In 1789, President George Washington ran unopposed for a second term. Under the system in place then and through the election of 1800, each voting elector cast two votes - the recipient of the greatest number of votes was elected President, the second greatest number, Vice President. As with his first term, Washington is considered to have been elected unanimously. The recipient of 77 electoral votes, Vice President John Adams, finished second in voting and was therefore re-elected Vice President of the United States
At this writing, 5/3/2010, no woman has ever been elected President or Vice President of the US.
The US president has always been elected in substantially the same way. The real change was in the way the vice-president was elected.
Obama
Technically speaking, they've all been elected in to *office*. However, Ford is the only one who was never elected to the Executive Office (as either President or Vice-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.
(The) President-Elect.
There have been several presidents that have not been elected as president. However, these men have all been elected as vice president, and became president on the death or exit of office of the president they served under. But only one was not elected as president or vice president. That was Gerald Rudolph Ford. He was not the vice president Richard Milhous Nixon was elected with, but appointed after Spiro Theodore Agnew left. Nixon was caught with The Watergate Scandal, and resigned before impeachment. Upon resignation, Gerald Rudolph Ford became preisdent.
all of them No U. S. President has ever been directly elected by the people.
Several states seceded when they learned that Lincoln has been elected president.
who had been recently elected as president of the United States when the southern states seceded
Mary McAleese was the President of Ireland in 2008. She was elected as the 8th President of Ireland and took office on 1997 November 11. Unopposed for a second 7-year term, she finished her final term on 2011 November 11.