1841: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler
1881: Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Chester Arthur
They have a maximum of two terms of four years, so eight years is the longest they can serve.
Most presidents can only serve for two terms, a maximum of 8 years. However, if a vice-president assumes the presidency with 2 or less years left in the term, he can still elected for two more terms and so serve for 10 years. 10 years is the absolute maximum.
The length of a term for the President of the United States is four years. A president may one serve two terms in his lifetime.
He has already served more than two years; he was elected in 2008, and he has served nearly four years; in January 2013, he will begin to serve for another four years. I think you are asking if he will serve more than two "terms"-- but he cannot. Presidents are not allowed to serve for more than two terms, according to the 26th amendment to the Constitution.
An Israeli Presidents' term is 7 years long, and they may only serve one term. Before 1993, a term was 5 years long, and presidents were limited to two terms.
The answer to that question is found in the twenty second amendment of the constitution. The president can serve for more than four years, however the president can not serve more than ten years. They can serve two terms (four years each). I can not remember how they can get the other two years, but they can.The term of the president is only four years. I do not know where you got your information from, but it is completely false.
An American president can serve two 4 year terms. Presidents in other countries have varying terms.
Yes: in modern America, a president can only serve two terms and up to ten years in presidential office.
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Washington and Adams
George Washington served two terms in office from 1789 to 1797. Although he was called to serve a third term, he refused and instead chose to live a private life. Since then all Presidents were only allowed to serve two terms.
Presidential terms are four years long. The maximum number of terms anyone can serve as president is two unless the person assumed office after a president died or was removed from office. In that case, if the new president served more than two years of the term of the former president, the new president can only serve one more term as president.