John Q. Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, and George W. Bush were elected without winning the popular vote.
George Bush
yes
Benjamin Harrison won the 1888 election but lost in popular votes to Grover Cleveland.Since then, George W. Bush lost the popular vote in 2000 to Al Gore and , of course, Gerald Ford, was never elected President at all but took the office when Nixon resigned in mid-term.
Andrew Jackson was the only man who won the popular vote without being elected and later was elected president. Samuel Tilden and Al Gore won the popular vote but never became president.
Yes, if something were to happen to the president, the vice president automatically takes over.
George W. Bush was the only president elected to two terms with less than 50 percent of the popular vote.
He got enough electoral votes. To become president you don't need the popular vote.
President Gerald R Ford
Ford
The first Tuesday in November of every 4th year is an the election day. However, the President of the United States is not elected through a popular election. Each state has electoral votes equal to their representation in Congress and then each state casts all of it's electoral votes for the candidate which won the popular vote in that state. Two states, Nebraska and Maine, split their electoral vote as a percentage of the popular vote. Presidents have been elected without winning the popular vote, including John Quincy Adams and most recently, George W Bush.
Mexico's president is elected to a six year term but cannot run again.