A president must resign his previous office before he becomes President. People can not hold two elected offices at the same time, as a rule.
Eisenhower was a career military officer for 36 years - he held no elected office before becoming President
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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.
People vote for the president. If he/she (when there is a she) gets the most votes, they are elected president. Then they have to swore in and all that stuff.
The President. The state. The head of the judiciary. In court. President of Parliament. In Parliament. The Iranian leader has control over them. All are elected by popular vote directly or indirectly. The most powerful single elected official in Iran is the President of Iran. The most powerful elected official in Iran is their president, parliament (or Majlis.
On what date will the next presidential election be held?
A person can be elected president at most two times.
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The most powerful elected official in the US is the President of the United States.
Mao Zedong held the office of President from 1954 until 1975. However, he was considered the "Paramount Leader" of China from the PRC's founding in 1949 until 1976. A formal constitutional office of President would not be established until 1982; the first President under the current constitution was Li Xiannian. Hu Jintao is the current President.
the president is not elected by the house of representatives. He is elected by the continental congress.
They are called for in the US Constitution but no means of election is specified. Originally they were individual candidates for president, whoever got the most votes became president and whoever got the second most votes became vice president. This was eventually found to result in presidents and vice presidents that could not work together well. So eventually the parties started picking a president/vice president pair and they were elected together.