full terms as President (if he/she is Vice President to a President that dies in office, then they can serve the remaining term as President and serve an additional two terms in office). Therefore President Harry Truman could serve two full terms as President in addition to the term he finished up for FDR. (HST only ran for more term). LBJ could serve as two full terms plus the term he was Vice President for JFK. LBJ only served one full term as President. He did not run again in 1968.
Ten. Two years of a predecessor's term, and two full terms of his own.
When FDR served, the Constitution did not limit the number of terms a president could serve. George Washington set the precedent of two terms and presidents had followed it until FDR. After him an amendment to the Constitution was ratified that limits a president to two terms
The president is the executive branch and can serve a maximum of 2 four year terms. The only exception to 8 years would be if the president dies in office and the vice president became president, the vice president would be permitted to finish that term and would be eligible to be elected to two full 4 year terms.
4 yrs a term and about 2-4 terms for a President