soon after presidents could be elected, Hancock was elected president but never showed up for the inauguration. I guess you could call it the shortest term - zero days.
The president of the United States is chosen by the people of the United States. An election is held every four years for the citizens to vote for their next president.
William Henry Harrison served as president for the shortest time?
Shortest Term held by a US PresidentThe Shortest Term held by a US President was the 9th President of the United States William Henry Harrison. President Harrison was in office from March 4, 1841 to April 4, 1841, and died on his thirty-second day in office. The oldest President to be elected until Ronald Reagan in 1980, Harrison died from complications from a cold, and was the first President to die while in office.
If you are asking what office he held, he was the Vice-President of the United States under President William Jefferson Clinton.
Thomas Jefferson was the second person to hold the office of Vice-President of the United States. He held that office during the Presidency of John Adams, then became the third President of the United States.
They were held in Chamonix, France in 1924 and the United States attended.
The position of President of the Senate is held by the Vice President of the United States. The slang term for the Vice President is Veep.
In the United States, the Head of the Armed Forces is called the Commander-in-Chief and this position is held by the President of the United States. The president is a civilian political officeholder. So the United States should be understood as having a military system that is under civilian control.
It is the House of Representatives that has the power to impeach a president. His or her trial is then held in the United States Senate.
"Bubba" was the nickname of the 42nd president of the United States, Bill Clinton. Clinton held office from 1993 until 2001.
Currently, Mr. Obama is the president of the United States. But when this question was originally asked, he may have still been a United States Senator.
The president pro tempore of the United States Senate.