Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President 4 times, and died in office during his 4th term.
Amendment 22 is what you are thinking of.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) - elected to four terms. After FDR, the 22nd Amendment ratified in 1951, limited the presidential office to two terms. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
In the United States, a president may be elected to serve no more than two terms.
He can serve one day shy of half of another term if he assumed office after the president resigned or died. Other than that, two terms (8 years) is the limit. The 22nd Amendment says:Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
Amendment 22 - Presidential Term Limits. Ratified 2/27/1951.1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
Franklin Roosevelt was elected to four terms and completed three.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only President to be elected more than two times. He was elected to four terms, in 1932,1936,1940 and 1944. His record will never be equaled because since then an amendment has been ratified that limits the president to being elected no more than twice.
The first sentence of the twenty-second Amendment to the United States constitution states:No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.Congress passed the amendment on March 21, 1947, and it was ratified on February 27, 1951.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the ONLY President who will EVER be elected to more than two terms (He was elected to four)
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to four terms of office, in 1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944. He died in 1945 shortly after beginning his fourth term. Roosevelt is the only President to be elected more than twice.The Twenty-Second Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1951, now limits the President to two terms.Amendment XXII, Section 1"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term."