Since 2008, the US President has been Barack Obama. He was re-elected in 2012. Under US law, he cannot run for a third term, so in 2016, a new president will be elected.
Joseph Biden is the current vice-president. He was first elected in November of 2008 and re-elected in 2012.
The US president has always been elected in substantially the same way. The real change was in the way the vice-president was elected.
At this writing, 5/3/2010, no woman has ever been elected President or Vice President of the US.
President Lincoln.
There has never been a US president by that name.
After a closely fought and very expensive race, President Obama defeated his challenger, Mitt Romney, and was elected to a second term as president.
Several states seceded when they learned that Lincoln has been elected president.
All have been elected in some format. When Washington became president there was no popular vote. Instead the men of Congress elected the president.
who had been recently elected as president of the United States when the southern states seceded
Yes he did. He was elected to his first term in November 2008, and was re-elected in November 2012.
William Howard Taft was 51 when elected U.S. President in 1908.Abraham Lincoln was 51 when elected to his 1st term in 1860.Barack Obama was 51 when elected to his 2nd term in 2012.