[1] The last Democrat to be elected President was Bill Clinton, in 1991. [2] The most recently elected President, Barack Obama, is a Democrrat.
The last US presidential election was in 2008; the nect will be in 2012.
In 2008 Barak Obama, a democrat, was elected.
James Garfield was a member of the House when he was elected president in 1880.( He was also elected to the senate at the same time, but refused that office to become President. )
The president,vice-president , all 435 representatives to the House and one-third of the senators are all elected on the same day. Some states also elect their governor and other state officials on that day.
John Adams was elected president in 1796 and Thomas Jefferson was the new vice president.
The President may only be re-elected one time, to serve two consecutive terms. ------------ Well, technically, a person may serve as many as 10 years as President. This can be accomplished if the vice president must finish the term of another president and the time remaining is equal to but less than 2 more years. At that point the sitting president can be elected two more times. Could you claim they were re-elected twice? That's up to the observer.
Yes he does. Whether a president is elected for the first time or re-elected for a second term, there is an inauguration ceremony, and at that time, the president and vice president are sworn in.
Before the current president, Democrat Bill Clinton was president from 1993 till January 20, 2001.
zeroThe 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits anyone from being elected President more than twice.Interesting fact: The last time a Democrat was elected President while the incumbent President was another Democrat was when James Buchanan was elected while Franklin Pierce was in office... in 1856! Those who tried but failed were John C. Breckinridge and Stephen A. Douglas in 1860, William Jennings Bryan in 1896, James M. Cox in 1920, Adlai Stevenson in 1952, Hubert Humphrey in 1968, Al Gore in 2000, and Hillary Clinton in 2016.
1980, when Jimmy Carter lost to Ronald Reagan.
After President Lincoln's assassination, it was along time before a Democrat became a US President. Grover Cleveland was the first Democrat since US President James Buchanan was President. Grover Cleveland won the election of 1884. Cleveland served as 22nd & later the 24th US President. He lost his bid for reelection in 1888. Cleveland ran again in 1892 and was elected US President again.
the president is not elected by the house of representatives. He is elected by the continental congress.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) was elected for the first time in 1932 over incumbent Herbert Hoover(Republican). Roosevelt served as President from March 4, 1933 until his death April 12, 1945.
Just the opposite. At the time, he was the oldest president ever elected.
A political term usually lasts for four years (if the president is not reelected). A political term is when a president is elected he/she gets to do his/her duty for four years, then after that a new president is elected, he/she gets to run for president one more time in his/her life.
1860 was the year that Lincoln was elected president for the first time. He was elected again in 1864.
The Republican Party didn't exist yet. Tyler was a long-time Democrat-Republican, but was nonetheless elected Vice President on the Whig ticket. During his period in office, he attempted to start a new party and for a brief time was officially not a member of any party.
Bill Clinton was elected president for the second time in 1996. He served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
The way he was elected was hat they picked him