A President can serve 2 four year terms; if the President took office to relieve a former head of state that died or resigned and the incoming President served more than two years of that term, he would only be able to serve one additional term.
America does not have a president because there is no such country as 'America'. However, the 'United States of America' (the USA) is a country and it does have a president and the current incumbent of that high office is one Barack Hussein Obama II.
Benjamin Harrison unseated the incumbent President Grover Cleveland and four years later Cleveland regained the Presidency to become both the 22nd and the 24th President of the United States.
President of the United States of America.
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America.
The President of the United States of America.
incumbent, in politics, is the holder of a political office. This term is usually used in reference to elections, in which races can often be defined as being between an incumbent and non-incumbent. For example, in the 2004 United States presidential election, George W. Bush was the incumbent, because he was the president in the current term while the election sought to determine the president for the following term.
Abraham Lincoln was President of the United States of America when the Confederate States of America (CSA) formed. The first and only President of the CSA was Jefferson Davis.
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Former-president Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was president incumbent when the United States rolled in on its 200th birthday.
Yes, Barack Obama was the incumbent in the 2012 presidential election. He had been elected as President of the United States in 2008 and was seeking re-election for a second term in 2012.
The twentieth amendment to the United States constitution states that the previous President's term shall end at noon on January 20, and the incumbent President's term begins at the same time.
He was the 36th President of the United States of America.